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Ketamine Karen, Dopamine Dame Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt author of KETAMINE https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542241/ and a lot of good papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNB2KvkAAAAJ&hl=en

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · Jan 16

An amazing honor to give NIH’s WALS lecture today as the last speaker under the leadership of NIH Director Dr Monica Bertagnolli

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 11h

"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!"

- Jacob Hanna

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 22h

Only 69?!

Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 22h

This checks out. Walked by the PDX ICE building today on way to doc appt. Saw 10 reporters and 6 demonstrators, two of whom were blowing bubbles 😅

(Doc appt btw was a routine derm 5-yr check up because I have family history of basal cell carcinoma and have the privilege of having health insurance)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens.

Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators!

🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Redirecting

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 1d

I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

Even more informative for me is that Tolstoy, Chekhov, Proust, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf never won the Nobel in literature, and don’t get me started on Mahatma Gandhi never winning the peace prize despite being nominated 5 times

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to it

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to speak in San Diego on Nov 14 at this SfN Sattelite!

If you're curious about cross-species approaches to #psychedelics, #hallucinations and #consciousness, join us! 🐀👤🧠

Limited spots, register here:
hopkinspsychedelic.org/sfn2025

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

Good

Portlandia “likes democracy neat, no ICE please”

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry Mike. Better team lost mostly because they were outcoached…

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 9d

Too bad no mention of the Crespi Effect, dependent on basolateral amygdala. Classic 🏆 ibotenic lesion and lidocaine inactivation papers by Salinas, Packard, and McGaugh, 1993; Salinas, Parent, and McGaugh, 1996 could have been cited.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stimulus-specific and adaptive value representations in the basolateral amygdala in male mice - Nature Communications

How basolateral amygdala represents the specific value of rewards remains unclear. Here the authors find that basolateral amygdala neurons assign stimulus-specific values to different rewards and rapidly re-scale these signals with changing reward context, thirst or stress, illuminating how the brain guides flexible, state-dependent choices.

www.nature.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11d

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 11d

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13d

Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 16d

3 cheers for NIH grant staff! Regardless of everything else, they are heros!

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 16d

Another beautiful sunset in the Oregon coast

But days are getting shorter

Winter is coming 😞

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 18d

Replacing “duration of status”, eg while enrolled in graduate studies no matter how long it takes, with a fixed term. Note that most US biomed grad programs run average time to PHD of 5-6 years, not four.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18d

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS

Comment period ends September 29th

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 18d

The #NIH turns discovery into health. This is not political. Let us do our jobs. #FEDSTRONG

Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 18d

Honored & want to share the recognition with many other working together. Stronger together!
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
@nihvigils.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social
@rosalafersousa.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @rebelfema.altgov.info

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18d

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been doing amazing work speaking out and helping organize others to help protect public health for all...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 21d

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

www.science.org

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Sep 7

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Sep 7

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Sep 7

Approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in, yes, the mid 1990s. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

At the end of the first set, President Trump was booed much louder than earlier when he appeared on the jumbotron.
The camera lingered for much longer than it usually does on famous faces, too.
The reception from the New Yorkers was markedly different when rock icon Bruce Springsteen - a local hero from New Jersey - appeared to euphoric cheers.
Trump sat stony-faced as Springsteen, who has been a vocal critic of the president, grinned.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · Aug 30

You all sound like you have not sat on dean’s tenure committees arguing with folks from Math, economics, and English departments. Just write a strong letter if the applicant is deserving and don’t whine about it

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