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Blackford NeuroScience Team
@bnsteam.bsky.social
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Emotional neuroscience lab studying the BNST, anxiety, and alcohol in humans | Led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social | 📍UNMC, Omaha, NE
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · May 23
fMRI Peeps - I remember reading a paper, years ago, focused on identifying regions for brain-association analyses based on peak inter-individual variance (rather than peak activation), but a 20-min search failed to recover it. Suggestions? Thx!
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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · May 13
Excited to share our new paper @acerjournal.bsky.social showing that there are distinct subgroups based on trajectories of anxiety and depression symptoms in alcohol use disorder.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Manesh Gopaldas, @lizzieflook.bsky.social, Meg Benningfield, Nick Hayes.
Figure shows average trajectories for the full sample (left) and trajectories by subgroup (right) with sustained (red), high (blue), and low (green).
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Jenni Blackford @jenniblackford.bsky.social · Apr 30
Congrats to the BNSTeam’s @neurozabik.bsky.social on receiving the @acerjournal.bsky.social Journal Award for Early Career Investigator Outstanding Paper!
Group (early abstinence vs control) x anxiety x sex interaction on neural responses to unpredictable threat.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · Apr 9
Half of all US counties will lose at least $250K in revenue!
Cuts to NIH affect ALL americans! Check out this new analysis and look up your county here:
www.axios.com/2025/04/09/n...
A closer look at the nationwide impact of NIH cuts
Nearly half of U.S. counties will see economic losses of at least $250,000 from cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health.
www.axios.com
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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · Apr 10
Our lab lead—Katelyn Kelley—received the highest accolade at @unmc.bsky.social this week! We are so proud of her!

www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...
MMI's Katelyn Kelley is April's Gold U recipient
From a summer intern to a clinical research program manager, Kelley has found a career she loves.
www.unmc.edu
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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · Mar 31
We will be using this page to highlight the amazing work from our team and colleagues, and soon to be highlighting individual team members and their roles in our science! Please follow and tell your friends about us :-)
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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · Mar 31
Good morning #Skyence people! We are the Blackford NeuroScience Team — hailing from University of Nebraska Medical Center and led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social . We use functional neuroimaging to study the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST) in #anxiety and #alcoholusedisorder .
Image of a logo with a blue brain on top of the phrase "blackford neuroscience team". The "b", "n", "s", and "t" in the phrase are in orange, highlighting the brain region studied (BNST).
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