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Dr. Cate Peña

@cate-cholamine.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist and mom. Interested in brain development, early life stress, epigenetics, cats, mountains, donuts, and lots of coffee. www.PenaLab.org

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · Aug 6

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social!
Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress
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Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress

Neuropsychopharmacology - Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress

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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 2d

Princeton University alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.”

Princeton alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Brunkow received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 in molecular biology. She shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolera...

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing (and harrowing) story about the good that can happen when science is followed: www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

www.npr.org

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 4d

Cool!

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Pluripotency Day fellows scientitists #OCT4 🧪🧫

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 6d

Read this and do not pretend not to have known what was happening. My fellow scientist, even if you can still get your next grant, everything will not be fine.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 6d

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Screen cap of a document reading "COMPACT FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our
Nation. In turn, the U.S. university system benefits in a variety of ways from its extraordinary relationship
with the U.S. government. These include (i) access to student loans, grant programs, and federal contracts;
(ii) funding for research directly or indirectly; (iii) approval of student and other visas in connection with
university matriculation and instruction; and (iv) preferential treatment under the tax code. To advance the
national interest arising out of this unique relationship, this Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher
Education represents the priorities of the U.S. government in its engagements with universities that benefit
from the relationship. Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than
those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits." with bits circled in color and translated to "Nice college you've got there. We hold all your money. It'd be a real shame if anything happened to it."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 6d

“What are your hobbies?”

Calling my members of Congress.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 9d

Understanding adolescent anxiety through a neurodevelopmental lens: A comparative review of rodents and humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for everything, Jane.

Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations! Well earned!

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH @drerindunn.bsky.social · 8d

Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty?

We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷

Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 8d

These days, I find myself juxtaposed between fury/sadness at everything going on and gratitude almost daily, making it hard to express either #onhere without acknowledging the other. Today though, leaning in to the positive
#JoyIsAFormOfResistance

Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 8d

Got to catch up with Pallav Kosuri, an old grad school friend, after his talk on DNA rotors (freakin cool, check it out doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1397-7). Among other things, we reflected on how grateful we are to get to do this amazing job. It’s *way* better than expected

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 15d

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 15d

We got a 20% haircut in January so this gives me hope!

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Cool!!

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 18d

The bonus of doing it yourself is that your brain only uses 15 watts of power. For less energy than a refrigerator light or an idling laptop, you can have all of this. Without LLM!

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 20d

In the @nytopinion.nytimes.com, PNI’s @sebastianseung.bsky.social warns federal research cuts endanger Americans’ health.
"Think about Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's disease. The dollar cost of these are huge. And the emotional costs are even huger. Can we wait?" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Defunding Medical Research. It Could Cost You Your Life. - The New York Times

In the Opinion video above, meet the scientists who are trying to save your life — and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 20d

If you care about children’s public health, download this image and pin it to your profile.

This is a snapshot of our best knowledge of vaccine safety. It may be years before it’s accurate again.

Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · Aug 28

American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

American Academy of Pediatrics Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
Table 1 for Ages 18 Years or Younger, United States, 2025
Published August 19, 2025. View full document and notes here: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf

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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats, Peter and team!