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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Sep 3

No, it's not an official UTSW photo. Lol not bad at all.

Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Sep 2

My lab will primarily focus on how sensory and motor processing guide ingestive behaviors and how their disruption affects health and disease. I will be recruiting at all levels.

I am very grateful to my mentors for their support and guidance and I hope I can be half as good.

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Jun 27

You'll be able to keep running windows 10 past October but Microsoft will not provide security updates... It's also possible you could manually update security patches yourself to avoid issues.

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · Jun 25

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Girls as young as eight show a unique sensitivity to numbers representing their body weight, a new study finds. The results highlight early gender differences in attention and raise questions about how body awareness develops and affects girls’ perceptions later in life.

www.psypost.org

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Nick Peoples @cichlidnick.bsky.social · Jun 24

Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms

Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...

journals.plos.org

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Apr 19

Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
buff.ly/ypISrtx

different coloured mice on a white background

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Mar 29

Congratulations 🎉✨

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Mar 18

Welcome Boychuk Lab✨✨✨🥰

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Mar 6

Really cool work!

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Mar 5

Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

www.nature.com

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Mar 1

Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Mar 1

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Feb 24

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · Jan 11

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns

The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...

www.biorxiv.org

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Feb 4

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Jan 30

I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!

Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Jan 30

thanks for the mentorship!

Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · Jan 30

This weekend, we concluded our Board and Scientific Advisory meeting. This group of biomedical scientists guides our conference portfolio by prioritizing content & conducting peer reviews to uphold Keystone Symposia's leadership in scientific conferences. www.keystonesymposia.org/about-us/gov....

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Jan 25

www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art

UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews

The University of California, the nation's top recipient of federal research funding in higher education, is raising questions and concerns about the Trump administration's pause in research grant rev...

www.latimes.com

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Deno Tas @deeznotez.bsky.social · Jan 9

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Jan 2

Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Dec 20

Congratulations MJ🥳🥳🥳

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Dec 11

Heck yeah!

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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · Dec 11

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Dec 11

Lol 🤦🏿‍♀️just shared it with you.

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · Dec 7

Sanwa LP10 Laser Power Meter works pretty well for us.

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