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Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS @umarchatterjee.bsky.social · Aug 25

🤯TRIPPING IN YOUR SLEEP: Psychedelics, The Placebo Effect, & How Human Connection Heals the Brain with Dr. Boris Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social💭 Ep. 51 of A Chat with Uma out now! 🌟

This ep is truly a dream come true (no pun intended)-a MUST listen! 🙌🏾 Tune in📲 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Aug 14

All donations goes straight to the project (+10% bonus donation will be added if you use my referral link above)
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Accelerating What We Know About OCD: From Genes to Mice t...

Accelerating What We Know About OCD: From Genes to Mice to Bet...

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Aug 14

✨Normal science funding is broken but the showgirl must go on ✨
We are crowdfunding for our project to identify a next-gen preclinical OCD mouse model!
🔗 researchhub.com/referral/joi...

#OCD #Neuroscience #CrowdfundingScience
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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Aug 12

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 16

In this month’s “Liftoff,” ‪ @agonru.bsky.social talks about the importance of taking care of the little things, and Andrew Kesner says that the real key to success lies in your collaborator community.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Liftoff: New lab alerts

Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · Jul 16

New from @dralexharris.bsky.social, Ula Skupio, and myself in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social: a long in the works review trying to untangle what stress is doing in the VTA, and what the piles of confusing data might teach us about what the VTA is doing at all.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Untangling the multifaceted VTA responses to stress

Stress has profound impacts on the ventral tegmental area (VTA). However, the complex and opposing effects of stress on the VTA have limited our abili…

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Jun 19

U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers

Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · Jun 12

New work from my lab looking at how dopamine neurons are affected by stress and males and females! This paper comes to you through three rounds of major building construction, a pandemic, six months that we could not get TTX, some animal facility shenanigans and now is here on your internet!

Sex‐Specific Adaptations to VTA Circuits Following Subchronic Stress

Subchronic variable stress, a paradigm shown to have divergent behavioral effects in males and females, induces shared and distinct physiological adaptations in the VTA. While both males and females ...

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Jun 13

Yay Abby! Resiliency Queen!

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · May 15

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

Harvard Medical School

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christine liu @christineliu.art · May 3

New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training!

I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪

Please share with any students who might be interested!

Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro

Summer Research Program in Neuroscience & Computation
For undergrads interested in exploring the brain and learning how to code
No prior experience necessary!
June - August 2025
UCSF Mission Bay campus
25-30 hours/week commitment
Learn more & apply:
http://tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro/
Students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in STEM are encouraged to apply!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · May 2

BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true.

The request released moments ago would:
- Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget
- Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC
- Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas'

There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 2

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · Apr 29

All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...

I barely have words.

Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Feb 25

As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking.

Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Feb 25

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 19

Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 17

Check out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠

stanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · Apr 17

What can AI teach us about how the brain understands language?

In today's podcast, we explore how LLMs are helping neuroscientists study how we process language with Stanford psychologist and faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social.

neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/what-ch...

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is awesome Christine! Gladstone does an awesome job with their summer PUMAS program and I bet they’d be willing to share materials from their workshops.

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · Apr 9

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄

@theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏

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

A multi-institutional investigation of psilocybin's effects on mouse behavior

Studies reporting novel therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs are rapidly emerging. However, the reproducibility and reliability of these findings could remain uncertain for years. Here, we impleme...

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Apr 2

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Mar 27

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?

Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky

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SCiMaP

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Scott Thompson, PhD @sthom003.bsky.social · Mar 17

I was delighted to have an editorial in my hometown paper on the administration's threat to the NIH and what it means for the health and welfare of my peeps. For the good it may do, I urge you to also write one @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Bonus: It's cathartic to write a scream into the void.

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Mar 14

Congrats Uma!!

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Mar 11

submitted my 4th grant application of 2025 ✅✅✅✅

a dog is sitting on top of a bed with the words `` i go to bed now night '' written on it .

Alt: a dog is sitting on top of a bed with the words `` i go to bed now night '' written on it .

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Robyn St. Laurent @robynstlaurent.bsky.social · Mar 9

On Thursday it had a notice about scheduled maintenance for Mar 8-9

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