🧪We found that stress can have different effects on learning depending on the estrous cycle (rodent equivalent of the menstrual cycle)! BUT only if it’s a single stress. Repeated stressful experiences were not estrous dependent. (1/3) #brains #stress #sexdifferences

Ever wonder how stress and the estrous cycle affects reward learning? Well we have answers for you in our paper led by @askaneuroscientist.bsky.social published in @npp-journal.bsky.social And huge thanks to the NIH and NSF who supported this research.

5 years of my life are finally available to read thanks to @npp-journal.bsky.social! Check out my first first-author paper here: rdcu.be/ewtDQ. Shout out to @mattjwanat.bsky.social for all of his incredible mentorship and making sure this was something I could be proud of, which I absolutely am!

This is not good. Organ on a chip models are NOT where they need to be in order to for scientists to test things prior to human clinical trials. This has been a concern for a while. 🧵

Hey I just heard some wild news about the NIH so hopped on the #Science🧪 feed to see if anyone was talking about it… not seeing much, unsure if that’s a good or bad sign👀

Trying to think of a good shirt to make for the no kings protest but all I can come up with is “fuuuuuuuuuuuuck”

I need to start carrying gold stars, I have the most supportive and helpful study group in my class and they all deserve some stars

Been at my big girl professor job for 1 week and just had a student tell me I make learning fun…. I think this is what drugs feel like

I love graduation season on campus, what do you mean there’s a whole ass line dance session happening in a random classroom? Good for yall😂

It was floppy hat and silly robes day at school😜✌🏼 @mattwanat.bsky.social #PHD #PHDONE #MyPronounsAreDoctorNow

Something about the transition from grad student to professor feels a lot like the transition from high school senior to college freshman. Like I’m simultaneously growing up and becoming a baby again. #academia #gradschool

I didn’t take a pic so idk if anyone will believe me, but I just saw the funniest combo of 2 magazines next to each other. One: secrets you’ll never believe pope Francis took to the grave! The other: a coloring book of “cat farts”

I stg the writers of Lost think every woman is always pregnant at all times🙄 (and I say woman instead of person with a uterus because the show is from the early 2000’s and therefore painfully cis/het normative)

Learned the importance of gauge swatches the hard way… been working on this shawl for 3 months, thought it looked a bit small but there’s also a big lace portion so I hoped blocking would fix it… ended up with a child size shawl but it also kinda looks like a cape? #knitsky 1/2

And I thought the people who complain about “chemicals” in things were bad…. Can’t wait for someone to inform him that he also has hella dna particles😂

Hey, fellow adhd folks, may I humbly recommend going to a cattle auction. Went to my first one today and it was a perfect level of stimulation. There was so much going on, I felt like I was in a sensory deprivation tank. I think that was the first time my mind has truly been empty, it was meditative

Just got reviewer comments back! Seems like the published version will look quite a bit different than this one, but the results remain the same. TBH, it feels nice to have something to do again. My life got too easy after defending😂

I might have a phd now but apparently I still cannot spell… it’s fine, I’m fine😂😂😂

The temptation to change all of my social media handles to Dr.AskANeuroscientist is so strong…..

NOW ANOUNCING DR ASK A NEUROSCIENT, PH.D.!!! #gradschool #research #phd

Huge congrats goes out to Dr. Morgan Johnston (@askaneuroscientist.bsky.social) for nailing her dissertation defense today! Stay tuned for her papers that will be coming out soon!

Ok I’m officially no longer listening to anyone’s movie opinions. Bane is the best Batman villain

Ok I get why everyone hates on DC, but also, Batman begins is an actual masterpiece (especially if you watch it at 2am)

When you realize no one has made a graph/diagram that you desperately want to make explaining your point easier

Currently trying not to read into HEB playing Heat of the Moment on a Tuesday…….. #supernatural

I hate working in the same field as my arch enemy. I'll just be casually reading a paper and all of sudden, there's their name. Great, now my whole day is ruined. They shouldn't be cited out of pure pettiness, I guarantee there's more robust papers demonstrating the same thing...

So I've been stuck in a cave writing my thesis all day..... what's everyone else's day been like???? wtf

currently wildly fluctuating between being extremely proud to be on the forefront of science and incredibly freaking annoyed no one has the answer to my super simple question that has only take five years of my life (sarcasm) to answer

Ohhhh I just realized some people are a bit confused under this thread because american sex ed has failed us all! So here’s your #FunFact for today: people with menstrual cycles are ALWAYS in their menstrual cycle, until it ends around age 50. (1/3)🧪

When I was in highschool, I called periods dots because I was terrified to even say the word. Now I just sent my advisor a thesis introduction that said “menses”, “menstruation”, “vaginal canal”, and “uterine lining” a total of 36 times. That’s growth (and the normalization of normal things)👏👏👏

Extremely disappointed that when I googled “human hormonal cycles” the only thing that came up was the menstrual cycle. Did you know that humans (which includes those born with a penis) experience a lot of hormonal cycles that can influence our behavior? Here’s a thread of some I think are neat🧪

With age, I am understanding things I never understood when I was younger. ONE of those things, is the value of doing Fucking Anything™. Taking ANY action, inspires other people to take action. This ripple effect is more powerful than the original Anything™ you do.

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

@booker.senate.gov thank you for letting me live through my first “historic moment” in which I’m actually proud of what an American did

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

I hope Cory Booker eats a delicious vegan meal and has the best sleep of his life.

If Cory Booker can do that, I can finish this thesis

After 24 hours on his feet, Cory Booker is defending the scientific research establishment of this country - calling out an experience like the one that drives me and SO MANY of my fellow scientists to do the work we do - that maybe we can do for others what we couldn't for our own loved ones.

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

Not to get too spiritual on main, but sometimes when you look at all the things that brought you to where you are, doesn’t it just feel like a clear path? Like this definitely isn’t the path I meant to take, but I can see how all the steps I took brought me here

Every time I hear a tech billionaire’s philosophy on life and tech’s role in it… I’m just reminded that they know literally nothing about biology and are fully talking out of their asses

I think a big part of the strategy for those of us who are white and citizens is to get in the way and get loud. Local governments try to pass harmful policies? Get in the way. Local schools try to get rid of DEI staff? Get loud. And when ICE tries to abduct someone? GET IN THE WAY AND GET LOUD.

Was about to make a post about how I’m proud of myself for not posting something hella stupid… and now instead I’m making a post about how I didn’t make a post about not posting. I’m doing great, why do you ask?👍🏼

Hey hey hey hey hey did y’all know Garth Brooks had a hella public emo phase?!? If you need something to cheer you up today, pleaasssseee look up some videos on Chris Gaines😭😭😭

Getting some help on my thesis from top experts #cats #rainydaycuddles #cathelpers

I am sad to announce that I missed it, but also hello to my 668 followers!😂

Free events coming up that I think you should know about: A Beginner's Guide to Street Art April 1 (no joke!!) 5pm PT/ 8pm ET, ONLINE RSVP here: lu.ma/2zosbsxy Climate Change Crafting Night April 6, 5pm at Tattooed Mom in Philly RSVP here: lu.ma/zgq45ht1

Sorry for the TMI but having my IUD shift horribly out of place while I am in absolute crunch mode trying to write my thesis is a huge pain in the… well I would say ass but that’s the wrong body part. I love being a #womaninstem✌🏼

hey now here’s some war plans get your bombs out go play hey now it’s the group chat here’s some spy names let’s go get played

There are easier ways to say men are dumb…. But I guess there’s fewer ways to say men are dumb while simultaneously being an example of it