Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

So worth the struggle to finally see these hungry guys 🫡

Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!

Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really honoured to receive the @istaart.bsky.social Sex and Gender PIA Publication of the Year Award 🌟 Thank you to the PIA & @bucklr01.bsky.social! And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social

New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025 *Stress and astrocytes Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU

One more from human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I totally love seeing how these highly specialized cell populations in the hypothalamus just pop when labeled. Here - CRH 🟡, OXT 🔴 and SIM1 🟣 in paraventricular nucleus. Image credit to Svitlana Bach and Yufeng Du. 🧪🔬👩‍🔬

Beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey 🩷✨

I thought we were “defending women”?

Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...

WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.

This.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

The, what appears to be, scrubbing happening right now at NIH is mind boggling "Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone "Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

Despite evidence for a role in plasticity, many neuroscientists still view the extracellular matrix as “brain goop.” @annamolofskylab.bsky.social explains why the field needs a shift in scientific thinking to move beyond this outdated perspective. www.thetransmitter.org/extracellula... #neuroskyence

Stress during puberty and adulthood pregnancy impact histone acetylation regulators in the hypothalamus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626244v1

Super proud of this one 🤩 Thank you to all my co-authors! Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...