Thrilled to be in Uppsala 🇸🇪 for #WOMHER2026 filled of talks on women’s mental health. proud of @bonniee-leee.bsky.social @rominagl4.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social Laura Gravelsins for their great presentations that went off without a hitch (despite some lost luggage)

We've been quiet for a while, but the lab has been quite productive, publishing several articles. Today, in Molecular Psychiatry, we published a study on sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread! 👇🏻

Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible ⁦‪Dr ⁦Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

We are live!!! Follow along for highlights!!

Did you know that APOEe4, a genetic risk factor late-onset sporadic #AlzheimersDisease (AD) affects brain aging differently in males and females? 🧠 👀 📲 Swipe to learn more about this new study led by @bonniee_leee and click here to read the full paper: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Join us for a Multidisciplinary Look at Menopause! 🗓️ April 28 – 1:00 PM EST Hear insights from the next generation of menopause researchers! 🔗 Reserve your spot today for this hybrid event: ow.ly/T8g350VpOap #MenopauseResearch

Tuesday we got to see @bonniee-leee.bsky.social transform into Dr.Bonnie Lee!! Many thanks to her committee, external examiner Kristen Zuloaga & university examiners Jessica Rosin and Wendy Robinson!!the second last UBC graduate student from the Galea lab to finish!! Thanks to UBC for the memories

Congratulations to Sara Siddiqi for her hard work and perseverance on getting this out....It took so long for this paper to be published that I worried it would no longer be relevant to the audience.....I was very wrong....unfortunately! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social. rdcu.be/d4XWM

Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Sharing one of my favorite images I've taken of microglia phagocytosis featuring a neuron whose DAPI is all too happy to be eaten.

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

So happy our review is finally out!! 🔬 📝Had the best writing journey with Liisa Galea and Travis Hodges. Special thanks to Dr. Tamara Bodnar and Dr. Hilary Brown for sharing their expertise.