Dr. Jen Rinker
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Assistant Professor at MUSC. Addiction Neuroscientist. Dog 🐕 mom. MI (🥶)•DC (👩🔬👩🎓)•NC (🐏🩵)•SC (🔬🧪)
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4 months ago
Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-meetings-conferences-and-workshops/fda-nih-workshop-reducing-animal-testing-07072025#event-information
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Dr. Nikki Crowley
4 months ago
Check out this NPP Hot Topic by
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"A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking". Read it here:
tinyurl.com/3hrbswkr
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A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking
Neuropsychopharmacology - A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-025-02172-6.epdf?sharing_token=u5-zIGC8Hw-QMiV4ZYrF2tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MC2dGTSdMQWpTc6OD8V7Rfeqbc7T8AjnoFQXETDJuNCHpdNvSyiVVBtJrrK7zgoEcZjgo2ydKuzi3q6CwIYz-Yb-urDiDTPAQdpFeMyLYbe7MdVzySk198mi4o5-480wk%3D
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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him)
5 months ago
First the
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3-min thesis inaugural winner and now the Gordis Award for
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#proud-mentor
#rsa2025
#rsa_isbra2025
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Dr. Nikki Crowley
5 months ago
Job is up, consider joining us!
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Defending soon? Come postdoc with us - MUSC is a great place to prepare you for your next career move, in or outside of academia!
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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him)
9 months ago
Dear science community, an amazing grad student with
@drjrink.bsky.social
and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating
www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
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Donate to Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire, organized by Patrick Mulholland
A graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience (Kathy L.) at MUSC … Patrick Mulholland needs your support for Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-needs-your-help-after-apartment-fire
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Kurt Fraser
9 months ago
Takes all of 5 seconds!
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Where are the checks and balances - this is the most egregious overreach of presidential power...
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10 months ago
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WuTangIsForTheChildren
10 months ago
So how’s it going so far?
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📌 Bookmarking this for myself.
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️
10 months ago
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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The perfect emoji to encapsulate how I feel does not exi…
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Steve Munger
10 months ago
Want to see the numbers for how NIH funding impacts your state? Remind your Representatives, Senators, and fellow citizens how federally-funded biomedical research advances health, created jobs, and fosters innovation and economic growth.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/
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"We sure used to be [the greatest country in the world]. We stood up for what was right...made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases...we aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior..." Old but relevant. Deserves a replay.
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HBO's NEWSROOM Opening scene "Why America's Not the Greatest Country"
YouTube video by attnjake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyUWKJFER8
10 months ago
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The Michigan girl in me is at least appreciative of the fact that my pleas of “if it’s gonna be this cold the least we could get is some snow” have been properly answered. Tomorrow I just ask that only the snowbirds take to the roads. Locals please stay home.
#lowcountry
#snowday
#jzi
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Mark D Humphries
11 months ago
Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
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2024: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Feeling a bit wired
https://medium.com/the-spike/2024-a-review-of-the-year-in-neuroscience-84d343155146
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Claus Wilke
11 months ago
Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs.
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
11 months ago
Spike sorting biases and information loss in a detailed cortical model
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626805v1
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Sasha Gusev
12 months ago
I wrote about the National Institutes of Health and the various serious and unserious proposals for NIH reform that have been floating around. It is important to understand how this agency actually functions and point criticism at the right problems. A short 🧵:
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Distinguishing real from invented problems with the NIH
How does the NIH work and where does it work well?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theinfinitesimal/p/distinguishing-real-from-invented?r=43f9ax&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Science News
12 months ago
Three must read papers for PhD students.
#scisky
#PhD
#science
#research
#academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Razvan Borza
12 months ago
🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet… 📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition. Check it out at
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Kirstie Cummings
12 months ago
In the spirit of a fresh start on 🦋, I'm happy to share our lab's first paper, published earlier this year!
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The mouse dorsal peduncular cortex encodes fear memory
Campos-Cardoso et al. employ a series of multimodal analyses to demonstrate that the mouse dorsal peduncular cortex encodes fear but not extinction memory. These findings redefine the principles of th...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)00425-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS221112472400425X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue#%20
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the great migration is happening & 3 features Twitter had that you should strongly consider. 1. A save post/content button on others posts 2. Follow back button in notifications so you don’t have to go to the profile if you don’t want 3. Save drafts option for posts
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Great opportunity for senior grad students, check it out 👇
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