Joanna Dabrowska

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

"Any honest writer,journalist,or historian in Russia must always be ready for prison"

Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin was detained today on charges of allegedly spreading "false information about the army."Moscow's branch of the Investigative Committee said the reason was his posts on Telegram

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Activity of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis reduces anxiety-potentiated startle in female rats in an estrous phase-dependent manner The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders is higher in women than men. The severity of hallmark symptoms including hypervigilance and fear reactivity to unpredictab...

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳
🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦
🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous
✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION.

(I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone)

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Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour.

I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Activity of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis reduces anxiety-potentiated startle in female rats in an estrous phase-dependent manner The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders is higher in women than men. The severity of hallmark symptoms including hypervigilance and fear reactivity to unpredictab...

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳
🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦
🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous
✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible.

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So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown?

Have you considered becoming a rock star?

It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪

Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

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Some notable OG folks who will attend include Jim McGaugh and Lynn Nadel.

Thank you Guys!!! Fire the Quack! 🦆

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YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH LIVE: Former CDC head Monarez testifies on agency upheaval under RFK Jr.

POST BREAK PART TWO of ex-CDC Director Monarez's testimony:

We are still LIVE with updates and reactions!

Gut microbiota and metabolites drive chronic sickle cell disease pain in mice Brandow et al. describe how the gut microbiome drives chronic sickle cell disease (SCD) pain. SCD guts contain excessive heme catabolites, fewer bacteria that metabolize bilirubin, and low levels of A...

1st paper from Sadler Lab is out!! Highlights: 1) A. muciniphila reverses sickle cell (SCD) pain, 2) fecal transplant from SCD mice induces pain via bilirubin-TRPM2 vagal signaling, 3) BilR+ bacteria less abundant in SCD patient poo, 4) RNAseq on HUMAN nodose ganglia! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Thank you for your service!

Disentangling the effects of corticotrophin releasing factor and GABA release from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis on ethanol self-administration in mice - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Disentangling the effects of corticotrophin releasing factor and GABA release from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis on ethanol self-administration in mice

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vaccines save lives. Period.

👏 New Mexico!!!

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Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in #interoception especially from a public-facing standpoint

The NOA finally arrived on Friday! 🥂 🥳 (pheeeeeewww)

After a > 3-month delay, it's finally here!!!!! 🥂💰🥳