Joanna Dabrowska

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

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

Recently tried it on our published paper (neuroscience, biological psychiatry field, so out of the main @qedscience.bsky.social domain). But still, very impressed with the identified gaps and identified novelty in the field! Can we re-use/paraphrase some of the novelty findings? Highly recommend!

This is a new level:
"Hello Dear,

We are delighted to extend a cordial invitation to you and your wife to participate in the Brain Summit, scheduled to take place from January 14–16, 2026, at Novotel Al Barsha, Dubai, UAE".

Can I come with my husband instead??

The disturbing connection between loneliness and dementia Scientists are studying the effect of “social frailty” on memory loss—and testing whether AI companions can help.

We talk a lot about loneliness.

We don't talk about social frailty. Which is much MORE than that. It can be loneliness, but it's also not enough money to be social, seeing people rarely, or not at all.

And social frailty? Is a risk for dementia. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine the booming market a troubling new market.

A new documentary goes inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic... in the absence of meaningful gun reform.

I spoke with the filmmakers for @motherjones.com:

just 2 years? it's basically new ab! it'll totally work 🤞

Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.

> 74 thousand trial participants affected

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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History books. Album covers. Time cover. Wheat pasted posters. Projected on buildings. Billboards. Commercials. Social media ads.

Put. This. Picture. Everywhere.

Why The FDA’s New Move On Hormone Therapy Could Help Women’s Careers The FDA announced that it's removing the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause. Here's why it could help women in their careers.

The FDA removed the black box warning for HRT. Recent research reveals that the benefits of HRT outweigh risks for most women who start before age 60: Reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases by 50%, Alzheimer’s disease by 35% & bone fractures by 50-60%.
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

New preprint from the lab! We identified Vipr2-expressing BNST neurons as a distinct subpopulation of the oval nucleus that promotes feeding, is activated by food restriction, is non-overlapping with appetite-suppressing PKC delta neurons, and projects to PSTN & PVN hypothalamic feeding centers.

Looks like the shutdown is nearing an end, but I might squeeze in one more batch of brains. I’m thinking of offering a limited number of custom orders where you pick the color scheme. DM if you’d be interested.

Excited to share new research from my lab in final published form! By deleting hypocretin (orexin) receptors from CRF neurons, we uncovered neuropeptide mechanisms linking alcohol drinking and negative emotional hyperarousal through BNST neuronal excitability.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH.

Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind.

It’s Me, the Person Putting Drugs in the Halloween Candy “Is ‘rainbow fentanyl’ a threat to your kids this Halloween? Experts say no.” — NPR - - -Hi there. I’m the person putting drugs in Halloween candy....

"Do I have any proof that I do this and that this supposed allegation is anything more than scaremongering to get clicks and views? No, of course not. But you don’t really want proof, do you?"

Very proud of Dr Tracy Bale’s @thebalelab.bsky.social induction into the National Academy of Medicine yesterday evening! A brilliant impactful scientist, a champion of women, and a tireless advocate for global neuroscience at @ibroorg.bsky.social! Congratulations!

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

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We are busy preparing the IBNS 35th annual conference and want you and your colleagues to join us! Symposia proposals due Oct 28th. www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-... #IBNSSouthAfrica

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

" Here we present a large-scale longitudinal analysis of health records from more than 100 million individuals in the U.S that demonstrates a consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics."
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer

Corrected proof - sharable version available here 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is Vought’s dream, his fantasy, his fondest wishes, come true.

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)

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

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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.