Naima Dahir

No, it's not an official UTSW photo. Lol not bad at all.

My lab will primarily focus on how sensory and motor processing guide ingestive behaviors and how their disruption affects health and disease. I will be recruiting at all levels.

I am very grateful to my mentors for their support and guidance and I hope I can be half as good.

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

You'll be able to keep running windows 10 past October but Microsoft will not provide security updates... It's also possible you could manually update security patches yourself to avoid issues.

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds Girls as young as eight show a unique sensitivity to numbers representing their body weight, a new study finds. The results highlight early gender differences in attention and raise questions about how body awareness develops and affects girls’ perceptions later in life.

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...

Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

different coloured mice on a white background

Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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Congratulations 🎉✨

Welcome Boychuk Lab✨✨✨🥰

Really cool work!

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...

I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!

UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews The University of California, the nation's top recipient of federal research funding in higher education, is raising questions and concerns about the Trump administration's pause in research grant rev...

www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art

Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds

Congratulations MJ🥳🥳🥳

Heck yeah!

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)

Lol 🤦🏿‍♀️just shared it with you.

Sanwa LP10 Laser Power Meter works pretty well for us.

Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸

Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result.

Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 Angeline 🥳

New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app

Count me in⚡