Kristen Montgomery

Sex-specific factors and APOEε4 genotype alter functional connectivity at middle age Cognitive aging is influenced by sex and sex-specific factors. Indeed, research has shown that parity (pregnancy and parenthood) uniquely alters bioma…

While you are all waiting for treat or treaters & the blue jay game … take a look at our newest from
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Currently building a patch ephys rig and agonizing over camera selection. Do any patchers have any advice on what specifications I should be prioritizing? Also, has anyone used the Thorlabs Kiralux sCMOS cameras? 🧪

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon Podcast Episode · Women's Health Interrupted with Dr. Liisa Galea · 2025-10-15 · 51m

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...

Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

So worth the struggle to finally see these hungry guys 🫡

Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!

Congratulations!!!

Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala

Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social !
We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters!

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

Really honoured to receive the @istaart.bsky.social Sex and Gender PIA Publication of the Year Award 🌟 Thank you to the PIA & @bucklr01.bsky.social!

And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social

New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Slide says 2025 neural circuits and behavior satellite meeting *also apparently the inaugural stress and astrocyte satellite meeting

It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025

*Stress and astrocytes

Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !

Illustration for an article titled "Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote. That needs to change" featuring a person overwhelmed by a swirl of papers and books.

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU

Microscope image of RNAscope-based labeling of mRNA transcripts for corticotrophin releasing hormone (yellow), oxytocin (red) and SIM1 (magenta) in a tissue section through the paraventricular nucleus of postmortem human brain

One more from human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I totally love seeing how these highly specialized cell populations in the hypothalamus just pop when labeled. Here - CRH 🟡, OXT 🔴 and SIM1 🟣 in paraventricular nucleus. Image credit to Svitlana Bach and Yufeng Du. 🧪🔬👩‍🔬

Beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey 🩷✨

I thought we were “defending women”?

Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...

Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...

WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.

This.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

The, what appears to be, scrubbing happening right now at NIH is mind boggling

"Accounting for sex as a biological variable in clinical studies"... gone
"Supporting Women in Biomedical Careers"... gone

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

Cracking the code of the extracellular matrix Despite evidence for a role in plasticity and other crucial functions, many neuroscientists still view these proteins as “brain goop.” The field needs technical advances and a shift in scientific…

Despite evidence for a role in plasticity, many neuroscientists still view the extracellular matrix as “brain goop.” @annamolofskylab.bsky.social explains why the field needs a shift in scientific thinking to move beyond this outdated perspective.
www.thetransmitter.org/extracellula...
#neuroskyence

Stress during puberty and adulthood pregnancy impact histone acetylation regulators in the hypothalamus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626244v1 Undergoing stressful events during puberty puts women at risk for a variety of negative outcomes, an

Stress during puberty and adulthood pregnancy impact histone acetylation regulators in the hypothalamus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.01.626244v1

Super proud of this one 🤩 Thank you to all my co-authors!

Read it here now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...