Nikki Maphis, PhD

Alcohol consumption in P301S mice accelerates gait impairments, modifies aggregation of pathological tau and alters microglia within the hippocampus Excessive alcohol use is a major modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet its impact on tau pathology remains poorly understood. Using a voluntary drinking-in-the-dark (DID) paradigm,...

New pub alert: If alcohol is bad news for P301S (tauopathy mice) mice by accelerating gait impairments, spreading pathological tau and altering microglia morphology, what else is it doing to the adult brain? #postdoc 🧠 #neuroscience #alcoholresearch
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Thanks to the team @nature.com for telling our stories and amplifying our experiences. Science and scientists are still very much under attack! #standupforscience #neuroscience #postdoc

Thanks to @acerjournal.bsky.social for publishing my recent article pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40755227/
Alcohol altera gait and accelerates pathological tau spread in a tauopathy model. Wait until you see what I did with the other half of the brain. More to come soon... 🧠 #neuro #postdoc

I mean we signed up for presale and logged in at 10 am. Now there are only re-sell tickets available for like 10x the price. This is ridiculous. I understand this is a huge event but I think people are just making money with buying tickets and re-selling with NO intention of actually attending.

195440 is like the population of Albuquerque.

@ticketmaster.com was OOPS ALL Bots this morning. You're telling me 200,000 people were online trying to get Tix to see Sir Paul McCartney in ABQ, NM. What about the people that live here and are big Beatles fans? No we cannot afford $1,200 tickets. We spent an HOUR waiting for nothing. #robbery

Ashamed of #NIAAA for holding up these training grants across the country (it's not just ours). I thought training scientists to study #alcoholusedisorder and develop treatments and meaningful interventions is something the government actually wanted to fund? #postdoc

a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this . ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor and says not like this .

I just found out my funding ends today. It is such a sad day. #NIAAA how many more programs and people will lose their jobs?

First @southwestair.bsky.social flight couldn't land and then had to do a quick pull up and circle. Now the second plane has driven around the airport sat for 20 min and now driven back to the gate. What is going on?

Federal District Court Strikes Down NIH’s Unlawful Directives That Led to the Elimination of Critical Research | American Civil Liberties Union BOSTON — In a major victory for public health, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts today struck down the National Institutes of...

Yesterday's bench ruling by Judge Young feels like a dream, even though I know there is still so much to do, and we aren't done, yet. #resist #postdoc #scienceisforeveryone
Thank you @aclu.org and @protectdemocracy.org and all of my co-plaintiffs for your support!
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Alzheimer's Association Part the Cloud Grants $5 Million to Develop Gene Targeting Treatments Through the Alzheimer's Association, the Part the Cloud grants support development of innovative gene targeting treatments for Alzheimer's and dementia.

Part the Cloud and the Association have just announced $5 million in new funding to support four cutting-edge studies focused on gene targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s. bit.ly/4l8yEVx

Alzheimer's Association Part the Cloud Grants $5 Million to Develop Gene Targeting Treatments Through the Alzheimer's Association, the Part the Cloud grants support development of innovative gene targeting treatments for Alzheimer's and dementia.

Can you prevent Alzheimer's disease with our VLP immunotherapy? With the support of @alzassociation.bsky.social and the #PartTheCloudinititatve we will soon find out! www.alz.org/news/2025/al...
Humbled and excited to witness my science baby grow up!

a man in a fur hooded jacket talks to a woman with the words rebellions are built on hope ALT: a man in a fur hooded jacket talks to a woman with the words rebellions are built on hope

Happy grant submission day to those who celebrate!

I remain steadfast and resilient while submitting this K99/R00 for the 3rd time. I can barely process, let alone explain the emotions, the doubt, the devastating grief, and the hope I've experienced throughout this entire process. #Neuro

The coolest stuff coming out of the LinsenLab, as per usual. Great work @neuromorning.bsky.social !!!!

Amazing work being done by our amazing postdoc! Check it out!

Cutting funding for research will have devastating consequences, unrealized for decades. The amount of talented and motivated early career scientists who really want these careers will not receive the training and/or financial support needed to get them there. #postdoc #standupforscience

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS

We cannot and should not stay silent. Keep sharing your stories. #neuroscience #postdoc

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

What a heart-rending, beautiful, enraging piece by #KseniiaPetrova as told to #AlexEllerbeck at the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

On speaking about universities essentially bending the knee to the king he said, "and I think eventually they will..."
If that doesn't sound like authoritarianism....yeesh. Nothing he says in this interview makes sense and in essence he attacks his interviewer. Everyone should read this.

OPINION: Science cuts: The five stages of grief The five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — rarely happen in any specific order.

Never stop telling your stories. Science is for everyone. #postdoc #standupforscience #neuroscience

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But this war is impacting ALL universities, especially our smaller hispanic-serving R1s in New Mexico, where dozens of graduate students are struggling with recent stop work orders and loss of funding and where our postdoc training program #IRACDA was also cancelled.

Excited to be highlighted for the tour de force that is this paper from my dissertation work: #postdoc #alzheimers

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It's like cognitive dissonance is the norm now.

Looks like notices of funding opportunities (NOFO) are more like Lack of opportunities (LOO). #postdoc #earlycareer #nocareer

This needed to be said, and thank you for saying it.

I thought this was an onion article but nope. This is our timeline and this is real life.

Hoping to see more universities come together to stand up to fight these arbitrary cuts. #scienceisforeveryone #stopthecuts

Why am I standing up? This movement is about those who are unable to stand up for themselves and for the atrocities happening against our scientists, our science and the community our science serves. #scienceisforeveryone

Exclusive: NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

Saying that these programs "no longer effectuate agency priorities" is absolutely ridiculous. They are removing training opportunities from hundreds of committed, engaged and excited trainees at every single career stage. Absolute destruction. #postdoc #IRACDA
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Editing scientific findings because it doesn't fit a specific narrative is unacceptable. Neuro-omics databases should not be altered because your tax dollars paid for this research to be conducted through a budget approved and dictated by Congress. There are 3 branches of government.

Omg. This is ridiculous. I used their amazing research in a recent book chapter.