Natalie Tronson

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Hippocampal estrogen levels, receptor types, and epigenetics contribute to sex-specific memory vulnerabilities to concurrent acute stresses Acute concurrent stresses provoke lasting, sex-dependent memory problems. Hokenson, Rodríguez-Acevedo, et al. find that high hippocampal estrogen levels in mice generate permissive chromatin states, a...

Check out our new paper, investigating the role of estrogen in stress-induced memory disruptions. 🧠 online now!

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Turns out misogyny and racism were the actual “conspiracy” all along…absolute fuckers

Every Epstein dump is every man you thought was awful being fucking awful…JFC

Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

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Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing Presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a community of scientists across fields (including basic and clinical work, and in public policy) that focus on sex differences!

Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a scientific community that focuses on sex differences across fields of study, and in basic and clinical research and public policy!

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I’ll be there Michele!!!

Taylor swift “out of the woods” 🤣 it’s a great mid trail run song

This is sick.
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”

NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).

Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

blue and purple ink painting with neuron and text

blue brain watercolor with text: No thoughts only algorithm

red blood cells watercolor

blue and gray neurons ink painting

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2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee: Daniella Ludmir – FABBS Hormonal contraceptives prevent stress enhancement of fear memory via blunted stress responsivity Daniella Ludmir, the University of Michigan Abstract: Hormonal

The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website:

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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
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How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.

My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution.

This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.

💔 this is a huge loss for all of us. I’m so sorry

Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.

“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.