Dr. Cate Peña

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!

Lastly, we zoomed out: what’s the overall pattern of superficial tract development — where the developmental drama happens? Tract ends near sensorimotor cortex mature earlier; those near association cortex mature later. Our second axis: Sensorimotor ➡️ Association. 10/n

We truly didn’t know what we’d find. The pattern we saw was striking – and replicable. Across nearly all tracts, we saw the most developmental drama at superficial tract regions near the cortex. Deep regions showed little age-related change. Our first axis: Deep ➡️ Superficial. 4/n

I have a sticky note with “WHO CARES?!” above my computer to remind me of this.
However: a trainee once gestured to it and asked if I was ok 🤣 so maybe just in document headers is a better idea

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

Hahahaha yes bsky.app/profile/cate...

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.

The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

I really needed a quiet week after a series of big pushes over the last many months. So of course, today I started writing a brand new IACUC protocol #academicmasochism

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.

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Congrats!

Thank you, Junjie! You got the NYSCF preview ;)

Thank you so much, Catherine! This means a lot to us!

A amazing new story by @cate-cholamine.bsky.social led by @forrestdrogers.bsky.social on the environmental modulation of paternal behavior in African striped mice, with a newly discovered molecular player of parental control, Agouti! Terrific study, congrats to all authors!...

Abstract image of building blocks making up a brain

🌟Announcing the next cohort of the DPN Editor’s New Investigator Waiver Award recipients🌟

Dr. Nicole Zürcher, @nicolerzurcher.bsky.social
Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied, @jengoldschmiedphd.bsky.social
Dr. Sarah Sperry, @drsarahsperry.bsky.social

Congratulations! We're proud to support your work👏

New postdoctoral opportunity @lieberinstitute.bsky.social working w/ @tsawada1.bsky.social and our Molecular Neurogenetics team using human induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate molecular, cellular and neuroendocrine mechanisms by which impaired placental function impacts brain development

Thank you, Orna!! ❤️

Thank you, Tallie! Drivers instead of effects of maltreatment this time! All credit the amazing @forrestdrogers.bsky.social and his hard work

Thank you! 🥳

Thank you, Luke!

Thank you, Marija! You know this is all Forrest!

Yes! And Agouti itself has pleiotropic function, too! Skin pigmentation, obesity, and apparently paternal behavior

Thank you, Keri! Forrest worked so hard, and it was really fun to follow the science

Thanks, Peter!

Thanks, Caro! 🥂

Let it be known that my coauthors prevented me from using this as an internal grant subtitle and with press. Internet, please validate me 🤣 Or better yet, share your best dad jokes

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

YOU GUYS. I forgot to share my dad joke!

How can you tell if a mouse is a dad?
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By his mousetache! 🤣

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