Behavioral Neuroscientist @UniofOxford. Dan Norman Early Career Fellow @BalliolOxford, Former NSF Postdoc Fellow, & @UCIrvine / @UW Alum. She/Her
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๐ฅณ๐พ๐บCelebrating my first *1st author paper finally being up after way too many years!! No time for a twitter thread explainer now, but soon! Big shout out to co-lead author @RFarero , PhD supervisor @PaulEMPhillips and rest of our team for guidance & help along the way! โ at Oxford, England
Cocaine Seeking And Taking Are Oppositely Regulated By Dopamine biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shorโฆ #biorxiv_neursci
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A basolateral amygdala to dorsolateral striatum projection modulates stimulus-evoked motor behavior: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08โฆ
congrats @lab_plotkin and Zach!!
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How do brains plan actions towards goals?
To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial ๐งต
New work with Thomas Akam @behrenstimb @KrisTorpJensen now on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898โฆ
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Couldnโt agree more! We need to 10x polysubstance use research funding. We actually need whole research centers dedicated to basic research on polysubstance use. Right now they are almost all exclusively dedicated to a single substance.
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Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates...now that it is white folks being affected drugmonkey.wordpress.com/202โฆ via @drugmonkeyblog
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Our new paper in collaboration with Bill Carlezon and @ErikMusiek on the effects of pain on sleep architecture is now out at @npp_journal .
Work done by the amazing @DominikaJBurek and @khairunisa_ibk
nature.com/articles/s41386-0โฆ
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I missed your statement on the attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities of the NIH. Could you re-post the link, please?
The ACNP has joined forces with other brain and behavior organizations in opposition of the NIH imposed standard indirect cost rate. acnp.org/about-us/statement-โฆ
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There are companies worth ยฃ50bn* based in this terraced house in Bolton.
Turns out they also have a bank. With a valid VAT registration number.
(*on paper)
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New preprint w/ @lab_plotkin about cholinergic interneurons causing local serotonin release in striatum and how this is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
For the story, read on 1/9
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As the author of this PDF, it's been interesting seeing people guess at the rationale behind its design. However, the rationale had nothing to do with theory vs practice, and everything to do with pragmatically coping with an unaccommodated disability in academia. (1/16)
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Tonight!
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Usually I donโt talk about stuff like this because frankly it happens way too often. But not todayโฆ
As I pulled into the same faculty parking lot that I park in all the time @msstate, a white woman was coming out of my office building. Her car was parked next to the space I pulled into.
๐จ ๐จ PSA for #SfN2024 Dopaminers
Sad I wonโt be there to join you!
Pls RT
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Iโm so glad they found each other
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Please reach out to us if you are interested in doing a postdoc in research related to substance use disorders! Pittsburgh is a wonderful place to train with fantastic faculty doing basic, translational and clinical research.
NIDA has recently awarded Pitt Psychiatry a T32 postdoc training grant in substance use disorder research! SMART is led by Colleen McClung, PhD & Mary Torregrossa, PhD. See more: bit.ly/3ycgYW5
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Chk out our new collab paper w/ @LinTianPhD @chromism & many others. โOpioid biosensors v1.0โ. Lots of applications. Encourage people to reach out, test them in ur applications, & ask ?. Congrats to co 1st authors: @JasonCDong1 @outRaajeous
nature.com/articles/s41593-0โฆ @NIDAnews
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Our new sensor for the neuropeptide #nociceptin is now out in @NatureComms Fantastic teamwork with the @mbruchas lab and many other super collabs! Very proud of our student Xuehan for her PhD work! Check it out: rdcu.be/dLO3m
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โผ๏ธNew preprint: Scaling laws for political persuasion with LLMsโผ๏ธ
In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of language models yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns:
arxiv.org/abs/2406.14508
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Anyone interested in Dopamine and looking for a Postdoc with a wonderful human as a mentor๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ
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Berkeley, UCSF and UW jointly announced the creation of the Weill Neurohub to "bring together world-class researchers" and distribute a generous donor gift. Can't put my finger on what seems off about their Leadership Committee... @BiasWatchNeuro
