Abby Polter
@ampolter.bsky.social
Associate professor in Washington DC. Neuroscientist/mouse psychiatrist
I’m much more afraid of people not from here walking around with guns than I am of any of my neighbors the delusion they want me living in is that my neighbors are to be feared
Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 2d agolike I cannot emphasize enough how far away I am from federal buildings, the monuments, etc. one man’s delusions means this is what our residential neighborhoods look like
🚨Happy to share a new preprint from Lerner Lab led by graduate student @nadelneurosci.bsky.social! 🚨 “Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking” This has been a wholly impressive effort by Jacob; summary below 👇 #neuroskyence🧪
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d agoAdolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741478v1
I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing
Nearly all ovarian cancers, including most fatal forms, start in the fallopian tubes. The good news is that tubal removal offers effective prevention, though it does affect fertility. How do we know this? A curious Dutch PhD student and “a lot of science”. Keep funding research! 🎁🔗
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Some good news! Not a done deal, but important step. If you wondered if submitting your comments on the OMB rules change mattered, the answer is a resounding YES
Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3d agoThis may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!
unusual to find one of These Guys who is both pro-confederate AND anti-german
Nied@nied.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's right!
Not my usual 'cup of tea'. I preface this simply because I found Gina Kolata's article about ovarian cancer worth passing along for 2 reasons. 1st, we—my wife and I—are humans of a certain age. 2nd, the topic of cancer, scares the shit out of almost everyone. FYI. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It. (Gift Article)
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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was just telling someone that in the scene in this where he has dinner with Julia Roberts the moment when she calls him a liar and a thief and he tells her "I only lied about being a thief" is somehow the most attractive any man has ever been?!?!
Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w agothere is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11
Leaders from a range of faith communities across Texas came together to send a unified anti-ICE message to Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and state lawmakers, saying ICE operations go against their core religious values.
Basically every drug you have ever heard of had its origins in public research funding, in a field that didn't seem like it was going anywhere, because some researchers were interested in the basic science.
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoi worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
In 2024, we submitted a grant on the intersectional risks of race, genetic ancestry, and age w/menopause in cardiometabolic health. It scored well going in to council. Then the NIH shut down and the health equity RFA was terminated. We ended up adding men to a new grant, which sums up 2025/26.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoAll of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
This was the point all along. To insist that everyone fits neatly into a pink or blue box, so that it's easier to justify treating the whole pink box as less deserving of rights and opportunities and dignities than the blue.
James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w agoMy god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
Donate here to support Maine families impacted by ICE, including the family of the young person killed today:
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UPDATE 5/18/2026 We are incredibly happy to share that Olivia is finally back home and reunited with her family here in Maine.After six long months of detention, fear, court hearings, legal battl...
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“the first step to solving this problem is recognizing it. We have earned this menopause makeover. Revel in its newfound punk ethos. Women should reinvent their crone years as their most powerful, authentic and healthy years...don’t feel guilty for wanting more.” #ReadyToBeACrone
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoAll of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3w agoA person was killed in a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine on Monday morning, the speaker of the state’s House of Representatives said
I asked my (former!) gyn what her practice was for pain management during iud insertion and she said Aleve one hour before and remembering giving birth is worse
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
scientists gave mice cocaine. their mouse friends quickly tired of hearing all about the dope ass record label they were always just two more months away from getting off the ground
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoThe results suggest that cocaine, a popular drug used by an estimated 25 million people around the world, may rewire the genomes inside cells of the brain’s reward system, called dopaminergic neurons. www.404media.co/mice-cocaine...
Ventral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737546v1
