Register for the CUNY Neuroscience Doctoral Program Open House! Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. on Zoom. Learn about doctoral training in neuroscience at the CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Ekaterina Likhtik
@elikhtik.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying circuits of emotion regulation at Hunter College, CUNY. likhtiklab.com
We're looking forward to the first annual New York Memory Hub conference later this week! Can't wait for all the talks and discussion about all things learning and memory 🧠
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A Shared Threat-Anticipation Circuit Is Dynamically Engaged at Different Moments by Certain and Uncertain Threat
Temporal dynamics play a central role in models of emotion: “fear” is widely conceptualized as a phasic response to certain-and-imminent danger, whereas “anxiety” is a sustained response to uncertain-...
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Check out the new Handbook of Electrophysiology that covers all kinds of ways to record activity! Great working with @drewbheadley.bsky.social on standard equipment you need for in vivo physiology. Edited by @scimemia.bsky.social @ianduguid.bsky.social and @nwanaverbecq.bsky.social
New standard electrophysiology methods text just released! Proud to have contributed a chapter with @elikhtik.bsky.social www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Celebrating new work by Carolina Henriques and team, where we show the role of the IL-ventral pallidum pathway in fear extinction and compare it to the IL-BLA pathway: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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If you or someone you know is 1) being impacted by govt firings, grants being pulled, etc, 2) is in AZ, NM, or MI, and 3) willing to go on record with your story, please DM me. We will put you in touch with AGs from these states that are working on legal action.
The ruthless and baseless purge is continuing through the weekend. Please publicize as much as possible. www-nbcwashington-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcw...
‘Taking away years of experience': NIH probationary employees fired Friday
Scientists and medical researchers being let go by President Donald Trump’s administration walked out of the gates of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, Friday afternoon appearin...
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Working on an NIH grant application about a new idea and feeling like it's a total waste of time. Found a stamp in an old lab that encapsulates the ridiculous state of affairs.
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
"Secret holiday lab mate" Yay and Nay list is up on the big board! This year, I'm learning about everyone's chocolate and pickles preferences.