Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V

Research Analyst - Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology-camh

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Always a good day when you get good news on funding. I am thrilled on many levels but also because I really believe in this call & the project! My eternal thanks to our group @mcgovernaj.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social @jennyrabin.bsky.social S Frangou L Gravelsins wellcomeleap.org/care/

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... Please RT.

New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle. t.ly/k6Pul

Super excited to share the preprint we've been working on, "On a roll: Recent familiarity primes the brain to retrieve other memories via dopaminergic nuclei responses"! Check it out, and come see us at CNS if you're around this afternoon! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fo...

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New publication from my PhD research looking at influences of sex on brain health outcomes in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk 🎉: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Big thank you to the best co-authors, @liisagalea.bsky.social, Melike Cevizci, and Stephanie Lieblich 🙏

Sex-specific influences of APOEε4 genotype on hippocampal neurogenesis and progenitor cells in middle-aged rats - Biology of Sex Differences

Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately and uniquely affects females, and these sex differences are further exacerbated by the presence of Apolipoprotein (APOE) ε4 alleles, the top gene...

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So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

CantlonLab@cantlonlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

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Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social. rdcu.be/d4XWM

V interesting study in @bmj.com USA Taxi drivers & ambulance drivers are less likely to die of Alzheimer's disease than people of other professions Links made to Eleanor Maguire's famous discovery that the posterior hippocampus of London taxi drivers was larger than controls. My thoughts in🧵

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers. #BMJ "Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease" Fulltext: press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/december....

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Only 0.5% of neuroscience research focuses on issues exclusive to the female body. Let’s be the change. 🧠💪

Emily G. Jacobs@emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!

So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊. go.bsky.app/GixA4xP

A thread... Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes [1/N]

Here’s our new review lead by @rominagl4.bsky.social on the roller coaster of central & peripheral inflammatory signalling during pregnancy & the postpartum & it’s relation to psychiatric disease risk in short term & neurodegenerative in long term www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inflammatory signalling during the perinatal period: Implications for short- and long-term disease risk

During pregnancy and the postpartum, there are dynamic fluctuations in steroid and peptide hormone levels as well as inflammatory signalling. These ch…

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(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place) My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity. rdcu.be/dQYfU

Nice review of progestogen effects on mental health— highlights the need for more well-designed experimental studies! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Progestagens and progesterone receptor modulation: Effects on the brain, mood, stress, and cognition in females

Progesterone is a highly lipophilic gonadal hormone that can influence behavior and mental health through its receptors in the brain. Fluctuations in …

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If this exists already.. I feel you can never have too many pet packs. Please let me know if you'de like to join. go.bsky.app/4TA4G8D

Looking for people you used to follow on Twitter/X? The Sky Follower Bridge browser plugin (Chrome and Firefox) helps you easily transition to BlueSky! skyfollowerbridge.com #AcademicSky

Hey new BlueSky friends! Here's a roundup of my health psych / health comm research. Read on for insights about helping people understand COVID-19 exposure risk in daily life 😷, beliefs about immunity 🛡️, and interventions to motivate vaccination 💉 #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #EpiSky #MedSky

For anyone interested, I wrote this piece recently: www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... #Alzheimers #womensbrainhealth

New publication: midlife ovarian removal associated with insomnia-like sleep patterns, which is associated with smaller entorhinal cortex and poorer verbal memory: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1265470

A few years ago I was in a position to do something unique in neuroscience. I had been working with the phenomenal @emilyjacobs.bsky.social on menopause and inspired by Laura Pritschet's menstrual study, and I was planning a pregnancy. What if we scanned my brain?? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy - Nature Neuroscience

Neural changes in pregnancy are not well understood. Here Pritschet et al. present an open-access precision brain imaging resource, mapping neuroanatomical change in an individual from preconception t...

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Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

Pinning our recent (open access!) pub here too: Using a novel non-linear method, we demonstrate that the menstrual cycle affects learning of exceptions to category rules in a manner that parallels the typical rise and fall of estradiol across the cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...