Fellow @rsaofficial.bsky.social attendees: I hope you will come to our RSA Animal Research and Ethics Committee session “From biobanks to behavior” TODAY from 1:30-3 pm! Learn about several large-scale repositories and join in on discussions about reproducibility, rigor, and translation #RSA2026

You’re at the bar having that first drink of the night 🍻 the excited, energized feeling you may have is the “stimulant response” to alcohol - a risk factor for alcohol use disorder. We researched an understudied cell-type’s role in this response #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

If you are at #SOT2026 stop by my undergraduate mentee’s poster today! 🤓 Nicolai is excited to talk about our work investigating As3MT in the context of alcohol.

UNM Lobos represent at GRC Alcohol! #Vamos @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social @kwooden.bsky.social @neuromorning.bsky.social @mbhdz.bsky.social

Excited to share a new preprint from the Barkley-Levenson Lab! 🤠

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Dpp6 Homozygous Knockout Mice Exhibit Increased Ethanol Conditioned Place Preference and Acute Ethanol-Induced Anxiolytic Behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670589v1

Valles Caldera National Preserve. Such a beautiful place!

⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...

Registration is open for the 43rd Annual MWSOT Meeting! Deadlines for early bird registration and oral presentation consideration are Sunday, August 3.

Check out our new paper on the behavioral engagement of cHAPs on a 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task. Congrats, Phillip and team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/

Sex and Genetic Differences in Behavioral Engagement of Crossed High Alcohol-Preferring and Low Alcohol-Preferring Mice - PubMed

Excessive levels of alcohol consumption play a major role in numerous alcohol-related harms, including a heightened risk of developing problematic drinking behaviors. Those who develop alcohol use dis...

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Effects of binge-like ethanol drinking on nest building behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657694v1

Federally funded DEI training programs and funding sources are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling these gaps. By Paige Miranda www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...

Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts

Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.

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To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

"efficiency"...just pondering all the lost "man"hours that went into applications for programs that no longer exist. For applicants themselves, for mentors that reviewed those applications, for committees/staff that organized those programs, for faculty that reviewed those applications

a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room .

Alt: a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room of pure chaos.

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A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

Happy to share a bit of work from my time at UNM thus far onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder