‘Reunited and it feels so good!’ Excited to present my work on how the ventral pallidum regulates 🐀 social reunions at #sfn2024 tonight at the NSP Early Career Poster Session (I6)! You can also find me and the rest of Stephen Mahler posters Tues. 8-12 (M38-40). 🧠 Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

We are thrilled to celebrate Maricela's incredible achievement as a recipient of the NIH D-SPAN Award! 🎉 Maricela Martinez @NINDSDiversity Join us in congratulating Maricela on this well-deserved recognition! 👏🔬

Fresh from the #EBPS2024 workshop, listen to the recording of the perspectives panel "Psychedelics, charting a path forward" #Psychedelics #MDMA

Interested in research👩‍🔬, clinical⚕️, & policy🧑‍⚖️aspects of #psychedelics 🍄? Take a trip to SoCal to join us UC Irvine on Nov 18, 2024! Talks & round table discussion w folks from UCI, UC Berkeley, Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), U.S. FDA, NIDAnews ican.uci.edu/event/ican-sym…

Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.

Just 10 days until this in-person meeting on #psychedelics science, medicine, and policy UC Irvine--hear from NIH and FDA speakers among others. Registration limit is close to being reached, but contact me if you still want to come and I'll see what I can do!!

The inaugural UC Irvine ICAN psychedelics symposium run by Stephen Mahler and christie fowler with keynote speaker Leah Mayo!

The next Einstein, Curie, or Salk might be sitting in a lab right now, wondering if they should quit. Don’t let them. Fund science like the future depends on it…because actually it does.

As the world’s leading public research institution, UC depends on NIH funding for scientific advances that save lives and improve healthcare. UC has submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit to block NIH cuts. bit.ly/4hs4pY0

It's clear that many do not understand what NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Jackie Gio discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

This is terrifying. RFK Jr. just canceled the FDA’s annual meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC). This is the government committee that determines which wild type strains (and there are 4-5 any given year) of influenza should be

These NIH grants studied the biological effects of hormones in animals not transgender identity. Research on hormone treatments advances scientific understanding, but sex-related biology in animals does not equate to gender studies. Misrepresenting this fuels misinformation.

1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.

I found out this morning that my NIH NICHD News F31 fellowship to study the biomechanics of uterine fibroids was CANCELLED.

My younger sister has CF. Her whole life we have emotionally prepared for her to not make it past her 30s. Now, I will get to see her live a long life, maybe start a family or dive into a career. It makes me sad how we've villainized biomedical science when it has changed lives.

The Department of Education *DOES NOT* set the curriculum for your kids. The Department of Education *DOES* provide K-12 funding for LOW-INCOME & special needs kids though. The Department of Education *DOES* fund federal student loans & grants.

Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire. Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would. They're not fraudsters. They earned it. How out of touch are you not to realize that?