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Ashley Marquardt

@aemarquardt.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist & Program Manager @ UM-MIND / University of Maryland SOM • big Baltimore believer • overly superstitious Ravens/Os/Terps fan (she/her)

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hey there Delilah would you like to publish in this Special Issue
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Excited to start up recruitment again here at @um-mind.bsky.social! This is a great opportunity to join the exceptionally collaborative and productive research community we have here @medschool.umaryland.edu and in the stellar city of Baltimore! Please reach out with any questions ☺️
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The goal of US policy should be to keep smart people here, full stop. This does the opposite: it sends the smartest international postdocs (trained on the US taxpayer's dime) to other countries and we never collect the return. Just dumb www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
No better way to learn than by doing, especially when said “doing” involves peak silliness!!
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hot take: If you're an Orioles fan but have never actually spent time in Baltimore City outside of Camden Yards, you really ought to change that
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
An NIH staff member texted me wondering if Indiana was looking for some affirmative action or diversity funding. "We had to terminate all those awards that were specifically targeted to under-represented institutions."
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
PANDEMONIUM IN BALTIMORE The Orioles were getting no-hit, down to their final out and down by three runs ... they won the ballgame 😤
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨 SCOTUS just issued a decision in the NIH grant termination cases. And it's awful. In plain English, the likely result of this is that SCOTUS just re-terminated ~900 NIH grants worth over $1.9 billion in unspent funds This is an atrocious decision by Justice Barrett & the right wing of the Court.
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Maxwell Madden @maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!
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Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I am SO EXCITED to share this one! The latest paper from the lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. We show microglia prune NAc astrocyte processes during abstinence from cocaine-self ad which drives later drug seeking behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Abstinence from cocaine self-administration promotes microglial pruning of astrocytes, which drives cocaine-seeking behavior
Rodent drug self-administration leads to a compromised ability of nucleus accumbens astrocytes to maintain glutamate homeostasis as well as to reducti…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A reminder about the importance of healthcare to every single state www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy
Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.
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Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Powerful story from Kate Zernike from the NYT Covers the diversity of young scientists targeted by the anti-DEI BS. Definitely worth a read and a share. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal. This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.
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Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal
Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 23/06/2025
We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social
A treemap of terminated research grants at Harvard
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...
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250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Mayor Brandon Scott appears to be doing something right, but somehow this remarkable, record setting decline in violence doesn't quite make national headlines the way the opposite does www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
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Baltimore’s homicide rate dropped to a historic low last month, defied racial trends
Baltimore ended April with five homicides, the lowest monthly total in recent memory.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
For instance: If murders in Baltimore were UP 40%, then Mayor Brandon Scott would be a national figure. Instead it's gone down that amount so no one knows who he is.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New paper from my PhD work out in Cell Reports today! We find that playfulness is associated with markedly distinct gene expression profiles in the medial amygdala of male vs. female rats and show that inhibitory neurons play a key role. Really proud of this one! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The transcriptome of playfulness is sex biased in the juvenile rat medial amygdala: A role for inhibitory neurons
Marquardt et al. explore the “transcriptome of playfulness” in the medial amygdala, demonstrating that the gene signatures associated with playfulness are largely distinct in male and female rats. Thr...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/06/2025
Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.
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NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown
In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Rachael French @drrachaelf.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Every single step of my career since I started grad school has involved a lot of “now do all this stuff you don’t know how to do, with minimal training.” I tell my children that a PhD is really a degree in teaching yourself things.
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Laboratory Research Assistant (Contractual)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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UM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are so excited to host Neuro Networks Day today, a dynamic and collaborative event designed to celebrate and elevate our vibrant neuroscience community. Join us in Leadership Hall today at 9:45am for this community event!
Flyer for Neuro Networks Day, stating “Announcing our 2nd Annual UM-MIND Neuro Networks Day - Friday, May 16th 9:45am-5pm MSTF Leadership Hall - group workshops, student talks, mentor mentee partnership, art gallery
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So pleased to welcome Chase back home to Baltimore and @ummedschool.bsky.social!! Welcome to UM-MIND @phdsred.bsky.social 🧠 🚀
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University of Maryland School of Medicine @medschool.umaryland.edu · 07/05/2025
Behind every breakthrough, every innovation, every victory over cancer, there's a dedicated scientist. NIH funding fuels their discoveries. This is why America is great. Let's keep it that way. 🔗Learn more: www.umaryland.edu/breakthroughs #NIHSavesLives #BreakthroughsCantWait #NIH #FundingCuts
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Welcome to @um-mind.bsky.social, @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social!! My Marylander self could not love this picture (and this news!) more! 🧠🎉
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“This doesn't feel like a strategic plan to reorganize and make the NIH better and more efficient. It feels like a wrecking ball,” says an NIH insider, who asked 60 Minutes to protect his identity due to his concern about reprisal. cbsn.ws/3EKcER9
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Maryland is such a beautiful place. I’m proud to call it home. I walk, run, and cycle almost everyday in protected open spaces and am so grateful to our lawmakers for having protected it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c... @marylandmatters.org
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Maryland Protected Nearly a Third of Its Land, and It’s Reaching for More
Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Timothy Faw @timothyfaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🔊Opportunity to join the Faw Lab (@umbaltimore.bsky.social) as a research technician! If you (or a connection) are enthusiastic, motivated, and looking to make an impact in #SpinalCordInjury, let’s connect! 💼Or apply here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #SCI #Hiring
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OPEN RANK: Laboratory Animal Research Assistant or Specialist
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/04/2025
Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) is requesting a meeting with Bukele to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” I'd like to see a full delegation of US senators.
The Honorable Milena Mayorga
Embassy of El Salvador
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20036
Dear Ambassador Mayorga:
I write to urgently request a meeting with President Bukele during his current visit to the United
States to discuss the illegal detention of my constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Mr. Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to a
prison in El Salvador. On Saturday evening in a court filing to a federal judge in Maryland, the
Trump Administration confirmed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in El Salvador's
Terrorism Confinement Center according to Michael G. Kozak, a senior official in the U.S. State
Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. However, they did not detail steps that
have been taken to facilitate his return, as mandated by the Supreme Court.
I have met with Mr. Abrego Garcia’s wife, mother and brother and, as you can imagine, they are
extremely worried about his health, safety, and continued illegal confinement, as am I.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Chris Van Hollen
United States Senator
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025
Circling back on this…
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 24/03/2025
As called by Johnny Holliday on Maryland Terrapins radio & by Ryan Radtke on Westwood One:
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
DERIK QUEEN - Maryland wins!
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am crying I love Derik Queen
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I would like to request one (1) shooting foul to be called against CSU in this Maryland game please
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Omg the lane violation
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