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Amy LeMessurier

@amylemessurier.bsky.social
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Neuro postdoc at NYU, previously Berkeley, MIT BRAIN/NIDCD K99/R00 Fellow. studying how mouse brains process baby cries to understand the building blocks of human vocal perception.

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034). Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it! 5calls.org/issue/federa...
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Oppose OMB's Political Attacks on Scientific Research ⭑ 5 Calls
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you have not left a public comment on the draconian OMB-2026-0034, here's a quick thread to make it easy. #standupforscience #neuroskyence Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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NIH Seeks Input on Framework for Next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan | Grants & Funding
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Amy LeMessurier @amylemessurier.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why
Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead." To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'll add that while ICE does not have the manpower to do this everywhere, they don't need to do this everywhere to have the intended effect
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.” www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants”
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...
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Arkarup Banerjee @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
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Amy LeMessurier @amylemessurier.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
potential dream job for in vivo electrophysiologists looking for industry roles. also the people are cool! science.xyz/careers/neur...
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Neuroscientist | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15/01/2026
🚨Baby Tuskegee 2.0 🚨 The U.S. is funding a study echoing Tuskegee—this time involving babies. (1/6🧵) 📱 CALL/EMAIL YOUR REPS. Today. (Study may already be underway.) Faust got the study protocol— it’s unethical, dangerous, and worse than we feared. Let's dive in 👉 bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Megan Kirchgessner, PhD @megkirch.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Well it’s been quite a year 🫠 but I’m happy and tremendously grateful to close it out on a personal science high-note - Ill be going to my first ever Cosyne, and I officially received the NOA for my K99/R00 from NIDCD 🙏 thank you Santa ie hardworking NIH staff for the best possible holiday gift 🥹
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A figure from our preprint showing ABR data as a line plot for sounds from the left and right at different sound levels.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Taken together, it appears that as RFK Jr. cuts funding and aid to vulnerable countries, he is more than willing to exploit infants in a situation where we already know the HepB birth dose is safe and effective. This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/12/2025
Reminder‼️ALL ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is currently recalled due to an outbreak of infant botulism. As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is extremely important
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Carla Golden @goldenneurons.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7
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Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?
The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.
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Amy LeMessurier @amylemessurier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I thought I would have sent my sfn poster for printing by now but instead I am finding The Best Example Unit to put on the poster. help.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 11/11/2025
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Estelle in ‘t Zandt @eintzandt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work! Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠 tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
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Megan Kirchgessner, PhD @megkirch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We’re so psyched for this - check out our amazing lineup of speakers!!! Spots are going fast - register today!!! 👇
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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨REGISTRATION IS OPEN!🚨 We're so excited to host our first-ever, in-person event! Join us for panel discussions, a keynote address, and the opportunity to meet many amazing women in Neuroscience💜 Please register to attend by November 1st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait!
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UR Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Please share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab. www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/pos... #Postdoc #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #HiringAcademics #JobSearch #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #STEMjobs #ScienceJobs
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Postdoctoral Research Positions
The Department offers a wealth of opportunities for postdoctoral research in the wide range of scientific disciplines represented in the Brain & Cognitive Scien
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686
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Katie Tschida @katietschida.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.
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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now? ✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. #JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬 (context in thread)
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Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now
Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.
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Amy LeMessurier @amylemessurier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
do it!
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“'This is cruelty for cruelty’s sake,' said a senior congressional aide briefed on the plan. 'Targeting children — threatening their parents — offering them cash to give up safety — this is not immigration enforcement. It’s blackmail.'" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...
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BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation
Operation targets unaccompanied children as young as 14 — with threats, bribes, and family arrests if they refuse to self-deport.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers
The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2025
Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
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RFK Jr is set to announce Tylenol causes autism.
And then he'll push the "cure": leucovorin (folinic acid).
Who sells folinic acid? Dr. Oz's supplement company, iHerb.
The same Dr. Oz who is now the
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Trump's administration.
Think about that: A government health official tied to the very supplement company that benefits from RFK Jr's bogus
"cure."
This isn't public health.
It's corruption dressed up as wellness.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2025
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I’m worried it can still get stupider
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/09/2025
It's Baby Safety Month.
A baby sitting in a catapult in a suburban backyard. The baby seems surprised to be there. The text reads: Is this a safe sleep environment for your baby? No! This is a catapult! Put your baby to sleep flat on their back in a crib, bassinet, play yard, bedside sleeper or other product designed for safe sleep. If your baby falls asleep in a car seat or other product not designed for sleep, move them to a safe sleep space.
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
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