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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 10h

I learned my lesson a few years ago and never get them together after that 🥵🤒- giving a week between each shot makes a big difference, at least for me

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11h

Congrats and about time!! Thank you for always being a kind and approachable colleague

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19h

Nobel Prize awarded for optogenetics. Congrats to Karl Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel. The prize is well-deserved, for work that has been transformative. a few quick thoughts 1/4 🧪#neuroscience

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nice to see this out finally! Congrats

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Does double jeopardy protection apply here?

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice! you must feel great 😊

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yep. and the staging approach is not theoretically new but we finally have tools to begin to come of with treatment options that are stage-specific

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please check out my futuristic opinion piece in @jamapsychiatry.com "specific treatments for schizophrenia that are tailored to target symptoms at different developmental stages are no longer the stuff of science fiction, but instead are realistic future goals" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Updating Treatment Goals for Schizophrenia

This article discusses research providing renewed reasons to revisit the utility of glutamatergic drugs for treating schizophrenia.

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading a review on serotonin by Peter Dayan and Quentin J.M. Huys from 2009. It's an increasingly rare experience in this LLM-blighted era to read a paper with good prose.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Treat it like preparing a meal for guests - people remember the first and the last (hors d'oeuvres and dessert) course better than the meal itself. So have solid intro and conclusion slides and don't worry about too much data in the middle

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.com

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Keep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace period

DHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am thoroughly impressed. I thought the tools in my lab are well organized but this is the next level

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaves are turning already. Winter is coming 😕

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

destruction of creative thinking by 1) professional editors who take 3+ years to accept a paper asking for more & more data (yes reviewers ask for it but editors used to stop it) and 2) uni hiring committees who only interview young people with a massive dataset paper that their PI pushed for

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament” Gloria Steinem

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope you at least get some raw milk during the coffee break

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It should not have mattered even if you were married to a billionaire. What your partner or parents make should not even enter the discussion/negotiation

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and not in my current institution - this happened in the early 90s and how it "used to be"

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For my first academic position, I politely voiced concern that my salary was too low. I was told that your husband works too so the combined salaries should be considerable

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I went to Columbia for undergrad in 1991. It had only begun admitting women 4 years earlier, in 1987

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m sorry but this is never going to stop being funny

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

THC (CB1 receptor stimulation) does activate BDNF via mTORC1 signaling but BDNF, currently the darling of the neuroplastigen field, is a ubiquitous molecule and activated by just about any drug experience (antipsychotics, chronic nicotine, etc)

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All the mothers are going

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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Open-rank tenure-track faculty position

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

to be clear, I am all for #celebrating if not #bragging about PI and trainee wins, here, on LinkedIn and even on xwitter. My issue is with lack of genuine or useful information exchange

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Jeremy Hogeveen @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We ( @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social and I ) wrote a "Hot Topics" piece for @npp-journal.bsky.social on the potential utility of frontopolar cortex TMS in precision psychiatry. Relevant now that this region has been accessed in some excellent recent NHP studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Translating macaque frontopolar cortex discoveries into psychiatric treatments - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Translating macaque frontopolar cortex discoveries into psychiatric treatments

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

despite #icky experimental design, I am #thrilled the data is now out after 5 #glorious years of #delightful back and forth with the #brilliant journal editors

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I honestly see very little actual "discussion" about data even related to mundane safe questions.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I know many scientists love Linkedin and are very active on it but I find it boring if not uninformative - my feed is 90% folks posting their latest awards or papers and others liking it 👏and/or replying congrats. No meaningful comments, no humor, no sarcasm, no disagreement What am I missing?

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

early 80s were truly the greatest years for movies

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Two large-scale electrophysiologyical studies of psilocybin's effects in mice, from @alleninstitute.org @torbenott.bsky.social and others. Should be a treasure trove of data for those interested in perceptual effects of #psychedelics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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