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Jenni Blackford @jenniblackford.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Team member Nikki Zabik @neurozabik.bsky.social gave another incredible professional development talk “Time and self management in a busy world” at the Nebraska Women in STEM conference.

Picture of Dr. Zabik speaking to room full of STEM women and allies. Slide “you are an experiment waiting to be measured”

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

fMRI Peeps - I remember reading a paper, years ago, focused on identifying regions for brain-association analyses based on peak inter-individual variance (rather than peak activation), but a 20-min search failed to recover it. Suggestions? Thx!

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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Excited to share our new paper @acerjournal.bsky.social showing that there are distinct subgroups based on trajectories of anxiety and depression symptoms in alcohol use disorder. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Manesh Gopaldas, @lizzieflook.bsky.social, Meg Benningfield, Nick Hayes.

Figure shows average trajectories for the full sample (left) and trajectories by subgroup (right) with sustained (red), high (blue), and low (green).

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Jenni Blackford @jenniblackford.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Congrats to the BNSTeam’s @neurozabik.bsky.social on receiving the @acerjournal.bsky.social Journal Award for Early Career Investigator Outstanding Paper!

Group (early abstinence vs control) x anxiety x sex interaction on neural responses to unpredictable threat.

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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Half of all US counties will lose at least $250K in revenue! Cuts to NIH affect ALL americans! Check out this new analysis and look up your county here: www.axios.com/2025/04/09/n...

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A closer look at the nationwide impact of NIH cuts

Nearly half of U.S. counties will see economic losses of at least $250,000 from cuts to indirect funding by the National Institutes of Health.

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Blackford NeuroScience Team @bnsteam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Good morning #Skyence people! We are the Blackford NeuroScience Team — hailing from University of Nebraska Medical Center and led by @jenniblackford.bsky.social . We use functional neuroimaging to study the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST) in #anxiety and #alcoholusedisorder .

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