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Caroline Rickards, PhD

@carickardsphd.bsky.social
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Integrative human physiologist/cerebral vascular physiology | Professor @UNTHSC | Chair @_CARNet__ | Proud 🇦🇺 🌈 | she/hers | Views are my own www.rickardslab.com

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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Submit your late breaking abstracts for CARNet 2025 today! The deadline is September 30. We look forward to seeing you all in Fort Worth, Texas in November!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Welcome to the newest member of our lab team, Dr. Erica Tourula! Erica has joined us as a postdoctoral fellow, and will be working on our recently funded Collaborative Sciences Award from the American Heart Association. Erica, welcome to Texas, and welcome to UNT Health Fort Worth!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Congratulations to @vietdinhsci.bsky.social on this excellent contribution to the "I Spy Physiology" series from the American Physiological Society (@apsphysiology.bsky.social)! Viet has been perfecting his scientific communication skills as a PhD student at the UNT Health Science Center.
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Lower Body Negative Pressure: How Scientists Can Study Blood Loss with Everyday Household Items - I Spy Physiology Blog
Have you ever wondered how scientists study the human body’s responses to extreme conditions such as severe blood loss? Science experiments don’t always involve expensive equipment, glass beakers and ...
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A big welcome to two summer undergraduate research students who are working in our lab this summer - Katie Vu and Ayrion Moody! Katie and Ayrion are supported by an American Heart Association Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training - "HSC Pulse" (PI: Dr. Paula Gregory).
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CARNet @car-net.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The 14th Cerebrovascular Research Network (CARNet) Annual Meeting will take place on November 12-14, 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA (see flyer attached). We now invite you to submit your best work for a presentation at our annual meeting! Abstracts are due by July 31, 2025.
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I am exceptionally proud of Dr. K. Austin Davis (@austin-phys.bsky.social), a newly minted PhD graduate from our laboratory! Congratulations Austin! Thank you also to @vietdinhsci.bsky.social and Michael Eleruja for your support of Austin (including sitting through the 4 hour commencement ceremony)!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our Cerebral & Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory had an outstanding American Physiological Society (APS) Summit in Baltimore last week!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Members of our Cerebral & Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory took home some hardware at the recent UNTHSC College of Biomedical & Translational Sciences Awards Banquet:
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I am exceptionally proud to announce that Dr. Austin Davis successfully defended his PhD dissertation today! Congratulations Austin!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Congratulations to Austin, Michael, and Viet (L to R) for outstanding presentations at the UNTHSC Research Appreciation Day (RAD) today!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I look forward to welcoming you to The University of North Texas Health Science Center in November for the 14th Annual Meeting of the Cerebrovascular Research Network (CARNet). This is a time to strengthen our community and share the excitement of new discoveries in cerebral blood flow regulation!
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Merry Lindsey, PhD @merrylindseyphd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is excellent.
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a bald man wearing a chicago fire department vest is clapping his hands
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
100%!!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congratulations to Austin Davis for receiving the Gatorade Sport Science Institute Predoctoral Research Award from the Environmental & Exercise Physiology section of the American Physiological Society (APS)! Austin will be presenting his work at the 2025 APS Summit in Baltimore this April.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Guardian story about Federal Register issue is up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order
Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Look at this ever-growing list of institutions reducing PhD programs, and freezing new faculty hires… Cuts in funding will have a devastating impact on the future of the US biomedical research workforce… Full credit to @cbibberson.bsky.social
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Heidi Staudacher Phd AdvAPD @hmstaudacher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Do you have IBS and live in Melbourne? We need you! Help test the effect of fibre-containing drinks in the Body and Brain in IBS study #IBS #fibre See here for more info. 👉 www.monash.edu/medicine/tra...
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Body and Brain study – investigating fibre for irritable bowel syndrome
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org
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Women Refusing to Be Erased
Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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Viet Dinh @vietdinhsci.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One more week left for submissions! Consider checking out this opportunity and this Symposium (chaired by me and Dr. Rickards!) 👇👇👇
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Viet Dinh @vietdinhsci.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Can you explain the “GIST” of your research in just 3 minutes? Sign up for the chance to compete in the APS Physiolo-GIST Competition at #APS2025 in Baltimore! Trainees at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral) are encouraged to apply. Scan the QR code for more information.
APS Physiology Summit Physiolo-GIST Competition

Friday, April 25th, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
APS Trainee Symposium | Hilton, Key Ballroom 6

Can you present your research in just 3 minutes?

Sign up for the APS Physiolo-GIST Competition, where trainees are tasked to present Generalized & Impactful Short Talks that give the "GIST" of their research!

10 selected finalists will get the opportunity to compete in front of an international audience at the 2025 Summit in Baltimore, MD.

Scan the QR code for full information and submit by February 21st!
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's #MeetTheLabMonday (just don't tell anyone it's Wednesday)! Meet Viet Dinh @vietdinhsci.bsky.social! Viet is in the 3rd year of his PhD. His dissertation project is focused on examining Pulsatile Perfusion Therapy as a novel treatment to improve survival from hemorrhage.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/02/2025
At least temporarily staving off what many saw as a crushing blow to U.S. biomedical research, a federal judge has suspended a plan by the Trump administration to slash billions of dollars in payments from the NIH that now go to universities to cover the overhead costs of research. scim.ag/40T7g5q
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Judges suspend NIH plan to slash payments and order health agencies to restore web pages
Lawsuits argued that cutting “indirect cost” rate would have “devastating” impact on research
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Marta Filizola @martafilizola.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Since there has been a lot of misinformation circulating since last night, I find this AAMC infographic helpful in illustrating which types of expenses are and are not covered by NIH indirect cost reimbursements.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
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Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It's #MeetTheLabMonday! Meet Austin Davis! Austin is in the final semester of his PhD. His dissertation project is focused on examining sympathetic responses to Pulsatile Perfusion Therapy, and the utility of this approach to improve tissue oxygenation with severe ischemia. doi.org/10.1152/japp...
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Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
How it feels to be working on a grant application right now.
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It's #MeetTheLabMonday! Meet Michael Eleruja! Michael is a new PhD student who will be investigating the cardiac effects of Pulsatile Perfusion Therapy using a multi-model approach. Welcome to our laboratory Michael!
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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Late-breaking abstract submission deadline for #APS2025 is January 31 ⌛ You have one more chance to submit your best research and join us in Baltimore this April! Learn more: www.physiology.org/professional...
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Baptiste Lacoste @blacoste.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A really 🔥 topic ! "The pathobiology of neurovascular aging" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #cerebrovascular
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The pathobiology of neurovascular aging
As the population ages, neurovascular pathologies have become leading causes of death and disability. Santisteban and Iadecola review data showing that neurovascular aging not only reduces cerebral blood flow but also impairs protein clearance, immune function, and neurotrophic homeostasis, thereby increasing the risk of stroke, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Saturday. If you're working on your NIH specific Aims for a February submission, don't include a figure. grants.nih.gov/grants-proce....
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Format Attachments | Grants & Funding
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Patrice Brassard, PhD @patbrassard.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Reminder to all cerebrovascular physiologists! Call for Papers in J Appl Physiol! Cerebrovascular Control in Health and Disease: From Modeling to Translational Research Send us your work ! journals.physiology.org/jappl/cerebr...
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Cerebrovascular Control in Health and Disease: From Modeling to Translational Research
<p>The <em>Journal of Applied Physiology</em> publishes original papers that deal with diverse areas of research in applied physiology, especially those papers emphasizing adaptive and integrative mec...
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Patrice Brassard, PhD @patbrassard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The relationships between age, sex, and exercise intensity on cerebral artery hemodynamics during isometric handgrip exercise journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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The relationships between age, sex, and exercise intensity on cerebral artery hemodynamics during isometric handgrip exercise | American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative P...
Age and sex may alter the cerebral blood flow (CBF) responses to acute isometric exercise, via associated elevations in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and sympathetic activation. Our aim was to determin...
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APS Publications @apspublications.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hello Bluesky! APS Publications is excited to expand our socials and connect with our community. Learn more about how you can Publish with Purpose in APS Publications journals.physiology.org/publish-with...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/12/2024
I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here to connect anyone working in the field of cerebral blood flow regulation (clincal and basic science). Let me know who I’ve missed! go.bsky.app/HV1UGx9
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Nathaniel Jenkins, PhD, FAHA @njenkinsphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Started a Starter Pack of Physiologists (and Physiology Journals) that have made the move 2 Bluesky. If you’re a #physiologist and I missed you! Please say hey in comments so I can update!Hoping 2 put together a pretty strong list 2 make it easier 4 us 2 find each other on here! go.bsky.app/6cccp6E
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Cerebrovascular vasoconstriction syndrome in a 15 yr-old after ingestion of Carolina Reaper pepper. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... MRI brain:
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Congratulations to Austin Davis (PhD student) on the publication of the first manuscript from his PhD dissertation! journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you work in the field of cerebrovascular regulation (physiology, clinical, and/or measurement/modeling), check out the Cerebrovascular Research Network (CARNet), and consider becoming a member! www.car-net.org
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Home | Carnet
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you work in the field of cerebrovascular physiology, consider submitting your work to our special call for papers #JAPPL: Cerebrovascular Control in Health and Disease: From Modeling to Translational Research journals.physiology.org/jappl/cerebr...
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Cerebrovascular Control in Health and Disease: From Modeling to Translational Research
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Caroline Rickards, PhD @carickardsphd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m a Professor in the Department of Physiology & Anatomy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. We investigate the regulation of brain blood flow and oxygenation during conditions of cerebral hypoperfusion, and develop novel interventions to treat these conditions.
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