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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠

@clarazundel.bsky.social
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Behavioral Neuroscientist | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the wsuthinklab | F32 NIMH Awardee | Broadway Enthusiast | Detroit, MI

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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
See you soon, @sobp-org.bsky.social !! #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Postdoc #SOBP2026
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Looking forward to a morning of exciting, innovative, and important research in environmental children’s health! #EarthDay #EnvironmentalHealth #Pediatrics
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Another great #SfNHillDay in the books! Thank you @slotkin.senate.gov , @peters.senate.gov , and @debbiedingell.house.gov —and their staff—for your strong support of steady, predictable, and robust funding for #neuroscience research. #NeuroAdvocate #SciComm
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm trying to get together my NIH Biosketch on the new common form using #SciENcv. My bibliography is not populating at all, even though I am logged into ALL THE THINGS (ORCID, era commons, NCLB, etc). Helppppp #Academia #grants #biosketch
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Curious how environmental exposures affect fear extinction recall and adolescent brain function? Join me at poster W22 during tonight’s poster session! #ACNP2026 #EnvironmentalHealth #AirPollution #Adolescence
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Fantastic @IOGWSU seminar this morning from Dr. Ángeles Tepper on the importance of Science Communication and how scientists can get involved! #Neuro #postdoc #scicomm
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻 #Halloween #TrunkorTreat #postdoc #neuro @wsuthinklab.bsky.social
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Detroit, I love you. 💙🧡🐅 #Detroit #DetroitTigers #baseball #city #urban
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
✨ Just hit submit on my first tenure-track application this cycle! Feeling excited to officially be on the market! My work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, environmental health 🌍, and neuroscience 🧠. If you know of open positions, I’d love to connect! #Neuro #Academia
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Last day of #ISESISEE2025! Make sure to stop by the last poster session at 3:30! Come discuss my prelim data from my ongoing pilot study examining #ClimateChange anxiety in Detroit emerging adults! #neuro #environmentalhealth #postdoc
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Wonderful and inspiring opening remarks from Dr. C. Arden Pope III! Although many things are uncertain right now, we keep moving and keep doing the BEST science we can. #ISESISEE2025 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thrilled to be in Atlanta for #ISESISEE2025 conference! Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from colleagues across environmental health and exposure science! #EnvironmentalHealth #postdoc #neuro
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Thrilled to be selected for an #ACNP2025 Travel Award! Excited for my first ACNP and to connect with so many incredible scientists! 🧠✨ #neuro #postdoc #science
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
✈️ Last week I traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for #ScienceFunding with an incredible group of early career scientists from Wayne State and Sci-pol Detroit. Uncertainty in funding affects people, progress, and public health. We showed up to make that clear. 💪🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧠 #ScienceAdvocacy
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Hilary Marusak, PhD @hmarusak.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wsuthinklab.bsky.social
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Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Circulating endocannabinoids in children and adolescents: associations with anxiety and the impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Inflammation in the brain can be beneficial or pathogenic. It varies across neurological diseases. And many new ways are emerging to modulate it An outstanding new review @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Neuroinflammation across neurological diseases
The brain’s response to injury includes the activation of intrinsic microglia and the influx of leukocytes, collectively constituting neuroinflammation, the “flame” of the brain. Although details diff...
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Detroit is experiencing some awful air quality this week, thanks to the Canadian wildfires. Ever wonder what those particles (PM2.5) that I study look like? This is it!! Stay indoors folks! #AirPollution #wildfires #Detroit #EnvironmentalHealth
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Why is it that in #academia we constantly feel like we’re falling behind? I opened my RPPR convinced I was off track—turns out I’m exactly where I should be. Taking this small win and celebrating it. #postdoc #neuro #SmallWins
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 05/06/2025
🌳🧠 Nature shapes the mind A study of 7,100+ US adolescents found that living near greenspace was linked to slower brain thinning, greater surface area, & better mental health outcomes – via changes in brain structure. 🔗 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #SciComm #Greenspace 🧪
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Longitudinal associations between greenspace exposure, structural brain development, and mental health and academic performance during early adolescence
Greenspace exposure is associated with positive mental health and academic outcomes. This preregistered longitudinal study examines whether the influence of greenspace exposure on structural brain dev...
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I studied Gulf War vets’ health in grad school. The PACT Act was meant to expand care + research on toxic exposures. Now the VA is slashing positions and censoring doctors from publishing findings. This is dangerous. Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #VeteransHealth #PACTAct
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Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance
Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Poor air quality from pollution is a HUGE concern linked to deaths, shortened life expectancy and conditions including asthma, COPD, cancer and cardiovascular disease likely in large part to impacts on immune function. Its vital we monitor air quality so we can understand mechanisms & impacts 🧪🧵
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🚨New paper out now! 🌄 We found that higher exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to greater anxiety symptoms in adolescents and elevated levels of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators 🧪 Read more: tinyurl.com/Zundel2025 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth #Neuro #Youth
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Frontiers | Outdoor air pollution and psychiatric symptoms in adolescents: a study of peripheral inflammatory marker associations
IntroductionFine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is associated with increased internalizing symptoms (e.g. depressive and anxiety symptoms), particu...
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Honored to hear @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social give today’s @sfnmichigan.bsky.social keynote. She shared her journey from researcher to patient—and why listening to patients must guide our science. With NIH trials being halted, her words were a powerful reminder of what’s at stake. #ScienceHero ❤️💪🏻
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sfnmichigan.bsky.social @sfnmichigan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#misfn2025 annual meeting at Wayne State University on May 19, 2025. Visit www.mi-sfn.org for more details. Click here for Abstract booklet - drive.google.com/file/d/1qR0X... Click here for full program - drive.google.com/file/d/1A6kF...
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HOME | misfn
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Trump and Musk have eliminated virtually every federal program intended to protect our health from the ravages of climate change, yet our poll last December found that most voters want the government to do MORE, not less. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
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A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming - Center for Climate Change Communication
Many Americans understand that climate change harms health, and an increasing percentage believe climate-related health harms will become more common in their community over the next 10 years. Federal...
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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Several Members of ACNP are in Washington D.C. today to meet with elected officials including Representative Dr. Neal Dunn of Florida. This photo includes ACNP Executive Director Sarah Timm, Dr. Hilary Marusak, and Dr. Sara Nixon.
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter During Pregnancy Is Associated With Hippocampal Development in Offspring www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📢 Still looking for participants! Are you a young adult living in Detroit, MI? Help us out by taking a 1-hour online survey on community + mental health 🧠💬 🎁 Enter to win 1 of 16 e-gift cards! 📲 Sign up here: www.tinyurl.com/detroitonehe... #Detroit #MentalHealth #Neuroscience
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University
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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Research shows that adolescents are especially concerned and conscious of #climatechange, and are uniquely inspired to find solutions and participate in climate action. Learn about how climate action can impact young people in our new blog post: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/blog/item/th...
Adolescents participating in climate action by cleaning up trash on a beach.
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katie b, phd @62442katieb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’re now learning that air pollution sneaks in to shape developing brain in children and adolescents. Our latest @hertinglab.bsky.social study looked at brain MRIs from 10,095 children and found that exposure to specific sources of PM2.5 is related to differences in gray matter morphology… (1/2)
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Sources and components of fine air pollution exposure and brain morphology in preadolescents
Air pollution is an emerging novel neurotoxicant during childhood and adolescence. However, little is known regarding how fine particulate matter (PM2…
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
#EARTHMONTH: Dr.Robert D. Bullard Writes to the Next Environmental-Justice Leaders | TIME time.com/6958830/eart... #EarthAwards #climatejustice #Actonclimate
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A Letter to the Next Environmental-Justice Leaders
Over the past 45 years, the father of the environmental-justice movement laid the path for a new generation.
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hanging around for the late breaking poster session? Come check out my wonderful research assistant’s work examining subjective financial stress in parents and effects on adolescent mental health and brain development! #SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #Psychiatry
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Come talk with me about peripheral inflammatory markers in youth exposed to outdoor air pollution exposure!! #SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #EnvironmentalHealth #Psychiatry
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🌟 Come join us today at 12:30pm in Chestnut for our symposium!! 🌟 We’re bringing together animal & human research to explore how toxicants shape brain health across development. #SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #EnvironmentalHealth #Pollutants
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ready for Day! #SOBP2025 #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Research #postdoc
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🌎 Happy Earth Day! 🌍 This weekend, the @wsuthinklab.bsky.social team rolled up our sleeves at the @DetroitRvrfrnt Dequindre Cut cleanup—doing our part to keep Detroit beautiful! 💪🧤♻️ #EarthDay #DetroitRiverfront #DequindreCut #EnvironmentalHealth
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 21/04/2025
The recognition of environmental justice within the federal government addresses a critical need backed by science. Without safeguards, our nation risks worsening environmental issues that disproportionately impact low-income communities. Learn more in UCS's Elise Tolbert's blog.
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Everyone Loses When Environmental Justice Programs Are Cut 
Without safeguards, our nation is on track to exacerbate environmental issues that disproportionally impact low-income communities.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 21/04/2025
My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock
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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
These injustices are felt globally & at neighborhood scales. It’s not woke, it’s evidence on the intersections of climate sources, impacts, & vulnerabilities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice
In an exclusive extract from Friederike Otto’s new book, she says climate disasters result from inequality as well as fossil fuel
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Dr. Clara G. Zundel 🧠 @clarazundel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reviewer 2 Initial recommendation to the Editor: Accept in current form #Academia #writing #Reviewer2 #neuroscience #research
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Correct.
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
🚨🚨🚨Please repost to help me spread the word! I hoped my experience launching my lab would never be relevant for others, but I am available to share, listen, and support our colleagues who are about to start or have recently launched faculty careers during yet another unprecedented time.
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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Join experts and young people on April 22 from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PT for an #EarthDay webinar discussing how #climatechange impacts adolescent development, mental health, and well-being. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Climate Change and Action During Adolescence. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The recent fires in Los Angeles, made more likely by climate change, affected thousands of people both mentally and physically. But, the effects of climate change and climate-change-related disasters ...
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab! Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful. Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you are a graduate student planning on preparing an NIH individual graduate (F31) or postdoctoral (F32) research fellowship proposal this summer, check out my FREE webinar on Succeeding at NIH Fellowship Grant Applications: smart-workshops.com/fellowships-...
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NIH Fellowships Information — SMaRT Workshops
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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/03/2025
“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so. We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”
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Letter to Faculty on Self-Censorship and Boldness (opinion)
In a letter to fellow faculty, Nolan L. Cabrera argues that self-censorship is not a strategy for self-preservation.
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