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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D.

@desrocherslab.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Neuroscience @ Brown University studying cognitive sequences integrating across animals and humans. Opinions my own. #WomenInSTEM neuroscience.brown.edu/desrochers

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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good morning @BrownUniversity #fall
A cityscape with autumn-colored trees and buildings under a blue sky. The buildings include a church with a steeple and a structure with tall chimneys.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Friends in Montreal! I'm looking forward to my visit to McGill Friday for two events: 10a: A community discussion about progress and challenges in brain and mind research. 3:30p: A seminar and reception. If we haven't met, please introduce yourself (especially if you are a trainee)!
Nicole Rust, PhD, Bindra Lectures, October 16th, 2026, 3:30p, Room 522 McIntyre Medical Building.
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Defne Büyükyazgan @defneb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My student Aida worked on estimating governing ODEs from LFP data using sciML approaches. She left the lab excited about prospects of scientific machine learning in biology. She is a hard worker and strong problem solver 💻
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm proud to have hosted one of these fantastic students, Aida Abkenova who worked with Defne Buyukyazgan 👩‍🔬 🧪 🧠 #WomenInSTEM Brown students, faculty deploy data-driven approaches to solve problems in brain science www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
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Brown students, faculty deploy data-driven approaches to solve problems in brain science
A distinctive Carney Institute for Brain Science program at Brown University trains quantitatively minded undergraduates to introduce new methods for solving problems in brain science labs.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I haven’t heard of that combo before. Now I have to try it!
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How about some brain trivia for an afternoon pick-me-up? 🧠 🧪 🍅 Eating tomato paste may improve selective attention and associative memory (Source: randomized crossover clinical trial by López-Solís et al. 2026, Antioxidants, 15:644) h/t NfK news
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How is it October already? Kudos to Brown for sending out this cute little friend in their latest email. Made me smile (which we can all use sometimes). Good luck to everyone submitting grants! 👻 🎃 🍁
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But why were you opening the soup container? Seemingly never ending pizza meetings (at the time) wasn’t enough food? Lol jk - have been there :) (and there’s a small chance they were for a class that I TA’d!)
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Defne Buyukyazgan, shown here illustrating sequences with dance 🧑‍🩰💃 , did an awesome job presenting her work at In-House seminar today! Congrats Defne! 🙌🧠🧪 #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM
Slide with dance icons on it illustrating AAAB pattern projected on screen with Defne standing at the podium to the right
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a CNS member?? 🗳️ Vote for the awesome symposium @neurojacob.bsky.social put together 🗳️ “Construction zone ahead: building abstract representations in the PFC”
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Request! I am the advisor for a group at VU for women interested in psych. We are hosting a virtual event in October and are looking for speakers who could give a 15-20 minute talk on a panel about the psychology of crime. We are especially interested in work that involves women victims/offenders.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great work showing that group networks are not the same as individuals, and fun to think about ways in which some of the areas we investigate in our lab might be at the conjunction of networks #neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*opens window and screams* IT'S BIORXIV IS DOWN DAY, Y'ALL
a SCREEN CAPTURE SHOWING that biorxiv is down, but not cloudfare
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ Glad you said something - we submitted something yesterday and I would have been wondering what was going on
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wouldn’t claim to know much about philosophy but I see your point. It is all intertwined. But sometimes you need a way to make sure you see the joy so you can stay in the game.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting thought - I sometimes think about something similar when thinking about where to put my time. As in where would my 1,000’s of hours of experience be useful? Let experts be experts (as long as you find some to trust)
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(Ha ha very true. Perhaps that will change a bit this semester ;)
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And yes- I let those accounts through too :)
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am not at all, trying to stick my head in the sand. Quite the opposite. I want to reserve my energy/emotion for where it really matters. Burnout is real. It’s unfortunately a marathon and not a sprint. 💖
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good points @janzimmermann.bsky.social and @nicolecrust.bsky.social and just a small point of clarification for myself personally- I had to come to terms with how much news/politics is healthy for me so I choose to take those things from other sources.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love it. It’s better already!
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've been taking a break from social media and have decided that during my sabbatical I want to try to get back into the healthy (sharing science!) side of it. (Not news or politics.) Anyone who posts often have any tips? #science #scicom
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t make the label- I just enjoy 😋 I think it depends on the brand
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I like them 😋🍫
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Having a mini break/“celebration” for the data rerun/recheck coming out the same as the original 🧠🧪 #smallVictories #WomenInSTEM
Ghirardelli individually wrapped chocolate intense dark with a cup of coffee on a desk
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Check out a cool new SciTunes about how AI works from @BrownUniversity youtu.be/r_kSGs14syA?... 🧪
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From Music to Mechanism: Understanding What Makes AI Tick
When you ask your favorite AI model for a movie recommendation, an email draft, or home decor ideas, the end result could be likened to hearing the polished performance of a massive digital…
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New in #JNeurosci: Comparisons between macaque, chimpanzee, and human brains from Ruan et al. reveal which aspects of self-processing brain architecture are conserved across primates and which aspects have been reorganized during evolution. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0439-26.2…
Diagram showing human and macaque brain connectivity and processing networks.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Very proud of Aida for her summer project as part of the Carney Quantitative Scholars program! She tackled a hard problem and we all learned a lot! #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧠🧪👩‍🔬
Aida Abkenova in front of her poster
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Most parents who have worked outside the home have questions about maternal work and I found this conclusion striking "the perception of maternal work harming child development does not align with measured findings" #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬 Thoughtful review in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Maternal work and children’s development: A review
Causal inference studies suggest minimal impacts of mothers’ work on development from early childhood to adolescence
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026
Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Having an amazing start to the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Conference! Took advantage of the beautiful weather to hike with the lab after the first couple of fantastic sessions 🧠🧪👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #neuroscience
Left to right: Theresa Desrochers, Defne Buyukyazgan, M. Vanessa Rivera Nunez in front of a waterfall in a forestGazebo by the side of a small lake with mountains , blue sky, and white puffy clouds in the background View of a ski mountain from a chair lift going down
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yes, amazing company! Lovely to see you!
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is a good pithy explainer by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder of @standupforscience.net on OMB's proposed rule that affects federal funding. It impacts cancer research, clinical trials, women’s health, climate change, how scientists disseminate information at conferences & public.🧪
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I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you have applied or plan to apply for an NIH grant, if you have reviewed or want to review for an NIH panel, you must read this piece from @27unihted.bsky.social about the detrimental changes to NIH peer review. @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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The Quiet Attack On Science: Subverting NIH Peer Review
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review, this is an overview of all the changes to NIH's peer review over the last 18 months.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
More important analysis and insights from Elizabeth Ginexi about the proposed OMB regulations: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...
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This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.
This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 27/05/2026
Abstract submission for #SfN26 is now open! Share your findings, spark new conversations, and connect with researchers who care about the same questions you do. Avoid the last-minute rush. Submit your abstract today! 🔗 vist.ly/55m24
Promotional image for the Neuroscience 2026 conference in Washington, D.C. showcasing a group discussing research posters.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Beautiful work in this paper. I think anatomy is often under-appreciated. I'm glad to see things like this #neurosicence 🧪🧠 An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization
The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets...
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
He has really cool work! We didn't explicitly explore any of those ideas but I completely agree that it's fascinating to think about solitons in how the brain works. Thanks for your comment!
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ah. Thank you. Did you have a particular hypothesis or question that you were interested in?
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m unfamiliar with that abbreviation. Could you explain more about what you’re asking about?
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New work from the lab: We found that similar brain circuits interact differently in OCD than in healthy controls during the task. #OCD #Neuroscience #MentalHealthResearch 🧪 🧠 👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder and abstract sequence task contributions shift prefrontal cortical connectivity
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.22.727273
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Catching up with a couple more from Brown graduation yesterday. These amazing two did undergrad honors theses in the lab. Congrats to Aiai Calmer and Mmesoma Nwokolo!! #BrownStrong #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM 🧠🧪👩‍🔬
Aiai Calmer & Theresa Desrochers in regaliaTheresa Desrochers & Mmesoma Nwokolo in regalia
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@carneyinstitute.bsky.social
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Hyde (née Doyle) and to all the graduates at Brown. So proud of her and everyone! #neuroscience #womenInSTEM 🧪🧠👩‍🔬
Selfie of Theresa Desrochers and Hannah Hyde (née Doyle) in regalia at graduation
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New STAT story about delays in filling open NIH institute director positions. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/n... 1/3
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NIH behind in filling top roles, with 15 of 27 institutes led by acting directors
An NIH leadership vacuum has persisted for months, with 15 of the 27 institutes being led by acting directors.
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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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