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Leigh Walker

@drlcwalker.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist at Florey Institute/ Uni Melbourne

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Leigh Walker @drlcwalker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New work from the lab-led by Kade Huckstep and Billi Newton. MDMA disrupted trauma-linked escalation in alcohol consumption in rats, promising for current clincial trials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MDMA alters fear extinction, and reduces alcohol consumption in inbred alcohol preferring iP rats but not outbred Wistar rats - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - MDMA alters fear extinction, and reduces alcohol consumption in inbred alcohol preferring iP rats but not outbred Wistar rats
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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
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Phil Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel @philjrdb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Stoked to share our new paper examining why people differ so much in avoiding harm www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Causal inference and cognitive-behavioral integration deficits drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity - Communications Psychology
Using a gamified punishment task, this study identifies specific learning and decision-making deficits that drive robust, consequential differences in choice within an international, general populatio...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system. There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers. By @donnadlu.bsky.social
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Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn
Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say
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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Mark your calendars @ibnsconnect.bsky.social early career seminar series is relaunching Sheida Shadani is presenting April 16 Australia time (April 15 USA time).
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Leigh Walker @drlcwalker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Check out our new paper lead by superstars Amy Pearl and Xavier Maddern in @naturecomms.bsky.social . We show a sex specific role for ghrelin signalling in the Edinger Westphal nucleus driving binge drinking. Thanks to all those involved www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Midbrain ghrelin receptor signalling regulates binge drinking in a sex specific manner - Nature Communications
Binge drinking is a rising issue in women, yet the underlying neurobiology remains underexplored. Here authors show the Edinger-Westphal (EWcp) peptidergic neurons as a critical regulator of binge dri...
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Leigh Walker @drlcwalker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Great talks by Nathan Holmes and @karlyt.bsky.social to kick off week 3 of ACAN advanced neuroscience school today!
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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