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Claire Foldi

@foldi.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying the biological mechanisms of eating disorders in Melbourne, Australia. Mother of cats and graduate students. www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/…

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Lena Oestreich @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excited to be presenting our symposium, "From synapse to self: computational, brain imaging and preclinical perspectives on psilocybin’s therapeutic mechanisms", at #NeuroAlliance2026! Featuring: 🧠 Claire Foldi 🧠 @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social 🧠 @adeelrazi.bsky.social 🧠 Nicholas Everett
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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 09/07/2026
I am happy to share our latest manuscript, led by newly-minted PhD Justin Wang, identifying a neural population that selectively controls hedonic, but not homeostatic, feeding. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons control hedonic feeding and obesity
Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thanks Lizzie! Forgot to post 🫠 but this work is extra special… the last project led by @kynaconn.bsky.social before she left the lab to follow her new path. Well done mate, and thanks to all the legends who contributed to this work 🙏🏻
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Genomic Press @genomicpress.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1/8 🧵 Breaking: Groundbreaking study drops in Psychedelics! Psilocybin's effects on social behavior & inflammation in female mice modeling anorexia nervosa? TOTALLY context-dependent on metabolism & exercise. Explains why only ~40% respond in human trials. Implications for personalized therapy!
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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
After a busy semester of teaching it is so nice to be at the Biological Psychiatry Australia Conference. First up today is @foldi.bsky.social and team with the development of a 'library of animal models', which sounds like a fantastic resource for researchers studying clinical symptoms/disorders
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hey bsky-ers! New preprint from the lab on #psilocybin & social behaviour in #female mice in contexts relevant to eating disorders (food restriction, exercise & combo of) by PhD student Sheida 💙🦋
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Toward a Genetic Signature of Resistance to Activity‐Based Anorexia in Striatal Projecting Cortical Neurons
Objective Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies and genome-wide association study (GWAS) suggests the involvement of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and striatum dysfunction in the pathophysiology o...
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A starter pack including all attendees (that I can find for now) Please let me know if I missed anyone! #GRCPsychedelics go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Today is the day! I can officially share my promotion to Associate Professor at @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🎉🎉 - Thanks to my lab (past and present), colleagues, letter writers and supporters 😊
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 23/06/2025
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies — a Review by Claire J. Foldi & Kristi R. Griffiths @foldi.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors. Foldi and Griffiths consider how ...
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Gilli!! Miss you mate. Please let’s hang soon. Invite me.
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors....
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BiolPsychAust @biolpsychaust.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The 15th Annual BPA Meeting is fast approaching, and we are so pleased to announce this year's excellent symposia line up! Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠 #BPA2025
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Zane Andrews @zane-andrews.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We created a photometry python package for unbiased standardised post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence intervals No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever Follow our simple step by step instructions. @foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Superstar Catherine 🤩 not even 2 years into her PhD #proudsupervisor
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Omg is this what we have to do??? #anorexia #genetics #brain #circuits #coolshit #discovery
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Check out the latest work from the lab led by @kxhuang.bsky.social
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Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For those hurting after DP EOI outcomes today, courtesy of ChatGPT (I prompted with the first line, it will have to go over 2 posts as it's too long): Oh ARC, why won't you fund me? I’ve written papers, set them free, With research deep and insights bright, Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Now that she's finally migrated from the Other Place I can officially congratulate @kynaconn.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship from our Faculty @monashuniversity.bsky.social - Well done Kyna!! 🤩
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Rachel Ross, MD, PhD @rossenator.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A perfect score for the R13 proposal for the GRC Psychedelics conference #GRCPsychedelics - what a delight to receive the news before the holidays 💯🎁 The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees. www.grc.org/neurobiology...
Perfect score for the conference's R13 proposal!
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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“To write well is to think clearly” - which is to say that by delegating more and more of your writing effort to AI, you are inviting the slow erosion of your own ability to think clearly.
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I love a fancy club, especially if you’re inside. Leave it with me. I’ll try to make it to the next one.
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Tell me more about these attempts
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My favourite fun fact is that their (supposedly hectic) stank is referred to as “peccary perfume” and I think that is just so sweet
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Dr Paul Liknaitzky @pliknaitzky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’ve never even heard the word javelina until your last post but now they are all I can think about
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
All I have seen on here for days is #ACNP2024 posts and the pain of jealousy hurts more than the unquestionable jetlag that would accompany such a trip. How does an extra-US gal like me score an invite for 2025?
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Harrowing and inspiring story - nicely said!
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
✋🏼
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The glass paperweight award I have always dreamed of. Couldn’t have done it without my amazing lab - who refuse to join this platform so may not have jobs for long 🩵
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024
Not sure who needs to hear this but the only thing a first draft has to do is exist. Everything else comes later.
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Mike Krashes @mikekrashes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
And again with my model child ☁️🩵 #edie
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
👋🏼🙂
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
✋🏼
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My lab has been slow on the 🦋uptake, despite my nagging, but please welcome and follow these two brilliant neuroscience students @kxhuang.bsky.social & @kasparmccoy.bsky.social (hopefully more will follow suit)
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
@kasparmccoy.bsky.social we were only a few years behind 😅
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Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺 @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin - Nature
Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Quote posting cat pics for attention #anthony 🧡
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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hmmm I guess general history/philosophy of biology/medicine seems like the best place to start. The key thing is to impart an appreciation of the nature of scientific inquiry and/or pursuit of new knowledge
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I want to start including a history & philosophy of science add-on to lab meetings, with the view to expand trainees’ thinking beyond the practicalities of lab-based experimental work. Any resource recommendations from my new 🦋 crew?
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Allow me to introduce Edith 🤍 & Anthony 🧡 to #catsky 🦋
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Public repository for code and data - github.com/Kwan-Lab/abo..., for our preprint "Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression" PS: much issues with CodeOcean for peer review.. now it is on @github.com too. 👨‍💻👩‍💻
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GitHub - Kwan-Lab/aboharbdavoudian2025: A set of scripts used to analyze data from whole brain lightsheet experiments.
A set of scripts used to analyze data from whole brain lightsheet experiments. - Kwan-Lab/aboharbdavoudian2025
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
✋🏼
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Claire Foldi @foldi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
👋🏼👋🏼 1) I fumble my way through the neuro mechanisms of psilocybin relevant for eating disorders 2) We are working on DOPAMINE & learning + PSI 3) I’m rewatching The Sopranos for the embarrassingly billionth time
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