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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 09/12/2025

Apps for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are due in 1 month! This program supports talented early career scientists in #neuroscience & #autismresearch by facilitating their transition into tenure-track positions. Deadline is 1/14/26: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fell…

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Fellows-to-Faculty Award

The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.

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austinacoley.bsky.social @austinacoley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We're hiring postdocs! Come join our team.

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Frankie D Heyward @frankiedheyward.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Fellows-to-Faculty grant was truly transformative for my career, and provided $600K and an incredible network of big thinkers within the fields of cognitive aging & ASD. I highly recommend those passionate about studying cognitive aging or ASD while poised for the faculty market this fall apply!

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

new review alert❗️ thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones. see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️

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Rachel Ross, MD, PhD @rossenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dear academic internet friends, I’m working on an R01 on our novel early life model of food insecurity, which the federal govt no longer recognizes (as of ~1 week ago cancelling the annual report). Should I re-write my 3 line public health narrative (bonkers) to de-center that topic?

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Frankie D Heyward @frankiedheyward.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling of mouse hypothalamic LepRb neurons reveals cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements linked to human obesity

Leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRHypo) are key regulators of energy balance, yet a comprehensive, cell type-resolved, chromatin accessibility map of these neurons is lacking. We pr...

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