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Guan-En, PhD

@guanenst.bsky.social
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PhD in neuroscience 🧠 Postdoc in the Pereira lab at UMass Amherst Previously: Bieszczad lab at Rutgers, Day lab at UAB

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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Bruce Y Lee @bruceylee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NIH Proposes Big Change In How Grants Applications Evaluated Here's my coverage in @forbes.com of this 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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NIH Proposes Big Change In How Grants Applications Evaluated
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing yet another significant change in its grant review process, moving away from numerical scores for applications.
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In a time where high single digit %iles are not getting funded, being told your grant was scored somewhere 1-25%ile is almost meaningless. I work my ass off submitting every grant. Other PIs work their asses off to review them. I want my score and my %ile. No good justification imo for not doing it.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Here’s a helpful guide to writing a public comment by @hormiga.bsky.social: scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...
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Submit your OMB comment this weekend.
This one is important. It's due on Monday.
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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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Neuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hello! The Alward lab will be well represented at #SBN2026 @sbn-bsky.bsky.social in Niagara Falls! Beau Alward is giving a Beach Award talk and three trainees are presenting posters. Most posts to come. Also, we’re looking to take a PhD student next cycle! If attending the meeting reach out!
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
UMass Amherst’s Pereira lab is here @sbn-bsky.bsky.social! Dr. Pereira is giving a talk tomorrow on circuit-level regulation of maternal sensitivity. Also, come to our trainees’ posters tomorrow (Posters 8, 27, 38 & 39) to discuss. We’re also here all week to connect with everyone!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If you have some ~cool sounds~ and you’re okay with them being used as stimuli for research, we’re collecting natural sound recordings for a project! Bonus points if they’re sampled at 192kHz or higher 😊 send me a message if you have something like this we’d love to use it!
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 24/05/2025
I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Ilenna Jones @ilennaj.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Today, @hhmi.org stopped all competitions supporting ECRs when we needed it most. As an FGLI undergraduate 2014/2015 HHMI EXROP participant, a 2020 Gilliam Fellow, and applicant for the now paused 2025 HGF program - I was a consistently supported by HHMI throughout my career. Please reconsider!
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Feeling double whammied today with first the HHMI cancellation and now also finding out a visiting assistant professor position I applied for decided to not update me to say that I was not considered and that they filled the position after I applied.
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Rhiana Simon, PhD @rhianasimon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Thrilled to announce that our paper is now finally out! 🎉We combine scRNAseq, 2p imaging, ephys, and behavior to understand the role of lateral septal Nts neurons in opioid withdrawal. Curious about the septum and addiction? Give it a read👇 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Opioid-driven disruption of the septum reveals a role for neurotensin-expressing neurons in withdrawal
Opioid withdrawal produces a dysphoric state that can lead to relapse. Simon et al. reveal that lateral septal neurotensin-expressing neurons are selectively activated by naloxone and drive changes in...
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just received an email stating that all applications for the 2025 HHMI Hanna Gray fellowship. Truly a bummer in funding news for science today.
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My trainee's F31 diversity from NIDDK "terminated" today. We received a NGA for $0.00. He worked his butt off for it and would have been competitive in the normal F31 pool. This is just blatant discrimination. If there are large lawsuits being put together, please share that info. #contractlaw
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A nice, layperson writeup of my latest work, which is now out on eLife! TLDR: Using snRNA-seq, we find cell type abundance differences and sex-biased gene expression differences that may explain innate differences in mating + parenting behavior elifesciences.org/digests/1031...
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The parenting styles of deer mice
Single-nuclei RNA-sequencing sheds new light on how two closely related species of deer behave differently when mating and caring for young.
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Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.
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Grad Resources
Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.
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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.
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Laura Kreidberg @lkreidberg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to share that the Max Planck postdoc program officially launched! I was lucky to be part of the committee that designed the program - our goal was to provide better and more structured resources for onboarding, career development, & mentoring.
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
'The results show that mitochondria, which generate the energy that powers cells, differ in type and density in different parts of the brain. For example, the evolutionarily oldest brain regions have a lower density of mitochondria than newer regions.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
every zoom meeting can be a mukbang if you put your mind to it
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Dynamic Ontogeny of Auditory Lateralization in the Zebra Finch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Dr. Jen Rinker @drjrink.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Defending soon? Come postdoc with us - MUSC is a great place to prepare you for your next career move, in or outside of academia!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more: #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center
News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A comprehensive review on covalent chemical strategies for protein self-labeling from @kjohnsson.bsky.social's lab: HaloTag, SNAP-tag et al. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
First hike of the season and since we moved to Western Mass! Weather was nice so had to take advantage of it even if the trail was muddy and slippery in some steep parts.
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Livid because one of my students who has worked their ass off has had a graduate school admission offer rescinded due to anticipated budget cuts. We’re already seeing the next generation of scientists being stopped from achieving their goals thanks to the federal administration.
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Guan-En, PhD @guanenst.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Two months into this postdoc and two grant applications submitted! It’s been tough developing a research plan in an unfamiliar field in just a few weeks but I’m glad to know I can do it. And now I have a way better understanding of maternal behavior than I did before!
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