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Jessica Wojick

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jobe Ritchie , a postdoc in the lab, decided he wanted to build a better platform for scoring behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ABEL: an active-learning behavior estimation and labeling platform
Detailed behavior analysis is essential for thorough characterization of ethologically relevant behaviors in model organisms, yet manual annotation of the full behavioral repertoire remains subjective...
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every time my son gets a book, I tell him Dolly sent him a book! so sad to lose this wonderful woman.
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very excited to share our latest work in the Kash Lab, "The role of serotonin in the orbitofrontal cortex in alcohol consumption." Our paper highlights an important role for the 5HT1a (serotonin 1a) receptor in the orbitofrontal cortex in aversion-resistant drinking.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Somebody in lab brought in some Grillo Pickle Liquid IV. it tasted like colonscopy prep. Good times.
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have 2 of my 3 speakers lined up. Ideally, the 3rd speaker would be a researcher in Europe, South America, Africa, or Asia. Please let me know if you have someone in mind or if that's you!
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
bumping this!
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hi! I am putting together a webinar all about pain in women. If you study this (in any model system) or know someone who does, please reach out!
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Another reason why everyone should consider #WCBR2026 ! We are not complying in advance! We are holding on to the things evidence based reserach has demonstrated improves science and the learning environment!
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Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!'
Alt: Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!' It's a neuroscience joke get it!?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026
Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/07/2025
A new study pinpoints an emotion-to-motivation gateway that converts painful signals into negative feelings, offering a promising target for non-opioid pain relief. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/46jefZE
Mouse brain tissue magnified 20 times under a microscope. Pain-processing neurons (red) cluster in the mouse amygdala—its emotion-processing center—and send axons toward the striatum to shape motivational behavior.
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Very proud that my PhD thesis is now officially published!
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korblab @korblab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So excited to have been part of this work from the Corder lab! Congrats to Jess and the whole team. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain
A nociceptive basolateral amygdala–to–nucleus accumbens shell circuit contributes to pain unpleasantness in chronic pain.
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
big thanks to all the authors and my co-Senior Collaborator @korblab.bsky.social !!! ... and huge congrats to Jess Wojick who spent 5+ years developing this story (you can keep following her work over at @superkash.bsky.social Lab at UNC)
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
excited to see current Kash Lab postdoc Jess Wojick's paper out from her PhD in @flybottleescape.bsky.social lab !!! congrats Jess and Greg!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain
A nociceptive basolateral amygdala–to–nucleus accumbens shell circuit contributes to pain unpleasantness in chronic pain.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
McGovern: "You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht. I guess he's getting a good return on his campaign donations ... this is not policy. This is theft."
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Nikki T in NYC @nikkitnyc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am sad to let you all know that one of our faculty here at BCAS and UNC, Dr. Charlotte Boettiger, has passed away. She was a wonderful scientist and a great person. She will be missed. researchsocietyonalcohol.org/member-resou...
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
UNC-CH is searching for a new Chair of Psychiatry. Please share. www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/863298/c...
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Chair - Department of Psychiatry - Chapel Hill, North Carolina job with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 863298
The School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an accomplished and visionary leader..
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Picture day for Kash Lab. Rain can't stop us.
A group of people pose, smiling, with their arms crossed in front of them. this group of people is the Kash Lab.
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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
With the huge challenges facing scientists, I call on peer reviewers to reflect on their role as gatekeepers to trainee career development and scientific progress. You can maintain high standards for rigor while being kind and not demanding an extra year of studies for every paper revision.
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify
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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
For those who don't know, here are very real research costs that directs cannot cover - all fall within indirects: the buildings we work in (upkeep, maintenance, cleaning, etc), utilities, IT infrastructure, human resources, administrative staff, security, and lots more
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 08/02/2025
Worst week for science EVER. Sunday: ASM scrubs DEI mentions from website. Tue: NASA scrubs DEI from website; ICE arrests a student on campus; NSF plans to cut staff; USAID halted. Wed: HHMI kills diversity program; NIH trashes applications for diversity F grants. Fri: NIH cuts indirects.
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Colin Tucker Smith @colinsmithpsych.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Slightly annoying how many of the comments are like, "This is written so broadly it's going to even affect ME over here in chemistry" or whatever. We need to (always) stand together as scientists whether you're the target or the collateral damage.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 04/02/2025
One of the keywords is “female” 🙃🙃🙃
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🔔New lab paper🔔 GLP-1 analogs have become a first-line treatment for type II diabetes and weight management. Appetite reduction is mediated through activation of brain GLP-1Rs. In this review, we discuss the role of the Central Amygdala in integrating the actions of GLP-1R agonists. rb.gy/0t0wig
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Integration of Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Actions through the Central Amygdala
Abstract. Understanding the detailed mechanism of action of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists on distinct topographic and genetically-defi
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex 🧵
My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/02/2025
It would be nice if people could stop acting like DEI is an only a moral good. DEI strengthens organizations. People from diverse backgrounds bring new ways of solving problems and serving people. DEI isn’t a gift to diverse people. It’s a gift to the orgs that hire us.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fuzzbuster wants you to take a moment to take a deep breath.
Fuzzbuster the lamanchan goat staring at the camera. He is black and white with horns
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 29/01/2025
As the White House rescinds its spending-freeze memo, remember: To assume that Team Trump is impervious to pressure is a mistake. These guys can and will retreat. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Trump rescinds funding freeze memo after chaos, confusion
The White House sparked a national controversy when it ordered a freeze to federal grants. Under pressure, Team Trump rescinded its scandalous memo.
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Yad Vashem has digitized more than 15,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Here, for example, you can watch many interviews with survivors. "For whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness." 🗃️ www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/vi...
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Video Testimonies Resource Center
Throughout our website the voices of the survivors infuse our online exhibitions, historical narratives, teaching units and ceremonies with content and with meaning. We have gathered many of those tes...
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
hurray! paper accepted for lead author @lisataxier.bsky.social ! insula, alcohol conditioned aversion, ephys, dreads, fun!
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
CNN has now confirmed this. www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...
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Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...
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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
New preprint!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
I don't think biomedical researchers realize how much is at stake with the upcoming election. Take a look at some snippets from Project2025, the blueprint for the next Trump Administration and then be afraid. Then get organized. Ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not an option.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
"The settlement was a resounding victory for the parents and LGBTQ advocacy groups who filed the lawsuit. It dramatically limits the law's application to a narrow set of circumstances that seldom occur in K-12 public schools." Good news in Florida. "Don't Say Gay" is no more.
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UPDATE: Say gay, Florida
This week, the State of Florida agreed to settle a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Parental Rights in Education Act, better known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. The bill's text prohibite...
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 06/03/2024
Mark Robinson is such an extremist that his gubernatorial primary victory in North Carolina deserves to be seen as a genuine scandal for the contemporary Republican Party.
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Why it matters that the GOP’s Mark Robinson won a gubernatorial primary
Mark Robinson is such an extremist that his gubernatorial primary victory deserves to be seen as a genuine scandal for the contemporary Republican Party.
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Highly recommend the theatre-kid-to-scientist career trajectory. You may not be the best actor, but you’ll impress scientists with your stage presence 🤣🧪
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Tomorrow!!! I’d love if you can watch and vote for me! 🧠⚡️🐁
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Michael van Zeijl @indigenousmichael.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
I see to little people talking about how Nex was Indigenous, Choctaw Nation while Indigenous people are more likely to be killed in genderist violence than white trans people. indianz.com/News/2024/02...
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‘Nex’s death weighs heavily on the hearts of the Choctaw people’: Choctaw Nation mourns loss of young student
The leader of the Choctaw Nation is joining an outpouring of support for the family of a 16-year-old student whose death is under investigation.
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Tomorrow!!! I’d love if you can watch and vote for me! 🧠⚡️🐁
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Jessica Wojick @jesswoj.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
This Friday (2/23) at 2 pm EST I’m giving a Ted-style talk about my research! There’s a livestream on YouTube (www.youtube.com/live/J5N7B7I...). Come check it out and cast your vote for the audience choice award!
Headshots of 5 graduate students competing in the Natural Sciences category
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Adeno-associated viruses for efficient gene expression in the axolotl nervous system www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Adeno-associated viruses for efficient gene expression in the axolotl nervous system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.15.580426v1
Axolotls are models for studying nervous system evolution, development, and regeneration. Tools to v
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