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Kristen Montgomery

@kristenmontgomery.bsky.social
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neuroscientist interested in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders | postdoc @camh | she/her

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm SO excited to have this out in the world!!!! Check out our latest work on the contribution of the anterior hypothalamic nucleus to stress sensitivity and valence processing.
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Ed van Veen @edvanveenphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1/3 Our seeER paper is out in Neuron! 🎉 We built a genetically encoded reporter to see when & where estrogen receptors are actually signaling in the brain, not just where the receptors are expressed. Paper: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Resources: jevanveen.github.io/resources/
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A bifunctional optical reporter for tracking estrogen response dynamics in neurons
Cara, Guthman, et al. present neuro-seeER, an optical tool for monitoring how neurons respond dynamically to the hormone estrogen. By tracking these dynamics across the reproductive cycle in female mi...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 21/08/2026
Early life experiences, the neural epigenome and affective disorder risk — a Review by Ashley M. Cunningham & Ian Maze #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Early life experiences, the neural epigenome and affective disorder risk - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how early life stress becomes biologically embedded remains a major challenge in neuroscience. In this Review, Maze and colleagues discuss recent advances in cell-type-specific epigeneti...
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So proud to have “Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity” out now in Neuron! This work spanned Many years and Many people contributed. Huge thanks to @hyejaykim.bsky.social, @ja-balouek.bsky.social, Luke Geiger, and Meaghan Creed www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity
Kim, Geiger et al. report that early-life stress increases the chromatin modification H3K4me1 and its enzymatic writer, SETD7, in the ventral tegmental area. They show that this form of epigenetic pri...
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The entire NSF budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The NIH accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Kristen Montgomery @kristenmontgomery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Such amazing work and incredibly important- huge congrats Jen!!!!!
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Congrats to @rcbagot.bsky.social + @markcembrowski.bsky.social for putting together such an awesome program for @canacn.bsky.social mtg. I really enjoyed it and had so much fun! I am totally in love with Montreal, well 🇨🇦 in general! And check out the mustache on this tamarin from the biodome :)
A tamarin climbing in a tree with long
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus. rdcu.be/fgNH7
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Microglia-dependent regulation of fear memory extinction
Nature Neuroscience - Liu et al. show in mice that microglia are recruited to the soma and dendritic processes of fear engram neurons during extinction learning and that they weaken fear memories...
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Dayu Lin @moccalin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression - Nature
In mice, female aggression is governed by an amygdala–to–medial hypothalamus circuit that is strengthened during pregnancy and is dynamically amplified by oxytocin during lactation.
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m thrilled to share our latest preprint from the lab, now available on BioRxiv! We investigated how early life adversity (ELA) shapes the adult brain, and the results are a stark reminder that sex isn't just a variable but leads to fundamentally different stress-induced mechanistic consequences
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We cannot do science while our people are being shot down in the streets. We cannot fund DHS/ICE. Call your representatives.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We could all use some extra stress #resilience rn. But how does it work in the brain? On the surface, resilience looks like ignoring stress. Does the brain fail to respond? Or are active adaptations required? Or are resilience and susceptibility divergent paths? doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116867
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#OTD in 1911, Marie Curie was proposed for membership in the French Academy of Sciences--and promptly voted down. 11 months later she won her second Nobel Prize (Chemistry). 51 years later, Marguerite Perey (a student of Curie), became the first woman member of the Academy. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white photograph of Marie Curie, a woman with dark hair pulled back, seated at a wooden desk in a laboratory setting. She is turned toward the camera, resting her chin on her left hand, and appears thoughtful or serious. She wears a dark dress or coat. The desk in front of her has various scientific apparatuses, including a wooden stand and glass beakers, in the background.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
genuinely stunning image

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE has shot a mother in the face, put a 16-year-old in a chokehold, and permanently blinded at least two protestors — and that’s just some of what we know. And now this. Despicable.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The death of a man being held at an ICE camp in Texas in January may be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner found the preliminary cause was "asphyxia due to neck and chest compression." A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards.
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Medical examiner likely to classify death of ICE detainee as homicide, recorded call says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 08/01/2026
Delighted to share our first preprint of the year! A project that we're all really proud of in the lab led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social with @mathiasgua.bsky.social in which we set out to test the role of basolateral amygdala astrocytes in anxiety behaviour. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Astrocytic Encoding of Threat in the Basolateral Amygdala
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) has long been implicated in threat detection and the generation of anxiety states. While previous experiments have demonstrated the important role of BLA principal neuro...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
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Kristen Montgomery @kristenmontgomery.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A favorite recent image of some busy microglia, lovingly named the Rat King (yellow CD68, pink Iba1, blue DAPI) for my first #FluorescenceFriday
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Microglial MyD88-dependent signaling influences extracellular matrix development and interneuron maturation in the hippocampus
Parvalbumin interneurons (PVIs) are disrupted across diverse neurodevelopmental disorders, highlighting their vulnerability to developmental perturbations. Inflammation can perturb PVI development and...
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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Are fear 😱 and emotional pain 💔 characterized by shared or unique symptom networks 🕸️ and neural signatures 🧠 in PTSD?
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Dissecting Fear and Emotional Pain in PTSD: From Symptom Networks to Neural Signatures
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a heterogeneous condition with diverse symptom presentations and emotional experiences. While fear is traditionally viewed as central, growing evidence…
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Matt Hill @cannabrain.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/11/2025
In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin. There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. By @megomatz.bsky.social
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He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
While you are all waiting for treat or treaters & the blue jay game … take a look at our newest from @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we look at neural networks in middle aged female rats based on APOE genotype and parity history www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sex-specific factors and APOEε4 genotype alter functional connectivity at middle age
Cognitive aging is influenced by sex and sex-specific factors. Indeed, research has shown that parity (pregnancy and parenthood) uniquely alters bioma…
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Maxwell Madden @maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Currently building a patch ephys rig and agonizing over camera selection. Do any patchers have any advice on what specifications I should be prioritizing? Also, has anyone used the Thorlabs Kiralux sCMOS cameras? 🧪
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/10/2025
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Just dropped Episode 1 of our new Season (my first time hosting). Up first the incredible ⁦‪Dr ⁦Cat Bohannon author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 M years of Human Evolution. Let us know what you think. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
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How Medical Research Ignores Half the Population with Dr. Cat Bohannon
Podcast Episode · Women's Health Interrupted with Dr. Liisa Galea · 2025-10-15 · 51m
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making
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Kristen Montgomery @kristenmontgomery.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
So worth the struggle to finally see these hungry guys 🫡
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Maxwell Madden @maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Excited my PhD work in @brianmathur.bsky.social’s lab is now published and available!
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Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Excited to see our most recent project published in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! We show that the timing of THC exposure during development—prenatal vs. postnatal—leads to opposite effects on social behavior and microglial function in the amygdala. Timing matters! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Timing matters: modeling the effects of gestational cannabis exposure on social behavior and microglia in the developing amygdala
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Bonnie Lee @bonniee-leee.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Really honoured to receive the @istaart.bsky.social Sex and Gender PIA Publication of the Year Award 🌟 Thank you to the PIA & @bucklr01.bsky.social! And ofc a big thank you to my co-authors, collaborators, & importantly, my supervisor @liisagalea.bsky.social 🙌 #endALZ @alzassociation.bsky.social
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Ashley Marquardt @aemarquardt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New paper from our group out in @npp-journal.bsky.social today on the effects of gestational cannabis exposure!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025 *Stress and astrocytes Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !
Slide says 2025 neural circuits and behavior satellite meeting *also apparently the inaugural stress and astrocyte satellite meeting
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/05/2025
"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
Illustration for an article titled "Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote. That needs to change" featuring a person overwhelmed by a swirl of papers and books.
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
One more from human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I totally love seeing how these highly specialized cell populations in the hypothalamus just pop when labeled. Here - CRH 🟡, OXT 🔴 and SIM1 🟣 in paraventricular nucleus. Image credit to Svitlana Bach and Yufeng Du. 🧪🔬👩‍🔬
Microscope image of RNAscope-based labeling of mRNA transcripts for corticotrophin releasing hormone (yellow), oxytocin (red) and SIM1 (magenta) in a tissue section through the paraventricular nucleus of postmortem human brain
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Bonnie Lee @bonniee-leee.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey 🩷✨
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I thought we were “defending women”?
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