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Mark Gergues

@markgergues.bsky.social
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Incoming postdoc @harvard.edu with @dulaclab.bsky.social. Formerly @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social PhD in Kheirbeklab.org DSPAN F99/K00 fellow

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Aperiodic neural activity is known to be reduced in older adults, but what if these reductions happen within the span of a few years and in parallel with cognitive-behavioral outcomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Aperiodic EEG activity is a domain-specific marker of attentional aging in neurotypical adults
Aperiodic neural activity has been reliably shown to be reduced among older adults, and these reductions are associated with age-related cognitive decline. These results suggest that aperiodic activit...
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New preprint from the lab. @markgergues.bsky.social and crew show that the PVT gates ventral hippocampal salience coding, shifting output between threat- and reward-weighted representations during associative learning and anxiety-related behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Paraventricular thalamus gates hippocampal coding of salient experiences. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences @ucsfpsych.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What is interoception? Find out during 2026 Trainee Research Award recipient Alexandra Klein's presentation, "Control of Fear States and Underlying Neural Dynamics by Respiratory Rhythms" - Tuesday, April 7 @ 8:30 a.m. PDT ow.ly/4kBx50YwtYR
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New paper from the lab, from Jeremy Biane and team, out today, characterizing the principles of stimulus feature coding in populations of ventral CA1 neurons.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. And I've never seen evidence of racial discrimination like this." "How can this be? I don't see anyone pushing back against it??" Calls out doctors and other senior administration officials as named defendants for not standing up to racial discrimination.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Gonna fact check Jay B on his lies to the Senate in real time. Follow along for what promises to be a deeply annoying time. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...
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A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/05/2025
BREAKING: New Jersey mayor Ras Baraka has been arrested at an ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting U.S. attorney says.
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New Jersey mayor arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting, prosecutor says
A federal prosecutor says the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he was protesting its opening.
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Mark Gergues @markgergues.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Why does searching in Outlook have to be so aggravatingly ineffective? 😮‍💨
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience! The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ENLACES workshop at SfN 2025 Letter of Support
From the SfN Committee: The idea behind this proposal is valuable and worth pursuing, but the current proposal lacks clarity in a few areas. It would be helpful to define the primary objective more pr...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Say it with me: HIGHER ED IS AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ENGINE FOR OUR COUNTRY ESPECIALLY PUBLIC HIGHER ED
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
👏👏👏 McKnight Foundation statement: "Despite recent events, actions, and executive orders, we remain steadfast in advancing climate solutions and racial equity across every part of our work, and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values of our Foundation." 💪💪💪
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n
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Raymundo D Hernandez, PhD @rhernandezphd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Young researchers are essential for us to improve human health and society. The fear and confusion caused by current administration has real consequences that real people have to face. Help tell their story and support science across the US. #research #science #neurosky #neuroskyence #STEAM #STEM
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Apparently F99/K00 applications have been assigned a new study section after the one meeting a few weeks ago was halted, trying to find out more information
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If you can, I strongly recommend that you consider “holding space” 💖 I held space tonight for the neuro grad students & postdocs. I ordered pizza/soda and we talked. I didn’t have any answers. They didn’t expect me to. They just wanted to be heard & to feel that they’re not alone in their worries.
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@neuronline.sfn.org has made it incredibly easy to contact your reps and urge them to protect federal funding for biomedical research! Please sign today, it takes about 10 seconds: www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Jersey.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Useful and great guidance and a script on how to contact your congressional representatives to advocate for federal scientific funding. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social! If this is your battle, start here!
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin is an @HHMINEWS Freeman Hrabowski Scholar & Assistant Professor at Columbia University 🧠 The Marlin Lab researches transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (how parents' lived experiences change the brains of future offspring) 🧬🐭 #BlackInNeuro @bjmarlin.bsky.social
Dr. Marlin, a Black woman neuroscientist, is smiling proudly in her lab space. She’s wearing a white shirt, simple necklace, small hoop earrings, dark red lipstick and has a beautifully shaved head.
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“The NIH communications pause feels like a part of a bigger shift and attack on sciences because there is a suspicion about our work or who is selected to do this when it is in fact very competitive and benefits society as a whole.”
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Nick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
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Silva Lab – Neuroimmune mechanisms in health and disease
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Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The official website for the #DSPAN F99/K00 transition award is down, together with the official #NINDSDiversity social media account and webpage. This is beyond terrifying. neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/archived/tra...
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Maureen M Sampson PhD @maureenbiologies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3
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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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Jonathan Fadok @the-fadoktor.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Had enough with freezing? Come experience the NEW FACES OF FEAR at 3pm. #ACNP @docbecca.bsky.social, Maria Diehl, Avi Adhikari and me!
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Mark Gergues @markgergues.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Lucky to be apart of this incredible group of scientists. Starring our amazing leader and hero - @michellejolo.bsky.social ! #ACNP2024 @acnporg.bsky.social
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thread by @fxia.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/fxia...
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A couple news articles by @ucsfhealth.bsky.social and @natureportfolio.bsky.social here: www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/12... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Stress can dull our capacity for joy: mouse brain patterns hint at why
Scientists pinpoint brain circuits linked to either resilience or vulnerability to adversity, which affect a stressed animal’s pursuit of pleasure.
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am excited that my first Bluesky post is to share our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." With @fxia.bsky.social , @valeriafascianelli.bsky.social and @stefanofusi.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia - Nature
Examination of the neural activity in the basolateral amygdala and ventral CA1 of mice during tasks or rest following exposure to social stress reveals signatures of resilience and susceptibility to s...
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Mark Gergues @markgergues.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out my lab mates awesome new work out in Nature on understanding the neural processes underlying stress-induced anhedonia. Congrats @fxia.bsky.social 🎉🍾!!
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