Reposted by MeghaSehgalCL @cllantz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH. Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind. 13917
Reposted by MeghaSehgalKirstie Cummings @kacummings.bsky.social · 23/10/2025The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below: 02828
Reposted by MeghaSehgalJonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 16/10/2025ntc.columbia.edu/dendritic-in... 074
Reposted by MeghaSehgalSteve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2025our "Untangling the Mind" tour with NatGeo is ready for liftoff again this Fall and throughout Spring '26! this show is meant for anyone interested in science and the brain because neuroscience belongs to everyone 🧠 info + tour dates 👇🏽! live.nationalgeographic.org/event/untang... 3205
Reposted by MeghaSehgalJeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 46020
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Great opportunity for undergrads to flex their creativity and their neuro knowledge! 031
Reposted by MeghaSehgalBrynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out! www.momentslab.orgmomentslab.orgMoments Lab 28548
Reposted by MeghaSehgalNancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2025The NSF GRFP is an amazing opportunity for students in the first two years of a PhD or those applying to a PhD right now. Below, check out our special episode with advice for both applicants and those who write letters of support!! 🧐 Please help us spread the word 📢 2139
Reposted by MeghaSehgalSteve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...amazon.comHow to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the PastBuy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders 610528
Reposted by MeghaSehgalVidhya Rangaraju, PhD @rangarajuvidhya.bsky.social · 28/08/2025New preprint alert! 🚀 We show that mitochondria dynamically remodel near synapses during brain plasticity for learning 🧠🧪 Led by Monil Shah, MPFI IMPRS PhD student, (@mpfneuro.bsky.social) using advanced microscopy & new algorithms, revealing stunning neuronal beauty! 🔬 Thanks to the whole team! 3175
Reposted by MeghaSehgalNature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 17/02/2025The same dendritic segments are preferentially activated by two linked contextual memories, and spine clusters added after each of two linked contextual memories are allocated to the same dendritic segments in mouse retrosplenial cortex (RSC) 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCompartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time - Nature NeuroscienceSehgal et al. show that branch-specific dendritic plasticity mechanisms in the retrosplenial cortex link memories acquired close in time such that, unlike independent memories, linked memories are enc... 0132
Reposted by MeghaSehgalPoirazi Lab @dendritesgr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025📰Dendrites Press Excited about our latest research highlighted in@medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy. Our collaborative work with Alcino Silva at UCLA, led by @meghasehgal.bsky.social sheds light on the mechanisms of memory linking, which remained a mystery for years. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...medicalxpress.comStudy shows that dendritic plasticity contributes to the integration of memoriesPast neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory linking ... 061
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Ohio! Tomorrow! Main rally at the Statehouse 12-3p to #standupforscience. Details and day of updates here: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... Can't make it to Cbus? Walkouts in Cleveland, Cincy, Oxford also.eventbrite.comStand Up for Science 2025 - Columbus, OHEventbrite - Stand up for Science presents Stand Up for Science 2025 - Columbus, OH - Friday, March 7, 2025 at Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH. Find event and ticket information. 052
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 04/03/20253 days until Ohio stands up for science! We will rally at the Statehouse, 12-3p. West Plaza. See photo of the site below. More Ohio details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... In NE Ohio and can't make it to Cbus? Go to the walkout at Freiberger Field at CWRU, 12p-2p! #standupforscience 143
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Attention Cleveland and NE Ohio! Can't make it to Cbus to #standupforscience? You are in luck. There is a walkout this Friday, 12-2p, Freiberger Field at Case Western! 074
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDanielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I beg my science colleagues to speak with the media about what's happening now. When I was given the opportunity, I spoke with Nature about HHMI massive cut. I am an immigrant on a working visa, and I am not a professor. Anyone can talk. Silence in the face of injustice is injustice in action. 420163
Reposted by MeghaSehgaljp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 02/03/2025I’m standing up for the next generation of diverse scientists. The rare disease patients. The cancer patients. The species that may never walk the planet again. Women’s healthcare. “Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” @standupforscience.bsky.social 115833
Reposted by MeghaSehgalHillary C Schiff @hillschiff.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Columbus and nearby friends!! Please get loud with me on Friday! 052
Reposted by MeghaSehgalErin Harris, PhD @neuroerin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I am standing up science this Friday, March 7th at the capital in Atlanta! @thefortylab.bsky.social organized a walkout from GSU starting at Petit Science Center. Please join us and #standupforscience2025 🗽🇺🇸 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... 12510
MeghaSehgal @meghasehgal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This assault on science should not be acceptable to anyone, and it won't go away unless we make it go away. Stand up for science! Rallies in Columbus and 32 other cities on Friday, March 7 Not in OH? Check standupforscience2025.org to find a site near you. 031
Reposted by MeghaSehgalEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... 6131241380
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 27/02/20258 days until we Stand Up for Science! Fri Mar 7, 2025 Ohio, we will be at the Statehouse west plaza 12p-3p in Cbus Not in OH? Check standupforscience2025.org to find a site near you. Can't rally? Join us by walking out at noon wherever you are. Website has info about organizing walkouts too! 064
Reposted by MeghaSehgalDr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Bluesky Science allies: are there any ASL interpreters in the Columbus, OH area who would be willing to help out with our speakers at #standupforscience Friday March 7, 2025, 12p-3 at the Statehouse? Reposts appreciated! 045
Reposted by MeghaSehgalannechurchland.bsky.social @annechurchland.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I’ve been overwhelmed trying to keep up with everything that’s happening at the NIH. I wondered if others were likewise overwhelmed so I am going to start regularly posting videos with what I know. Pls feel free to leave suggestions and comments. youtu.be/MvgNHWSJtH0youtu.beScience Update With Anne And Alex Feb 25 2025YouTube video by anne churchland 32413
Reposted by MeghaSehgalNPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.npr.orgNIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research fundsThe National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies. 16135471474
Reposted by MeghaSehgalWESA @wesa.fm · 21/02/2025The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.wesa.fmThe University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertaintyA spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could... 551188766
Reposted by MeghaSehgalKate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEvnature.comA dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - NatureAdaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path... 2724487
MeghaSehgal @meghasehgal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025📢 Excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Neuroscience! 🧠✨ We uncover how compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) links contextual memories formed close in time. A thread 🧵👇 [1/8] nature.com/articles/s41... 1162