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Micaela Porod

@micaelaporod.bsky.social

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neuro phd candidate @ UMN 🧠 passionate about #harmreduction & #scipol she/her 🌈 🍉

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Micaela Porod @micaelaporod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So excited to share the news! I'm immensely grateful to NIMH for their support, and to my amazing mentors @nicolagrissom.bsky.social and @bensaunders.bsky.social for their guidance toward achieving this milestone. Feeling pretty proud of this one ☺️

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/01/2026

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

Alex Pretti, wearing a green sweater with his VA badge on.

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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you're heading to #SfN25 in a couple weeks, pop in early to the posters on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning to see a bunch of cool unpublished work from the lab.

List of poster presentations for Saunders lab at SFN conference in November 2025.

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Touchscreen response precision is sensitive to the explore/exploit tradeoff www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Touchscreen response precision is sensitive to the explore/exploit tradeoff https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619903v1

The explore/exploit tradeoff is a fundamental property of choice selection during reward-guided deci

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