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Naima Dahir

@naimadahir.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UTSW. Sensory processing, feeding, and other motivated behaviors.

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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Howdy! 🤠 We’re hiring two research technicians to study sensory physiology, feeding behavior, and body-weight regulation using slice electrophysiology and viral-mediated circuit manipulations. No prior ephys experience needed, we’ll train you! Please reach out if interested 😊
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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New paper showing neighborhood-level socioeconomic opportunity was more strongly associated with children’s brain function than any ptherrr behavioral or environmental examined. In fact, brain activity thought to represent IQ may reflect socioeconomic context www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics
Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...
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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The ovaries may have a mid-life glow up! New evidence suggesting they take on a role as an immune organ after they stop releasing eggs. academic.oup.com/molehr/artic...
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The post-reproductive ovary shifts from a reproductive to an immune-like organ
Abstract. Reproductive aging in females is characterized by the irreversible depletion of ovarian follicles, yet the structure and function of the post-rep
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-086: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity a...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator ...
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Are vultures feeding on carcasses from animals that were treated with the drug? Wow, indeed!
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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Kristyn Lizbinski @kristyn-lizbinski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Excited to share my most recent postdoctoral work in the Jeanne lab @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! “Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?
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Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics
Extracting relevant features of a complex sensory signal typically involves sequential processing through multiple brain regions. However, identifying the logic and mechanisms of these transformations...
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds
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Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds
Girls as young as eight show a unique sensitivity to numbers representing their body weight, a new study finds. The results highlight early gender differences in attention and raise questions about how body awareness develops and affects girls’ perceptions later in life.
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Nick Peoples @cichlidnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms
Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel. buff.ly/ypISrtx
different coloured mice on a white background
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com
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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns
The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!
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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art
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UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews
The University of California, the nation's top recipient of federal research funding in higher education, is raising questions and concerns about the Trump administration's pause in research grant rev...
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Deno Tas @deeznotez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Yes, We Need To Call Out The Climate Criminals Right Now
The California wildfires are not a mere act of God. These apocalyptic scenes will increase as the climate crisis worsens unless we end the culture of denial.
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds
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Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience. A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics. 3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year! (mini thread)
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 05/12/2024
Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result. Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app
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Protect All Wildlife @protectallwildlife.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊
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Adam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 30/11/2024
1/3 Amen. And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black. We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too. Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.
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Randy J Seeley @seeleyrj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our latest work to understand the dynamics of brain GIP and GLP-1 signaling to mediate responses to pharmacotherapy for obesity. Replicates key work from Timo Mueller and lab at the Helmholtz and takes it a little farther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Specific loss of GIPR signaling in GABAergic neurons enhances GLP-1R agonist-induced body weight loss
Dual incretin agonists are among the most effective pharmaceutical treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes to date. Such therapeutics can target tw…
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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglgeorg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today's a big day in Busan, South Korea, where nations are meeting to finalise a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The focus is on tackling the problem at its source—how plastics are made and used. This could be a turning point for addressing the #PlasticCrisis. apnews.com/article/3c50...
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In South Korea, nations meet in final round to address global plastic crisis
Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 25/11/2024
Sneak peek of the new stuff this season in the twophotonart.com shop! 🧠🧪 (Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)
Gold stud earrings in the shape of adenoassociated virusesSilver stud earrings in the shape of ion channels2 rectangular necklace pendants of a serotonin molecule constellation, one in silver and the other goldThree rows of enamel pins showing gloved hands with long fingernails holding blue 1000 microliter pipettes. The gloves in each row are purple, pink, and blue, respectively.
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is the good place. First one of the week. #ephys
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Dave Root @neuronroot.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Our group is hiring an electrophysiologist, please get in touch if interested! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Senior Professional Research Assistant
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There's a first time for everything 🤷🏿‍♀️ #parafilmnomore
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Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Beautiful Utah... Zion National Park 💕
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thewilliamslab @thewilliamslab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a starter pack for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior #SSIB for all interested in being a #SSIBling. Please let me know if you would like to join the starter pack! go.bsky.app/8Zvp83e
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Feeling hopeful for next week 🐭. We are taking all the small wins these days.
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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
BREAKING NEW: Food and Drug Administration to be headed by the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter.
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Inspired by all the new folks, I’ll reintroduce myself: I’m Adelaide, a postdoc at Michigan! I’m a fan of #bioinformatics, #genetics, and #genomics and use a variety of computational/experimental approaches to study disease. 🧪1/n
Photo of the author speaking at a podium at the American Society of Human Genetics conference.
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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi Blue Sky! A reintroduction: I am a neuroscientist interested in neuron-glia interactions, astrocytes, behavior, neurodevelopment, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Currently a postdoc in the Allen lab at Salk 👩🏽‍🔬🧠 Here’s a review I wrote a couple years ago: www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
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Frontiers | From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior
Astrocytes are non-neuronal cells that regulate synapses, neuronal circuits, and behavior. Astrocytes ensheath neuronal synapses to form the tripartite synap...
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
On the job market this year. Apps have been sent😰. Now we wait.
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Randomized exposure to high school biology curriculum shows that moving curriculum beyond simple Mendelian treatments of genetics in ways that highlight the true patterns of human variation (e.g. Lewontin's famous results) & the multi-factorial basis of complex traits can reduce genetic essentialism
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the Stunning Sights Above and Below the Surface www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/2023...
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The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the Stunning Sights Above and Below the S...
From a boastful lizardfish to a floating paper nautilus, the lauded shots document marine life above and below the surface.
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 29/10/2023
I’ve used lasers in my research for over 10 years….but this is my first time using them for my art! Stoked to bring some laser cut goodies to SfN this year! 🧪🐡🧠
Iridescent rat brain earrings #sciart #womeninstem #neuroskyenceMouse brain cryosection earrings and asterisk earrings and serotonin tarot card earrings in iridescent acrylicWood cut serotonin tarot card earrings
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Midwest foliage
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
In Autumn, we can often see variation we don't notice in greener times. This allee of willow oak, Quercus phellos, is a row of a single cultivar, clones of each other with identical genetics, growing on the same site. Yet there is great variation in leaf phenology.
An allee of willow oak, Quercus phellos, showing large variation in color despite being genetically identical and growing on the same site. The row is behind a green pasture. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
The Journal Alcohol is happy to announce a special issue from Co-Editors @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social and @theerincalipari.bsky.social on #sex differences in #alcohol use disorder - Please contact our guest editors for more information
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.
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