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Natalie Tronson

@natalie-t.bsky.social
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A person | neuroscientist | memory wrangler | sex & gender | immigrant 🦘 | slow at marathons and triathlons 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️| previously @tronsonlab on Twitter/X Photo credit: Jeff Wilson.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
IRAN WAR COVER UP Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have said repeatedly that Russell Vought should be impeached. Congress appropriates and this is a high crime against its powers under Article I. The most important thing DOGE did was take over the appropriations pipes at Treasury. If you wanted to close USAID and CFPB pass a bill.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/05/2026
"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Rachael Hokenson, PhD @neurohoke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Check out our new paper, investigating the role of estrogen in stress-induced memory disruptions. 🧠 online now! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... @talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social
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Hippocampal estrogen levels, receptor types, and epigenetics contribute to sex-specific memory vulnerabilities to concurrent acute stresses
Acute concurrent stresses provoke lasting, sex-dependent memory problems. Hokenson, Rodríguez-Acevedo, et al. find that high hippocampal estrogen levels in mice generate permissive chromatin states, a...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Turns out misogyny and racism were the actual “conspiracy” all along…absolute fuckers
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Every Epstein dump is every man you thought was awful being fucking awful…JFC
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
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Natalie Tronson @natalie-t.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing Presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a community of scientists across fields (including basic and clinical work, and in public policy) that focus on sex differences!
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Natalie Tronson @natalie-t.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a scientific community that focuses on sex differences across fields of study, and in basic and clinical research and public policy!
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).
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visionBoy @rsek.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/06/2025
Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 02/06/2025
Hey Bluesky! Let's sell a painting! #sciart #bsnm www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Originals, not prints, one of each
blue and purple ink painting with neuron and text blue brain watercolor with text: No thoughts only algorithmred blood cells watercolorblue and gray neurons ink painting
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FABBS @fabbs.org · 21/05/2025
The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website: bit.ly/4k6tvwQ bit.ly/4jYmu18
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2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee: Daniella Ludmir – FABBS
Hormonal contraceptives prevent stress enhancement of fear memory via blunted stress responsivity Daniella Ludmir, the University of Michigan Abstract: Hormonal
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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HHS RIF running list
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) • Division of Reproductive Health • Division of pop health • Behavioral and clinical surveillance branch • Epidemiology ...
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution. This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
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How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025
“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
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Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Signal-gate and the Social Security scandal show how tyranny works: the regime can do no wrong, and the people have no rights. They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1st they came for the immigrants with temporary legal status... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🚨 Now on Bluesky! 🚨 We’re Signal in the Storm, a project dedicated to tracking federal policy changes and news re: academia - follow us here and at signalinthestorm.org/index.html
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Signal in the Storm
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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Letter from @columbiajournalism.bsky.social rightly notes that "punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship." There are over a million international students nationwide living in fear "that they are no longer free to speak their mind."
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
so much about this is about control: control over families and children’s lives, control over women and their choices, control over who is considered an expert and what is considered expertise, control over what kind of jobs we get access to…
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Scientists do not get paid for getting quoted in the newspaper about science. People know this, right? Last year I was quoted in about 30 media articles, and I received a grand total of $0 for this. We do it because it’s important, not because we get paid.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.
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Allan Hepworth @allanhepworth.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“It's a reminder to decent people to reach out to friends and family finding themselves in the path of Musk's scythe. Fascist online hoards cheering the misery of these government workers can't be the only voices they hear” @dennycarter.bsky.social bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-un...
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'We'll Never Be The Same': The Victims Of Elon Musk's Unreality
'A clownish South African reaper figuratively chainsaws me, a human being, to cheers from a rapturous crowd.'
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Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
When Smith said in Aug/23 someone should've raised red flags - I guess "someone" doesn't mean lab workers, union, or researchers. We knew. And she knew *before* the May/23 election. bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17/03/2025
Do you need some reproductive health and justice zines, to read or to share? I gotchu.... Here's a printable set from Barnard College: library.barnard.edu/news/downloa...
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Downloadable Reproductive Justice Zines
We have made a selection of reproduction justice zines available in print in the zine library and provide links to them online via CLIO.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17/03/2025
These days Plan B packs are very cost effective. Just a few dollars and the last for something like 4 years - something that should be in most medicine cabinets, to use or share. Maybe get some and share with friends?
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Emergency Contraceptive Pill for Women (6 Pack) - 1.5 mg Levonorgestrel Tablet - Reduces Chance of Pregnancy After Unprotected Sex - Compare to Plan B One-Step - Take Next Morning
🌸Emergency Contraceptive - Reduces chance of pregnancy after unprotected sex 🌸 The sooner you take it, the more effective it will be (within 72 hours after unprotected sex) 🌸 Will not harm an existing pregnancy 🌸 1.5 mg Levonorgestrel Tablet - Take as early as morning after unprotected sex 🌸 Compare to active ingredients of Plan B One-Step
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17/03/2025
Hi all! It's a terrible day! Amongst terrible days, I suppose. Just a heads up that if you're a person who can get pregnant, this is a good time to consider getting a solid contraception plan if needed. Did you know you can also get abortion pills in advance?
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Plan C | Get Pills in Advance
Learn how to get abortion pills by mail in advance, to have on hand just in case.
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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
And a lot of us don’t *want* to move to other countries. Emigrating to a new place is not an easy thing to do.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It’s difficult to overstate how asinine this is. mRNA vaccines have been the most revolutionary development of vaccinology in this century and are uniquely well suited to address many limitations that other vaccine technologies cannot (e.g., CD8 T cell responses in immunocompromised people).
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Yeah. I said it. When the legislative and judicial bodies do nothing but endorse the executive, every institution is advance complying with repression, and unelected oligarchs are replacing civil servants, we have a dictatorship.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
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