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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 25/08/2026

We are doing a super mega pin clearance sale to make room (and funds) to create new stuff for SfN! Help us out by snagging some pin blind boxes, basically 70% off full price! Twophotonart.com

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Two Photon Art

From fun science enamel pins and patches to colorful zines explaining scientific concepts, we like to explore a multitude of science communication avenues and make them worth coveting!

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Super excited to share that I'll have a booth at the Art of Neuroscience exhibit at the @sfn.org meeting this year! Printmaking has been my escape these past few years and I can't wait to share some of my neuroscience-inspired prints with you all! Here are a few of my recent ones:

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So honored to receive a New Investigator Award from SBN, and I can't wait to share my research next month at the symposium!

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Beth Lucas @ewhizabeth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Excited to share the latest work from the lab—a true tour de force led by @nbaumgar.bsky.social. TLDR: We report a novel endogenous mechanism whereby cycling ovarian hormones alter threat memory expression through state-dependent recruitment of the lateral septum to the memory ensemble. 🧵⬇️

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

In the emotional rollercoaster that was the last year, writing up this manuscript with @ewhizabeth.bsky.social has been a bright spot. I'm thrilled to share the bulk of my postdoctoral work in this preprint.

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Alsoooo I may have other copies of some prints to give away in my bag if you come by my poster at the early career poster session right now! Poster Z5

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

First day of SfN and I've already made new friends and done an art exchange with the lovely @christineliu.art ☺️

Nina smiling and showing off her new two photon earrings and Christine smiling while holding some art prints

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Come by my poster and nanosymposium talk if you'll be at SfN this week!

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Kirstie Cummings @kacummings.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

@sbn-bsky.bsky.social has released a statement on current events. SBN DEI comm, of which I'm chair, wrote this statement to be people-first focused on the human impacts. I want to thank Peg McCarthy & the Exec Comm in quickly approving the document w/ few edits. This is why SBN is my "home" society.

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A Statement from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology on Current Events | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)

The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.

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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

For my AL science peeps: Senator Britt DC office 202-224-5744 Senator Tuberville DC office 202-224-4124 Call it in today folks! All hands on deck! Please repost.

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Beth Lucas @ewhizabeth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Using #FluorescenceFriday to highlight a specialized population of neurons in the lateral septum that may comprise a hormone-sensitive memory engram to suppress conditioned fear responses when females are in the high hormone phase of the reproductive cycle. Interested? Come see my talk at #ACNP2024!

A Cre- and FlpO-dependent viral vector conferring expression of mCherry was infused into the lateral septum of mice expressing Cre driven by the neurotensin promotor and FlpO driven by the somatostatin promoter.

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This relief print of a brainbow dentate gyrus was a true labor of love with 8(!) layers of hand printing but it was so worth it in the end. #neuroskyence #sciart

Multicolor linocut print resembling a brainbow microscopy image

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In honor of this place livening up I'm going to do something scary and share some of my more recent #neuroskyence themed lino prints! This is a personal fave based off of a pun of mushroom dendritic spines I've had in my head for ages

Linocut print meant to resemble a microscopy image of dendritic spines, where the spines are all various mushrooms.

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

@ewhizabeth.bsky.social just walked by my desk saying "Nina I made a cringe post about you" but then it was this sweet post making me tear up in the staff office 😭

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Having recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, I got to use my current favorite joke in my guest lecture on the HPA axis and stress for the grad neuroanatomy class today

Cover of Robert Sapolsky's book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" with text overlay saying "but postdocs do!"

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Beth Lucas @ewhizabeth.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

This week's #FluorescenceFriday is brought to you by undergrads May and Molly, who are investigating sex differences in activation of lateral septum circuits. #Neuroskyence

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

The sex binary is dead! Long live sex diversity & variability! Sex is one of the greatest sources of variation seen in life. How do we advance the scientific study of sex across the animal kingdom? Read our latest article in Hormones & Behavior to find out! 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence

Fig. 1. Dynamic sex variability - An integrative, multidimensional framework. A framework that centers sex variability will enable the study of sex across multiple levels of biological analysis (colored boxes). A) Visual schematic representing the degree of sex variability (y-axis) across biological scale (x-axis) and time (z-axis), with example sex variables of interest (not all possible covariates and functional relationships are presented). In this example, to decipher mechanisms linking gonadal hormones to receptive reproductive behavior in adult rodents (lordosis), the functional relationships (black subset of possible gray relationships) between select variables (bold words) need to be identified. At each level of analysis, numerous variables differ across sex to contribute to reproductive behavior through these functional interactions. Importantly, the degree of variability across sex categories is dynamic and is affected by developmental stage, experience, and environment.

Fig. 2. Approaches for the statistical analysis of sex-associated traits. Flow chart of example approaches for analyzing datasets with sex-associated variables. These analyses answer questions about whether and how sex-associated variables explain variation in dependent variables of interest, how independent variables of interest explain variation in dependent sex-associated variables, and how sex-associated variables (within and/or across levels of analysis) relate to one another. The examples match those in the text where possible, but the approaches are widely applicable and flexible. The choice(s) of analyses should follow directly from the research question(s), and it is likely that multiple approaches will be used in the analysis of an integrative dataset.

Fig. 3. Questions for evaluating frameworks and approaches which study sex variability and diversity. Here, we present a set of questions to ask when critically evaluating work (whether it is your own or others) that addresses sex diversity and variability. Note that these questions reflect the integration of the conceptual framework, experimental approaches, and analysis and interpretation, as each of these aspects informs the other.

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Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Baby's first RNAscope! (Its me, baby!)

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