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Jill Becker

@neurosexdiff.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying sex differences in the brain. Editor-in-Chief Biology of Sex Differences

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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Staci Bilbo is the Emilie Rissman keynote speaker #SBN2026. Amazing studies on neural responses to infection in the insular cortex and reactivation of immune response mediated by microglia.
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wonderful talk by Devaleena Pradham on outreach programs at Idaho State University to enhance science engagement in the community!
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This week, we are celebrating our society's new investigator awardees! 🎉 Let's congratulate our WC Young Recent Graduate Award Winner, Dr. Celine Camon! Hear about her research at the New Investigators Symposium at #SBN2026 on July 10 from 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM 🐁 🧠
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This week, we are celebrating our society's new investigator awardees! 🎉 Let's congratulate our first New Investigator Award Winner, Angarika Balakrishnan! Hear about her research at the New Investigators Symposium at #SBN2026 on July 10 from 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM 🐀 🧠
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This week, we are celebrating our society's new investigator awardees! 🎉 Let's congratulate our second New Investigator Award Winner, Dr. Nina Baumgartner! Hear about her research at the New Investigators Symposium at #SBN2026 on July 10 from 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM 🐁 🧠
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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This week, we are celebrating our society's new investigator awardees! 🎉 Let's congratulate our Lynn Clemens New Investigator Award Winner, Dr. Victoria Farrar! Hear about her research at the New Investigators Symposium at #SBN2026 on July 10 from 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM 🐟️ 🧠
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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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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We're excited to share that SBN is now on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn 🎉 Follow us for research highlights, community spotlights, & society updates. 🏷️ Tag our accounts when sharing your science—we’d love to help amplify and highlight your work!
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology social media handles:
instagram @SBN_org, Facebook @SBNeuroendo, Linkedin.com/SBNorg, and bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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Students, faculty mystified as NSF turns back applications for prestigious fellowship program
Applicants to a prestigious National Science Foundation fellowship program say many submissions have been mysteriously “returned without review.”
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New FREE contest for writers of Romance/Women's Fiction/Romantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest7 — Judged by Agent Christine Gross of FinePrint Literary, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
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First Page Contest #7:  Romance / Women's Fiction / Romantasy -- Judged by Agent Christine Goss of FinePrint Literary
FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a  First Page Contest . Contest #7 is for writers of  Romance / Women's Fiction / Romantasy . If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your...
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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FABBS 2026 Norman Anderson IDEA Award Lifetime Achievement Winner: Jill Becker, PhD
YouTube video by FABBS
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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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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 05/08/2025
Factors like sex & age can affect sensory processing in #AutismSpectrumDisorder. This study shows that prenatal valproic acid in rats (an autism model) alters predictive auditory processing, revealing sex- & age-specific differences akin to those in autistic traits @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4fjpjZ8
Top left: Schematic of extracellular single-unit recordings in the lemniscal (green) and non-lemniscal (purple) regions of the inferior colliculus in response to pure-tone auditory stimulation (red and blue). Top right: Diagram of experimental group generation. Pregnant rats received an intraperitoneal injection of saline (control) or 400 mg/kg VPA on gestational day 12. An additional control group consisted of untreated rats acquired prior to the experiment. The study examined the effects of sex, age, and prenatal VPA exposure by recording from female and male rats at prepubertal (P30–45) and adult (P65–120) stages. Bottom:  Population-level comparisons of sex, age, and exposure effects within the lemniscal (left) and non-lemniscal (right) divisions of the inferior colliculus.
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
HOT TOPICS Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience Jacinta C. Beehner 1 and Shelly B. Flagel 2,3 ✉ © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025 Neuropsychopharmacology; doi.org/10.1038/s413...
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Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
GPER1! Sex differences! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n... via @statnews.com
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NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says
The National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of research grants, an internal email shows
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Shanie Landen, BSc, PhD, will receive the 2025 BoSD-OSSD Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in muscle protein expression and DNA methylation in response to exercise training” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Ece Bayram, MD, PhD, will present in BoSD Hot Topics Symposium for research on “Sex differences for clinical correlates of substantia nigra neuron loss in people with Lewy body pathology” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Alex R. DeCasien, PhD will receive the BoSD-OSSD 2024 Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A vaccine that generates antibodies that bind to cocaine and prevent it entering the brain has shown promise in an initial trial in ten addicts 🧪 #ASGCT2025 www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
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Vaccine may treat cocaine addiction by blocking drug's entry to brain
A vaccine that helps people overcome cocaine addiction has shown signs of being safe and effective in a small trial
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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ok science and academic sky— we’re microflyering graduation. www.standupforscience.net/microflyering 🧪🦠
À pile of micro flyers printed out, with “go UMass” and “proud of you grads!” written on them, and a heart around the phrase “call your reps”
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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Thank you, @neurosexdiff.bsky.social , for lending your voice to this @nature.com story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can NIH-funded research on racism and health survive Trump’s cuts?
The US administration has cancelled ‘DEI grants’ without defining DEI, leaving health-equity researchers in the dark.
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...
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As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/05/2025
This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.
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DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents obtained by Nextgov/FCW...
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’ www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/n... via @statnews.com
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The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’
The NIH canceled Logan Beyer’s health equity research, saying it was “antithetical to scientific research.” That’s completely wrong, she writes.
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding—and no one can fill it | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding—and no one can fill it
Other countries, foundations, international groups are unable to replace billions lost in U.S. cuts
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
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Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health
Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...
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Matt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · 09/04/2025
Dear Colleagues: Now is the time to scale up public engagement with science I address this letter to scientists, but it is an invitation for fans & defenders of science everywhere to unite & take action! Let's focus a lot more on K-12 ed 🧪 #SciComm #EduSky 👉 civicsciencemedia.org/dear-colleag...
Dear Colleagues, 

The status quo is forcing—not fixing—the public’s growing disengagement with science. Yes, we have watched helplessly as programs, grant panels, and the basic functioning of the US research apparatus have been upended in a matter of days. Yet these events are, in large part, a catastrophic symptom of a much more pervasive problem – a profound lack of public understanding about how federal research dollars improve, enrich, and save American lives.

This disconnect far predates the current mass layoffs and disassembly of US scientific institutions, and represents a glaring failure of our current ability to mobilize the knowledge we generate to engage, inform, and influence our fellow Americans.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Opinion | Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Early voting today in Wisconsin
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
a word cloud of the titles of canceled NIH grants with gender and minority being that largest words
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
See national impact of federal health research cuts scienceimpacts.org
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SCiMaP
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Concerned mentors wishing we could speak with our senators about attacks on science and students @sarahross1.bsky.social & Michael Gold 🤔
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Publish your sex differences research in Biology of Sex Differences! Win awards! bsd.biomedcentral.com #OSSD #BoSD
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Biology of Sex Differences
Unlike any other scientific journal, Biology of Sex Differences focuses on sex differences in physiology, behavior, and disease, from molecules to phenotypes, ...
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Last day for early registration for #OSSD2025
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Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) @ossdcomm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Why is "the study of #sexdifferences fundamental for #science in order to improve the #health of all humans, male and female"? New BoSD Editorial by #OSSD President, Prof Sofia Ahmed, and Editor-in-Chief, Prof Jill Becker: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #sabv #supportscience
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Sex differences research is important! - Biology of Sex Differences
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Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) @ossdcomm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 Early Bird Registration Fees for our 2025 Conference = postponed until March 30th! 👉 Not registered yet? This is your chance. 👉 Already registered at Full Fees? An email from OSSD Central Office will reach you shortly to start processing your partial refund. www.ossdweb.org/ossd-annual-...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Something for 🧪 🗃 folks and more - please share with your subject hashtags so that more folks learn about this! #academicsky
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Well done to the first recipients of the EACR-Mark Foundation postdoc fellowships 🎉🎊 And a happy coincidence that all three awardees are women scientists in the labs of three women PIs 🙌 #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience 👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧪 @themarkfdn.bsky.social @helloeacr.bsky.social @juliemmazet.bsky.social
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Lauren Parlett, PhD @laurenparlett.com · 16/03/2025
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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Jill Becker @neurosexdiff.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sex Differences Research Saves Lives! #OSSD #BoSD #SBN #SWHR #science please share rdcu.be/ecZXa
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/03/2025
Government is close to shutting down and Soeaker Johnson just send everyone home for two weeks
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Keep screaming! It’s working!
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