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Puja Parekh, Ph.D.

@pujaparekh.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof in Neuroscience at UT Dallas studying motivated behavior and effects of stress on 🐭🧠

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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I used to mock my mom’s tea addiction but apparently those genes are strong
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‼️Mentorship program APPLICATIONS OPEN‼️ Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) •5-year mentorship program 👥 •for neuroscience grad students, postdocs & assistant profs 👩🏾‍🏫 •in-person sessions 3x/year ✈️ •professional development, mentoring, & research enhancement 🔬 •peer support network 💞
A cream flyer with yellow callout bubbles. The flyer header reads Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) A Longitudinal Mentorship Program to Maximize Scientific Impact. There is a group photo of a diverse cohort 1 underneath the header. The left yellow bubble reads What is DCNS? Developing a Community of Neuroscientists is a five year longitudinal mentorship program designed to retain early-career researchers in the field. We aim to provide sustained mentoring and professional development for the next generation of neuroscience leaders. We seek to support people who have faced barriers along their journeys in pursuing academic research careers.

Who is eligible?
• Mid-to-late stage graduate students (who have advanced to PhD candidacy)
• Postdoctoral fellows (intending to apply for faculty positions)
• Assistant professors (with less than 2 years of experience)
DCNS is hosted by the University of Minnesota and supported by an NINDS R25 grant, but open to applicants nationwide.

The right yellow bubble reads Program Benefits:
• Annual $2000 stipend
• All travel & expenses to attend three in-person cohort meetings each year
• A supportive community as you navigate career transitions
• Expanding your mentoring network
• Unique professional development opportunities to grow your personal and career skills

There is another group photo underneath that bubble.

Then the bottom on the page has a timeline: August applications open, October 30 applications due, December interviews, and January program start. Questions? Please email DCNS@umn.edu
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Depends on how satisfied he was with the explanation
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think you mean “y’all” 😉
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Loved having you, and we learned a lot!
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Probably the boring option of a common-ish Indian last name
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stumbled upon a ridiculous movie on prime - the love hypothesis. Icky rom com about a grad student and professor but you’re probably not going to get multiple patch clamp mentions in any other film 🤷🏽‍♀️
Still image from the movie with subtitle reading “my patch-clamp technique is impeccable.”
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey Texans. Keep checking your voter registration. Expect Republican cheating.
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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are an undergraduate student interested in computational and systems neuroscience research, this is your chance to attend #COSYNE27 !!! Apply here for our undergrad travel grant tinyurl.com/cos27ugtravel deadline is Oct 30 (and if you are not an undergraduate, please help to spread the word!)
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Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program
This is the application form for the Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program. The deadline to apply is October 30th 2026.
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls
“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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Olivier George @brainaddiction.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The function is not in the neurotransmiter but in the circuit it's acting. This is why full agonist and antagonist are tricky as a medication, because you might solve the problem on one side of the brain and make it worse on the other side.... doi.org/10.1038/s41...
nature.com
Nociceptin orphanin F/Q Pathways are dysregulated by stress and modulate reward responsiveness and motivated behavior across species
Molecular Psychiatry - Nociceptin orphanin F/Q Pathways are dysregulated by stress and modulate reward responsiveness and motivated behavior across species
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Kendra Seaman @kendraseaman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm hiring! Come join us in the Aging Well Lab - you'll get to work on a newly funded NIA study and collaborate with the amazing @colleencfrank.bsky.social and @klempert.bsky.social. Don't wait - apply now! jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/32753
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Moira Rose: Why Wait?
ALT: Moira Rose: Why Wait?
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I will co-opt this post from Ted to plug another computational neuroscience (broad scope) opening in our dept jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/32729 - exciting collaborations are already underway with our recently hired colleagues. I’m happy to answer any questions!
jobs.utdallas.edu
Open Rank Tenure Track Faculty Position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in Computational Neuroscience
Position DescriptionThe Department of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas seeks to hire a tenure-system faculty member (open rank) with expertise in neural coding, computation, and dynam...
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Mazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our new review is out now on the ventral hippocampus, highlighting a large body of recent work, from the information it represents to how internal state shapes its activity to how its circuits influence behavior.
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With the beginning of the new academic year, I'm reposting the info for our free online neuroscience methods course. If you're starting a PhD in neuroscience, or just want a refresher, this is for you!
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STAT @statnews.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...
statnews.com
Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs
A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Neat. Thoughts on how this compares with LabGym: www.cell.com/cell-reports... ?
cell.com
LabGym: Quantification of user-defined animal behaviors using learning-based holistic assessment
Hu et al. report an open-source, user-friendly software for analyzing user-defined animal behaviors. This tool not only identifies behavioral types but also quantifies them. It integrates multi-animal...
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Added joy of race-based assumptions made
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Apparently women in their 30s are still eligible for an allowance
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Have had both parents and husband’s finances brought up in conversations about salary in the 2020s so…
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Finally saw The Odyssey - too long for one sitting, too short for the story
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans check your voter registration, especially those in Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties. From the article: Suspended voter registrations span the whole state, but these Blue/Blue leaning counties are targets: Dallas: +129,000 Collin: 56,000 Denton: 56,000 Tarrant: + 73,000
newrepublic.com
Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
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PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PNIRS members at UC Irvine are seeking unpublished or difficult-to-find research for a systematic review and meta-analysis examining inflammatory and social measures. Please see the details below, and help us spread the word by sharing with colleagues who may have relevant work! #metaanalysis
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Such horrific footage from Nepal 💔
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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Do you work in #addictionresearch? Interested in #machinelearning or #AI to better understand #addiction? Submit a manuscript to #Psychopharmacology Special Issue by Oct. 1. Big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in addiction research | Link share.google/GXfeNBPdZ95x...
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
PhD interest season is upon us - annual reminder to the young folks that having a web presence is a good and useful thing. You still have time to make that LinkedIn, Google scholar profile or website so the PIs can see that you’re a real person.
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Couldn’t ask for a better team but particularly proud of grad student @yaraelzoghby.bsky.social for receiving a travel award to attend the CNCM mtg at UC Irvine and being selected for an SfN nanosymposium talk! Look out for her work on effortful behavior, stress and neural circuits 💪🏽👏🏽
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Not sure what we were thinking going up to CO springs to escape Dallas heat when we just put ourselves considerably closer to the sun 🥵
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We’ve entered the “third-degree burns from your seatbelt buckle” portion of summer.
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Earned it 🇪🇸👏🏽
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This. I’ve never used AI for any part of a writing task and never gonna start. I’ll take the red lining and comments from mentors and peers any day. Only way to learn.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Good thing you aren’t coming to Dallas until October!
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Travis Moschak @tmoschak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're hiring! UTEP seeks two Research Assistant Professors studying neural circuits underlying substance use disorders. • Behavioral Neuroscientist • Brain Circuit Imaging & Atlas Mapping Behavior: tinyurl.com/3wkrsrw3 Imaging: tinyurl.com/8fefztm3 #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Dreamed I was on a cooking show where you work in teams and my only job was to make a cilantro crema by blending together like 3 ingredients and I didn’t get it done in time. Woke up and googled the recipe to see if it’s more complicated than that. It’s not.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
nytimes.com
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you’re looking for an easy way to add more rejection to your life, I highly recommend joining a music league.
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My next paper is titled “Effects of European summer email response time stress on American academics”
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Really appreciate the senior people out there who know how to give clear, concise, useful advice and do it respectfully. Definitely a skill.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Gina: yes, I partied in high school, because I was cool. #notaregulargovernor
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
By the way, @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social is a non-profit that sells quality antibodies to many proteins at exceptionally reasonable prices, without AI generated faux-validation images. Check them out. dshb.biology.uiowa.edu
dshb.biology.uiowa.edu
Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank - DSHB
High quality, low cost antibodies.
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How do you know my mouse isn’t on a Mediterranean diet?
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
ACC needs something more dignified - ace?
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Puja Parekh, Ph.D. @pujaparekh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This doesn’t get old. #FluorescenceFriday
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Abraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.
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