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Katie Morrison

@themorrisonlab.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at WVU | morrisonneurolab.org | Formerly the Bale Lab [UMB and Penn] and UTK

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Travis Goode @travisgoode.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Restaurants, billboards, commercials… what brain circuits link context to appetite? 🧠🌎🍽️ Very happy to finally share a major update in our work exploring the hippocampus and lateral septum in calibrating food consumption! 🍩 Major thanks to our lab and collaborators! ⭐️⭐️ www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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A dorsal hippocampus-prodynorphinergic dorsolateral septum-to-lateral hypothalamus circuit mediates contextual gating of feeding
Goode et al. show that prodynorphin (Pdyn)-expressing neurons of the dorsolateral septum (DLS) receive substantial dorsal hippocampal (DHPC) input and inhibit lateral hypothalamic (LHA) GABAergic neur...
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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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Amanda Kentner @mindfulrat.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Really enjoyed the Women’s Health Research @ossdcomm.bsky.social pre-meeting today. Thanks to all who came to my talk & for all generous feedback I received - it means a lot! Thanks to @liisagalea.bsky.social for organizing… So good to see everyone and feel so much dedication and support for WHR! ❤️
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
So excited for @swhr.bsky.social workshop on Advancing Research Priorities in Women’s Obesity Research Care with Irene Aninye & Syreen Goulmamine
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
here we go: following along to hear highlights from @kundakoviclab.bsky.social keynote in the women’s health premeeting at @ossdcomm.bsky.social
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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John Christianson @jcbc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Job opportunity with Caroline Smith at BC please repost!
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Peri Kurshan @pkurshan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Medical Education | Biomedical Research
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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pls share AMAZING opportunities! Studying Depression? its biology? UCI’s new Depression Res Ctr is hiring 1) Preclinical Models: systems mechanisms of vulnerability, resilience 2) Child Adolescent, Adult Depression 3) Biomed Engineer Deep Phenotype, Intervention recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09510 508, 507
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Open-Rank Faculty Cluster Hire in Depression Research
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT! kundakoviclab.com More info 👇
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Oh my! 🥶 Can barely feel my toes! Was a fabulous day with lab and @sthom003.bsky.social #StandingUpForScience in Denver!! 📣 Feeling inspired by amazing speakers, but especially @neuronickole.bsky.social who brought the crowd to tears with her moving words on the power of passion for #MentalHealth 🧠
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Katie Morrison @themorrisonlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Standing up for science today in Morgantown, West Virginia with our students, our fellow scientists and community members, and in solidarity with everyone around the world who stands up for science! @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Katie Morrison @themorrisonlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Standing up for science today in Morgantown, West Virginia with our students, our fellow scientists and community members, and in solidarity with everyone around the world who stands up for science! @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2025
Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2025
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Flyer for stand up for science--more information available at www.standupforscience2025.org
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
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Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster
We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Great resource for all stress researchers! Check it out🧪🧠😍
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Caitlyn Cody @caitlyncody.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thrilled to share the notice of award for my F31 NRSA application with NIDA! Science truly takes a village, and I’m feeling particularly built up by mine today.
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Derek Daniels @docderek.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’m honored and excited to step into the role of editor-in-chief of Physiology & Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/phys...
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Read the latest articles of Physiology & Behavior at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Scott Thompson, PhD @sthom003.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Good morning #ACNP2024! Had enough neuroscience yet? Time to learn a little cardiology (as performed by neuroscientist. @Devineffinger.Bsky.social). Specifically, does chronic microdosing of LSD pose a cardiovascular risk by chronically activating 5HT2B receptors? Find out at poster W234 today!!
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fantastic talks in the #ACNP2024 #epigenetics session by @autumnskye1229.bsky.social on the epigenetics of stress and exercise across the lifespan and by @eahellerphd.bsky.social on harnessing epigenetic editing to understand and ameliorate the long-lasting mechanisms of addiction
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Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Studying sex differences in the human brain is challenging, but important. Many thanks to @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social & the fab folks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to the evolving conversation on this timely topic ⬇️ 1/n
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Found my happy place at #ACNP2024. Past lab undergrad @cate-cholamine.bsky.social PhD @chanjenerational.bsky.social and postdoc @themorrisonlab.bsky.social 🤩🤩 So lucky 🍀 to have worked with so much brilliant science talent 🥰🥰🥰
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Celebrating a fabulous scientific collaboration at #ACNP2024 that started so many years ago at @acnporg.bsky.social with a glass of 🍷 with @themorrisonlab.bsky.social and Jovanovic lab, now a killer R01 🧠. Why we love ACNP 👏
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Heyyy you #ACNP2024 attendees on the job market - check it out 👇
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Liz Heller @eahellerphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
come through! #acnp2024 @npp-journal.bsky.social
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Stop by tonight at the poster M55 to chat about the role of Egr1 as a sex-specific immediate early gene and chromatin regulator in the brain, the relevance for synaptic plasticity and behavior and the broader role of this research for women’s mental health #ACNP2024
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Happening soon in Sonoran H-I! Don’t miss our session on early life adversity, organized by Chris Anacker and featuring @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @milennavandijk.bsky.social #ACNP2024
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hey #ACNP2024 - we seem to have quite a few stellar early career researchers on (or about to be on) the job market If you know of any current/upcoming openings, maybe you can drop them here so you can recruit these all-stars 🤩 👇
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🚨Important reminder🚨 NIH Directors can not lobby Congress- so it is our responsibility to educate our congresspeople about the necessity of our research!!! 🗣️ Brain health is a priority across the political spectrum #ACNP2024
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Paula Brunton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @paulabrunton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Interested in how maternal stress affects the offspring’s brain? Come and do a PhD with us in beautiful Edinburgh. More info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Best part of any mtg ☺️ and best way to feel inspired at #ACNP2024 🧠, is catching up with superstar fabulous colleagues @themorrisonlab.bsky.social and @cate-cholamine.bsky.social 🤩🤩
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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636
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School of Medicine - Open Rank Neurosciences Strategic Hire
The University of Alabama at Birmingham* (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM)** is recruiting up to 20 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the Neurosciences to build on a stro...
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Jennifer O’Chan @chanjenerational.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Excited to be at my first #ACNP2024 and on Bluesky!! I’m an Instructor at Mount Sinai and will be presenting my postdoc work examining long-lasting effects of pregnancy on maternal brain and behavior! Stop by my poster Monday (M252) and say hi!! 👋🏼
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Amazing science on the lasting and significant impact of pregnancy on the maternal brain 🧠 by Dr. Jennifer Chan 🤩 at #ACNP2024.
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Congratulations 🎉@bangasserlab.bsky.social for winning the @acnporg.bsky.social #DanielEfronAward 🧠 at #ACNP2024 🤩
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Katie Morrison @themorrisonlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Thrilled to be back for my 8th(!) meeting, which I love for the science and community 🧠🤝 Started coming as a postdoc, now an Assistant Prof doing translational work on stress and women’s health. Come see our behavioral & epigenetic findings on risk for peripartum dysfunction at poster T308 #ACNP2024
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I really really really hope no one is leaving #ACNP2024 early because my panel with co-chair Maria Diehl - "The new Faces of Fear: Cortical and Subcortical Orchestration of Freezing, Flight, Avoidance, and Escape" is Wednesday afternoon and the lineup is 🔥🔥🔥
Schedule for a panel at the ACNP meeting, chaired by Maria Diehl and yours truly. Lineup includes Jonathan Fadok, Maria Diehl, Avishek Adhikari, and Rebecca Shansky. 3-5pm on Wednesday, be there or be square!
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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
OK, I've made a Starter Pack on Neuroepigenetics, Chromatin, and Gene Regulation! Please share and let me know who else should be added to this list. go.bsky.app/6LWE4dr
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