Every year Winter Brain brings me so much joy and we need lots of joy right now. Such great science and even more amazing people. I’m ecstatic and honored to be continuing my role on the Board of Directors for the next 4 years! See ya’ll next year in Breck! ❄️
I’m thrilled to share my first “first-author” pub! Here we showed that pregnancy dampens fear recall in a long-lasting way, and this may be driven by the high levels of AP that exist during late pregnancy. I’m so grateful for this incredible team of co-authors! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Incredibly proud of @lindsayvincelette.bsky.social for her first, first author pub in the Shansky lab!! Amazing work looking at pregnancy during fear conditioning - Lindsay you’re an all star!
Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!
The luckiest gal in the whole 🌍 🌎 to work in the Herman Lab!! Data sneak peak on the screen 🤫🤫🤫🤫
and a #proudpostdoc moment!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
October highlights.... PHCO retreat featuring an impromptu science themed game of codenames, a talk by Sarah Mott, and poster by Mia Keller.
Annual lab pumpkin carving as fun as always🎃🎃😭🎃🎃
Fun time yesterday celebrating some surprise good news. Excited to get a chance to do some fun science with this great team 🧠🧠🧠
such an amazing, fun, special day 🤩🥰
Dang, I thought of a better response….stop heckling me!!!!!! 😭😂😭😂
This is great! Gives the scientists and the cells energy to keep going
I’m trying!!!!!
p.s. I am still very much a behavioral neuroscientist I just wear many hats now 🎩 🧢 👒
as part of my full conversion from behavioral neuroscientist to physiologist, we, the Herman Lab, have compiled a playlist to encourage our cells (and ourselves) on rig days. any suggestions welcome!! @melissaherman.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/playlist/3qU...
I’m honestly having the best time in the Herman lab AND ALSO FWIW I still don’t really get how to “break in” but we’re doing it 😂
Snow day ❄️❄️❄️🌨️
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
another amazing week at winter brain! Absolutely elated to be joining the board of directors, especially my pal @deffinger.bsky.social !! can’t wait for next year at Big Sky 🤙🏼
couldn’t think of a more deserving rock star, so stoked for you Caitlyn!!!!
StoryGraph > Goodreads for sure!
I started my post doc‼️‼️‼️🚨🚨🚨🚨🤩🤩🤩
I know of a recent paper in NBS that would be great: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 😉😏
Once more for reviewers in the back: sex differences in behavioral outcomes are very often NOT a product of the estrous cycle and demanding that scientists build estrous metrics into experimental design only shows your own biases about how females (but not males) are primarily hormone-driven.
