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talialerner.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Associate Professor, Lerner Lab. Dopamine and basal ganglia circuits controlling reinforcement learning and decision-making. Open/inclusive science. Happy working mom of 3. Yale ➡️ UCSF ➡️ Stanford ➡️ Northwestern lernerlab.org
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Welcome to Bluesky @nuincomm.bsky.social! Moving off X, tell your friends

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We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer! Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers! 20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

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The jobs of 2035 don't exist yet—but the #science that will foster them is being discovered today. Think about it: Data scientists didn't exist when we invented the internet. Genetic counseling wasn’t a career when we first discovered DNA's structure. 1/

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Heading home now to see my family - thanks for the excellent time, Toronto! Especially @coreybaimel.bsky.social for the invite 😁

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It's been an awesome start to my first @canacn.bsky.social meeting at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour* satellite #CAN2025 *Stress and astrocytes Thanks @franklandlab.bsky.social @markcembrowski.bsky.social !

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Belated photos from our "Team Edwards" @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org meeting on Monday. This team has such wide-ranging expertise - it's been really amazing to learn from each other. 💙 @nelsonlabucsf.bsky.social and others still not on Bluesky? Edwards, Ford, Khaliq, Nakamura, Halliday Labs!

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This. This is why we invest in biomedical research and development in this country. A bespoke gene-editing treatment for a baby born with a life-threatening disorder : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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NIDA shutters diversity fellowship program, axes active awards www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nida... Thank you @callimcflurry.bsky.social for writing on this topic

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A US judge to govt lawyers defending the NIH's grant terminations: "I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition. This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."

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So much for saving up some money to make it through the winter... ?

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"It is easy and correct to say that these universities are timid or cowardly. But what you see when you look up close is that the universities simply lack the institutional muscle memory to handle a fight like this." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating! ♥️

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I realized that I'll be giving a talk on my birthday😊 www.grc.org/catecholamin...

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Sobering email exchange between Dr. Berg and Jay B. in case anyone has any doubts about the NIH intentions and priorities..

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Discovery requires an openness to new ideas and unexpected insights go.nature.com/4i1wQf5 rdcu.be/ej7H7

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Save the date for Dopamine2026 in Spain, and submit your symposium idea now! 🧠🧪

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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding... I barely have words. Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

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Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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Yay, Canada! 🇨🇦🎉♥️ Elbows up and keep your science strong www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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"<Science> is not a partisan issue. Disease doesn't know your party affiliation or your socioeconomic status. Everyone in America knows someone who has been affected by Alzheimer's." www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

Gut wrenching

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Outside my area, but this was just fascinating reading! (And very clear writing, bravo)

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Pleased to share the final published version of @glopez.bsky.social's work in @currentbiology.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning" Congrats, Gaby!!!

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Seriously, stop and read this notice. Then think about what you can do to advocate for trainees at your university.

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More than 150 college and university presidents sign a letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Notably absent: the president of COLUMBIA. ☹️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Northwestern has not received any demands from the federal government related to the funding freeze. There is no negotiation. What are we waiting for? Who benefits?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

GRCs are *capped* at 200 to keep the meeting "intimate." There are more than 200 people who really want to be terribly confused about how many basal ganglia cell types there are for 5 days. (Sign up today! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...)

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The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

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