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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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It's real and heartbreaking. I love my job doing science so much. 💔
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Congrats, Ben!!
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Congratulations, Erica! Well deserved
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I hope it gets better soon!
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👀
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haha very early but thank you!
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I'm so sorry. It is awful.
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I think there would not have been any pushback if the original post had been: "All basic science PhDs should be able to explain the value of basic science."
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The point was not really meant to be related to age, but about the level of explanation of impact. Basic research, like public education, can best demonstrate societal value by examining its collective impact over decades, so focusing on justifying costs one specific thesis at a time seems off.
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But like... Should every individual public school child be trained to justify why taxpayers should teach them to read? The value of societal investment in research is greater than the sum of individual thesis projects...
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This is amazing, Kara!
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I will never cease to be amazed and depressed by the fact that one of the greatest scientific triumphs in my lifetime somehow created a backlash, instead of the sheer awe and admiration it deserved. And all thanks to depraved political opportunists empowered by social media.
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Sorry 😞 - have a student in a similar boat - it's appalling
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"no later than" end of the funded year
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Thank you, Stan! 😀
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dopamine sometimes tell you nopamine?
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Please be my PR manager
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"How dopamine helps us learn to avoid bad outcomes" news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...