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specificames.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Asst. Prof @ Temple Psych & Neuro. interests: neural circuits of food-related decision making, queer visibility, racial justice & 🏀 she/her, and not a woman www.theashlab.org opinions are my own.
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I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️‍⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Program opportunity Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open! I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Vibes.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A poem for now.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

Interested in teaching at a nontraditional research intensive (R1) university? Our Psych/Neuro department is hiring a non-tenure track instructional faculty member. Please RT! #neuroskyence #disabilityinSTEM @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Had to teach the lab how it’s done today #unoking

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Latest from our group in collaboration with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and other Novo scientists. They developed a GLP-1/Leptin co-agonist that we put through its paces in a number of mouse models to prove that both parts of the molecule matter. More options on the table! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

submitted 93 days ago • 382 comments

Did you know you can post to these neurofeeds with just emojis: Neuroskyence: 🧠🟦 or 🧠📈 Compneurosky: 🧠🤖 or 🧠💻 Interoception: 🧠🫀 or 🧠🫁 Neuropsychiatry: 🧠🩺 Save those characters and use an emoji!

submitted 511 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 95 days ago • 8 comments

I had the pleasure of co-authoring with a large number of fellow queer and trans scientists a Perspective piece in PLoS Biology on conducting inclusive faculty searches for queer and trans scientists. The full commentary can be found here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

A personally postive outcome from leading the Power Hour at #HypothalamusGRC this past summer was learning that some journals have begun facilitating author name changes after publication, which has been a pain point for this 🏳️‍⚧️ neuroscientist 👏👏👏 support.nature.com/en/support/s...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

You won’t want to miss this amazing workshop for first-time reviewers on How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews, with @reviewerzero.bsky.social on December 4th! Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Blackademics 🧪

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...

submitted 105 days ago • 20 comments

Late to the game but I'm here! And no longer there, perhaps more importantly.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments