If you are at #SOT2026 stop by my undergraduate mentee’s poster today! 🤓 Nicolai is excited to talk about our work investigating As3MT in the context of alcohol.

UNM Lobos represent at GRC Alcohol! #Vamos @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social @kwooden.bsky.social @neuromorning.bsky.social @mbhdz.bsky.social

Excited to share a new preprint from the Barkley-Levenson Lab! 🤠

Valles Caldera National Preserve. Such a beautiful place!

⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity.

Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...

Registration is open for the 43rd Annual MWSOT Meeting! Deadlines for early bird registration and oral presentation consideration are Sunday, August 3.

Sex and Genetic Differences in Behavioral Engagement of Crossed High Alcohol-Preferring and Low Alcohol-Preferring Mice - PubMed Excessive levels of alcohol consumption play a major role in numerous alcohol-related harms, including a heightened risk of developing problematic drinking behaviors. Those who develop alcohol use dis...

Check out our new paper on the behavioral engagement of cHAPs on a 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task. Congrats, Phillip and team!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/

Effects of binge-like ethanol drinking on nest building behavior in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....

Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.

Federally funded DEI training programs and funding sources are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling these gaps.

By Paige Miranda

www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room . Alt: a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room of pure chaos.

"efficiency"...just pondering all the lost "man"hours that went into applications for programs that no longer exist. For applicants themselves, for mentors that reviewed those applications, for committees/staff that organized those programs, for faculty that reviewed those applications

To understand the devastation for U.S. science right now. Here is how NIH grants work: somebody comes up with a research idea, like a tree sapling NIH invests in the “direct cost” of that idea, aka buys the sapling Let’s say that sapling is $100

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

Happy to share a bit of work from my time at UNM thus far onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder