Gorgeous piece! Where can one find a print?

This hurts my heart. Stay safe, all those bravely working to slow this terrible fire and protect our wonderful prairie

This feels up your alley, @rincewind.run

Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year.

We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website.

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Our lab managers do amazing work and go on to do even bigger and better things. Join us!

And Maddi just presented on another project, showing that acute sexual arousal increases transient feelings of gender in cis women www1.statusplus.net/misc/posters...

Our current lab manager Maddi Ellis is doing a powerful project probing how participants with different minoritized identities interpret measures of minority stress. And, how non-minoritized people insert themselves into minority stress measures not intended for them 👀

Which of course is context dependent because, well, immune system

Inflammation Predicts Sexual Arousability in Healthy Women - PubMed Among healthy young women, higher CRP may be associated with vaginal arousal, but not subjective sexual arousal. Specifically, our results suggest that higher baseline CRP is associated with lower genital sexual arousal for women who have sex frequently, which is consistent with clinical evidence th …

Kirstin Clephane led this incredible paper showing inflammation predicts women’s sexual arousal: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35669911/

Sex Communication in Young People A mix methods analysis of short-answer questions regarding sex communication in young people, particularly sexual and racial/ethnic minorities.

She gave a great talk on it here! mediahub.unl.edu/media/13951

Sophia Sánchez led this paper showing that young people fear looking sexually inexperienced when talking to their doctors about sex but fear seeming *too* experienced when talking to their parents psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...

Applications still open! Here are some of the awesome papers our previous lab managers spearheaded:

Congrats Dr. Kiefer! It’s a tough research environment for sexual assault work these days (ain’t it always though) so getting to this point is a huge, huge accomplishment worth celebrating.🎉

Also - over-reliance on White samples (and White research teams that treat our whiteness as a default human trait) is a flawed system for understanding universal claims? I am SHOOKETH.

Gendered behaviors depend on *cultural context*?! Hormones aren’t just on/off switches that universally orient to specific behaviors regardless of the environment, ontogeny, and socialization of the organism?!

Shocking. This is my shocked face. 😱

This must be what it’s like to be a climate change researcher: in this kind of funding system many labs will shut down (or never get off the ground). Even if the money comes back there will be nowhere for it to *go*. It’s scary enough now - and the worst effects won’t be felt for years 😬

It’s hard enough as a scientist right now. I can’t imagine how hard it must be to be a PO in this rotten, chaotic system

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Communications Psychology The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptiv...

“Epistemic monocropping” is a great phrase www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Are you a postbac (or soon-to-be-postbac) interested in interdisciplinary research on sexual and reproductive health? Come work with us! Application review starts March 13 and continues until the position is filled. employment.unl.edu/postings/99472

ISSM Sexual Medicine Journals (ISMJ) on Instagram: "Does inflammation affect women’s sexual desire?⁠ ⁠ This study found no link between CRP and sexual function in pre- or post-menopausal women overall... 10 likes, 0 comments - sexmedjournals on February 11, 2026: "Does inflammation affect women’s sexual desire?⁠ ⁠ This study found no link between CRP and sexual function in pre- or post-menopausal wome...

Hey, our study on inflammation and sexual desire made the cover! (Sort of 😅 - social media counts, right?) www.instagram.com/sexmedjourna...

Sorry does anyone *prefer* Doodle at this point?

Very cautiously optimistic that the inclusion of potential inflammatory etiologies will finally move the needle on anti-inflammatory treatments for mood (and other) disorders being considered truly “first line”

Oh thank the gods.

Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.

“This cruelty will be measured in lives lost… We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows.”

Neuroscience funding: A source directory Our list features expected and lesser-known governmental and nongovernmental sources of funding for basic neuroscience research.

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B

#StateOfNeuroscience

Self-Administered Hypnosis vs Sham Hypnosis for Hot Flashes This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of a self-administered hypnosis intervention for hot flashes compared with a self-administered sham hypnosis control and evaluates the efficacy of...

Thrilled to see this trial finally out in press! Self-guided hypnosis signficantly reduced hot flashes above and beyond sham treatment. Awesome to have more non-hormonal options for managing menopausal symptoms. Looking forward to diving into our mechanisms data next! shorturl.at/RPIJX

An abandoned wood house set back in the woods, visible through some trees. The house is weathered but in remarkably good shape for being clearly abandoned. In the window, sitting on the sill where the glass has broken in, are two enormous black vultures, watching the viewer with steely eyes. The scene has a sense of quiet eeriness.

Seen this afternoon on a trail deep in the Appalachian woods: A House With Good Bones @tkingfisher.com

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.

ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Bouchard!

Vaccinations are a goddamn miracle.