Excited to share the latest one from the lab led by José Solano @jolusolo.bsky.social who explored how early life #stress impacts the mouse 🐭 brain 🧠 vasculature
Science 🧪🔬 can be surprising & 2x stress can induce beneficial adaptations leading to resilience, phew!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

thrilled that i got this madonna song title into @science.org. the song is so true and the music video has the best cinematography.

ICE has detained 6,200+ kids in Trump's second term, up 10x since Biden left office

Terrible damage to children is being done in our name.

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...

Just gotta gush about my fabulous undergrads for a moment: one just won private foundation funding to cover a brand new project direction in the lab, and another just submitted a 1st author manuscript! #ProudPI

Welcome back, moon poets

It’s brutal in academia right now. A lot is out of our control, but it doesn’t cost anything to remember that there are humans behind papers and grants…reviewers, program officials and funders can be more empathetic in the face of unprecedented chaos in the US scientific enterprise.

I am now getting *daily* requests from high school students for research experience or to read their papers. I got maybe 1-2/year in the past.
Is this uptick everywhere? Just NJ? Just me somehow?

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I recently joined Bob McDonald on Quirks & Quarks (CBC/Radio-Canada) to chat about my research on male parenting 👨‍👦 The interview is now live in Canada 🇨🇦 and available internationally (🇺🇸, etc.)! You can check it out here (or on other major streaming platforms): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

NIH Funding Curves (FY 2021 - 2026) – Grant Witness

Exciting News!

Grant-witness.us now has dynamic funding curves like mine for NIH available.

grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

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Vials labeled A or B

Very excited about this new study and being truly blinded by our collaborators

Epigenetic memory of colitis promotes tumour growth - Nature Colonic stem cells retain a memory of inflammation following disease resolution and there is a mechanistic link between chronic inflammation and malignancy, suggesting potential strategies to mitigate...

It’s well known that inflammation increases cancer risk, but how?

The answer: the epigenome "remembers" inflammation and primes stem cells for cancer.

Here is our paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
And a special shoutout to the lead author
@snaga13.bsky.social

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I am delighted to share our editorial for Neurobiology of Stress, co-authored with my fellow Editor-in-Chief, Lawrence Reagan

doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... via @statnews.com

Heat map of calcium activity in the EPM for neurons (top) and astrocytes (bottom) with astrocytes showing greater activity in open arms compared to closed arms.

A key experiment was showing that astrocyte activity was not simply an "echo" of neighbouring neurons... Imaging both astrocytes and excitatory neurons in the BLA we show that cell activity is very different across many behavioural tests. See the heat map of calcium activity in the EPM below.

Yessss!!! It’s out!!! Congrats to everyone on this beautiful work!

Basolateral amygdala astrocytes encode anxiety states Ghenissa et al. provide evidence that basolateral amygdala astrocytes reliably encode anxiety states. Using simultaneous in vivo calcium recordings across an array of behavioral tasks, combined with g...

Incredibly proud of this paper led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social and @mathiasgua.bsky.social titled Basolateral 'Amygdala Astrocytes Encode Anxiety States'.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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"The other way to put this is that NIH funded 33.1% fewer Hispanic trainees and only 6.3% fewer Non-Hispanic trainees in FY2025...we probably don’t have to think about this too deeply. The anti 'DEI' agenda of the new regime...is probably sufficient"

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

We spend under $50 billion a year on NIH…

The mouse was a gift from my mother, Mary Lamb. Obviously 😂

Me wearing a bright green sweater, holding a tiny felt mouse with a leprechaun hat and shamrock

Proud to be named after my Irish great great grandmother, Catherine McLaughlin Lamb, even though she named her eldest daughter Mary and thus began a multigenerational nursery rhyme naming trauma (honestly, fitting).

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from me and this adorable mouse!

This is astonishing—a rhetoric steeped so deeply in New York's ethnic history, in grass-roots urban progressivism, in the immigrant experience in the United States.

It's not "you should be in solidarity with others," it's "you always have been, we all always have been."

Thank you for engaging them!!!

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

Stand Up for Princeton and Higher Education. Join a community of Princeton alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends who are committed 
to making the case for America’s great colleges and universities.

Join us in standing up for America’s veterans and the transformative power of higher education ⬇️

"As a veteran, I understand what it means to serve the nation. I also think it's important when you're getting an education to always have that service mindset."

U.S. Navy veteran Luke Hixson '25 shares how Princeton bridged the gap from the military to medical school — at no cost to him.

This is such a moving spotlight. I’m proud to have had Luke in my lab for his senior thesis!

*In the nation's service and the service of humanity*

🎶”who runs the world…” 🎶

Empowering visit by @thebalelab.bsky.social !!!

Gorgeous images are right!! 🤩😍