Susanne Ahmari
@ahmarilab.bsky.social
OCD Researcher. Psychiatrist. Nerdy Mom.
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Susanne Ahmari
@ahmarilab.bsky.social
· Dec 3
a woman with long blonde hair is standing in front of a man in a castle .
ALT: a woman with long blonde hair is standing in front of a man in a castle .
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Me getting rid of every 'the' to get the manuscript down to the word limit
In other exciting news, @mattgeramita.bsky.social’s @natneuro.nature.com + Eric Yttri paper exploring the neural circuits underlying hesitation just dropped today! 🧠🎤
To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In other exciting news, @mattgeramita.bsky.social’s @natneuro.nature.com + Eric Yttri paper exploring the neural circuits underlying hesitation just dropped today! 🧠🎤
To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. BRITT CHAMBERLAIN!!! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social 🎉🧠🥳🎈💃🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
She did such an incredible job in both the public talk and private thesis defense- I can’t wait to see all the amazing work she does for the field of #OCD in the years to come 🧪
She did such an incredible job in both the public talk and private thesis defense- I can’t wait to see all the amazing work she does for the field of #OCD in the years to come 🧪
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. BRITT CHAMBERLAIN!!! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social 🎉🧠🥳🎈💃🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
She did such an incredible job in both the public talk and private thesis defense- I can’t wait to see all the amazing work she does for the field of #OCD in the years to come 🧪
She did such an incredible job in both the public talk and private thesis defense- I can’t wait to see all the amazing work she does for the field of #OCD in the years to come 🧪
Avoidance manifolds!!! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social 🧠🧪
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Avoidance manifolds!!! @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social 🧠🧪
🥳SO EXCITED for @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social thesis defense, starting now!!! 🎉🎉🎉
This amazing MD/PhD candidate created an incredibly impressive body of work investigating the role of mOFC in avoidance. Stay tuned for her findings, dropping on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social soon #OCD 🧠💗🧪
This amazing MD/PhD candidate created an incredibly impressive body of work investigating the role of mOFC in avoidance. Stay tuned for her findings, dropping on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social soon #OCD 🧠💗🧪
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🥳SO EXCITED for @britt-chamberlain.bsky.social thesis defense, starting now!!! 🎉🎉🎉
This amazing MD/PhD candidate created an incredibly impressive body of work investigating the role of mOFC in avoidance. Stay tuned for her findings, dropping on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social soon #OCD 🧠💗🧪
This amazing MD/PhD candidate created an incredibly impressive body of work investigating the role of mOFC in avoidance. Stay tuned for her findings, dropping on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social soon #OCD 🧠💗🧪
I am going as the US government for Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I am going as the US government for Halloween
Tech check complete! 🎤
So excited for the @onemindorg.bsky.social Science and Music Festival keynote tomorrow! 🧠💗
So excited for the @onemindorg.bsky.social Science and Music Festival keynote tomorrow! 🧠💗
September 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Tech check complete! 🎤
So excited for the @onemindorg.bsky.social Science and Music Festival keynote tomorrow! 🧠💗
So excited for the @onemindorg.bsky.social Science and Music Festival keynote tomorrow! 🧠💗
So excited for the first ever @onemindorg.bsky.social Summit on the Future of Mental Health Research! Led by brilliant CSO Dr. Tahilia Rebello to accelerate big ideas to impact 🧠💪🏼🧪
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So excited for the first ever @onemindorg.bsky.social Summit on the Future of Mental Health Research! Led by brilliant CSO Dr. Tahilia Rebello to accelerate big ideas to impact 🧠💪🏼🧪
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My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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A discussion of the use of animals in research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...
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(Warning: Rant coming)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...
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(Warning: Rant coming)
Director’s Desk: The Future of Animal Models in Research | NIH’s Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer
YouTube video by National Institutes of Health (NIH)
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A discussion of the use of animals in research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...
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(Warning: Rant coming)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...
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(Warning: Rant coming)
It’s wild how even the most innocuous, theoretically uncontroversial message can still get you yelled at👩🏻🔬🧪
especially when it’s by people attending an AI conference that should theoretically like science…🧐
especially when it’s by people attending an AI conference that should theoretically like science…🧐
July 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s wild how even the most innocuous, theoretically uncontroversial message can still get you yelled at👩🏻🔬🧪
especially when it’s by people attending an AI conference that should theoretically like science…🧐
especially when it’s by people attending an AI conference that should theoretically like science…🧐
Reposted by Susanne Ahmari
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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🚨Comment by JULY 14th!!!!!🚨
July 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🚨Comment by JULY 14th!!!!!🚨
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IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14
This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
Reposted by Susanne Ahmari
Reposted by Susanne Ahmari
A science fair of cancelled grants. The research that will be represented at this event (Tuesday) ranges from neuroscience, to astrophysics, to STEM education. The awarding agencies of the now-canceled grants include the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DOD. Open to the public.
Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants
The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.
nasawatch.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A science fair of cancelled grants. The research that will be represented at this event (Tuesday) ranges from neuroscience, to astrophysics, to STEM education. The awarding agencies of the now-canceled grants include the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DOD. Open to the public.
🚨Only a few hours left to leave a public comment re: RFK Jr. and Trump administration limiting access to vaccines through the CDC!!!
Public Comment at CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.
peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...
Public Comment at CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.
peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...
RFK Jr. and Trump Administration is Limiting Access to Vaccines. Tell them by Friday, June 20, Everyone Must Have Access
Public Comment at the CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.
peoplescdc.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
🚨Only a few hours left to leave a public comment re: RFK Jr. and Trump administration limiting access to vaccines through the CDC!!!
Public Comment at CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.
peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...
Public Comment at CDC is open until June 20th at 11:59pm EDT.
peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...
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"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.
www.npr.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Look at that little tiny red bar for May 2025.
That's the illegal rescission/impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, shown graphically.
3900 grants that DOGE has killed in May. Trump is killing American science and ending disease cures. Come out to protests June 14th, everyone.
That's the illegal rescission/impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, shown graphically.
3900 grants that DOGE has killed in May. Trump is killing American science and ending disease cures. Come out to protests June 14th, everyone.
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Look at that little tiny red bar for May 2025.
That's the illegal rescission/impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, shown graphically.
3900 grants that DOGE has killed in May. Trump is killing American science and ending disease cures. Come out to protests June 14th, everyone.
That's the illegal rescission/impoundment of Congressionally appropriated funds, shown graphically.
3900 grants that DOGE has killed in May. Trump is killing American science and ending disease cures. Come out to protests June 14th, everyone.
Reposted by Susanne Ahmari
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Reposted by Susanne Ahmari
Those of you asking what you can do to help save medical research - please sign the support letter to the #BethesdaDeclaration and share it widely.
What is happening is not normal. Every name helps.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
What is happening is not normal. Every name helps.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Those of you asking what you can do to help save medical research - please sign the support letter to the #BethesdaDeclaration and share it widely.
What is happening is not normal. Every name helps.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
What is happening is not normal. Every name helps.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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Incredible morning of science- plus awesome use of an actual chalkboard for the agenda! #OldSchool
June 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Incredible morning of science- plus awesome use of an actual chalkboard for the agenda! #OldSchool
Had the good fortune to run into the amazing @cate-cholamine.bsky.social during Conte Center meeting break! @princetonneuro.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Had the good fortune to run into the amazing @cate-cholamine.bsky.social during Conte Center meeting break! @princetonneuro.bsky.social
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Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.
June 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.