Monica Carson
@brainimmunity.bsky.social
Fan of microglia, macrophages, glial-neuronal and brain-immune interactions (both innate & adaptive); flirted with oligodendrocytes, astrocytes and occasionally even neurons.
EIC Journal of Neuroinflammation
Sci-Fi and SDCC (Comicon)
opinions are my own
EIC Journal of Neuroinflammation
Sci-Fi and SDCC (Comicon)
opinions are my own
Worth a read: de-siloing research is critical for understanding brain function, brain health and innovative treatment and repair paradigms- as noted here, to do so means it’s critical to utilize observed differences and concordance between species and studies #neuroskyence #glia
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Worth a read: de-siloing research is critical for understanding brain function, brain health and innovative treatment and repair paradigms- as noted here, to do so means it’s critical to utilize observed differences and concordance between species and studies #neuroskyence #glia
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📰 ISN News Issue 5 is out!
Explore the latest updates, insights, and stories from across the neurochemistry community.
🖼️ Cover image: Silvia Mangia
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3OsjMWL
#WeAreNeurochemistry #ISNNews #Neuroskyence #Neurosky
Explore the latest updates, insights, and stories from across the neurochemistry community.
🖼️ Cover image: Silvia Mangia
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3OsjMWL
#WeAreNeurochemistry #ISNNews #Neuroskyence #Neurosky
February 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
📰 ISN News Issue 5 is out!
Explore the latest updates, insights, and stories from across the neurochemistry community.
🖼️ Cover image: Silvia Mangia
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3OsjMWL
#WeAreNeurochemistry #ISNNews #Neuroskyence #Neurosky
Explore the latest updates, insights, and stories from across the neurochemistry community.
🖼️ Cover image: Silvia Mangia
🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3OsjMWL
#WeAreNeurochemistry #ISNNews #Neuroskyence #Neurosky
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🚨Do we need a large, expensive MRI scanner to map whole-brain networks in the mouse? Not necessarily!
In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f
we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI
🧵👇
In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f
we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI
🧵👇
February 17, 2026 at 12:26 PM
🚨Do we need a large, expensive MRI scanner to map whole-brain networks in the mouse? Not necessarily!
In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f
we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI
🧵👇
In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f
we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI
🧵👇
Reposted by Monica Carson
Celebrities and talent who do shows for Apple TV should publicly ask the company when SAVANT will be released and why they pulled a show about white supremacists and domestic terrorism? (We know why but pressure them.)
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Whatever Happened to Jessica Chastain's Show on Domestic Terrorism?
Five months after 'The Savant,' Jessica Chastain’s show on domestic terrorism, was set for release, its fate is still uncertain, and no one is talking
www.rollingstone.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Celebrities and talent who do shows for Apple TV should publicly ask the company when SAVANT will be released and why they pulled a show about white supremacists and domestic terrorism? (We know why but pressure them.)
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
#measles is dangerous. ~30% of cases result in serious complications, particularly in children <5 & adults >30.
Bonus: Measles causes "immune amnesia", wiping out ~70% of immune memory cells, eliminating body’s immune toolkit gained in past infections, increasing vulnerability to all infections
Bonus: Measles causes "immune amnesia", wiping out ~70% of immune memory cells, eliminating body’s immune toolkit gained in past infections, increasing vulnerability to all infections
The measles virus infects ~90% of unvaccinated people exposed to it. The infected can then infect a dozen to several hundred people each.
This well-researched piece is a chilling, powerful account of exactly how easily a kid could get measles, and how they could die of it.
Must read!
Gift link.
This well-researched piece is a chilling, powerful account of exactly how easily a kid could get measles, and how they could die of it.
Must read!
Gift link.
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:23 PM
#measles is dangerous. ~30% of cases result in serious complications, particularly in children <5 & adults >30.
Bonus: Measles causes "immune amnesia", wiping out ~70% of immune memory cells, eliminating body’s immune toolkit gained in past infections, increasing vulnerability to all infections
Bonus: Measles causes "immune amnesia", wiping out ~70% of immune memory cells, eliminating body’s immune toolkit gained in past infections, increasing vulnerability to all infections
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“The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not in the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot…”
February 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
“The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not in the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot…”
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Could high levels of estrogen, during, say, perimenopause, be a risk factor for stress related cognitive decline and dementia in women? @ajshackman.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social @bangasserlab.bsky.social
Check out our new paper, investigating the role of estrogen in stress-induced memory disruptions. 🧠 online now!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
@talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
@talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social
Hippocampal estrogen levels, receptor types, and epigenetics contribute to sex-specific memory vulnerabilities to concurrent acute stresses
Acute concurrent stresses provoke lasting, sex-dependent memory problems. Hokenson,
Rodríguez-Acevedo, et al. find that high hippocampal estrogen levels in mice generate
permissive chromatin states, a...
www.cell.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Could high levels of estrogen, during, say, perimenopause, be a risk factor for stress related cognitive decline and dementia in women? @ajshackman.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social @bangasserlab.bsky.social
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Astrocyte CB1 receptors drive blood-brain barrier disruption in central nervous system inflammatory disease- link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧪🌎
Astrocyte CB1 receptors drive blood-brain barrier disruption in central nervous system inflammatory disease - Journal of Neuroinflammation
Journal of Neuroinflammation - Reactive astrocytes shape central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and participate in myelin damage and repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis (MS). Through the...
link.springer.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Astrocyte CB1 receptors drive blood-brain barrier disruption in central nervous system inflammatory disease- link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧪🌎
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Reposted by Monica Carson
Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests
Alex Jeffrey Pretti “loved this country, but he hated what people were doing to it,” his father said from Colorado.
coloradosun.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
Reposted by Monica Carson
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
January 24, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
Reposted by Monica Carson
The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
Yolk sac and tissue resident myeloid lineages are fun and heterogeneous stuff! Very cool roles for eardrum #macrophages in middle ear development and ear infection susceptibility explored here #immunosky #neuroskyence #neuroinflammation
Defects in tissue-resident macrophages lead to smaller eardrums and abnormal neurovascular networks with increased middle-ear infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699360v1
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Yolk sac and tissue resident myeloid lineages are fun and heterogeneous stuff! Very cool roles for eardrum #macrophages in middle ear development and ear infection susceptibility explored here #immunosky #neuroskyence #neuroinflammation
Tenured faculty positions: #Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside. Seeking colleagues examining molecular mechanisms of disease who are committed to collaborative research approaches, and expert in their disease models
#facultyjobs #medsky #academicsky
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
#facultyjobs #medsky #academicsky
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
Biomedical Sciences - Ladder Rank Associate or Full Professor (Tenure)
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.ucr.edu
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Tenured faculty positions: #Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside. Seeking colleagues examining molecular mechanisms of disease who are committed to collaborative research approaches, and expert in their disease models
#facultyjobs #medsky #academicsky
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
#facultyjobs #medsky #academicsky
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
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Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
Astrocytes put the brakes on brain plasticity in mice by secreting the protein CCN1 to stabilize existing circuitry, a Nature study shows.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
Astrocytes stabilize circuits in adult mouse brain
The glial cells secrete a protein that suppresses plasticity post-development.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
#neuroskyence #glia very needed single cell map of the murine female brain as a function of estrous cycle
Worth a read!
Worth a read!
Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 5, 2026 at 5:35 AM
#neuroskyence #glia very needed single cell map of the murine female brain as a function of estrous cycle
Worth a read!
Worth a read!
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Happy New Year to Democracy Defenders! Protecting democracy in 2026 starts now!
Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters.
Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies!
We can do this!
#DefendersOfDemocracy
Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters.
Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies!
We can do this!
#DefendersOfDemocracy
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Happy New Year to Democracy Defenders! Protecting democracy in 2026 starts now!
Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters.
Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies!
We can do this!
#DefendersOfDemocracy
Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters.
Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies!
We can do this!
#DefendersOfDemocracy
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
Reposted by Monica Carson
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Go Team #glia ! Nice field perspective
Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain. Nature reports how researchers are learning their value in shaping our behaviour, memory, and health. #Neuroskyence 🧪
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain, but researchers are only now realizing their true value.
go.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Go Team #glia ! Nice field perspective
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#JNC invites submissions to our Special Issue on Neurochemistry of Autonomic Regulation. Explore autonomic circuits, disease impacts, and emerging therapeutic approaches.
Deadline: Apr 30, 2026
🔗 ow.ly/NuVq50XGRJz
#WeAreNeurochemistry #neurochem #neurosky #neuroskyence
Deadline: Apr 30, 2026
🔗 ow.ly/NuVq50XGRJz
#WeAreNeurochemistry #neurochem #neurosky #neuroskyence
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#JNC invites submissions to our Special Issue on Neurochemistry of Autonomic Regulation. Explore autonomic circuits, disease impacts, and emerging therapeutic approaches.
Deadline: Apr 30, 2026
🔗 ow.ly/NuVq50XGRJz
#WeAreNeurochemistry #neurochem #neurosky #neuroskyence
Deadline: Apr 30, 2026
🔗 ow.ly/NuVq50XGRJz
#WeAreNeurochemistry #neurochem #neurosky #neuroskyence
Reposted by Monica Carson
AMAZING PAPER ALERT!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
congratulations to @margheritazamboni.bsky.social, @ellorens.bsky.social, and the rest of the team.
This one is important and opens up lots of opportunityes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
congratulations to @margheritazamboni.bsky.social, @ellorens.bsky.social, and the rest of the team.
This one is important and opens up lots of opportunityes.
The regulatory code of injury-responsive enhancers enables precision cell-state targeting in the CNS - Nature Neuroscience
Zamboni et al. reveal how enhancers encode cell-type-specific responses to CNS injury. By combining multiomic profiling, deep learning and in vivo screening, they uncover injury-responsive enhancer lo...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
AMAZING PAPER ALERT!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
congratulations to @margheritazamboni.bsky.social, @ellorens.bsky.social, and the rest of the team.
This one is important and opens up lots of opportunityes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
congratulations to @margheritazamboni.bsky.social, @ellorens.bsky.social, and the rest of the team.
This one is important and opens up lots of opportunityes.