Cherish Ardinger, PhD
@cherishardinger.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and NIAAA F32 postdoc fellow at Rutgers. Currently researching the role of astrocytes in addiction-related behaviors. 🐭🍻🧠. She/her. 🏳️🌈 | first-gen college student
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If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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January 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
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Due to the winter storms the RSA Executive Committee has EXTENDED Submissions and ALL Award Nominations and Applications to February 4th at 11:59 pm ET.
🔗https://bit.ly/4qOwGwv
🔗https://bit.ly/4qOwGwv
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Due to the winter storms the RSA Executive Committee has EXTENDED Submissions and ALL Award Nominations and Applications to February 4th at 11:59 pm ET.
🔗https://bit.ly/4qOwGwv
🔗https://bit.ly/4qOwGwv
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Don't forget: Science still matters.
January 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Don't forget: Science still matters.
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America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way.
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
www.insidehighered.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:08 PM
America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way.
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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As we head into the new year, a reminder that if you're recruiting or looking for a job in Neuroscience (or adjacent) add #NeuroJobs to your post to appear on the NeuroJobs feed.
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#NeuroSkyence
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#NeuroSkyence
January 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
As we head into the new year, a reminder that if you're recruiting or looking for a job in Neuroscience (or adjacent) add #NeuroJobs to your post to appear on the NeuroJobs feed.
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#NeuroSkyence
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#NeuroSkyence
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I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply!
I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply!
I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
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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 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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...
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🚨 New preprint!
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Neural representations of visual memory in inferotemporal cortex reveal a generalizable framework for translating between spikes and field potentials
Translating neurophysiological findings requires understanding the relationship between common measures of brain activity in animals (spiking activity) and humans (local field potentials, LFP). Prior ...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
🚨 New preprint!
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
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An attack on public health. A repudiation of science.
BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
An attack on public health. A repudiation of science.
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New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions
Perceptual decisions are shaped by expectations about sensory stimuli and rewards, learned through sensory and reward prediction errors. Dopamine is known to convey reward prediction errors that shape...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment.
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment.
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
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Yet again it pays to speak up & fight back!
NIH has agreed to “evaluate each application individually and in good faith” for plaintiffs whose applications were unlawfully held in fiscal year 2025. In return, the plaintiffs dropped the lawsuit. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
NIH has agreed to “evaluate each application individually and in good faith” for plaintiffs whose applications were unlawfully held in fiscal year 2025. In return, the plaintiffs dropped the lawsuit. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
NIH Agrees to Evaluate and Complete Review on Stalled Scientific Grant Applications | American Civil Liberties Union
Parties resolve claims on behalf of applicants harmed by unlawful directives
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December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Yet again it pays to speak up & fight back!
NIH has agreed to “evaluate each application individually and in good faith” for plaintiffs whose applications were unlawfully held in fiscal year 2025. In return, the plaintiffs dropped the lawsuit. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
NIH has agreed to “evaluate each application individually and in good faith” for plaintiffs whose applications were unlawfully held in fiscal year 2025. In return, the plaintiffs dropped the lawsuit. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!
December 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!
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Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.
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New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
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Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization
Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
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Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons facilitate orbitofrontal cortex remapping and behavioral flexibility
Ogg et al. use in vivo imaging techniques to record activity in the locus coeruleus
(LC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) during a reversal learning task in freely
moving rodents. They show that man...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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at public notice, wrote about the Indiana GOP defying Trump on redistricting—an important win for democracy. www.publicnotice.co/p/indiana-re...
The Indiana GOP's defiance shows how Trump is losing juice
His unpopularity is increasing and his threats are starting to ring hollow.
www.publicnotice.co
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
at public notice, wrote about the Indiana GOP defying Trump on redistricting—an important win for democracy. www.publicnotice.co/p/indiana-re...
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"First-gen programs, when done right, are not remedial. They are revolutionary. They teach institutions how to become more humane, equitable and responsive. They’re not just about tutoring or financial literacy; they’re about belonging." 👇🏾
Being the First in Your Family to attend College Is Not a Deficit—It’s a Distinction www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... "It means learning how to do college while doing college—a dual curriculum that tests not only intellect but resilience, adaptability and faith." #edusky #firstgen #college
In Praise of Being First-Gen (opinion)
We should not retire the label; we should reclaim and revere it.
www.insidehighered.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"First-gen programs, when done right, are not remedial. They are revolutionary. They teach institutions how to become more humane, equitable and responsive. They’re not just about tutoring or financial literacy; they’re about belonging." 👇🏾
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This is utterly gutwrenching. “At first, I was panicked,” Weissman, a sophomore pre-med student, said in a phone interview. “Once I knew a little more and I didn’t feel there was imminent danger, I felt numb — exactly how I did when I was 12.”
For two Brown University students, school shooting was not their first
Brown junior Mia Tretta was injured in a California school shooting, and sophomore Zoe Weissman was in class next door during the Parkland, Florida, high school attack.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is utterly gutwrenching. “At first, I was panicked,” Weissman, a sophomore pre-med student, said in a phone interview. “Once I knew a little more and I didn’t feel there was imminent danger, I felt numb — exactly how I did when I was 12.”
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How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol
The stress-related hormone cortisol alters dynamic brain networks predicting memory and arousal to promote emotional memories.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How does cortisol tune brain networks to form strong emotional memories? Excited to share new work led by amazing former RA Flory Huang w collabs Rajita Sinha and @toddc.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chronic semaglutide treatment shows differential effects on incentive motivation and consummatory responses to food
#RewardSignals #neuroskyence
#RewardSignals #neuroskyence
Chronic semaglutide treatment enhances the incentive motivational value of a small food reward and associated cue in male and female rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.06.692775v1
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Chronic semaglutide treatment shows differential effects on incentive motivation and consummatory responses to food
#RewardSignals #neuroskyence
#RewardSignals #neuroskyence
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Psilocybin reshapes how the brain is connected. 🧠⚡️
Using viral tracing methods, the study found the psychedelic strengthens pathways related to sensory processing and weakened those tied to rumination.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social dives deeper into the study: https://bit.ly/4aD13AS
#neuroskyence
Using viral tracing methods, the study found the psychedelic strengthens pathways related to sensory processing and weakened those tied to rumination.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social dives deeper into the study: https://bit.ly/4aD13AS
#neuroskyence
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Psilocybin reshapes how the brain is connected. 🧠⚡️
Using viral tracing methods, the study found the psychedelic strengthens pathways related to sensory processing and weakened those tied to rumination.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social dives deeper into the study: https://bit.ly/4aD13AS
#neuroskyence
Using viral tracing methods, the study found the psychedelic strengthens pathways related to sensory processing and weakened those tied to rumination.
@thetransmitter.bsky.social dives deeper into the study: https://bit.ly/4aD13AS
#neuroskyence
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NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... via @statnews.com
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... via @statnews.com
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#NIH #science #health #publichealth #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
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We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Research Assistant Professor in Personalized Medicine for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
Seeking applicants for a Research Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of New Mexico on an NIH funded grant evaluating personalized ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!