Carla Golden
goldenneurons.bsky.social
Carla Golden
@goldenneurons.bsky.social
Neuroscience postdoc at NYU and former Simons Society Junior Fellow. Studying how estrogen modulates dopamine and learning in rats in the Constantinople lab. She/her.
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Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#blueprint 1/7
Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#blueprint 1/7
Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Rat-mon y Cajal, our lab mascot, is a pro at our task because he went to kindergarten first. His nemesis, Le Chat GPT, just copied off everyone else’s homework.

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June 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Calling all Neuroscience postdocs! 🧠 Share your research through SPiNES (Seminars from Postdocs in Neuroscience: Extramural Series) from the NYUGSoM Department of Neuroscience. Applications close 08/20/25. Apply today! 👉 nyumc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#Neuroscience #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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During Q&A, whenever someone asks a question about our "mice."
May 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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THIS is outrageous and scary! RFK making his own journal that appears to be associated with a medical society.There is no such thing as the Academy of Public Health! They can use this to make false claims in medicine and science, including for vaccines. These are not peer reviewed nor scientific!
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Join our brand-new lab at UConn studying flexible sensory processing in mice! We're hiring a full-time lab tech - a great fit for recent grads looking to get experience with systems and behavioral neuroscience research.

Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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January 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Question for all you blueskyers (is that the equivalent of tweeps?). Can someone point me to a book that has a brooding non-male protagonist. Brooding heros tend to be my favorite to read about - think Batman or Edmond Dantes - but thinking about it, I'm wondering if only men are written this way.
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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We are recruiting a postdoc!

Have expertise in RNA biology and want to apply it to neuro and neurodev disorders? Then apply 👇🏼

📌 $73,588 💰
📌 access to postdoc housing 🏠
📌 Support for internationals 🌍
📌 Awesome view 😅

🙏 RT

labs.icahn.mssm.edu/derubeislab/...
November 23, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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NIH funding generated $2.46 for every $1 funded in 2023.

Important info for scientific advocacy in the years ahead- science is a quantifiable investment, not just a cost.

H/t to @nicolecrust.bsky.social for sharing!

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#NeuroSkyence

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Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an
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November 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Excited to be here in this quest for simpler times!

Here’s where you can find what I’ve been working on the last five years: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Estrogenic control of reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning
Gonadal hormones act throughout the brain[1][1], and neuropsychiatric disorders vary in symptom severity over the reproductive cycle, pregnancy, and perimenopause[2][2]–[4][3]. Yet how hormones influe...
www.biorxiv.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 AM