Elijah Lowenstein
@lowensteined.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Lowell lab @harvardmed.bsky.social studying how the hypothalamus and brainstem regulate feeding, and what goes wrong when they don't. Dr. rer. nat. from @mdc-berlin.bsky.social.
Looking for a postdoc position to explore the neural circuits that regulate metabolism? Look no further!
#NeuroJobs
#NeuroJobs
Calling on my #science network! TeamNDF is #hiring a postdoc to start in 2026!
Are you fascinated by metabolism and the brain? Do you want to dig into life long impacts and the molecular cause?
Learn more about the team and our research here: www.dife.de/en/research/...
Please share! 🧠 🍔 💉
Are you fascinated by metabolism and the brain? Do you want to dig into life long impacts and the molecular cause?
Learn more about the team and our research here: www.dife.de/en/research/...
Please share! 🧠 🍔 💉
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Looking for a postdoc position to explore the neural circuits that regulate metabolism? Look no further!
#NeuroJobs
#NeuroJobs
Amazing postdoc opportunity in systems neuroscience with a great mentor! #NeuroJobs
We are hiring a postdoc to work @istaresearch.bsky.social on an @erc.europa.eu funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share! ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...
Postdoc Research Group Douglass
Our Group
Our newly established research group at ISTA is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an ERC-funded project- HypoAdapt. We study how the brain controls bodily responses to environm...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Amazing postdoc opportunity in systems neuroscience with a great mentor! #NeuroJobs
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Last year, we helped 100 students save $31K in grad school app fees, giving students from underserved communities the freedom to apply widely.
This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams.
🎓 You can change that.
💸 Donate to open 110 new doors.
givebutter.com/supportCL
This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams.
🎓 You can change that.
💸 Donate to open 110 new doors.
givebutter.com/supportCL
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Last year, we helped 100 students save $31K in grad school app fees, giving students from underserved communities the freedom to apply widely.
This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams.
🎓 You can change that.
💸 Donate to open 110 new doors.
givebutter.com/supportCL
This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams.
🎓 You can change that.
💸 Donate to open 110 new doors.
givebutter.com/supportCL
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October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org
Can't wait for this!!
I am excited to announce that @lowensteined.bsky.social and I will co-chair "Hypothalamic Neural Circuits Controlling Metabolism" at FENS 2026
We have an amazing line up of speakers: Amelia Douglass, Sophie M. Steculorum, Marc Claret and Kevin Williams
fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...
We have an amazing line up of speakers: Amelia Douglass, Sophie M. Steculorum, Marc Claret and Kevin Williams
fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...
LinkedIn
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October 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Can't wait for this!!
This is amazing. 💯 ingenuity
Our 6-hands review/perspective: "Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots" is now on ChemRxiv.
In there, we show how many robots you can make by simply modifying a 3D printer. #chemsky 1/n
with @sandersays.bsky.social and @supersciencegrl.co.uk
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
In there, we show how many robots you can make by simply modifying a 3D printer. #chemsky 1/n
with @sandersays.bsky.social and @supersciencegrl.co.uk
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is amazing. 💯 ingenuity
Really excited to share my co-first publication together with @walkersamuelj.bsky.social from the Lowell lab @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social!
A hypothalamic circuit for anticipating future changes in energy balance. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678865v1
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Really excited to share my co-first publication together with @walkersamuelj.bsky.social from the Lowell lab @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social!
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The mission of the NIMHD is "to lead scientific research in humans to improve minority health and reduce health disparities in the United States and its territories."
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The mission of the NIMHD is "to lead scientific research in humans to improve minority health and reduce health disparities in the United States and its territories."
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
Let me put this as delicately as possible:
Fuck off, you white supremacist asshole
2/2
Heartbreaking and senseless...
This hasn’t been reported as much in the media, but this attack on international scholars at Harvard seems to also affect postdocs: ~40% (3/4 of international postdocs) are on J visas (based on FAS postdoc association data)
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of cur...
www.thecrimson.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Heartbreaking and senseless...
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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
May 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
This is not good...
May 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is not good...
Sometimes I get imposter syndrome but then I remember this guy is in charge of healthcare in the US and feel better
RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
May 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sometimes I get imposter syndrome but then I remember this guy is in charge of healthcare in the US and feel better
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Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies.
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
March 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Mouse models of gender affirming hormone therapy can improve outcomes for trans people and for any cis person with hormones or receiving hormone therapies.
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
What helps is standing in solidarity with us, speaking on the importance of and fighting for the research, not jokes about "transgenic mice" 🧪
Congrats Elisa and Niccolò! Very glad to have contributed to this project in a small way and happy to see the preprint.
Check it out if you're interested in looong projecting spinal neurons and their role in movement! Lots of cool rabies tracing, spinal circuits and skilled locomotor behavior
Check it out if you're interested in looong projecting spinal neurons and their role in movement! Lots of cool rabies tracing, spinal circuits and skilled locomotor behavior
🥁 Elisa Toscano idenitified a new subtype of propriospinal neurons and found a role in the execution of skilled movements🤸♂️. Great job from Elisa and everybody involved 💪. @alesantuz.bsky.social, @lowensteined.bsky.social. Check it out and let us know what you think:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Identification of V0g propriospinal neurons and their role in locomotor control
Propriospinal neurons relay sensory and motor information across the spinal cord and are critical components of the circuits coordinating body movements. Their diversity and roles in motor control are...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Congrats Elisa and Niccolò! Very glad to have contributed to this project in a small way and happy to see the preprint.
Check it out if you're interested in looong projecting spinal neurons and their role in movement! Lots of cool rabies tracing, spinal circuits and skilled locomotor behavior
Check it out if you're interested in looong projecting spinal neurons and their role in movement! Lots of cool rabies tracing, spinal circuits and skilled locomotor behavior
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March 7. Stand Up For Science. Rallies in DC and nationwide. 🧪
Please visit the website and spread the word.
www.standupforscience2025.org
Please visit the website and spread the word.
www.standupforscience2025.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
March 7. Stand Up For Science. Rallies in DC and nationwide. 🧪
Please visit the website and spread the word.
www.standupforscience2025.org
Please visit the website and spread the word.
www.standupforscience2025.org
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Great thread on the fuckery Elon and Donald are wreaking on US science
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Great thread on the fuckery Elon and Donald are wreaking on US science
Anyone know what this means come Monday while the 15% cap on indirect costs goes through the courts? #neuroskyence
February 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Anyone know what this means come Monday while the 15% cap on indirect costs goes through the courts? #neuroskyence
Really grateful to win this travel award and super excited to present our work on hunger regulation at the Keystone Symposium: Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior!
Big thanks to @lifemetabolism.bsky.social and @sablesys.bsky.social!
Big thanks to @lifemetabolism.bsky.social and @sablesys.bsky.social!
LIFE METABOLISM Travel awards @lifemetabolism.bsky.social
sponsored by @sablesys.bsky.social
and the final winner is Elijah Lowenstein @lowensteined.bsky.social from BIDMC, Harvard to attend the Keystone meeting on Ingestive behaviour.
Congratulations...
sponsored by @sablesys.bsky.social
and the final winner is Elijah Lowenstein @lowensteined.bsky.social from BIDMC, Harvard to attend the Keystone meeting on Ingestive behaviour.
Congratulations...
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Really grateful to win this travel award and super excited to present our work on hunger regulation at the Keystone Symposium: Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior!
Big thanks to @lifemetabolism.bsky.social and @sablesys.bsky.social!
Big thanks to @lifemetabolism.bsky.social and @sablesys.bsky.social!
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ProPublica is interested in covering these developments and will keep communications private and secure. You can reach out to www.propublica.org/people/annie...
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If you are directly affected by a cancellation of a meeting you were scheduled to participate in or at which your grant may have been discussed, consider reaching out.
Congrats @helenascobar.bsky.social! Hope this novel treatment for muscular dystrophy can make it into the clinic soon
Very happy and proud to finally see our paper on rescuing dysferlin deficient muscular dystrophy with muscle stem cells & CRISPR published in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Big thanks to all co-authors for their great work! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Gene-editing in patient and humanized-mice primary muscle stem cells rescues dysferlin expression in dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy - Nature Communications
Dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy is a devastating and untreatable disease. Using Cas9, the authors restored dysferlin in muscle stem cells from patients ex vivo and show proof-of-concept for aut...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congrats @helenascobar.bsky.social! Hope this novel treatment for muscular dystrophy can make it into the clinic soon
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I’m excited to share my latest paper
@cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social. HakanK and I recorded from AgRP neurons continuously for 1 month and found some exciting things during ad lib feeding, fasting and on circadian timescales www.cell.com/cell-metabol....
@cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social. HakanK and I recorded from AgRP neurons continuously for 1 month and found some exciting things during ad lib feeding, fasting and on circadian timescales www.cell.com/cell-metabol....
Acute and circadian feedforward regulation of agouti-related peptide hunger neurons
Douglass et al. employ long-term, continuous fiber photometry to uncover new modes of agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neuron regulation in ad libitum, fasted, and circadian conditions. AgRP neuron activity exhibits a circadian rhythm, which controls daily feeding patterns through a neural circuit from the suprachiasmatic nucleus via the dorsomedial hypothalamus.
www.cell.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’m excited to share my latest paper
@cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social. HakanK and I recorded from AgRP neurons continuously for 1 month and found some exciting things during ad lib feeding, fasting and on circadian timescales www.cell.com/cell-metabol....
@cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social. HakanK and I recorded from AgRP neurons continuously for 1 month and found some exciting things during ad lib feeding, fasting and on circadian timescales www.cell.com/cell-metabol....