Nick Petersen
@nickpetersen.bsky.social
Vandy MSTP. Aspiring neuroscientist. Proud dog and cat dad 🐕🐈⬛. 🇧🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈 he/him/his
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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community. Interested in what the lab is working on? Instead of spending an hour perfecting/overthinking my first post, here's something even better: our lab's very first preprint! Just uploaded to @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A stress-activated mid-insula to BNST pathway regulates susceptibility to abstinence-induced negative affect in female mice
Stress is central to many neuropsychiatric conditions, including alcohol use disorder (AUD). Stress influences the initiation and continued use of alcohol, the progression to AUD, and relapse. Identif...
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January 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community. Interested in what the lab is working on? Instead of spending an hour perfecting/overthinking my first post, here's something even better: our lab's very first preprint! Just uploaded to @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I’m pumped to share that our new paper in Biological Psychiatry is out! We dissected a novel astrocyte-neuron interaction in the ventral periaqueductal gray (vPAG) that maintains wakefulness involving norepinephrine and dopamine neurons🧵: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Adenosine A2A Receptors Link Astrocytic α1-Adrenergic Signaling to Wake-Promoting Dopamine Neurons
Sleep and arousal disorders are common, but the underlying physiology of wakefulness
is not fully understood. The locus coeruleus promotes arousal via α1-adrenergic receptor
(α1AR)–driven recruitment ...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’m pumped to share that our new paper in Biological Psychiatry is out! We dissected a novel astrocyte-neuron interaction in the ventral periaqueductal gray (vPAG) that maintains wakefulness involving norepinephrine and dopamine neurons🧵: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...