Ames Sutton Hickey
@specificames.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @ Temple Psych & Neuro. interests: neural circuits of food-related decision making, queer visibility, racial justice & 🏀
www.theashlab.org
opinions are my own.
www.theashlab.org
opinions are my own.
Pinned
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
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Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers.
Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers.
Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward.
Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps
#neurosky #SfN25
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning - Nature Neuroscience
Ravenelle et al. show that systematically increasing serotonin has sex-specific effects on fear learning in mice. In females only, increasing serotonin in the BNST enhances fear memory by promoting co...
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan
I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬
I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬
June 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan
I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬
I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees!
She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬
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It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.
My Cers 💔💔💔
The 2024-25 Indiana Pacers forever. I don't know what else to say about that group. I'm going to miss watching them. One of the all-time gutsiest, most resilient basketball teams in NBA history.
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My Cers 💔💔💔
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This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice
Diets that are high in fat cause overeating and weight gain in multiple species of animals, suggesting that high dietary fat is sufficient to cause ob…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is right: Trans and gender-expansive youth are not political pawns. Now, more than ever, we must show up for trans kids and their families.
June 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Energy state guides reward seeking via an extended amygdala to lateral hypothalamus pathway - Nature Communications
The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) mediates reward seeking. Here, the authors show how LHA afferent connections promote reward seeking by shaping synaptic strength according to energy state, processe...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We know ‘conversion therapy’ doesn’t work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or…
"Reparative" or "conversion" therapy is a dangerous practice that targets LGBTQ youth and seeks to change their sexual or gender identities.
www.hrc.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We know ‘conversion therapy’ doesn’t work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...
Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.
Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report.
Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.
The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.
April 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.
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WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.
"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"
April 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.
"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"
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The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The newly launched Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism (CNM), in collaboration with the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology (NCB), and the Rutg...
jobs.rutgers.edu
April 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...
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We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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We are (sadly) replacing our wonderful research tech who is headed to grad school in the fall. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, please consider applying! Please RT. @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social #LGBTQInNeuro
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Research Technician
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
temple.taleo.net
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We are (sadly) replacing our wonderful research tech who is headed to grad school in the fall. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, please consider applying! Please RT. @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social #LGBTQInNeuro
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temple.taleo.net/careersectio...
I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫
CDC censors papers submitted to journals. "Researchers instructed to remove references to forbidden terms [including] transgender, LGBT, non-binary, assigned [fe]male at birth" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫
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Program opportunity
Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open!
I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.
Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open!
I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.
January 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Program opportunity
Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open!
I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.
Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open!
I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.
A poem for now.
January 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A poem for now.
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Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Silva Lab – Neuroimmune mechanisms in health and disease
nicholassilvalab.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
Reposted by Ames Sutton Hickey
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...