Jocelyn
@jocelynrichard.bsky.social
neuroscientist and friend to cats
she/her, st paul, mn
she/her, st paul, mn
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Reposting this information for our neuroscience graduate program virtual open house events with a fixed QR code - you can also register directly at this link - forms.gle/zJDcZBteMtsD...
September 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposting this information for our neuroscience graduate program virtual open house events with a fixed QR code - you can also register directly at this link - forms.gle/zJDcZBteMtsD...
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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
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Snippets of my #StandUpForScience speech at the Minnesota State Capitol 🧪🧬 🧠
#ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence #BlackInNeuro ✊🏾
#ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence #BlackInNeuro ✊🏾
March 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Snippets of my #StandUpForScience speech at the Minnesota State Capitol 🧪🧬 🧠
#ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence #BlackInNeuro ✊🏾
#ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence #BlackInNeuro ✊🏾
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Proud to be with my lab and a huge crew from the UMN neuroscience community today at #Standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Proud to be with my lab and a huge crew from the UMN neuroscience community today at #Standupforscience
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A particular highlight of #StandUpForScience2025 was hearing @therealdrdukes.bsky.social speak. Science is strengthened by equity, inclusion, and justice. Now more than ever, we need to protect and empower the next generation of diverse scientists!
March 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A particular highlight of #StandUpForScience2025 was hearing @therealdrdukes.bsky.social speak. Science is strengthened by equity, inclusion, and justice. Now more than ever, we need to protect and empower the next generation of diverse scientists!
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People keep saying oh your research program is probably safe. No it’s not. There’s is no “safe” research program unless they are all decided by merit and not political whim (which is how it was done until Jan 20th).
The goal is to dismantle American universities.
The goal is to dismantle American universities.
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
People keep saying oh your research program is probably safe. No it’s not. There’s is no “safe” research program unless they are all decided by merit and not political whim (which is how it was done until Jan 20th).
The goal is to dismantle American universities.
The goal is to dismantle American universities.
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#standupforscience2025 at the St Paul Capitol with my lab and many others this afternoon
March 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#standupforscience2025 at the St Paul Capitol with my lab and many others this afternoon
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In case you are worried about logistics, like childcare, we are thrilled to partner with Aelis Farma who will cover the costs of onsite childcare for those in need via their Daycare Initiative. As someone who lugged my kids around to conferences, I am so excited and proud #EBPS2025 will offer this.
Need something warm and sunny to look forward to? Join me in Almeria, Spain in September at my favorite meeting, #EBPS2025! ebps2025.com
Check out the awesome lineup of plenary/awardee lectures. 👇
And help us make it even more exciting by submitting a symposium proposal. Deadline January 20.
Check out the awesome lineup of plenary/awardee lectures. 👇
And help us make it even more exciting by submitting a symposium proposal. Deadline January 20.
There is one month to submit your symposium proposals for #EBPS2025. Find all the information for our September meeting, on our new conference website! www.ebps2025.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
In case you are worried about logistics, like childcare, we are thrilled to partner with Aelis Farma who will cover the costs of onsite childcare for those in need via their Daycare Initiative. As someone who lugged my kids around to conferences, I am so excited and proud #EBPS2025 will offer this.
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Instead, these neurons are uniquely engaged in parallel to dopamine neurons to contribute motivational drive under multivalent decision contexts - they signal something more akin to motivational saliency, an integration of appetitive and aversive states.
December 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Instead, these neurons are uniquely engaged in parallel to dopamine neurons to contribute motivational drive under multivalent decision contexts - they signal something more akin to motivational saliency, an integration of appetitive and aversive states.
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Critically, Margaret found that GABA neurons are not simply a read out of salience or intensity, because unpredicted shocks and rewards of varying intensities don't evoke a scaled GABA response.
December 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Critically, Margaret found that GABA neurons are not simply a read out of salience or intensity, because unpredicted shocks and rewards of varying intensities don't evoke a scaled GABA response.
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So excited to share my first project on VTA GABA neurons!
Sad to miss #ACNP2024 but check out our new studies by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social - comparing dopamine vs GABA neurons in the VTA in different forms of learning - our results support an overall re-evaluation of midbrain representation of valence and appetitive motivation (thread)
December 8, 2024 at 9:28 PM
So excited to share my first project on VTA GABA neurons!
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That’s my AMAZING mentor!! Founder of #BlackInNeuro and 30 under 30! So deserved and so many congratulations!!! 🥳👏🏽✨
Hi 👋🏾 I’m Dr. Angeline Dukes - daughter of Haitian & Trinidadian immigrants 🇭🇹 🇹🇹, proud #HBCU alumna 💙💛, AND #ForbesUnder30 Social Impact honoree 🙌🏾
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
December 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
That’s my AMAZING mentor!! Founder of #BlackInNeuro and 30 under 30! So deserved and so many congratulations!!! 🥳👏🏽✨
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Hi 👋🏾 I’m Dr. Angeline Dukes - daughter of Haitian & Trinidadian immigrants 🇭🇹 🇹🇹, proud #HBCU alumna 💙💛, AND #ForbesUnder30 Social Impact honoree 🙌🏾
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Hi 👋🏾 I’m Dr. Angeline Dukes - daughter of Haitian & Trinidadian immigrants 🇭🇹 🇹🇹, proud #HBCU alumna 💙💛, AND #ForbesUnder30 Social Impact honoree 🙌🏾
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
Always grateful for #BlackInNeuro and the incredible community we’ve grown together ✨
#BlackSky #NeuroSkyence
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It is coming - and we are not ready. We could never have enough time to prepare. Because there can never be enough time to battle time itself. Relentless. Bending us along its trajectory without relief. Will we break? We cannot. We must not. For if we break, who will roast these jams?
#jamvent🍯📅
#jamvent🍯📅
November 30, 2024 at 7:48 PM
It is coming - and we are not ready. We could never have enough time to prepare. Because there can never be enough time to battle time itself. Relentless. Bending us along its trajectory without relief. Will we break? We cannot. We must not. For if we break, who will roast these jams?
#jamvent🍯📅
#jamvent🍯📅
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I had a fabulous visit to the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction at UMN. Was so lovely to meet with everyone. Thanks to my wonderful hosts Nicola Grissom and Jocelyn Richard!! @nicolagrissom.bsky.social @jocelynrichard.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I had a fabulous visit to the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction at UMN. Was so lovely to meet with everyone. Thanks to my wonderful hosts Nicola Grissom and Jocelyn Richard!! @nicolagrissom.bsky.social @jocelynrichard.bsky.social
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once spent 30 minutes methodically explaining to my parents that movies are not supposed to look like *that*.
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
November 27, 2024 at 12:21 AM
once spent 30 minutes methodically explaining to my parents that movies are not supposed to look like *that*.
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New paper with @jocelynrichard.bsky.social + @janaklab.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pavlovian cue-evoked alcohol seeking is disrupted by ventral pallidal inhibition
Cues paired with alcohol can be potent drivers of craving, alcohol-seeking, consumption, and relapse. While the ventral pallidum is implicated in appe…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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🚨 Called AND wrote to my House Rep to vote NO on HR.9495, which would allow president to revoke tax-exempt status of institutions (like NEWS orgs and UNIVERSITIES) deemed “terrorist-supporting” (arbitrarily). Losing tax-exempt status would be disastrous. Please call or write to yours, too
November 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
🚨 Called AND wrote to my House Rep to vote NO on HR.9495, which would allow president to revoke tax-exempt status of institutions (like NEWS orgs and UNIVERSITIES) deemed “terrorist-supporting” (arbitrarily). Losing tax-exempt status would be disastrous. Please call or write to yours, too
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Excited to see the final final version of our recent paper out in this week's Journal of Neuroscience today! www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...
Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Sustained Basolateral Amygdala Encoding of Cued Reward-Seeking States
Basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons are engaged by emotionally salient stimuli. An area of increasing interest is how BLA dynamics relate to evolving reward-seeking behavior, especially under situation...
www.jneurosci.org
November 13, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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My department at UMN is hiring! He have up to 5 openings for faculty, across levels. This is a broad search with no topic focus - we are looking to spur an exciting next phase of our community with diverse research perspectives. Details at this link- neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38304/as...
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor in Neuroscience - Minneapolis, Minnesota job with University of Minnesota - Department of Neuroscience | 38304
Multiple Faculty Positions in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
neurojobs.sfn.org
October 22, 2024 at 1:35 PM
My department at UMN is hiring! He have up to 5 openings for faculty, across levels. This is a broad search with no topic focus - we are looking to spur an exciting next phase of our community with diverse research perspectives. Details at this link- neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38304/as...
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Which is why I'm going to need all the scientists to stop behaving as though there is a sex binary as opposed to a sex spectrum. Yes, in mammals! And especially in whatever the heck features of mammals you study
One of the things that I'm seeing as a huge commonality among terf and terf-adjacent folks in philosophy is the way that they sneak a kind of bio-essentialist teleology into their definitions of sex, which they then present as "objective truth." Every damn one of them does this in some form.
So Gary Francione published a transphobic diatribe whining about transness being a “metaphysical/spiritual” belief etc. Then he goes and drops this plainly normative definition of “sex”, which has clearly homophobic and sexist (as well as transphobic) implications: “the FACT of the matter.” 🙃
August 6, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Which is why I'm going to need all the scientists to stop behaving as though there is a sex binary as opposed to a sex spectrum. Yes, in mammals! And especially in whatever the heck features of mammals you study
I finally made this account so that I don't miss any state fair food updates from @heavytable.bsky.social. Make of that what you will!
August 15, 2023 at 9:20 PM
I finally made this account so that I don't miss any state fair food updates from @heavytable.bsky.social. Make of that what you will!