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Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD
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IRACDA Postdoc in the Maguire lab at TUSM | PhD in Neuroscience from Boston University; Ramirez lab | Higher Ed enthusiast
Reposted by Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD
The 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture is this week (Thursday, October 16th), featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers related to the theme of "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits":
October 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reposted by Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD
At the bottom of this page, there is a space for the public to comment about this NIH direction. I would like the FDA and NIH to think about how multi-system and behavior questions are going to be answered without animal models

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July 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD
Just released. My Nature piece:

"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...

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More US scientists must speak out
Nature Human Behaviour - The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and...
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June 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Reposted by Kaitlyn Dorst, PhD
If this administration thinks diversity, equity, and inclusion have made U.S. citizens distrust science...just wait until they see what uniformity, inequity, and exclusion are going to do for trust in science
May 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM