Katie Bryant
@katiegbry.bsky.social
Postdoc in Lapish Lab at IUSM | interested in all things behavior, learning, and addiction
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Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
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Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
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A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026
August 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026
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Excited to share a new lab preprint. This paper is entirely due to the efforts of @oliviaortelli.bsky.social, an incredibly talented PhD student (who is starting to look for a postdoc!). She combined her love of the Hank Sampson operant sipper tube drinking model...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A review of operant ethanol self-administration using the sipper model: Methodological advances and a novel standardized analysis tool
Despite decades of research, no new FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder (AUD) have emerged in over 25 years. Enhancing the translational relevance of preclinical models by more precisely...
www.biorxiv.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Excited to share a new lab preprint. This paper is entirely due to the efforts of @oliviaortelli.bsky.social, an incredibly talented PhD student (who is starting to look for a postdoc!). She combined her love of the Hank Sampson operant sipper tube drinking model...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.
July 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.
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Public comments have been opened back up!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Public comments have been opened back up!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
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Check out our new paper on the behavioral engagement of cHAPs on a 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task. Congrats, Phillip and team!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/
Sex and Genetic Differences in Behavioral Engagement of Crossed High Alcohol-Preferring and Low Alcohol-Preferring Mice - PubMed
Excessive levels of alcohol consumption play a major role in numerous alcohol-related harms, including a heightened risk of developing problematic drinking behaviors. Those who develop alcohol use dis...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Check out our new paper on the behavioral engagement of cHAPs on a 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task. Congrats, Phillip and team!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/
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When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...
June 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...
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Does anyone know what's up with this message on NIAAA's website? "Due to HHS and NIH restructuring, this website will be maintained, but no new content will be added." I don't see that message on other institute pages...
May 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Does anyone know what's up with this message on NIAAA's website? "Due to HHS and NIH restructuring, this website will be maintained, but no new content will be added." I don't see that message on other institute pages...
and still no updated postings/notices for the NRSA parent F31 and F32 award mechanisms 🫠
RFK Jr. just said he wants NIH to support “younger scientists instead of older folks" but is cutting funding that supports entire areas of research and career support for generations of scientists.
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
and still no updated postings/notices for the NRSA parent F31 and F32 award mechanisms 🫠
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Keeping an eye on this. What Katie shared on Friday has an estimated post date of 5/10, but has not been posted yet. There are currently NO F31 active opportunities to apply to, and very few F32. I don’t think a delay between expiration dates like this has ever happened before? What’s going on?
Looks like there is a new announcement forecasted for this weekend so hopefuly this is just a temp thing???https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358830
Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday
May 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Keeping an eye on this. What Katie shared on Friday has an estimated post date of 5/10, but has not been posted yet. There are currently NO F31 active opportunities to apply to, and very few F32. I don’t think a delay between expiration dates like this has ever happened before? What’s going on?
Looks like there is a new announcement forecasted for this weekend so hopefuly this is just a temp thing???https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358830
Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday
May 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Looks like there is a new announcement forecasted for this weekend so hopefuly this is just a temp thing???https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358830
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And it doesn’t look like a replacement has been announced? What’s going on?
Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday
May 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
And it doesn’t look like a replacement has been announced? What’s going on?
Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday
May 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday
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Me to my brain organoid in an operant chamber after animal research is defunded
April 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Me to my brain organoid in an operant chamber after animal research is defunded
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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This is insane. $40 billion cut to HHS. 40% of NIH budget will be gone, 27 institutes will shrink down to 8. 44% of CDC budget will disappear, all work on chronic diseases will cease. Head Start will be eliminated.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
wapo.st
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is insane. $40 billion cut to HHS. 40% of NIH budget will be gone, 27 institutes will shrink down to 8. 44% of CDC budget will disappear, all work on chronic diseases will cease. Head Start will be eliminated.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
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HOW DARE THEY COME FOR MY KERRYGOLD?!?!?!
3 months from now you’re going to be seeing one of those DEA massive drugs haul photos except it’s hundreds of bales of uncut Kerrygold
Tariffs: Pound of Irish butter in US could exceed $11
A standard 454g packet of Kerrygold could end up costing $11.45 (€10.42) on American supermarket shelves because of planned 20% tariffs, reports Agriculture Correspondent Aengus Cox.
www.rte.ie
April 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
HOW DARE THEY COME FOR MY KERRYGOLD?!?!?!
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Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:
March 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:
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Was notified this morning that the study section for which I was a reviewer, AA-4, has been dissolved and the SRO is now without a job.
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
March 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Was notified this morning that the study section for which I was a reviewer, AA-4, has been dissolved and the SRO is now without a job.
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
What resources are there for NIH employees to help with finding new employment?
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Glad to see this post getting some traction, because the Federal Register is the WHOLE ballgame, folks. To drive this point home, a recent EO declares that all posts to FR now must be approved by the White House. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
February 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Glad to see this post getting some traction, because the Federal Register is the WHOLE ballgame, folks. To drive this point home, a recent EO declares that all posts to FR now must be approved by the White House. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I've been stalking NIH Reporter to see if any new R01s fund at the 15% F&A rate, but... no new full R01s have funded since 2/10/2025, not a single R01 - across all of NIH - since 2/08. Only 18 grants have been newly funded - I am happy for the F31/F32/F30, R35, K99 trainees who have received $$.
February 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I've been stalking NIH Reporter to see if any new R01s fund at the 15% F&A rate, but... no new full R01s have funded since 2/10/2025, not a single R01 - across all of NIH - since 2/08. Only 18 grants have been newly funded - I am happy for the F31/F32/F30, R35, K99 trainees who have received $$.
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Dear science community, an amazing grad student with @drjrink.bsky.social and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating
www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
Donate to Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire, organized by Patrick Mulholland
A graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience (Kathy L.) at MUSC … Patrick Mulholland needs your support for Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire
www.gofundme.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dear science community, an amazing grad student with @drjrink.bsky.social and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating
www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence