Maribel Hernández
@mbhdz.bsky.social
she/her/ella｜ASERT/IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New Mexico｜Research interests include behavioral neuroscience, genetics, addiction, and reward 🐭🥃
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Maribel Hernández
@mbhdz.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Dpp6 Homozygous Knockout Mice Exhibit Increased Ethanol Conditioned Place Preference and Acute Ethanol-Induced Anxiolytic Behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670589v1
Excited to share a new preprint from the Barkley-Levenson Lab! 🤠
Excited to share a new preprint from the Barkley-Levenson Lab! 🤠
Dpp6 Homozygous Knockout Mice Exhibit Increased Ethanol Conditioned Place Preference and Acute Ethanol-Induced Anxiolytic Behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.670589v1
August 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Excited to share a new preprint from the Barkley-Levenson Lab! 🤠
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Such a beautiful place!
July 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Such a beautiful place!
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⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity.
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
New Doctoral Degree Area ::
Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
psych.unm.edu
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity.
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
Registration is open for the 43rd Annual MWSOT Meeting! Deadlines for early bird registration and oral presentation consideration are Sunday, August 3.
July 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Registration is open for the 43rd Annual MWSOT Meeting! Deadlines for early bird registration and oral presentation consideration are Sunday, August 3.
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/
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
Effects of binge-like ethanol drinking on nest building behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657694v1
June 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Effects of binge-like ethanol drinking on nest building behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657694v1
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
Federally funded DEI training programs and funding sources are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling these gaps.
By Paige Miranda
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
By Paige Miranda
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts
Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.
www.thetransmitter.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Federally funded DEI training programs and funding sources are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling these gaps.
By Paige Miranda
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
By Paige Miranda
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
"efficiency"...just pondering all the lost "man"hours that went into applications for programs that no longer exist. For applicants themselves, for mentors that reviewed those applications, for committees/staff that organized those programs, for faculty that reviewed those applications
a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room .
Alt: a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room of pure chaos.
media.tenor.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"efficiency"...just pondering all the lost "man"hours that went into applications for programs that no longer exist. For applicants themselves, for mentors that reviewed those applications, for committees/staff that organized those programs, for faculty that reviewed those applications
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.
February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.
Reposted by Maribel Hernández
Happy to share a bit of work from my time at UNM thus far onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder
We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Happy to share a bit of work from my time at UNM thus far onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder
We looked at the networks responsible for contextual memories and how they may be impacted by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder