Erin Harris, PhD
@neuroerin.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at Georgia State University 🐀🧠👩🏻🔬 stress | sex differences | scicomm | singing | silliness
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Erin Harris, PhD
@neuroerin.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Now officially out! What do CA2 neurons become in an Nr3c2 KO? We used spatial transcriptomics to find out.
With @neuroerin.bsky.social and @jmw86069.bsky.social
Lots in the suppl data rdcu.be/evGGh
With @neuroerin.bsky.social and @jmw86069.bsky.social
Lots in the suppl data rdcu.be/evGGh
Mineralocorticoid receptor knockout alters hippocampal CA2 neurons to become like those in CA1
Communications Biology - Spatial transcriptomics reveals that the molecular phenotype of hippocampal area CA2, which is critical for many social behaviors, is profoundly altered upon knock-out of...
rdcu.be
Understanding how MR makes CA2 weird...using spatial transcriptomics! 🧠🧬 Huge thank you to Serena and Basak for getting this across the finish line - I'm so happy this work is published! #keepCA2weird
@commsbio.nature.com
@commsbio.nature.com
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Researchers with lived experience of mental illness/SUDs bring vital insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation & leadership
This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Breaking barriers: centering researchers with lived experience in psychiatric neuroscience - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Researchers who live with serious mental illness or substance use disorders bring unique insight to psychiatric neuroscience, yet they remain underrepresented in the field. This paper calls for recogn...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Researchers with lived experience of mental illness/SUDs bring vital insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation & leadership
This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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For all the people who think scientists are getting fat off of federal grants, I would just like to mention that yesterday, at the spry age of 52, I bought the first new car I have ever bought in my life. I don't mean to brag or anything, but it's a 2026 base model Corolla.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For all the people who think scientists are getting fat off of federal grants, I would just like to mention that yesterday, at the spry age of 52, I bought the first new car I have ever bought in my life. I don't mean to brag or anything, but it's a 2026 base model Corolla.
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made a mini-game for events: find pairs of matching brains, the Allen mouse brain & a macaque brain are smuggled in to make it easier. meanwhile, we can talk about brain structure, cortical folding, twins, individual differences, & etc. 🙂💗🧠
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
made a mini-game for events: find pairs of matching brains, the Allen mouse brain & a macaque brain are smuggled in to make it easier. meanwhile, we can talk about brain structure, cortical folding, twins, individual differences, & etc. 🙂💗🧠
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I should be in study section right now talking about cool science but it’s cancelled due to the government shutdown. It sucks as a reviewer, but it sucks more for all the applicants who worked so hard on their grants- spending long hours crafting ideas. Relying on this to keep their labs going. 1/
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October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I should be in study section right now talking about cool science but it’s cancelled due to the government shutdown. It sucks as a reviewer, but it sucks more for all the applicants who worked so hard on their grants- spending long hours crafting ideas. Relying on this to keep their labs going. 1/
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I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
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Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.
Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with malia.escobar@emory.edu | 675335
Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience
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September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.
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My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!
apply.interfolio.com/174371
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FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
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⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
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October 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️
📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️
📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l
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Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th!
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
📣 Deadline extended to 29 Oct 2025! The ALBA–Elsevier Award Lecture honours neuroscientists from underrepresented regions (based on Elsevier authorship metrics & journal market share, & past conference speakers).
🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽 loom.ly/FEG7E-w
🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026
✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years
👉🏽 loom.ly/FEG7E-w
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th!
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social
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Every faculty job solicitation in the biomedical sciences should come with a link to a robust University policy on dealing with current and anticipated future NIH / NSF etc funding issues. Including removal of any hint of a major award being required for tenure.
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every faculty job solicitation in the biomedical sciences should come with a link to a robust University policy on dealing with current and anticipated future NIH / NSF etc funding issues. Including removal of any hint of a major award being required for tenure.
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Our current NIH director complaining about carrying papers in 2020.
The supreme court just said it's ok for ICE to ask for your papers.
The supreme court just said it's ok for ICE to ask for your papers.
September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Our current NIH director complaining about carrying papers in 2020.
The supreme court just said it's ok for ICE to ask for your papers.
The supreme court just said it's ok for ICE to ask for your papers.
Ishaan and Violet are science superstars 🤩 I was so impressed with them all summer! I look forward to hearing about all the wonderful things they will accomplish in the future.
So proud of our ION Summer Interns, Violet & Ishaan! These high school students did amazing research in the lab this summer. I was extremely impressed with their contributions to our science & final presentations! The future of 🧠science is bright💡 #ProudPI
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ishaan and Violet are science superstars 🤩 I was so impressed with them all summer! I look forward to hearing about all the wonderful things they will accomplish in the future.
It's #FluorescenceFriday, so I wanna show off the gorgeous RNAscope images from our recently published paper on the mineralocorticoid receptor in area CA2 of the hippocampus 🤩🧠🌀 full paper here --> rdcu.be/evGGh
July 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's #FluorescenceFriday, so I wanna show off the gorgeous RNAscope images from our recently published paper on the mineralocorticoid receptor in area CA2 of the hippocampus 🤩🧠🌀 full paper here --> rdcu.be/evGGh
Understanding how MR makes CA2 weird...using spatial transcriptomics! 🧠🧬 Huge thank you to Serena and Basak for getting this across the finish line - I'm so happy this work is published! #keepCA2weird
@commsbio.nature.com
@commsbio.nature.com
Now officially out! What do CA2 neurons become in an Nr3c2 KO? We used spatial transcriptomics to find out.
With @neuroerin.bsky.social and @jmw86069.bsky.social
Lots in the suppl data rdcu.be/evGGh
With @neuroerin.bsky.social and @jmw86069.bsky.social
Lots in the suppl data rdcu.be/evGGh
Mineralocorticoid receptor knockout alters hippocampal CA2 neurons to become like those in CA1
Communications Biology - Spatial transcriptomics reveals that the molecular phenotype of hippocampal area CA2, which is critical for many social behaviors, is profoundly altered upon knock-out of...
rdcu.be
July 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Understanding how MR makes CA2 weird...using spatial transcriptomics! 🧠🧬 Huge thank you to Serena and Basak for getting this across the finish line - I'm so happy this work is published! #keepCA2weird
@commsbio.nature.com
@commsbio.nature.com
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Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.
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Job is up, consider joining us!
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June 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Job is up, consider joining us!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
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When invited to review a manuscript, I decline. Then I am asked why I am declining. Seems like personal information and I need to add this meme.
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When invited to review a manuscript, I decline. Then I am asked why I am declining. Seems like personal information and I need to add this meme.
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Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career?
Wonder it's like in Australia?
Good news!
Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.
Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!
www.monash.edu/research/eme...
Wonder it's like in Australia?
Good news!
Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.
Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!
www.monash.edu/research/eme...
EMERGE
www.monash.edu
May 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career?
Wonder it's like in Australia?
Good news!
Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.
Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!
www.monash.edu/research/eme...
Wonder it's like in Australia?
Good news!
Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.
Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!
www.monash.edu/research/eme...
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US science is being taken apart brick by brick.
"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
US science is being taken apart brick by brick.
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RTs super appreciated!
Less than one week to get these shirts guaranteed in your size and color choice!
@franzanth.bsky.social designed ‘em!
They support science communication work here in Philly!
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Get ‘em
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RTs super appreciated!
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚨Wee ooh wee ooh 🚨
Less than one week to get these shirts guaranteed in your size and color choice!
@franzanth.bsky.social designed ‘em!
They support science communication work here in Philly!
Screen printed on 100% cotton next level tees.
Get ‘em
Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
RTs super appreciated!
Less than one week to get these shirts guaranteed in your size and color choice!
@franzanth.bsky.social designed ‘em!
They support science communication work here in Philly!
Screen printed on 100% cotton next level tees.
Get ‘em
Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
RTs super appreciated!
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An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
www.standupforscience.net
May 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
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My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
March 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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Tis the day for opinion pieces! This one in eLife by my favorite person who is not on bluesky, Nick Gilpin at LSU. Here he lays out why NIH is a great investment for taxpayers. elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer
Research funded by the National Institutes of Health is essential for improving the health of Americans and developing new drugs and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
elifesciences.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Tis the day for opinion pieces! This one in eLife by my favorite person who is not on bluesky, Nick Gilpin at LSU. Here he lays out why NIH is a great investment for taxpayers. elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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If you are on the editorial board of a journal and they don't have an SABV policy, try to make them implement one.
If you are a peer reviewer, demand it when you review papers and grants.
The NIH is ceding its leadership, the community has to step up.
If you are a peer reviewer, demand it when you review papers and grants.
The NIH is ceding its leadership, the community has to step up.
Even in the absence of formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold ourselves and our neuroscience colleagues accountable for “Sex as a Biological Variable” practices, writes @docbecca.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Amid NIH upheaval, how to keep sex as a biological variable
Even in the absence of formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold our colleagues accountable for SABV practices.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If you are on the editorial board of a journal and they don't have an SABV policy, try to make them implement one.
If you are a peer reviewer, demand it when you review papers and grants.
The NIH is ceding its leadership, the community has to step up.
If you are a peer reviewer, demand it when you review papers and grants.
The NIH is ceding its leadership, the community has to step up.