Sema Quadir PhD
@superrsema.bsky.social
studying the effects of alcohol on the brain
Postdoc at Northwestern. Prev at UNC, Boston University, and UCSB.
She/her/hers
Postdoc at Northwestern. Prev at UNC, Boston University, and UCSB.
She/her/hers
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We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer!
Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!
20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!
Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!
20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!
My friend @christineliu.art and fellow IRACDA scholar (oof rip) designs wonderful wearable messages! The enamel pins especially make nice gifts for recent grads 👀
twophotonart.com
twophotonart.com
Two Photon Art
From fun science enamel pins and patches to colorful zines explaining scientific concepts, we like to explore a multitude of science communication avenues and make them worth coveting!
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May 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer!
Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!
20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!
Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!
20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!
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1. My new study in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social examined how alcohol 💲 sales changed at Nova Scotia Liquor Corp stores during the first 17 months after Canada 🍁 legalized recreational cannabis in 2018.
#EconSky #EpiSky @brocku.ca
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#EconSky #EpiSky @brocku.ca
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Alcohol sales changes in a Canadian province after recreational cannabis legalization
Cannabis legalization’s impacts partly depend on how it affects use of other substances like alcohol. This observational study analyzed alcohol sales …
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May 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
1. My new study in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social examined how alcohol 💲 sales changed at Nova Scotia Liquor Corp stores during the first 17 months after Canada 🍁 legalized recreational cannabis in 2018.
#EconSky #EpiSky @brocku.ca
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#EconSky #EpiSky @brocku.ca
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"As addiction journal editors...We are issuing a call to the addiction science community to reverse the unethical, illegal & unscientific activities of the Trump Admin & the activities of other govts that interfere w the pursuit of scientific knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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April 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"As addiction journal editors...We are issuing a call to the addiction science community to reverse the unethical, illegal & unscientific activities of the Trump Admin & the activities of other govts that interfere w the pursuit of scientific knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Amidst all that is crumbling around us, I am really proud of my group for pressing on and disseminating our science. I'm happy to share that this work led by @tdowns.bsky.social is now in press and open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Amidst all that is crumbling around us, I am really proud of my group for pressing on and disseminating our science. I'm happy to share that this work led by @tdowns.bsky.social is now in press and open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@superrsema.bsky.social Dr. Sema Quadir is a postdoc in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @ the Feinberg School of Medicine. In the Patel Lab, she studies the impact of alcohol on the brain, aiming to create treatments for withdrawal that help prevent relapse. www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-pe...
March 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@superrsema.bsky.social Dr. Sema Quadir is a postdoc in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @ the Feinberg School of Medicine. In the Patel Lab, she studies the impact of alcohol on the brain, aiming to create treatments for withdrawal that help prevent relapse. www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-pe...
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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.
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Not sure how many realize that NIH funding is still frozen. This article details an almost complete dropoff (97%) in NIH funding between Feb3-10 this year and last. Our institution's numbers are consistent with those cited here. If yours are as well, please share!
popular.info/p/trump-main...
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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Not sure how many realize that NIH funding is still frozen. This article details an almost complete dropoff (97%) in NIH funding between Feb3-10 this year and last. Our institution's numbers are consistent with those cited here. If yours are as well, please share!
popular.info/p/trump-main...
popular.info/p/trump-main...
VP of Research replied:
“Sema,
Thank you for your message. Northwestern is indeed actively engaging stakeholders on campus and off to address recent developments, and mitigate their impact on our community.”
“Sema,
Thank you for your message. Northwestern is indeed actively engaging stakeholders on campus and off to address recent developments, and mitigate their impact on our community.”
Emailed my office of research asking if they will take a stand on the current situation…stay tuned!
February 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
VP of Research replied:
“Sema,
Thank you for your message. Northwestern is indeed actively engaging stakeholders on campus and off to address recent developments, and mitigate their impact on our community.”
“Sema,
Thank you for your message. Northwestern is indeed actively engaging stakeholders on campus and off to address recent developments, and mitigate their impact on our community.”
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BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan temporarily blocks OMB's effort to stop funding of current federal grant contracts.
She orders an administrative stay of OMB's pause on open awards — set to go into effect now — until 5p. Monday, Feb. 3.
There will be briefing this week; hearing Monday.
She orders an administrative stay of OMB's pause on open awards — set to go into effect now — until 5p. Monday, Feb. 3.
There will be briefing this week; hearing Monday.
January 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan temporarily blocks OMB's effort to stop funding of current federal grant contracts.
She orders an administrative stay of OMB's pause on open awards — set to go into effect now — until 5p. Monday, Feb. 3.
There will be briefing this week; hearing Monday.
She orders an administrative stay of OMB's pause on open awards — set to go into effect now — until 5p. Monday, Feb. 3.
There will be briefing this week; hearing Monday.
Emailed my office of research asking if they will take a stand on the current situation…stay tuned!
January 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Emailed my office of research asking if they will take a stand on the current situation…stay tuned!
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This is only the beginning.
January 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is only the beginning.
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Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
January 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
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Everyone who works at nasa must have come there with hearts full of exploration and wonder and love of humanity and I don’t know how you can read that email and not feel like you work at a place that is small and cruel
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Everyone who works at nasa must have come there with hearts full of exploration and wonder and love of humanity and I don’t know how you can read that email and not feel like you work at a place that is small and cruel
As said from me to my senators:
January 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
As said from me to my senators:
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I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
My cousin went to the doctor for a cold and the doctor said “well it’s been six days so if it was bacterial it would have resolved by now so it’s gotta be viral” and then proceeded to prescribe antibiotics?????
a young boy is making a funny face and smiling with the words `` really '' written on his face .
ALT: a young boy is making a funny face and smiling with the words `` really '' written on his face .
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January 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My cousin went to the doctor for a cold and the doctor said “well it’s been six days so if it was bacterial it would have resolved by now so it’s gotta be viral” and then proceeded to prescribe antibiotics?????
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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Asking for a friend but does anyone have a protocol for analyzing microglia IHC??
December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Asking for a friend but does anyone have a protocol for analyzing microglia IHC??
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Mouse stereotactic surgery never gets old: you level a tiny irregular skull, go by coordinates based on eyeballed reference points, deliver microdrops of virus following protocolised superstition and whoom, three weeks later, the exact subregion you aimed for lights up (well, sometimes) ✨🧠🧪
November 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Mouse stereotactic surgery never gets old: you level a tiny irregular skull, go by coordinates based on eyeballed reference points, deliver microdrops of virus following protocolised superstition and whoom, three weeks later, the exact subregion you aimed for lights up (well, sometimes) ✨🧠🧪
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First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 :
scidraw.io
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
www.phylopic.org
More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
scidraw.io
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
www.phylopic.org
More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
SciDraw |
Scientific Drawings
SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings
scidraw.io
November 23, 2024 at 6:57 AM
First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 :
scidraw.io
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
www.phylopic.org
More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
scidraw.io
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
www.phylopic.org
More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com
We named him Patch-rick because we should have been patching🫠
November 21, 2024 at 8:24 PM
We named him Patch-rick because we should have been patching🫠
My cats: not afraid of a live mouse, happy to eat it
Also my cats: terrified of a mouse toy that squeaks
Please explain
Also my cats: terrified of a mouse toy that squeaks
Please explain
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
My cats: not afraid of a live mouse, happy to eat it
Also my cats: terrified of a mouse toy that squeaks
Please explain
Also my cats: terrified of a mouse toy that squeaks
Please explain
Win of the day: first first author (and very first corresponding author) paper from my one year in the Patel lab submitted to biorxiv!!! 😁
Loss of the day: the ephys gods were upset with me…only got 8 cells today 😬
Loss of the day: the ephys gods were upset with me…only got 8 cells today 😬
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Win of the day: first first author (and very first corresponding author) paper from my one year in the Patel lab submitted to biorxiv!!! 😁
Loss of the day: the ephys gods were upset with me…only got 8 cells today 😬
Loss of the day: the ephys gods were upset with me…only got 8 cells today 😬
Getting excited to patch tomorrow for the first time in months but also knowing the ephys gods hate it when you take a break from the rig
a woman in a pink shirt is holding something in her hands and says wish me luck
ALT: a woman in a pink shirt is holding something in her hands and says wish me luck
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November 15, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Getting excited to patch tomorrow for the first time in months but also knowing the ephys gods hate it when you take a break from the rig