Cydney Martin
@cydm.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Drexel Med Barson & Raghupathi Labs studying sex differences in affective behaviors and limbic neuropeptides after mTBI
Really excited to see the future work done on this project after I graduate!
Pleased to report that @rameshraghupathi.bsky.social and I have been awarded an R21 from NINDS to study the role of PACAP in affective behavior after adolescent mTBI. Looking forward to a fruitful, funded collaboration!
September 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Really excited to see the future work done on this project after I graduate!
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Very happy to see this review published!
Brody Carpenter and I took a deep dive into the receptor variants for PACAP, and why we think the Motivated Behavior community should pay attention to them. Take a look!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Brody Carpenter and I took a deep dive into the receptor variants for PACAP, and why we think the Motivated Behavior community should pay attention to them. Take a look!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a pleiotropic neuropeptide with established roles in stress, affective behavior, and motivated behavior. Its primary receptor in the brai....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Very happy to see this review published!
Brody Carpenter and I took a deep dive into the receptor variants for PACAP, and why we think the Motivated Behavior community should pay attention to them. Take a look!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Brody Carpenter and I took a deep dive into the receptor variants for PACAP, and why we think the Motivated Behavior community should pay attention to them. Take a look!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share my first FA paper! We show that female rats, not male rats, exhibit depression-like behavior well into adulthood after adolescent single and repetitive mild TBI, an outcome that is estrus dependent after single but not repeat injury! 1/🧵
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March 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Excited to share my first FA paper! We show that female rats, not male rats, exhibit depression-like behavior well into adulthood after adolescent single and repetitive mild TBI, an outcome that is estrus dependent after single but not repeat injury! 1/🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why is my mom so incredible at gifts?? I am not sure that I inherited this ability
March 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Why is my mom so incredible at gifts?? I am not sure that I inherited this ability
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Hey Bluesky! This account is for Biocord, a biology community with ~31k+ members. We want to make science more accessible and give everyone a chance to learn.
We’re launching a talk series soon! If you’re interested in biology, grad school, or good science, come by!
Join here - discord.gg/biology
We’re launching a talk series soon! If you’re interested in biology, grad school, or good science, come by!
Join here - discord.gg/biology
Join the Biocord Discord Server!
We are a community of Biology enthusiasts and have everyone from doctorates to highschoolers from all across the globe! | 31981 members
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September 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Hey Bluesky! This account is for Biocord, a biology community with ~31k+ members. We want to make science more accessible and give everyone a chance to learn.
We’re launching a talk series soon! If you’re interested in biology, grad school, or good science, come by!
Join here - discord.gg/biology
We’re launching a talk series soon! If you’re interested in biology, grad school, or good science, come by!
Join here - discord.gg/biology
Now at my 3rd #Neurotrauma meeting here in Philly this year! Not presenting this year but volunteering and representing. It's been a fun and interesting experience on the volunteer end. #NNS2025
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Now at my 3rd #Neurotrauma meeting here in Philly this year! Not presenting this year but volunteering and representing. It's been a fun and interesting experience on the volunteer end. #NNS2025
I've not been good about posting recently. Had a great time presenting my research at #NEURAL2025 #UAB last week. Super fun little conference, made lots of friends and all the talks were so excellent! Hoping to see event photos soon as I forgot to take any pics. @uabneurorms.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've not been good about posting recently. Had a great time presenting my research at #NEURAL2025 #UAB last week. Super fun little conference, made lots of friends and all the talks were so excellent! Hoping to see event photos soon as I forgot to take any pics. @uabneurorms.bsky.social
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Please read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science.
Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...
Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...
NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
apnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Please read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science.
Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...
Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...
4 years ago I moved to Philly for graduate school. My mom is visiting me currently and showed me this picture of a moment between my dog and I from the move 4 years ago.
May 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
4 years ago I moved to Philly for graduate school. My mom is visiting me currently and showed me this picture of a moment between my dog and I from the move 4 years ago.
Improved my F31 score by 11 points from the first submission. Don't know if it is good enough for funding still, yet a relief to see actual improvement.
April 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Improved my F31 score by 11 points from the first submission. Don't know if it is good enough for funding still, yet a relief to see actual improvement.
For some fun news, I was selected to give a short talk at the UAB NEURAL Conference 2025 in June. My talk will be about my ongoing dissertation project addressing limbic neuropeptides mediating sex differences in affective behavior after rmTBI during adolescence. @uabneurorms.bsky.social #NEURAL2025
April 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
For some fun news, I was selected to give a short talk at the UAB NEURAL Conference 2025 in June. My talk will be about my ongoing dissertation project addressing limbic neuropeptides mediating sex differences in affective behavior after rmTBI during adolescence. @uabneurorms.bsky.social #NEURAL2025
My dog suddenly developing IBS (or maybe food allergies), pooping a bunch in the apartment and thus switching to the expensive prescription dog food diet is a sort of cherry on top of how this year has been going so far 🙃
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
My dog suddenly developing IBS (or maybe food allergies), pooping a bunch in the apartment and thus switching to the expensive prescription dog food diet is a sort of cherry on top of how this year has been going so far 🙃
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Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
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In order to protect students from antisemitism at Columbia, the administration (advised by not one but two people who did a Nazi salute this year) is freezing support for students to learn science.
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
March 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In order to protect students from antisemitism at Columbia, the administration (advised by not one but two people who did a Nazi salute this year) is freezing support for students to learn science.
Some good signs from Stand Up For Science Philadelphia yesterday
March 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Some good signs from Stand Up For Science Philadelphia yesterday
So is there a way to know if my fellowship study section is actually meeting right now? The date hasn't updated for me but considering that I don't think it made it into the FR, I'm assuming they aren't?
March 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So is there a way to know if my fellowship study section is actually meeting right now? The date hasn't updated for me but considering that I don't think it made it into the FR, I'm assuming they aren't?
This is a really good article. Clarified a lot for me.
The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is a really good article. Clarified a lot for me.
Just finding it increasingly hard to even get out of bed every morning now because the existential dread is heavier than my actual weighted blanket
February 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just finding it increasingly hard to even get out of bed every morning now because the existential dread is heavier than my actual weighted blanket
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Very pumped to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social at Philly on March 7th at City Hall!
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February 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Very pumped to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social at Philly on March 7th at City Hall!
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People in PA: I just got a "FetterLetter" email from Senator Fetterman and this link to fill out for impacted federal grants was included. Please fill this out if you have had a federal grant impacted because of the funding freeze. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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February 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
People in PA: I just got a "FetterLetter" email from Senator Fetterman and this link to fill out for impacted federal grants was included. Please fill this out if you have had a federal grant impacted because of the funding freeze. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.
I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
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#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬
February 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.
This is like the alternative plot to the movie Idiocracy, I do not understand what reality is anymore.
"To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it as "Red, White, and Blueland."
"To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it as "Red, White, and Blueland."
www.congress.gov
February 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is like the alternative plot to the movie Idiocracy, I do not understand what reality is anymore.
"To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it as "Red, White, and Blueland."
"To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it as "Red, White, and Blueland."
So many things over the last week just keeping me in a constant state of either anxiety or just anger that a meltdown over the mildest inconvenience might be imminent. I've been cuddling with my dog a lot and that helps some
February 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
So many things over the last week just keeping me in a constant state of either anxiety or just anger that a meltdown over the mildest inconvenience might be imminent. I've been cuddling with my dog a lot and that helps some
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Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts.
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
February 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts.
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...