Amy LeMessurier
@amylemessurier.bsky.social
neuro postdoc at NYU
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Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
August 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
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The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
July 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
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Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034).
Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it!
5calls.org/issue/federa...
Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it!
5calls.org/issue/federa...
Oppose OMB's Political Attacks on Scientific Research ⭑ 5 Calls
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), led by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought, has proposed sweeping rule changes to the federal grantmaking …
5calls.org
June 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034).
Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it!
5calls.org/issue/federa...
Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it!
5calls.org/issue/federa...
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If you have not left a public comment on the draconian OMB-2026-0034, here's a quick thread to make it easy.
#standupforscience #neuroskyence
Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
#standupforscience #neuroskyence
Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
June 3, 2026 at 4:32 PM
If you have not left a public comment on the draconian OMB-2026-0034, here's a quick thread to make it easy.
#standupforscience #neuroskyence
Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
#standupforscience #neuroskyence
Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIH Seeks Input on Framework for Next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
May 20, 2026 at 7:11 PM
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why
Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night.
That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night.
That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
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Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - US military says Kuwait 'mistakenly shot down' 3 American F-15E Strike Eagles aircraft during combat.
@apnews.com
@apnews.com
March 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
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"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
www.investigativepost.org
February 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
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What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
www.inquirer.com
February 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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I'll add that while ICE does not have the manpower to do this everywhere, they don't need to do this everywhere to have the intended effect
One of my biggest fears about the midterms is that ICE could flood the polls with agents who perform Kavanaugh Stops on every non-white person before they get a chance to cast a ballot, then detain them until voting is over. Which is not far-fetched at this point. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-po...
February 17, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I'll add that while ICE does not have the manpower to do this everywhere, they don't need to do this everywhere to have the intended effect
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We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown:
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
January 29, 2026 at 4:43 AM
We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
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“US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.”
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt “illegal immigrants”
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.
The revelation comes as ...
www.bmj.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 AM
“US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.”
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha...
We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.
We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC is looking great! Fantastic lineup already. More talks will be selected based on abstracts. Please apply. 👇 #bioacoustics #neuroskyence
potential dream job for in vivo electrophysiologists looking for industry roles. also the people are cool! science.xyz/careers/neur...
Neuroscientist | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.
science.xyz
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
potential dream job for in vivo electrophysiologists looking for industry roles. also the people are cool! science.xyz/careers/neur...
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🚨Baby Tuskegee 2.0 🚨
The U.S. is funding a study echoing Tuskegee—this time involving babies. (1/6🧵)
📱 CALL/EMAIL YOUR REPS. Today.
(Study may already be underway.)
Faust got the study protocol— it’s unethical, dangerous, and worse than we feared.
Let's dive in 👉
bsky.app/profile/jere...
The U.S. is funding a study echoing Tuskegee—this time involving babies. (1/6🧵)
📱 CALL/EMAIL YOUR REPS. Today.
(Study may already be underway.)
Faust got the study protocol— it’s unethical, dangerous, and worse than we feared.
Let's dive in 👉
bsky.app/profile/jere...
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
🚨Baby Tuskegee 2.0 🚨
The U.S. is funding a study echoing Tuskegee—this time involving babies. (1/6🧵)
📱 CALL/EMAIL YOUR REPS. Today.
(Study may already be underway.)
Faust got the study protocol— it’s unethical, dangerous, and worse than we feared.
Let's dive in 👉
bsky.app/profile/jere...
The U.S. is funding a study echoing Tuskegee—this time involving babies. (1/6🧵)
📱 CALL/EMAIL YOUR REPS. Today.
(Study may already be underway.)
Faust got the study protocol— it’s unethical, dangerous, and worse than we feared.
Let's dive in 👉
bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Well it’s been quite a year 🫠 but I’m happy and tremendously grateful to close it out on a personal science high-note - Ill be going to my first ever Cosyne, and I officially received the NOA for my K99/R00 from NIDCD 🙏 thank you Santa ie hardworking NIH staff for the best possible holiday gift 🥹
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Well it’s been quite a year 🫠 but I’m happy and tremendously grateful to close it out on a personal science high-note - Ill be going to my first ever Cosyne, and I officially received the NOA for my K99/R00 from NIDCD 🙏 thank you Santa ie hardworking NIH staff for the best possible holiday gift 🥹
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Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
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1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Taken together, it appears that as RFK Jr. cuts funding and aid to vulnerable countries, he is more than willing to exploit infants in a situation where we already know the HepB birth dose is safe and effective.
This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Taken together, it appears that as RFK Jr. cuts funding and aid to vulnerable countries, he is more than willing to exploit infants in a situation where we already know the HepB birth dose is safe and effective.
This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
This is disgraceful, and it most certainly will not improve trust in public health.
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Reminder‼️ALL ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is currently recalled due to an outbreak of infant botulism.
As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reminder‼️ALL ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is currently recalled due to an outbreak of infant botulism.
As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
As of Dec 12, Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertsons were still stocking this formula. Do not buy it.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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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
#blueprint 1/7
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