Naima Dahir
@naimadahir.bsky.social
Postdoc at Michigan 🔜 Assistant Professor at UTSW. Sensory processing, feeding, and other motivated behaviors.
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Naima Dahir
@naimadahir.bsky.social
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I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.
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Excited to share my most recent postdoctoral work in the Jeanne lab @yaleneuro.bsky.social !
“Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?
“Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?
Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics
Extracting relevant features of a complex sensory signal typically involves sequential processing through multiple brain regions. However, identifying the logic and mechanisms of these transformations...
www.biorxiv.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Excited to share my most recent postdoctoral work in the Jeanne lab @yaleneuro.bsky.social !
“Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?
“Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?
I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.
September 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.
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Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds
Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds
Girls as young as eight show a unique sensitivity to numbers representing their body weight, a new study finds. The results highlight early gender differences in attention and raise questions about how body awareness develops and affects girls’ perceptions later in life.
www.psypost.org
June 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds
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Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms
Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...
journals.plos.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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buff.ly/ypISrtx
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Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.
March 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.
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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com
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We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns
The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...
www.biorxiv.org
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!
thanks for the mentorship!
This weekend, we concluded our Board and Scientific Advisory meeting. This group of biomedical scientists guides our conference portfolio by prioritizing content & conducting peer reviews to uphold Keystone Symposia's leadership in scientific conferences. www.keystonesymposia.org/about-us/gov....
January 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!
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www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art
UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews
The University of California, the nation's top recipient of federal research funding in higher education, is raising questions and concerns about the Trump administration's pause in research grant rev...
www.latimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art
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3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience.
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics.
3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year!
(mini thread)
Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸
December 6, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸
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Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result.
Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable
Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable
There should be an open repository - like bioRxiv, but much more casual - where people can document their failed projects that aren't worth the trouble of trying to publish. A massive graveyard of hypotheses with rich indexing, focusing on methodological choices. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #science
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result.
Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable
Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable
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New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app
Functional dissection of metabolic trait-associated gene regulation in steady state and stimulated human skeletal muscle cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.28.625886v1
Functional dissection of metabolic trait-associated gene regulation in steady state and stimulated human skeletal muscle cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.28.625886v1
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a common metabolic disorder characterized by dysregulation of glucose metab
www.biorxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 12:20 AM
New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app
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You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊
November 30, 2024 at 1:06 PM
You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊
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1/3 Amen.
And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black.
We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too.
Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.
And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black.
We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too.
Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.
November 30, 2024 at 5:45 PM
1/3 Amen.
And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black.
We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too.
Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.
And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black.
We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too.
Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.
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Our latest work to understand the dynamics of brain GIP and GLP-1 signaling to mediate responses to pharmacotherapy for obesity. Replicates key work from Timo Mueller and lab at the Helmholtz and takes it a little farther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Specific loss of GIPR signaling in GABAergic neurons enhances GLP-1R agonist-induced body weight loss
Dual incretin agonists are among the most effective pharmaceutical treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes to date. Such therapeutics can target tw…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Our latest work to understand the dynamics of brain GIP and GLP-1 signaling to mediate responses to pharmacotherapy for obesity. Replicates key work from Timo Mueller and lab at the Helmholtz and takes it a little farther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today's a big day in Busan, South Korea, where nations are meeting to finalise a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The focus is on tackling the problem at its source—how plastics are made and used. This could be a turning point for addressing the #PlasticCrisis.
apnews.com/article/3c50...
apnews.com/article/3c50...
In South Korea, nations meet in final round to address global plastic crisis
Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.
apnews.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Today's a big day in Busan, South Korea, where nations are meeting to finalise a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The focus is on tackling the problem at its source—how plastics are made and used. This could be a turning point for addressing the #PlasticCrisis.
apnews.com/article/3c50...
apnews.com/article/3c50...
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Sneak peek of the new stuff this season in the twophotonart.com shop! 🧠🧪
(Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)
(Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Sneak peek of the new stuff this season in the twophotonart.com shop! 🧠🧪
(Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)
(Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)
