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Tom Kash
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Goats. Great science. Gruyere.
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Happy to share the newest paper from the Khaliq Lab! 🎉 We show that striatal dopaminergic axons can integrate GABAergic inhibition and nicotinic excitation to shape their output.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Presynaptic GABAA receptors control integration of nicotinic input onto dopaminergic axons in the striatum
Brill-Weil et al. show that axonal GABAA receptors regulate excitatory nicotinic input onto the axons of dopaminergic neurons. This regulation alters integration of the subthreshold nicotinic input to...
www.cell.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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New editorial out at JAMA Network Open:

Richmond, Planey, & Kong (2025) Addressing Inequities in Postpartum Readmissions jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Addressing Inequities in Postpartum Readmissions
About 1% to 2% of birthing people experience a postpartum hospital readmission in the US.1 In some situations, postpartum readmissions may not be entirely preventable, such as when patients experience...
jamanetwork.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Wilhoit’s Law for universities: “There must be athletics programs that budgets protect but do not bind alongside academic programs that budgets bind but do not protect.”

“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
CU projects record deficit driven by player costs, Sanders’ salary
The Univ. of Colorado athletic department is projecting that it will run a $27M deficit during the current FY ending in June 2026, in addition to needing $11.9M in institutional support from the unive...
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Scenes from a (very minor) snowy evening.
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I spent a great deal of time this weekend watching pacman frog care videos on youtube.
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Follow along for key points
Only 1 week until Dr. Deena Walker joins us to discuss how thyroid hormone signaling contributes to sex differences in addiction.
🔗 Register today: ow.ly/hJ3p50XA1A5
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Excited to publish my first alcohol paper and first paper as a post doc in the @superkash.bsky.social Lab, titled Lateral hypothalamus CRFR1 regulation of binge drinking: divergence along anterior-posterior axis. Available here authors.elsevier.com/c/1m84v_GtWa...
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Sunset.. and then orion rise
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Grad applications are way down this year.
To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
G is disputing gAte height.

Measurements to follow.
Flame standing behind a gate... For scale.. the gate is 5 feet tall.
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Early Career Faculty Opportunity! @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social Health Sciences Summer Institutes in Infectious Diseases - opportunity to work with mentors on enhancing research development and grant writing skills!
Applications for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort are now open! This highly-rated and effective career development opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases.

Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu!

#UCSD_RAPID #FacultyDevelopment
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Pear tree
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Flame standing behind a gate... For scale.. the gate is 5 feet tall.
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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We went to a party on the rooftop of the Unscripted! They have these “igloos” that are heated inside with comfy couches and bar service. Very fun to see @hartsea.bsky.social and @wordnerdy.bsky.social !
December 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Views from Duke Forest this morning
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In @elife.bsky.social: Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!
Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing
Critical differences in how the BNST responds to different types of fear across male and female mice.
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@thekenchilds.com wait..does DBAP always have this winter festival thing that I just got an email about. where you can have...an igloo on the field??!@?!@?!@
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The 5-HT1A receptor selective agonist NLX-204 displays analgesic activity in the knee osteoarthritis and plantar incisional post-operative pain models in rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691847v1
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Its the night sky. Before wintry mix arrives.
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Its clementine the cat.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
All seeing eye of cinnadog
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Vet visit blues.
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM