Lizzie Manning
drlizziemanning.bsky.social
Lizzie Manning
@drlizziemanning.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and greyhound mum in Newcastle 🇦🇺🦘

Studying neural basis of inflexible behaviour in OCD and other psychiatric disorders 🔬🧠

Passionate about EDI, First Nations justice and climate action

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/lizzie-manning
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Join us on Dec. 2 for a webinar on the major advances in basal ganglia mapping, including cross-species cellular mapping and open-access visualization tools.

📅 Dec. 2, 9-10:30am PT
📍 Online
🔗 Register: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

#studyBRAIN #neuroskyence
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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If you didn’t get a chance to purchase the exclusive 5-year #BlackInNeuro pin last night, I have more with me today! ✨

We’re asking for $15 donations to support BIN programming ❤️ blackinneuro.com/donate

Allies are welcome to purchase pins as well 🙌🏾 #SfN25
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Our #BlackInNeuro social is always the highlight of my year 🤩

These were our undergrads/lab tech, graduate student, postdoc, and faculty/professional attendees respectively ✨

Love seeing our community continue to grow & support each other in tumultuous times 💞 #SfN25 @blackinneuro.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.

> 74 thousand trial participants affected

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Posters are up now for another hour and a couple more tomorrow! #SfN25 #SfN2025 @sfn.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Missing SfN swag 😭😭😭
Feeling a little unprepared for the rain at #SfN25? Come by booth 2801 tomorrow morning to grab the last of our free umbrellas!

Each umbrella features either a UMAP from the Allen Brain Cell Atlas or an ExA-SPIM visualization.
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Folks the Sharpe Lab are in the house for @sfn.org! 🎉 Come check out our talks and posters. We’ve been doing some cool stuff down under 🇦🇺 on dopamine, reinforcement learning, and remapping of the fear circuit. 🧠 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🥳 HUGE shout-out to everyone travelling to the Blockade from outside of Newcastle! There's info on how to get there from your local hub in the Guide docs.google.com/document/d/1... see you there comrades! 🎉🌊
The People's Blockade 2025 GUIDE [PUBLIC]
The People’s Blockade Guide 2025 Make history as we escalate for the climate Protest Camp: Thur Nov 27 - Tue Dec 2 Protestival: Flotillas + Festivities: Sat 29 + Sun 30; Climate Concert: Sat 29 If yo...
docs.google.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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First #SfN25 stop is always the @christineliu.art Two Photon Art booth! ✨

Check out these cool mystery pin boxes that they have this year 😍🐭

I love my little laser mouse 🎇
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
November 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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At the pre #SfN @storiesofwin.bsky.social Symposium. Inspiring, entertaining, motivating, and encouraging to hear all these honest stories from these women scientists who truly are making an impact on their environment and science in general.
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Pack rain gear if you are going to #SfN2025
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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We look forward to discussing these with you all #SfN25, #SfN2025
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Congratulations Max E. Joffe, Ph.D. for being awarded the NEECA Award for the top paper from an early-career researcher, from their own independent lab, published in print in NPP during 2024 tinyurl.com/yfha88u9!
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The @ausneurosoc.bsky.social equity, diversity and inclusion committee are excited to host this panel which will be streamed live by @network-alba.bsky.social , to share approaches that we're taking in our region to build sustainable EDI programs

www.alba.network/declarationw...
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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If you’re into AFTER-PARTY- Please join us at Stan and Jared’s Karaoke Dance Party after 9 pm at Flicks (1017 University Ave, San Diego - See pics below for directions etc) Come celebrate our "retirement" and have one great bash to close the meeting out!
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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@sfn.org and neuro peeps! For 10+ years, you have honored us w/your attending our Psychopharmacology Social. #SfN2025 will be the last time I and @jaredwyoung.bsky.social will host this event (Tues, Nov 18, 7-9 pm, Marriott Marquis-Grand Ballroom Salon 5). Drink, groove and mingle one last time-AND-
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social

"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"

We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth

www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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What an exciting program for GRC Frontal Cortex in 2026! www.grc.org/frontal-cort...
2026 Frontal Cortex Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Frontal Cortex will be held in Holderness, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🚨 We won! Charges dismissed for the first People’s Blockade defendants! ⚖️

A major win for the climate movement and protest rights in NSW. And against Minns’ anti-protest laws.

Blockade 2025: Nov 27 – Dec 2 🌊

Sign to stop the coal ships:
🔗 risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coal_ships
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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🚨 In Newcastle today, Rising Tide painted “TAX ME” on a coal ship named Climate Justice, calling for a 78% fossil fuel profits tax to fund a just transition for workers + communities. Australia’s biggest polluters pay less tax than nurses.

#RisingTide #ClimateJustice
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...
University of Rochester Neurobiologist Suzanne Haber Elected to National Academy of Medicine
An internationally recognized scientist, her work has transformed our understanding of the brain networks that play a central role in many mental health disorders, including obsessive compulsive disor...
www.urmc.rochester.edu
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM