Claire Foldi
@foldi.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying the biological mechanisms of eating disorders in Melbourne, Australia. Mother of cats and graduate students.
https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/foldi-lab
https://www.monash.edu/discovery-institute/foldi-lab
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Claire Foldi
@foldi.bsky.social
· Jul 1
Today is the day! I can officially share my promotion to Associate Professor at @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🎉🎉 - Thanks to my lab (past and present), colleagues, letter writers and supporters 😊
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After a busy semester of teaching it is so nice to be at the Biological Psychiatry Australia Conference. First up today is @foldi.bsky.social and team with the development of a 'library of animal models', which sounds like a fantastic resource for researchers studying clinical symptoms/disorders
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
After a busy semester of teaching it is so nice to be at the Biological Psychiatry Australia Conference. First up today is @foldi.bsky.social and team with the development of a 'library of animal models', which sounds like a fantastic resource for researchers studying clinical symptoms/disorders
Hey bsky-ers! New preprint from the lab on #psilocybin & social behaviour in #female mice in contexts relevant to eating disorders (food restriction, exercise & combo of) by PhD student Sheida 💙🦋
Psilocybin exerts differential effects on social behaviour and inflammation in mice in contexts of activity-based anorexia (ABA) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682467v1
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Hey bsky-ers! New preprint from the lab on #psilocybin & social behaviour in #female mice in contexts relevant to eating disorders (food restriction, exercise & combo of) by PhD student Sheida 💙🦋
Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Toward a Genetic Signature of Resistance to Activity‐Based Anorexia in Striatal Projecting Cortical Neurons
Objective Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies and genome-wide association study (GWAS) suggests the involvement of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and striatum dysfunction in the pathophysiology o...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Incredibly proud of @kxhuang.bsky.social for persisting with such a challenging dataset from her PhD! We found some intriguing genetic targets in a corticostriatal circuit that may be involved in the development of #anorexia nervosa 🤔 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Claire Foldi
A starter pack including all attendees (that I can find for now)
Please let me know if I missed anyone!
#GRCPsychedelics
go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr
Please let me know if I missed anyone!
#GRCPsychedelics
go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr
July 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A starter pack including all attendees (that I can find for now)
Please let me know if I missed anyone!
#GRCPsychedelics
go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr
Please let me know if I missed anyone!
#GRCPsychedelics
go.bsky.app/2ExXJcr
Today is the day! I can officially share my promotion to Associate Professor at @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🎉🎉 - Thanks to my lab (past and present), colleagues, letter writers and supporters 😊
July 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Today is the day! I can officially share my promotion to Associate Professor at @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🎉🎉 - Thanks to my lab (past and present), colleagues, letter writers and supporters 😊
Reposted by Claire Foldi
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies — a Review by Claire J. Foldi & Kristi R. Griffiths
@foldi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
@foldi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors. Foldi and Griffiths consider how ...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies — a Review by Claire J. Foldi & Kristi R. Griffiths
@foldi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
@foldi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors....
www.nature.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to Dr Kristi Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me for @natrevneuro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Claire Foldi
The 15th Annual BPA Meeting is fast approaching, and we are so pleased to announce this year's excellent symposia line up!
Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠
#BPA2025
Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠
#BPA2025
June 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The 15th Annual BPA Meeting is fast approaching, and we are so pleased to announce this year's excellent symposia line up!
Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠
#BPA2025
Head to our website to confirm your membership for this year + stay tuned for symposium details, general abstract submission & early bird registration🧠
#BPA2025
Reposted by Claire Foldi
We created a photometry python package for unbiased standardised post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence intervals
No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever
Follow our simple step by step instructions.
@foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever
Follow our simple step by step instructions.
@foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We created a photometry python package for unbiased standardised post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence intervals
No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever
Follow our simple step by step instructions.
@foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever
Follow our simple step by step instructions.
@foldi.bsky.social @philjrdb.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out the latest work from the lab led by @kxhuang.bsky.social
A genetic signature of resistance to activity-based anorexia in striatal projecting cortical neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642272v1
March 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Check out the latest work from the lab led by @kxhuang.bsky.social
Reposted by Claire Foldi
For those hurting after DP EOI outcomes today, courtesy of ChatGPT (I prompted with the first line, it will have to go over 2 posts as it's too long):
Oh ARC, why won't you fund me?
I’ve written papers, set them free,
With research deep and insights bright,
Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.
Oh ARC, why won't you fund me?
I’ve written papers, set them free,
With research deep and insights bright,
Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.
February 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
For those hurting after DP EOI outcomes today, courtesy of ChatGPT (I prompted with the first line, it will have to go over 2 posts as it's too long):
Oh ARC, why won't you fund me?
I’ve written papers, set them free,
With research deep and insights bright,
Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.
Oh ARC, why won't you fund me?
I’ve written papers, set them free,
With research deep and insights bright,
Yet still, no grant, no guiding light.
Now that she's finally migrated from the Other Place I can officially congratulate @kynaconn.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship from our Faculty @monashuniversity.bsky.social - Well done Kyna!! 🤩
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Now that she's finally migrated from the Other Place I can officially congratulate @kynaconn.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship from our Faculty @monashuniversity.bsky.social - Well done Kyna!! 🤩
Reposted by Claire Foldi
Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle
🆕 in DPN‼️
@rossenator.bsky.social & co @einsteinmededu.bsky.social developed an object detection machine learning tool to identify cell types of the estrous cycle in mice, providing a fast & reliable method for estrous cycle monitoring in neuroscience studies!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@rossenator.bsky.social & co @einsteinmededu.bsky.social developed an object detection machine learning tool to identify cell types of the estrous cycle in mice, providing a fast & reliable method for estrous cycle monitoring in neuroscience studies!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A novel method for estrous cycle staging using supervised object detection - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience
This study presents a new machine learning tool called ODES (Object Detection for Estrous Staging) to determine the estrogen-related cycle stage in female mice. Unlike traditional models that classify...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle
Reposted by Claire Foldi
A perfect score for the R13 proposal for the GRC Psychedelics conference #GRCPsychedelics - what a delight to receive the news before the holidays 💯🎁
The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees.
www.grc.org/neurobiology...
The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees.
www.grc.org/neurobiology...
December 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
A perfect score for the R13 proposal for the GRC Psychedelics conference #GRCPsychedelics - what a delight to receive the news before the holidays 💯🎁
The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees.
www.grc.org/neurobiology...
The proposal will entirely go towards supporting travel awards and events for trainees.
www.grc.org/neurobiology...
Reposted by Claire Foldi
“To write well is to think clearly” - which is to say that by delegating more and more of your writing effort to AI, you are inviting the slow erosion of your own ability to think clearly.
December 13, 2024 at 3:56 AM
“To write well is to think clearly” - which is to say that by delegating more and more of your writing effort to AI, you are inviting the slow erosion of your own ability to think clearly.
Reposted by Claire Foldi
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education
All I have seen on here for days is #ACNP2024 posts and the pain of jealousy hurts more than the unquestionable jetlag that would accompany such a trip. How does an extra-US gal like me score an invite for 2025?
December 12, 2024 at 10:48 AM
All I have seen on here for days is #ACNP2024 posts and the pain of jealousy hurts more than the unquestionable jetlag that would accompany such a trip. How does an extra-US gal like me score an invite for 2025?
The glass paperweight award I have always dreamed of. Couldn’t have done it without my amazing lab - who refuse to join this platform so may not have jobs for long 🩵
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 AM
The glass paperweight award I have always dreamed of. Couldn’t have done it without my amazing lab - who refuse to join this platform so may not have jobs for long 🩵
Reposted by Claire Foldi
Not sure who needs to hear this but the only thing a first draft has to do is exist. Everything else comes later.
December 1, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but the only thing a first draft has to do is exist. Everything else comes later.
Reposted by Claire Foldi
A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...
authors.elsevier.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:51 PM
A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...
My lab has been slow on the 🦋uptake, despite my nagging, but please welcome and follow these two brilliant neuroscience students @kxhuang.bsky.social & @kasparmccoy.bsky.social (hopefully more will follow suit)
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
My lab has been slow on the 🦋uptake, despite my nagging, but please welcome and follow these two brilliant neuroscience students @kxhuang.bsky.social & @kasparmccoy.bsky.social (hopefully more will follow suit)
Reposted by Claire Foldi
If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 AM
If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs
Reposted by Claire Foldi
Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin - Nature
Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin
www.nature.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
