Louise Risher
@louise-risher.bsky.social
Neuroscientist / glial-neuronal interactions and behavior / immigrant / wife / mum / lover of all things sci-fi
MLRisherLab.com
MLRisherLab.com
@sfn.org Mika Jones, one of our amazing undergrads, will be sharing some preliminary work on adolescent tripartite development across cortical subregions. Sunday afternoon poster session at B23!
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@sfn.org Mika Jones, one of our amazing undergrads, will be sharing some preliminary work on adolescent tripartite development across cortical subregions. Sunday afternoon poster session at B23!
@sfn.org Check out Saturday afternoon poster session. Olivia Coulter will be presenting her work at C24 demonstrating how PAP-synapses structurally and functionally decouple following alcohol and how it can be restored to rescue behavior!
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@sfn.org Check out Saturday afternoon poster session. Olivia Coulter will be presenting her work at C24 demonstrating how PAP-synapses structurally and functionally decouple following alcohol and how it can be restored to rescue behavior!
Well, study section is officially cancelled :(
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Well, study section is officially cancelled :(
Reposted by Louise Risher
Does everyone know there is a comment period re: changes in animal research at NIH? I didn't. Closes July 14. The scientific community need to respond en masse. I asked university leadership to distribute to reach our colleagues not on social media, you can too
go.pardot.com/e/858023/duc...
go.pardot.com/e/858023/duc...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
go.pardot.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Does everyone know there is a comment period re: changes in animal research at NIH? I didn't. Closes July 14. The scientific community need to respond en masse. I asked university leadership to distribute to reach our colleagues not on social media, you can too
go.pardot.com/e/858023/duc...
go.pardot.com/e/858023/duc...
Reposted by Louise Risher
Would love insight into whether the argument here should make us 99.9% reassured:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
goodscience.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Would love insight into whether the argument here should make us 99.9% reassured:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
I'm really trying to keep calm
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
scim.ag
January 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I'm really trying to keep calm
Reposted by Louise Risher
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
Great article by PBS
Wonderful seeing @katiew.bsky.social bring her addiction science and treatment wisdom to the PBS News Hour last night! (plus, so nice to get a plug for reductions in drinking as a valid tx goal out to a national audience)
www.pbs.org/video/rethin...
www.pbs.org/video/rethin...
PBS News Hour | Why a promising treatment for alcohol abuse is barely used | Season 2024
Why a promising treatment for alcohol abuse is barely used
www.pbs.org
January 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great article by PBS