Such an amazing symposium on menopausal transition today in Belgrade! 🔥w @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social Selma Kanazir, Ivana Bjelobaba, @mladiendo.bsky.social . So much food for thought in a warm & stimulating atmosphere. It was also special to have @liisagalea.bsky.social with us.. on her B-day! ♥️
Honoured to be in Belgrade 🇷🇸 to talk about my favourite topic women’s 🧠 health!! Thanks to @kundakoviclab.bsky.social Ana Milosevic! Ljiljana Marina Selma Kanazir Ivana Bjelobaba
Greetings from beautiful #Torino ! Here for Steroids & Nervous System conference! We had a fantastic all-star symposium on Ovarian hormones in brain plasticity & disease risk! @cogneuroend.bsky.social @ncndgroup.bsky.social @neuromaternal.bsky.social @liisagalea.bsky.social & food is 👌 #SNS2026
I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior
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Thread! 👇🏻
Congrats, Cate and the team! Really happy for you! :)
Together with the scientific symposium on the menopausal transition happening in Belgrade a day earlier, Serbian scientists and clinicians are leading the way on how to study and educate people on this topic! Knowledge is power! #WomensHealth
Excited to be part of this public discussion on perimenopause: "Why is the menopausal transition so poorly understood by science?" If you're in Belgrade, join us on Feb 27 at 18h to discuss this important topic in an accessible way! w @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social #WomensHealth 👇
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Looking forward to speaking in this timely symposium on "Menopausal transition in medical & neuroscience research” on Feb 26 in Belgrade, Serbia! 🔥 w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social . Organized by Serbian Neuroscience Society & Serbian Early Career Endocrinologists & Scientists!
We had a blast hosting our today's seminar speaker Andre Fenton, Director of @nyu.edu Center for Neural Science. Great conversations and such stimulating talk on "Reframing cognition dynamics"! Thank you for your visit @fordham.edu !
We had a wonderful visit by Katharina Schultebraucks from @nyu.edu for our departmental seminar today. Very interesting lecture on how to use digital biomarkers & AI to predict risk for #MentalHealth disorders. I was also reminded how cinematic @fordham.edu #RoseHill campus is 🤍
Fordham launches its first Annual Trends Forecast with a piece on #menopause : "Menopause: Less Silence, More Science" featuring yours truly ☺️. Click on the link and scroll down to read! @fordham.edu
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Last week I was in the Bahamas sun bathing and swimming in the ocean and now this :). At least it looks beautiful and very romantic ❄️ 🤍
If you are at #ACNP2026, stop by the poster TH288 of my postdoc @luisadema.bsky.social this evening - a very cool study on hormone-driven X chromosome dynamics in the brain! 👇
Wonderful, well-attended session on Sex & Gender! 🔥 🏳️🌈 Thank you all for showing up & for all work you do @jaredwyoung.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @mindfulrat.bsky.social Kale Edmiston! I had to leave early to teach but will dream about the Bahamas! Great to see all! ❤️ #ACNP2026
Don't miss our Special Topics Session Weds 4-4:50 PM:
"Sex & Gender in Neuropsychopharmacology Research: Looking Forward"
Organized by LGBTQIA2S+ Sub-committee: @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social
@mindfulrat.bsky.social , Kale Edmiston (co-chair) & myself (chair)! 🔥🏳️🌈
#ACNP2026
Spent the day with the finest and my favorite #WomensHeath researchers here at #ACNP2026 . Grateful for having such great time and getting so much food for thought! ❤️ w/ @liisagalea.bsky.social @cogneuroend.bsky.social @luisadema.bsky.social @emilyjacobs.bsky.social ❤️
We had a wonderful symposium - thanks everyone for coming! @talliezee.bsky.social .. I squeezed a swim btw our session & reception that I enjoyed w @cogneuroend.bsky.social @liisagalea.bsky.social @luisadema.bsky.social + got to catch up w friend from grad school Brad. Great time! ❤️ #ACNP2026
Thank you, Gabriel! We will miss you here!
Same!
#ACNP2026: Don't miss our symposium on Mon 3-5PM in Poseidon III-IV:
"How Brain Estrogen Levels, Receptors & Signaling Govern Behaviors Across Sexes: Genes, Circuits, Synapses"
w/ @polymniag.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social
@neurolg.bsky.social & myself. Looking forward! @acnporg.bsky.social
Warming up for #ACNP2026 with a premeeting #LGBTQIA2S+ social, and sushi at #Nobu with @liisagalea.bsky.social ! @acnporg.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @descalzi.bsky.social @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @milennavandijk.bsky.social ... So good to see you all! 🏳️🌈 ♥️
What a wonderful day today! I transitioned from the New Yorker to the Caribbean mode overnight 😊. Bright colors, mellow mood. Life is amazing! ☀️ 😎 #ACNP2026
See you! :)
Greetings from the #Bahamas ! Here for the @acnporg.bsky.social annual meeting. The weather is perfect and the sea is warm and calm - perfect for swimming! See you all soon - for a great time and excellent science, as always! ☀️ 🌴 💙 #ACNP2026
Enjoyed listening to Marina Abramovic talk about art and life this evening at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union. Always hilarious and inspiring! She also announced a new exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic happening in Dec 2026 at Park Avenue Armory!
Obvious to you! :) Thank you! So great to hang out last night!
Such an amazing evening celebrating @greally.bsky.social 's newly published book (on #Epigenetics!) and Serbian Christmas with fantastic sushi, sake, and fun chat about science and life. Feeling privileged to have such bright and inspiring colleagues and friends ♥️ #BlueRibbonSushi
These are all so great questions, though -- thank you being a pre-reviewer! :) But I really appreciate your thoughtfulness and excitement about the paper!
Yes, I think so - thyroid hormones have such powerful effect on brain function including on synaptic plasticity & emotion/cognition! It makes sense that demand for T4 increases when estrogen is high, particularly during pregnancy. But who knows... maybe there are more to Ttr function than we know!
So we've done a lot to develop Ttr story - from hormone treatments (w/ bulk qRT-PCR not scRNA-seq) to Ttr overexpression exp. It was done by multiple people in the lab, w/ reproducibility across cohorts, gene expression methods & experimenters. I was stunned by Ttr in peripartum dataset - amazing! 😊
