Erica Marie Ramirez
@ramirezneurosci
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Neuroscience PhD student in the Mahler Lab. Interested in addiction and social behaviors. 🧠🤔 @NASEMFordFellow #AWIS #uclaalumni #latinasinSTEM
UC Irvine
Joined October 2021
So excited to have received this @FordFoundation fellowship as their goal to increase diversity in STEM is aligned with my own passion to do the same. Huge thank you to my mentors and supporters for guiding me here!! @svmahler @alcinojsilva @ExoNeuro
Huge congratulations to @ramirezneurosci for earning a highly competitive @FordFoundation predoc fellowship! Erica will be uncovering brand new roles for #VP circuits in motivated behaviors. Proud to see this rising star recognized for her achievements & potential!
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New Preprint!🚨 Silencing VP GABA neurons exaggerates defensive responses to threat cues ⚡️and activates the LHb, indicating a novel role beyond appetitive processing.🧠 Ty to all authors especially my now twitterless co-first, Maricela Martinez. @svmahler
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The ventral pallidum (VP) is embedded within the brain circuits controlling motivated behavior, which are heavily implicated in addiction and other psychiatric disorders. Prior work showed that VP...
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The Department of Education *DOES NOT* set the curriculum for your kids. The Department of Education *DOES* provide K-12 funding for LOW-INCOME & special needs kids though. The Department of Education *DOES* fund federal student loans & grants.
If the kids can’t read WHILE having a Dept of Education then maybe the problem is the Dept of Education.
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Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire. Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would. They're not fraudsters. They earned it. How out of touch are you not to realize that?
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
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My younger sister has CF. Her whole life we have emotionally prepared for her to not make it past her 30s. Now, I will get to see her live a long life, maybe start a family or dive into a career. It makes me sad how we've villainized biomedical science when it has changed lives.
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I found out this morning that my @NIH @NICHD_NIH F31 fellowship to study the biomechanics of uterine fibroids was CANCELLED.
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1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.
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These NIH grants studied the biological effects of hormones in animals not transgender identity. Research on hormone treatments advances scientific understanding, but sex-related biology in animals does not equate to gender studies. Misrepresenting this fuels misinformation.
Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including: - $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment” - $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”
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🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 @Jackie_Gio discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 https://t.co/cjM6W5Apja... Free full text:
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It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on
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As the world’s leading public research institution, UC depends on @NIH funding for scientific advances that save lives and improve healthcare. UC has submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit to block NIH cuts.
universityofcalifornia.edu
UC today (Feb. 10) submitted a declaration in support of the California Attorney General’s suit against the federal government in response to new guidance issued by the National Institutes of Health...
President Trump is unlawfully decimating funding for medical and public health research that helps to develop new cures and treatments for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. We’re suing. https://t.co/ODvb4HA4JD
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I feel lucky I still have time before deciding my postdoc but this move is definitely wrecking the aspirations of so many scientists that could do groundbreaking things while so many are cheering the downfall of a system they haven’t spent years of their life working in.
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This is what is scary about being a trainee in science right now who really wants a career running a lab at a university. The grant I’ve been working on for half a year just got cut. I want to teach, do research, and inspire new scientists and now the country is anti-science.
these are going to be hardworking folks who put their faith in a system they were told was stable. These are folks that were taught from the earliest points in their careers that if they sacrificed and followed the rules, they would succeed. Now the rules have changed. But plz 4/
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The next Einstein, Curie, or Salk might be sitting in a lab right now, wondering if they should quit. Don’t let them. Fund science like the future depends on it…because actually it does.
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The inaugural @UCIrvine ICAN psychedelics symposium run by @svmahler and christie fowler with keynote speaker @MayoOnTheBrain!
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Just 10 days until this in-person meeting on #psychedelics science, medicine, and policy @UCIrvine--hear from NIH and FDA speakers among others. Registration limit is close to being reached, but contact me if you still want to come and I'll see what I can do!!
Interested in research👩🔬, clinical⚕️, & policy🧑⚖️aspects of #psychedelics 🍄? Take a trip to SoCal to join us @UCIrvine on Nov 18, 2024! Talks & round table discussion w folks from UCI, @UCBerkeley, @HotchkissBrain, @US_FDA, @NIDAnews
https://t.co/BUHNtO1zxd
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Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.
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Interested in research👩🔬, clinical⚕️, & policy🧑⚖️aspects of #psychedelics 🍄? Take a trip to SoCal to join us @UCIrvine on Nov 18, 2024! Talks & round table discussion w folks from UCI, @UCBerkeley, @HotchkissBrain, @US_FDA, @NIDAnews
https://t.co/BUHNtO1zxd
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Fresh from the #EBPS2024 workshop, listen to the recording of the perspectives panel "Psychedelics, charting a path forward" #Psychedelics #MDMA
You know we’d never let you down ❤️ Listen to the perspectives panel ft. @NeseLSD @GillBedi and @JasterAlaina anywhere you get your podcasts! https://t.co/fCGVVaEMqb
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We are thrilled to celebrate Maricela's incredible achievement as a recipient of the NIH D-SPAN Award! 🎉 @martydoesneuro @NINDSDiversity Join us in congratulating Maricela on this well-deserved recognition! 👏🔬
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‘Reunited and it feels so good!’ Excited to present my work on how the ventral pallidum regulates 🐀 social reunions at #sfn2024 tonight at the NSP Early Career Poster Session (I6)! You can also find me and the rest of @svmahler posters Tues. 8-12 (M38-40). 🧠 @SfNtweets
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