Zachary Knight
@zaknight
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The Neurobiology of Homeostasis.
San Francisco
Joined December 2010
Talking with HS students from the Mission Bay Hub about obesity and curiosity-driven science. With help from @TruongLy18 and an ob/ob mouse. @SFUnified
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RT @RachelEssner: I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consu….
biorxiv.org
Studies of body-to-brain communication often examine one stimulus or organ at a time, yet the brain must integrate many body signals during behavior. For example, food consumption generates diverse...
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Nice article in the NY Times today describing research on AgRP neurons, GLP1s and hunger by @ginakolata.
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A huge loss for NIH and science in general.
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on
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RT @geerling_lab: No one will be surprised to know that DeepSeek has the same LLM propensity to BS/confabulate as its cousins and ancestors….
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RT @misraetel: Amazing short article by @MTabarrok on the unlikelikhood of AI taking all human jobs:. I'll leave w….
maximum-progress.com
The discovery and use of machinery may be … injurious to the labouring class, as some of their number will be thrown out of employment, and population will become redundant.
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Congrats on this well-deserved recognition!.
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RT @Jcjimenez6: Congrats to @Ale_LopezCruz in @zaknight lab, and all of the new @HHMINEWS Hanna Gray fellows! .http….
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RT @OdedRechavi: When did the taste of the scientific community changed from liking simple elegant experiments to preferring complicated an….
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RT @mazen_kheirbek: Thrilled to share our new paper in @Nature - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." A wonderf….
nature.com
Nature - Examination of the neural activity in the basolateral amygdala and ventral CA1 of mice during tasks or rest following exposure to social stress reveals signatures of resilience and...
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RT @leslievosshall: #VosshallLab is hiring! Join us as a research technician CRISPR-ing mosquitoes and conducting cool experiments in behav….
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RT @danamsmall: Do t miss the abstract deadline January 23rd! Scholarships also available.
keystonesymposia.org
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Neurobiology of Ingestive Behavior, April 2025, in Pacific Grove, with field leaders!
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RT @michael_krashes: New work stemming from an amazing collaboration with @addisonwebster0 and @AUGCsoup using a combination of rabies mapp….
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RT @CCMN_London: 📣 We are excited to launch this year’s CCMN Lecture Series with Dr. @zaknight (UCSF)! Join us to learn about his latest wo….
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RT @DanielJDrucker: Does loss of GIPR signaling sensitize GLP-1R+ neurons, enhancing the actions of GLP-1R agonists? New data from @seeleyr….
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: There is a widespread myth that the obesity epidemic started in or around 1980. This is based on a misunderstanding o….
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RT @So_Steculorum: Big thanks to @zaknight, @danamsmall, @KaraLMarshall, and @HHMIJanelia for an incredible meeting on the sensory biology….
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I participated in a debate about GLP1s and obesity last week. Things went a bit off the rails (story below), but it was good to engage with people who have a different point of view.
nytimes.com
Thousands of health seekers, many of them distrustful of the medical system, made a pilgrimage to Florida to commune with the influencers and the self-proclaimed healers they believe in most.
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RT @deirdre_tobias: "Is🥓bad for you?". 📜Science exists to answer questions. If a question is vague and lame, then so are the results. Nutr….
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