postdoc at temple med in the giovanniello lab. formerly: phd @ dartmouth, bs @ virginia tech. find me on bluesky: ericastownsend.bsky.social

Joined October 2019
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RT @repuslayyyytion: am I being too woke if I say it’s a red flag to keep using tiktok after this??
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Come check out my poster (M33) on the effects of social isolation across the lifespan at #SfN24 until 12pm! #BucciFellowsatSfN @DartmouthPBS
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look at her gooooooo!!! so proud 🥲🩷
After 4 years, I am excited to announce I graduated Dartmouth College with Honors in Neuroscience! I had 4 amazing years of cool research, great mentorship, and even better friendships. Now, I will continue this journey as a Ph.D student at Brown-NIH! So incredibly grateful!!
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a *very* bittersweet farewell to @DrKyleSmith, @KateNautiyal, and the labs as I head off to Philly this weekend! I’ve been so lucky to have these two in my corner all these years (& in the years to come). I’ll miss them so much 🥲🩷
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also no I’m not graduating yet, give me another year 🫡
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Me throughout grad school
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one of my most cherished & brilliant students, @danielagarrod02 is graduating today! I am so lucky to have spent 3 years doing science with her. she’ll be starting her PhD in the Brown-NIH program in the fall, and she’s 100% going to be a superstar in the coming years 🌟🧠
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woohoo so proud of the three *amazing* dartmouth women in science interns in @DrKyleSmith’s lab who presented for the first time today!! 👩🏻‍🔬💖
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@DartmouthPBS undergraduate researchers present posters on their work at the Wetterhahn Symposium!
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Breaking my Twitter fast to ask for your help: a graduate student, in my department (@DartmouthPBS), Kexin Cai, has gone missing: lebanonnh.gov/CivicAlerts.as… If you are in the Hanover area and have any info about her whereabouts, please contact @LebanonPolice immediately. Please RT!

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So excited to have our most recent #dopamine paper led by @_sjmillard and @ivybhoang out in @NatureNeuro today! rdcu.be/dHL7l

Beyond excited to have our new paper up on @biorxiv_neursci! Led by @_sjmillard, we reveal the cognitive basis of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) of midbrain dopamine neurons. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… A 🧵
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had an amazing time meeting everyone and sharing a snippet of my dissertation work at @EinsteinMed this week! ☺️ FYI, all the folks around me in the photo below are incredibly kind and talented, so keep an eye out for them 👀
On Wednesday, the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Einstein hosted its inaugural EDGE (Einstein Dialogues in Graduate Education) Symposium for senior Ph.D. students. #postdoc #postdocpositions #postdocjobs 1/2
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Big news! I will be joining the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences @DartmouthPBS this Fall! My lab will study the neural circuits and physiological states that regulate appetitive and aversive motivation.
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We are also recruiting at all levels! Please reach out if interested in joining the team warlowlab.com
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me when I open my @Thorlabs package and there’s no lab snacks 🥲
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congrats to @kenam15 and the whole team on this stellar work! so glad to have been a part of it. 😁 check it out:
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Hey #winterbrain2024, get to sleep earlier tonight than you did last night so you can come to our panel tomorrow at 7:30 on preclinical models to study the effect of psychedelics on anxiety and depressive behaviors with @SixtineF, @TheBorisLab, @WenthurLab, and @lab_nichols
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if I had a dollar for every time I slipped and fell on the sidewalks in breckenridge walking to and from #wcbr2024 programming… I would have precisely $6.
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if you’re here in breckenridge for #WCBR2024, come check out my poster (board T18) tomorrow on NAc dopamine dynamics in flexible, yet persistent, sign-tracking behaviors during a cue contingency change! ❄️☃️
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OUR STATE 🏆 @HokiesFB defeats Virginia 55-17.
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