Laura Smith Lab

Neuroscience lab @TAMU investigating synapse regulation and mental health 🧠

[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

@VVoikar You’re welcome! Thanks for starting more conversations about it.
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[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

Our new paper! FMRP promotes adjustments in drug self-administration that help to maintain reinforcement. Congrats & thanks to @jesshuebschman, Megan Davis, @catherinetovarr, Yuhong Guo, & @GraphitScience! @LauraSmithLab #AddictionScience #neuroscience
https://t.co/IAUlSTV70v

[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

Preprint out today by amazing folks in our lab, including @jesshuebschman, who led the work, as well as @catherinetovarr. The RNA-binding protein, FMRP, promotes adjustments in drug self-administration behavior that help to maintain reinforcement.

https://t.co/xAaKapUizP

[Supreme Neck Protector @wes_wade]

If "I said what I said" was a professor, it would be @DrNeblett.

I can't get over brutal accuracy of this message:

[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

@StephenMaren @TAMU @AggieDiversity Yes, whole-heartedly agree. And you’ll also find other students who are ready to give their time and energy to see you succeed. 👍🏻

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

How listening and learning during #ShutDownAcademia and other events of the last two weeks changed my thinking about anti-Black racism in academia

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[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

😂 (Laughing with you, for sure!)

[Rhea Boyd MD, MPH @RheaBoydMD]

Here's the link to our paper which is currently free to view and download.

https://t.co/bAxuw8mhxs

[Drug Monkey @drugmonkeyblog]

Whoa. That dude has no place directing graduate studies. That seems pretty clear.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

My press secretary Tyrone passed away from cancer in 2018 but his family is making sure his legacy lives on in the next generation of leaders.

If you can, give to his scholar program to ensure young Black Americans can get involved & thrive in politics.
https://t.co/ive8C1mZrE

[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

Texas Governor: I want Sandra Bland's case reopened. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/9DxdSX0iac via @Change

[Drug Monkey @drugmonkeyblog]

I have some reading suggestions for #ShutdownStem #shutdownacademia for NIH focused biomedical scientists.

1) https://t.co/WJfhNf8cJP

2) https://t.co/JZZ17AILcW

3) https://t.co/ndw6b8Ik3S

and of course for color commentary from YHN: https://t.co/DfC5W0Y5LE

Please RT

[Laura Smith Lab @LauraSmithLab]

"We have to pace ourselves. If there’s such a thing as a disease marathon, this is it."
via @NYTimes https://t.co/X7Z7G04ZvI

[Travon Free @Travon]

They've been treated like they treat black people for two weeks and they're having a mental breakdown.

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

Question for non-Black academics: what is the line item you are willing to give up so that we can fund racial equity initiatives robustly even in a recession?

[Leana Wen, M.D. @DrLeanaWen]

To avert a devastating second wave: "All available evidence points in one direction — that people & governments should be as relentless as the virus...

...Ultimately, the battle against #covid19 depends on choices we make." @PostOpinions

https://t.co/1vJaE9ZdED

[Leana Wen, M.D. @DrLeanaWen]

This was misleading & confusing from @WHO.

What we know: people are contagious before they exhibit symptoms. Some estimate 40% of transmission occurs from people who do not have symptoms at time of exposure.

Asymptomatic transmission is what makes #covid19 so hard to contain.

[Court 🧡 @CourtzNaturalle]

Hey look, it’s me. Let’s talk about environmental racism and who climate change directly affects!

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

Working to end food insecurity in the U.S. should not be a partisan issue.

Making sure kids have enough food to be healthy should not be a partisan issue.

Temporarily increasing SNAP benefit amounts during this ongoing crisis should not be a partisan issue.