Arie Kim
🇰🇷🇯🇵🇳🇱🇺🇸 Mouse neurobiologist in NY. I study cortical microcircuits of emotional empathy, and the effect of air pollution exposure during gestation on the brain development. A runner, potter, and a napper.
- Weirdly, ability to sweat is one of the few things that make humans ‘different from other animals’: not use of tools, communicating through language, lying, etc. Hair follicles and sweat glands seem to rarely coexist, and horses are a great exception. Why can’t hairs get wet? #evolution
- Interesting short read from Prof. Dayu Lin. Social neuroscience: Nosh or nurture?: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Arie Kima new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Arie KimHuntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Arie KimYou’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪
- “Better a pig than a fascist”
- Reposted by Arie KimIf you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2
- www.nature.com/articles/s41... Evidence for thyroid hormone regulation of amygdala-dependent fear-relevant memory and plasticity | Molecular Psychiatry
- Reposted by Arie KimGet the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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- It’s Friday. Today, I’m grateful for the air to breath, for peace and for health.
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- Autism models of mouse showed more inflexible updating of prior expectations (pe) and a shift in number of units encoding pe from visual cortex to the frontal cortex. Please see Fig 4 & 5. A good comparative study looking at three popular ASD mouse genetic models. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Forget new chips computing millions-digits-prime numbers: I had no idea the human discovery of prime numbers may be 20,000 years old! 🤯 preview.mailerlite.io/preview/3280...
- A new recycling approach to complex plastic waste mappingignorance.org/2025/06/02/a...
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- We need to change our policies, then. Social impacts of glacier loss | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
