Hilary Marusak, PhD
🧠Developmental neuroscientist at @waynemedicine studying childhood trauma, endocannabinoids, & youth mental health. Let's connect: msha.ke/wsuthinklab
- “Lifesaving treatments helped me move from debilitating mental illness to a career in neuroscience. Research gave me a chance to reclaim my life.” — my friend Uma R. Chatterjee, WI Medical research offers hope—and second chances. #AmericansForMedicalResearch tinyurl.com/UmaChatterjee
- Science in the sun, on horseback, on a run, and on non-lazy river 😂 Had so much fun last week at #acnp ! @acnporg.bsky.social
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- Omg! I’m not cool enough to be friends with @drjkhokhar.bsky.social !! I had so much fun visiting ☺️
- Can’t wait to visit!!!! ☺️
- Nothing better than animal therapy 🎁
- Happy holidays from the @waynestateresearch.bsky.social @wsuthinklab.bsky.social 🎄🥰
- This one was super fun! I talked to my friend & colleague, Dr. Prantik Kundu, about AI and the utility of neurodivergence. Such an interesting conversation! open.spotify.com/episode/427Z...
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDWe're looking forward to #SOBP2026! 🧠Building Better Brains: From Synapses to Societies 📆When: April 30 – May 2, 2026 📍Where: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, New York Join us for an engaging conference featuring the latest advancements in biological psychiatry.
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- Fall in Michigan 🍁
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- Huge congratulations to @wsuthinklab.bsky.social's own Sam Ely for winning a Graduate Student Poster Award at the Cannabinoid Gordon Research Symposium 2025!!!! #cannabinerds #CannabinoidGRC2025 @waynestatetnp.bsky.social
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- It’s easy to feel discouraged in today’s climate, but teaching younger students about the brain—even all these years later—reminds me why I started. Seeing their excitement about science makes it all worth it ❤️🧠
- That escalated quickly!!! (Jk, took > 6 years 😅)
- 🎉 Huge congrats to TNP graduate student extraordinaire, Sam, on receiving the Corrine F. Resta Award! We’re so proud of you! 👏💙 📣 Stay up to date on all the amazing work from our TNP #Neuroscience faculty and #PhD students — follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky! @wsuthinklab.bsky.social
- So honored to collaborate with this powerhouse group led by @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social 🌟 Grateful to @ryanntansey.bsky.social, @marcdferger.bsky.social, @pact-lab.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to this important work on the endocannabinoid system & developmental psychopathology! 🙌🧠
- What do we know about the endocannabinoid system in developmental psychopathology?🤔 Find out in our recent paper, led by @pact-lab.bsky.social postdocs @ryanntansey.bsky.social & @marcdferger.bsky.social + collaborator extraordinaire @hmarusak.bsky.social 👇
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDWhat do we know about the endocannabinoid system in developmental psychopathology?🤔 Find out in our recent paper, led by @pact-lab.bsky.social postdocs @ryanntansey.bsky.social & @marcdferger.bsky.social + collaborator extraordinaire @hmarusak.bsky.social 👇
- 🎉 New paper! Led by @waynestateresearch.bsky.social medical student Sneha Bhargava, we show how puberty & sex impact fear extinction retention—key to understanding anxiety risk in females. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc... #Neuroscience #AdolescentMentalHealth #Puberty @wsuthinklab.bsky.social
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- 🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wsuthinklab.bsky.social
- Excited to share my new edited book Cannabis and the Developing Brain—a deep dive into how cannabis impacts the brain during pregnancy, childhood, & adolescence. Thanks to all the amazing contributors! 💚🧠 Available via Springer, Amazon + more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Cannabis #Brain
- Grateful to kick off a new NIH-funded study w/ my dream team (Christine Rabinak @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social & Leslie Lundahl) testing whether CBD can boost therapy for anxiety. Excited, but also heavy-hearted given the tough climate for so many colleagues... 💚🧠 research.wayne.edu/news/wayne-s...
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- We're hiring at the THINK lab @wsuthinklab.bsky.social! Join our NIH-funded study on anxiety, CBD & CBT (w/ Drs. Christine Rabinak & Leslie Lundahl). Full-time RA—great for psych/neuro grads. Hands-on research incl. fMRI & biomarkers. Based in Detroit. Apply: waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDNew powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDHow bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
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- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhD🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDHere’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Honored to introduce my dear friend and mentor, Dr. Christine Rabinak at Michigan SfN’s keynote. Her talk was entitled “Fearless-ish”. She spoke with courage and clarity about trauma, PTSD, and facing a terminal cancer diagnosis—leading and inspiring every step of the way.
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDTo be clear, if this bill passes, it will end all scientific research & medical training in the US. It will close hospitals. It will be economically devastating. Millions will lose their jobs. Call your representatives & tell them to vote fuck no on 15% IDC rates & the rest of this horror show.
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- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhD☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDYesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhD"Let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country — the ones who spend long hours at lab benches, running experiments, analyzing data." #SpeakOut #BrainDrain www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...
- Beautiful day on Capitol Hill with @americanbrainco.bsky.social and @acnporg.bsky.social meeting Rep. Neal Dunn, Sen. Bill Cassidy & LHHS Approps staff to champion NIH & BRAIN Initiative funding for neuroscience research. 🧠 💪 #Neuroscience #BRAINInitiative #NIH #SciencePolicy #Neuroadvocate
- 🎉 Congrats to our @wsuthinklab.bsky.social graduates, we are so proud of you! @mackennashampine.bsky.social will be starting a Clinical Psych PhD program at UW-Milwaukee, Alex Jakubiec will be starting a Biochem PhD at Notre Dame, and Matthew Vandeweerd will be starting a PhD program, likely abroad👏
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDTHIS WEEK! On Wed, May 7, The American Brain Coalition, AAN, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Dana Foundation, IEEE Brain, Simons Foundation, SfN & Kavli Foundation, in cooperation w/ the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, invite you to a special briefing 👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/25zfk538
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- Big congrats to Emily Crisan & Shivani Bongu for presenting at Pediatrics Research Day! 👏 Emily shared work on parent-child closeness, peer victimization, & anxiety, and Shivani on physical activity’s anxiolytic effects in youth. So proud! 💙 @wsuthinklab.bsky.social #YouthMentalHealth
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDIn 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhD🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨 In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk. Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhD"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- So much exciting science shared by the next generation! @wsuthinklab.bsky.social represented by Christine Lewis, Jennifer Losiowski, Sneha Bhargava, & Dr. Clara Zundel! Until next time #SOBP! #toronto #neuroscience
- AMAZING public panel and and discussion about the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry. Co-hosted by Society of Biological Psychiatry, the @ontariobrain.bsky.social, @baszuckigroup.bsky.social, University of Toronto, and the Mitochondrial Innovative Initiative. 🧠⚕️
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDThe plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDTrump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.
- Check out my friend (and idol) @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social girl-bossing at the National Academies of Science!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDThere are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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- At the Michigan State Capitol with the student-led org, SciPol-Detroit, having productive, bipartisan conversations to advance science-based policies that protect vulnerable Michiganders. These students are the future! 🌟💪 @waynestateclas.bsky.social
- Reposted by Hilary Marusak, PhDToday, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
- 🚨 New pub alert! 🚨 Our latest Brain Imaging and Behavior review on mindfulness-based interventions in youth is out! 🧠✨ Shoutout to Jovan Jande & a @waynestateresearch.bsky.social SOM med student research fellowship! Check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s116... #Mindfulness #Neuroimaging #BrainResearch
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