Kenneth Amaya, PhD
Diné & Chicano. Postdoctoral Fellow in the Maguire Lab at Tufts University. NIH-NIMH DSPAN K00. Arizona sports sufferer.
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDHey ventral pallidum fans, see our new paper showing that #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting these cells with #DREADDs potentiates active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb. Congrats to Erica Ramirez & Marty Martinez! doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
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- I had such a great time at #ACNP2026 where I got to reconnect with and meet new friends! I can’t thank @acnporg.bsky.social enough for the travel award and am really excited for San Diego in 2027!
- 📸 One last favor: Share your favorite photo from the meeting and tag us! We’d love to see #ACNP2026 through your eyes. Until next year... stay inspired!
- Deal breaker if I only want to send in my ACT score?
- Pretty rich for the leader of this nation to be talking about stolen land
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDvery excited to share some of the final bits of work from my PhD! 🎉 we find that phasic DA in the accumbens simultaneously tracks persistent motivation towards reward cues in addition to new learning (but maybe not RPE?!) in sign-tracking rats. check out the preprint below!
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDweight down, less food consumed, learning normal, but motivation up!
- Chronic semaglutide treatment enhances the incentive motivational value of a small food reward and associated cue in male and female rats biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Almost $16 million for 10 conference wins between those two programs. Time to get DOGE on the case.
- We will fund the most meritorious of proposals but also we have to consider how we geographically allocate funds
- Seeing the recent breadcrumbs about NIH has this postdoc pretty sad about K99 chances
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDFolks at SfN come see the first Fraser Lab poster ever at FF6 on Tuesday Nov 18, 8am. Serena Miller has oodles of data to share on a new direction for us. Also, that day happens to be my birthday so you have to come say hi or else
- Stares in Suns fan
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDThe Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:
- As a postdoc in funding limbo I’d love it if the NIH director would walk the walk wrt trainee funding
- The 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture is this week (Thursday, October 16th), featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers related to the theme of "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits":
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDI'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!
- My response to a reviewer that said I’ve been a postdoc for too long
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDGood morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
- Being a scientist during this regime
- The Friday news dumps of all news dumps. Emphasis on dump 💩
- Can’t wait! Huge thanks to ACNP and congrats to all the other awardees!
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- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDThe Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry
- UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Time to call congresspeople
- NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDThe ACNP Global Scholarship Application link is OPEN! The ACNP 64th Annual Meeting is January 12-15, 2026, in Nassau, Bahamas. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2025, at 5:00pm Central. Don’t miss out! #ACNP2026 Click here for more info: tinyurl.com/j8a9zybu
- Amygdala GRC fed my soul in a time of doom and gloom. Ready to keep climbing knowing that there’s such a fantastic community with me.
- Reposted by Kenneth Amaya, PhDSomeone at the power hour brought up peak science twitter. I miss that too. Towards building/maintaining the GRC-Amygdala community, here is a starter pack with attendees. Please add folks who are attending!! go.bsky.app/13BbBW9at://did:plc:bwdhmbdascmqsbgbvpkcs6s4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ltwkrs6dt524
