Lex Kravitz
Neuroscientist studying obesity, feeding, and dopamine
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- @superkash.bsky.social Hey Tom any truck news lately?
- Just got home from a trip and received this book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Lex KravitzpyPhotometry v2 is now in our store! 🚀 ⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA 🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers 🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion #OpenEphys #pyPhotometry
- Reposted by Lex KravitzExcited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...
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- Reposted by Lex Kravitz‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception
- This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Lex KravitzThrilled to announce that my lab is now open at Ohio State! We study astrocytes as gene therapy targets for brain repair after ischemic stroke and in vascular dementia, developing new viral tools along the way. If you're interesting in joining or collaborating, please reach out! gleichmanlab.com
- I found Jimmy Carter's Environmental Program (fittingly?) in the dumpster in the alley behind my house. "The sight of earthrise was awesome. It was also sobering. From that moment we could no longer avoid understanding that all life must share this one small planet and its limited resources."
- It's funny that ChatGPT does this shit too
- Reposted by Lex KravitzThanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
- Reposted by Lex KravitzThe preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
- Reposted by Lex KravitzAfter 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
- Reposted by Lex Kravitz1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzA pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
- Reposted by Lex KravitzTrying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzAbout fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
- Reposted by Lex KravitzSpecial shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzReminder: You can always submit a grant late and include a cover letter saying why. NIH receipt and referral may take it. Or not. If you end up missing deadline because of these Commons access issues, there is this potential save move.
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- Working on a new gaming system for mice over the holidays
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzResharing a starter pack i made a while back for those interested in Neuroscience and Metabolism research. Some recent additions are included. Let me know if you want to join! go.bsky.app/DGJS44y Neuroskyence: 🧠🟦 or 🧠📈 Interoception: 🧠🫀 or 🧠🫁at://did:plc:zkghlnzemqotu5cbcgrza53t/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lalmvzc3422q
- I received a >50 page response to reviewers that I need to understand before I can start re-reviewing a paper I already spent many hours reviewing the first time. What are we doing???? Props to @elife.bsky.social for trying something different!
- I took this photo of Jupiter + moons from inside my house in St Louis, aiming the telescope at the bright spot in the sky and using my phone pointed down the eyepiece to capture it. Technology is amazing, this is not a fancy scope. I turned the lights off in the room but otherwise here's the setup!
- Congrats to Dr. Alex Legaria, the first PhD student to graduate from my lab! Lots of feelings as his PI, but mostly I'm grateful that I didn't eff it up 😄😅😁
- Reposted by Lex KravitzYou all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzA poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
- Reposted by Lex Kravitz🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Lex KravitzOur next multi-agent behavior challenge launches in <2 months! Will share bits of info here in the meantime. First, the basics: - 226 hours of top-down video of socially interacting mice - 15 contributor labs - all vids fully manually scored for behavior - 45 unique behaviors across videos (!)
- If you are an undergrad student in the St Louis area and you're interested in a summer 2025 research program please check out ASSURE! assure.wustl.edu
- Reposted by Lex KravitzI made a starter pack for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior #SSIB for all interested in being a #SSIBling. Please let me know if you would like to join the starter pack! go.bsky.app/8Zvp83eat://did:plc:zkghlnzemqotu5cbcgrza53t/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb3m4xovtr2g
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzDownload our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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- Reposted by Lex KravitzHappy to announce! Come join us for a great meeting! Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-) #neuroscience #philosophy
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- As we're entering grad school application season, I have a thought on why applicants should completely avoid AI in personal statements. The goal is to stand out from the hundreds of other passionate and accomplished applicants, and any text written by AI is pretty much guaranteed not to stand out.
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