Eliza Bliss-Moreau

@eblissmoreau
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Affective neuroscientist studying how & why we feel from womb-to-tomb and synapse-to-social system.


Professor of Psychology
Core Scientist at the California National Primate Research Center
University of California, Davis

she/her
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opinions = my own


https://blissmoreaulab.ucdavis.edu

New National Academies report underscores the vital importance of biomedical research with nonhuman primates and challenges that must be addressed to move the field forward https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26857/nonhuman-primate-models-in-biomedical-research-state-of-the-science
Nonhuman Primate Models in Biomedical Research: State of the Science and Future Needs

Download a PDF of "Nonhuman Primate Models in Biomedical Research" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.

The National Academies Press

Alternatively, stop using mice as models for much of human biology…

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-free-range-lab-mice

Apparently, I don't have to be worried about students using ChatGPT to cheat on exams in my classes...

Time to bring universal masking.

Not masking led to “excess cases implied a minimum of 6500 days of staff absence and 17,500 days of student absence… Poor and rich school districts were “differentially equipped to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic,” with harms concentrated in low-income and Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities.”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2213556

Universal Masking Policies in Schools and Mitigating the Inequitable Costs of Covid-19 | NEJM

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine — Universal Masking Policies in Schools and Mitigating the Inequitable Costs of Covid-19

New England Journal of Medicine

Saw this somewhere (can't find OP, sorry) and really like the metaphor of surfers v divers in science.

We tend to train and value divers (people who go deep in a clearly defined area) and our institutions (including systems of eval) are set up to accommodate them. If you're a surfer (working broadly and across areas, as I am) there are many hurdles including people just thinking you're nuts and/or have no chance at success or you're trying to "do too much".

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/in-academia-we-need-two-types-of-researchers-divers-and-surfers/

In academia, we need two types of researchers: divers and surfers — University Affairs

Once the value of “interdisciplinary” is truly accepted, academia will significantly benefit.

University Affairs

This commentary is 🔥 🔥 🔥

"The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy"

(ideas apply way beyond psychopathy, IMO)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422004407

Revising our paper on sex differences in monkeys' toy preference and the phrase "boy toy" appears dozens of times and I cannot stop chuckling...

(spoiler alert: there are not major sex dif but the one that is most robust is that male monkeys love dolls... and i mean looooooove, not just love)

Hi 👋 Mastodon Science Community! Seems like this is the place to be these days...

I am a developmental affective neuroscientist interested in the biological and social origins of affective states and experiences (aka feelings). My lab works mostly with nonhuman animal models and studies them across their lives (womb-to-tomb) and across levels of analysis (synapses-to-social systems).