Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼🔬
@KateWassum
neuroscientist, UCLA. learning, motivation, decision making. mom. 🍷 snob. 🌱 lover. she/her. BlackLivesMatter. tweets are my own.
🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 @Jackie_Gio discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
Scientists have found two ‘dials’ in the brain that help to explain how chronic stress hijacks decision-making go.nature.com/4i6Rk6z
Happy new year amygdaloids! The #amygdalaGRC is coming up this summer, register today! grc.org/amygdala-funct…
#AmygdalaGRC 2025 is coming up! 🧠 🇪🇸 We have an awesome lineup of speakers and discussion leaders for our meeting in Barcelona! Register today: grc.org/amygdala-funct…
We’re recruiting another NIH-funded postdoc!! We will begin reviewing applications in mid November and continue until the position is filled!
We’re recruiting a postdoc!!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits that help us learn about rewarding events and use that info to make good decisions. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Come work with us in sunny SoCal!
UCLA Psychology is hiring for a tenure track faculty position. This ad is deliberately broad, if you feel like you connect with any aspect of it and are interested, please consider applying! Applications are due soon!
🚨The UCLA Psychology Department is hiring!!! 🚨 The UCLA Psych department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Computational and Behavioral Neuroscience. More info here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740) Applications are open now through October 31 🎃