I'm incredibly honored to receive the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from @sfn.org SFN was the first research conference I ever attended and presented at. I feel truly humbled! Thanks to my fab research team who make me look good!

Happy Halloween!

Really fantastic work led by Ben Dykstra!

Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman.bsky.social). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 . www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Very happy to share an expansion to the comparative gene editing toolkit: AAVs to reduce dopamine receptor levels that are functional in many rodent species. Fun collaboration with @malu-murugan.bsky.social, Elliott Albers and Frank Meye.

Check out this exciting new tool from @ajboender.bsky.social - An aav based CRISPR-Cas9 strategy to knockdown dopamine receptors. Works in mice, voles and hamsters. It was a fun collaboration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Non-overlapping social and food reward representations in the basolateral amygdala https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680770v1

Excited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Accepted manuscript version of this paper up on J.Neuro. @sfnjournals.bsky.social . Beautiful work led by @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social characterizing various LS projection populations and their inputs. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Beautiful story on the lateral septum!

Lab t-shirts are here finally. Thanks to fab undergrad Paul Kim for designing them.

A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference. Version of record - now available on @elife.bsky.social check it out doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The Telly Awards has named our short film on the life and impact of our co-founder Jim Simons as a People’s Telly Gold Winner in the general non-broadcast category. Read more: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/20/f... #science #philanthropy

We’re hiring a postdoc with slice patch-clamp expertise to study head direction circuits and plasticity during spatial learning. Ideal for a neurophysiologist excited to combine ex vivo and in vivo approaches. Come join us in beautiful Cambridge! 🐭🧭🧠 📝 Apply by 9 June: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51282/

Congratulations on a masterful defense @jennisisaac.bsky.social So incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to mentor you. Can't wait to see all the insanely cool stuff you do. Keep an eye out for Jenni's work on the lateral septum soon

Let us know what you think.

I would be happy to host a HFSP fellowship @hfspo.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Write to me if you're interested 🧠🐀🔬

We’ve been working on this project for several years and it’s finally out on bioarxiv! Check out the anatomical organization of the lateral septum and its connectivity

Lateral septum enthusiast? Interested in learning more about how LS projection populations and their inputs are organized. Check out our preprint in which @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social map out brain wide inputs to 6 LS projection populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our protocol paper in @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social on operant social reward seeking. Work from @jennisisaac.bsky.social @hyma2194.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social

Want to compare social and nonsocial reward seeking behavior? 
On STAR Protocols, we provide instructions for the assembly of a 2 choice operant chamber with an easy to use GUI-based acquisition system. Low cost and fully automated. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An exciting day for the lab. @jennisisaac.bsky.social wins the Emory Neuroscience Scientific Achievement award. @hyma2194.bsky.social wins the Mentorship award and @jarildy.bsky.social wins the Leadership award. What rockstars! May congratulations on your well deserved honors.

Are we sure this evolved from wolves ? 😂

Would love to see this issue covered by more mainstream media... cc @sherylnyt.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @joelachenbach.bsky.social @susansvrluga.bsky.social

An absolute honor to be named as a Sloan Fellow. Many thanks to my mentors, colleagues and @emoryuniversity.bsky.social for their support. Biggest thanks to my lab for making the journey fun and worthwhile! Many congratulations to all the other fellows!

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

If you are looking to understand how social reward is organized. look no further. Check out this wonderful article that @jennisisaac.bsky.social and I wrote.

For my first blue sky post, Check out this review article Jenni Isaac and I wrote on neural circuits mediating social-reward related behaviors in Trends in Neuroscience. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...