I’m looking forward to speaking at the NIH WALS tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20 at 2pm ET ⚕️ I’ll be discussing our translational research to understand molecular mechanisms underlying addiction and related psychiatric risk relevant to potential treatment strategies. 💻 Tune in: oir.nih.gov/wals

The Giardino Lab at Stanford is hiring a full-time post-bacc Research Assistant! If you know someone who is passionate about research and want to work at the intersection of stress, addiction, and sleep/wake neurobiology, have them apply here. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...

Two more weeks until the @ACNP Travel award deadline. Lock-in an ACNP member to be a letter writer, consult the Travel Award ambassadors (it’s a me…), make sure to apply.

Now Accepting Honorific Award Nominations to be Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting, January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. 🤩 The deadline to submit is June 30th at 5pm Central. tinyurl.com/5fthr688

Officially out today! Long-running project, many thanks to give - in particular to my mentors & collaborators, the postbacs who worked so hard on each experiment, and the reviewers. If you love the amygdala, give it a read. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For #FluorescenceFriday - really pretty neuron in the medial prefrontal cortex that projects to locus coeruleus. Image credit to @rehg-j.bsky.social, with a big round of congratulations on acceptance/matriculation to the Hopkins Neuro PhD program this Fall - we are so happy for you!! 🧠🔬

Very happy this work is now out on its final format! We showed that the combination of fentanyl and alcohol leads to severe apnea that is not rescued by naloxone.

Potentiation of fentanyl-induced respiratory depression by alcohol is not fully reversed by naloxone: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

Fentanyl and alcohol are often a fatal combination Here, @renatamarchette.bsky.social & team show overdoses from the combination in a rat model leads to severe apnea that is not fully rescued by naloxone: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

Thanks @renatamarchette.bsky.social for your great talk today during our Addiction workshop in Strasbourg!

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

Oh. My. God. this chart.

Applications for our Next Generation Leaders program are open! For 3 years, accepted early career scientists will join a supportive network and contribute to our research initiatives. Apply by Mar. 31: https://bit.ly/3OjzdRa 📸 Photo by NGL Alum @bjmarlin.bsky.social

Our work characterizing the respiratory depression caused by opioids and alcohols is finally out in the world! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41632547/

@alcoholjournal.bsky.social has a new special issue in press on Alcohol Use and Pain Interactions check it out! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Very happy to share a new paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social I thought I knew what would predict escalation of cocaine use. Well, I was wrong. After tracking behavior daily for weeks, the answer turned out to be the opposite of my prediction, and it changed how I see addiction.

New to using Jupyter notebooks for the Allen Brain Cell Atlas? Join us on Feb. 11 for a beginner-friendly webinar focusing on installation, set-up, and common questions. Register for the meeting link and recording: https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0sJzndpRbSZWjrSGblu6A#/

The risks of standing up are real, but not as high as people seem to think (based on data). The risks of NOT standing up are real, and higher than most people seem to think, both for themselves and for the whole enterprise. Now more than ever, it matters! @standupforscience.bsky.social

I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪 Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Just in: The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

When your co-workers are artists is on top of being great scientists: @mehdifarokhnia.bsky.social @purely-science.bsky.social

Excited about this today ✨ #ACNP2026

#eNeuro: Doyle et al. created the Alcohol Biobank, a collection of biological samples from over 700 genetically diverse rats tested for addiction-like behaviors, helping researchers explore genetic, molecular, & neurobiological factors in addiction. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0207-25.2025

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy

Finally on Bluesky and I’m really excited to share this latest preprint with @jorge-miranda.bsky.social in which we functionally examined the role of a medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)- Locus Coeruleus (LC) circuit in regulating sustained attention. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So happy to share this preprint and so proud of @rehg-j.bsky.social and his hard work and determination. Here we showed circuit-specific effect after activation of mPFC-LC projectors to sustained attention during rCPT.

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

The Gowrishankar lab will be opening its doors @neuro_MUSC on Dec 1, 2025! We will be hiring at all levels. I will also be at @SfNtweets presenting my lab's vision on Wednesday, Nov 19, 8AM-12PM at poster board GG7. If you're interested, please reach out! www.raajgowrishankarlab.org

Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

Hiring: Research Technician and Postdoctoral opportunities! My lab is looking for candidates to join or research in systems neuroscience at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago @uofilsystem.bsky.social. See details below. Please share! lujanlabuic.squarespace.com/joinus

Excellent endogenous opioid symposium in Tromsø by @renatamarchette.bsky.social Slide highlights results from recent metaanalysis of pain sensitivity in opioid users by @martintrostheim.bsky.social & @marieeikemo.bsky.social

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org

Reposting this as a reminder that we have an open Research Assistant position - appreciate reposts and passing along to colleagues who may know people who are interested! Details and link to apply are in the second post!

So, I emailed the link: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... to my kids, some of my former graduate students and post-docs, and a few other friends. All in all, I shared the link with about 30 people. I asked them to consider signing and to share the link with their own networks. 5/n

I couldn't sleep last night and skimmed through the names on the #BethesdaDeclaration support letter page. First, the good news. (1) There were 18,000+ names and it took me 3 hours. 1/n

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n

Our latest now out @pnas.org Huge thanks to the team (a large group of fantastic post-bacs made this possible), NIAAA, and @kahlertumsom.bsky.social for support! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We have multiple openings for basic addiction scientists interested in pursuing translational research within the Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine @kahlertumsom.bsky.social apply @ umb.taleo.net/careersectio... and learn about our institute @ addiction.umaryland.edu

It's important to remember that we DO have a choice in compliance. If you are asked to send 5 bullets, it's still YOUR CHOICE to send them. Your decision will be based on life circumstances and the line you draw in the sand; it's different for everyone. But we cannot hide behind "I had no choice".

SPEAKER LINEUP FOR STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ☀️ Here's our list of current speakers—and it's still growing! Come tomorrow to hear some amazing speakers talk about science, their experiences, and the future. #standupforscience2025

Here is a quick screen grab of how to do a search in the Federal Register (federalregister.gov). Any study section should come up using "NIH" as a search term but if you are looking for one in particular, use the SRO's last name.

On Wednesday, the White House issued a new executive order regarding DOGE IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” COST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/n

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards. It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/ www.forbes.com/sites...

Almost all purchases below $100k at NIH are made on govt credit cards. That’s hundreds to thousands a day. Medicine for patients, saline, gauze, research supplies. All now banned. /end

methods that will fly under the radar. They don’t want to say “We’re cancelling NIH research by banning spending money” — because the media would cover that loud and clear. So they say “pause Federal Register postings” “pause govt cards for a month.” Don’t let them get away with this. Be loud. 🧪

BREAKING Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.

The NIH summer internship program was cancelled today. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/commen... Another important summer program that allowed young researchers pathways into STEM, gutted.