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Talia Lerner
4 days ago
Happy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by
@borgkvistlab.bsky.social
on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr. Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications!
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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Dopamine’s secret agent: serotonin
Dopamine suppresses GABA release from striatal terminals in the substantia nigra pars reticulata. Molinari et al. recently demonstrated that this suppression is frequency-dependent—instituting a high-...
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236%2825%2900265-6
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StrayCatalyst
9 days ago
for fuck's sake
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Misty Heggeness
9 days ago
Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor
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Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor • Kansas Reflector
Misty Heggeness released “Swiftynomics,” a book explaining how female economic power radiates from the music star.
https://kansasreflector.com/2026/01/30/taylor-swift-embodies-female-economic-power-in-new-book-by-ku-professor/
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Ick!!!!!!
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
9 days ago
nearly a thousand entries
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derek guy
9 days ago
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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W. Brent Derry
10 days ago
I am pleased to share our latest paper on the role of the alternative polyadenylation factor CFIM-1 (NUDT21) in C. elegans germline development.
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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A stress-dependent postembryonic role for the core CPA factor CFIM-1 in germline integrity
Abstract. Post-transcriptional processing of pre-mRNAs by alternative polyadenylation (APA) generates a diversity of transcript isoforms at the 3’ untransl
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyag022/8443998?searchresult=1
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Josh Johansen
13 days ago
My perspective in
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species.
www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
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Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward
Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-emotion-research-is-stuck-and-how-to-move-it-forward/
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mark cembrowski
13 days ago
Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by
@franklandlab.bsky.social
and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
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Canadian History Ehx
25 days ago
The Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield It is one of the most famous Heritage Minutes ever made, all thanks to "I smell burnt toast" And the story of Wilder Penfield is one of a man who expanded our knowledge of the brain.
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Society for Neuroscience
27 days ago
Nominate a colleague for the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize! Your nominee should exemplify an innovative spirit and contribute significantly to understanding the brain. The award will be presented at the FENS Forum and the recipient will receive a $100,000 prize.
vist.ly/4mh9i
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New Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Examining the Three‐Dimensional Spatial Architecture of Mouse Amygdala Engram Ensembles
Memories are stored in a sparse population of neurons active at the time of an event, an engram ensemble, and reactivation of the engram ensemble drives memory recall. Although the amygdala is essent...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.70056
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Josh Johansen
about 2 months ago
New paper from
@ykneurores.bsky.social
in our lab 📢 We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Body size predicts the selection of defensive behavioral strategies
Survival depends on the ability to respond appropriately to threats, yet the selection of defensive behaviors varies among individuals with distinct b…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010225001907
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Will find way to incorporate this into next talk! 🫶
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Frontiers | Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice
IntroductionMusic has become an established complementary element of modern medicine, demonstrating beneficial effects towards various diseases such as demen...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1668278/full
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Andrew Pruszynski
2 months ago
Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
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Princeton University Press
2 months ago
@okaysteve.bsky.social
's How to Change a Memory is out now! In this book, Ramirez draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing. Explore a free sample:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Neuroscience
#Memory
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John Rubinstein
2 months ago
Exciting collab with Paul Palme, Peter Imming, & Adrian Richter! Guided by
@courbongautier.bsky.social
's structure of myco ATP synthase bound to a squaramide, they have made SQAs that are less toxic, more potent, more stable than AstraZeneca's SQ31f
#MedChem
#TB
#NTM
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Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Mono- and Diamino-Substituted Squaramide Derivatives as Potent Inhibitors of Mycobacterial Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Synthase
Amides of squaric acid are new drug candidates with activity against mycobacteria. Like the approved drug bedaquiline, these compounds achieve efficacy by inhibiting mycobacterial ATP synthase. Howeve...
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c02284
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Women in Neuroscience UK
2 months ago
Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills. Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience
#MemoryResearch
#NeuroHistory
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Denise Belsham
3 months ago
Love this💕 Thanks
@bsneuroendo.bsky.social
for giving me the platform to share my story. Everyone should join this amazing society!
@infneuroendo.bsky.social
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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society
3 months ago
📣
#MCCS25
starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. More information here:
event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN)
3 months ago
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CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and
@schulichmeddent.bsky.social
professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances. Learn more:
news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
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Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab. (1/2)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627325007536?dgcid=author
3 months ago
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W. Brent Derry
3 months ago
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12848200/scientist-developmental-stem-cell-and-cancer-biology-program/?LinkSource=PremiumListing
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Scott Waddell
4 months ago
@senapati.bsky.social
latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683769v1
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Paul Frankland
4 months ago
New paper from the lab 🚨 Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfHC-Pj
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A great read!!!!
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4 months ago
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Carmen Sandi
4 months ago
Enormous thanks to the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation for this award! I am thrilled and truly humbled, & I share it with my lab over the years and our wonderful collaborators! A timely boost to keep our science moving! Thanks to everyone for your kind messages! Looking forward to
#FENS2026
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Adrien Peyrache
5 months ago
Stoked to see this paper finally out! It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks. Super fun collaboration with
@mace-lab.bsky.social
and Stuart Trenholm.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Steve Ramirez
5 months ago
Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*
www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
https://www.amazon.com/How-Change-Memory-Neuroscientists-Quest/dp/0691266689
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Spencer LaVere Smith
5 months ago
After your SfN in San Diego, drift 130 km up the coast to Irvine for a bit more:
cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2025-special...
Go ahead and register now.
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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society
5 months ago
Check out the meeting lineup for
#MCCS25
! It's going to be an incredible day. Don't miss out, register now:
event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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Brokoslaw Laschowski
5 months ago
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.
#neuroAI
#compneuro
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Professor-Computational-Cognitive-Neuroscience-ON/595247717/
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Vinny Costa
5 months ago
This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature
Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09466-1
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Philip Bump
6 months ago
News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.
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Ciarán Murphy-Royal
6 months ago
🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at
@umontreal.ca
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www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808
Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12843808/professor-at-the-rank-of-assistant-or-associate-professor-in-the-field-of-neurocircuitry-/
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Such a cool technique! Activity history tracing!
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6 months ago
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Asaf Gilboa
7 months ago
Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection.
tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence
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The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and Intention Representation in Prospective Memory
Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, comprised of memory for intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, …
https://tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
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Hadley Bergstrom
7 months ago
Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely!
vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
https://vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar-External/job/Poughkeepsie-NY/Assistant-Professor-of-Biology_R00030614?jobFamilyGroup=71e2c39500161003e7c502c9a45f8212
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The Transmitter
7 months ago
This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with
@agonru.bsky.social
and
@drewkesner.bsky.social
about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month:
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Newsletters and alerts
The latest news and perspectives on the neuroscience topics that interest you most, direct to your inbox
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Tiziana Metitieri
7 months ago
Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉 Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.
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Yeah Andrew!!!! Félicitations
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Jibran Khokhar
8 months ago
If you missed out on a spot at the other neuroscience/psychoactive drug GRCs this summer, we still have spots open at the Cannabinoid GRC with an exciting program ranging from clinical to pre-clinical to big data to society! Register today!
grc.org/cannabinoid-...
RT please!
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Ciarán Murphy-Royal
8 months ago
Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the
@crchum.bsky.social
in the Neuroscience Axis !
www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...
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Assistant or associate professor-researcher in Neuroscience related to neurological disorders and/or neural regeneration and precision health
Description The Neuroscience Research Axis of the CRCHUM and the Department of Neuroscience of the UdeM are inviting applications for a position of assistant or associate professor-researcher in neur...
https://www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/assistant-associate-professor-researcher-neuroscience-related-neurological-disorders-andor
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Ali Salahpour
8 months ago
We have a new faculty position in our Dept. Please kindly share and repost
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Jibran Khokhar
8 months ago
The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final program is here! Spots are going fast! Register soon for trainee talks! Reshare please!
grc.org/cannabinoid-...
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Iva Zovkic
8 months ago
New preprint! In 2014, we showed that histone variants are new regulators of memory and ever since, we wondered if histone H2A.Z contributes to Alzheimer's. Using human brains and 5xFAD mice, we found that it depends on if you're male or female. Summary below.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Opposing effects of H2A.Z on memory, transcription and pathology in male and female Alzheimer's disease mice and patients
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that disproportionately impacts women, but underlying mechanisms for sex-divergent outcomes are unknown. Here, we show that the hist...
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.05.28.656659v1
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John Rubinstein
8 months ago
🇨🇦🚨Job Alert🚨🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget) U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath *Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?) Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...
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2026 Canada Excellence Research Chair Opportunities | Research & Innovation
https://research.utoronto.ca/funding-opportunities/canada-research-chairs/2026-canada-excellence-research-chair-opportunities
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience
9 months ago
Meeting chair Matt Hill presenting keynote lecturer Paul Frankland happening now
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mark cembrowski
9 months ago
fantastic day at the 2025 Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite meeting! great talks by trainees Xin Zhao, Govind Peringod, Luca Pancotti, and Peiying Wen, and congrats to Govind for his top trainee talk award! so cool to see all the great circuits and behaviour work across the country
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Quanta Magazine
9 months ago
In 1984, Francis Crick described a biological conundrum: Memories last years, while most molecules degrade in days or weeks. “How then is memory stored in the brain so that its trace is relatively immune to molecular turnover?” he wrote in Nature.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecula...
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