Excited to share the latest one from the lab led by José Solano @jolusolo.bsky.social who explored how early life #stress impacts the mouse 🐭 brain 🧠 vasculature Science 🧪🔬 can be surprising & 2x stress can induce beneficial adaptations leading to resilience, phew! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Does anyone have any European or Canadian nursing contacts who work in paediatric mental health, specifically the nexus of acute psychiatry and neurodiverslty? A friend is doing research in this area.

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...

Happy to see this one coming through. The first from my PhD studies 🤓 and hopefully more interesting data to share soon about early life #stress and brain #vascular function.

Excited to share the latest one from the lab led by José Solano @jolusolo.bsky.social who explored how early life #stress impacts the mouse 🐭 brain 🧠 vasculature Science 🧪🔬 can be surprising & 2x stress can induce beneficial adaptations leading to resilience, phew! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Trainees attending @canacn.bsky.social 2026 Meeting - @franklandlab.bsky.social and I are co-hosting the Circuits & Behaviour satellite and seeking 4 trainee speakers (one of whom will receive a $500 "Best Talk" prize). Register by next Friday for consideration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

Good outcomes like this reinforce the importance of all stages of peer review - review of our 'stories' starts yrs before submitting - trainees' posters, my talks, presenting figures at lab/committee meetings. MANY scientists 'review' our work pre manuscript submission, it is all the better for it.

What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce Dr. Maria Ioannou, from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the CAN 2026 New Investigator Award View her profile: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1

I always thought that mice couldn't over groom their own backs in a pattern like this, and that instead it was due to their cagemates eg barbering?

ACNP Panel, Mini-Panel, and Study Group Submissions open TODAY for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. Deadline for Chairs to create the Proposal: May 19, 2026 at 5:00 pm Central. tinyurl.com/43skzjvu #ACNP2027

ACNP Panel, Mini-Panel, and Study Group Submissions open this coming Tuesday, April 14th for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California.😎Deadline for Chairs to create the Proposal: May 19, 2026, at 5:00 pm Central. tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va #ACNP2027

Pericyte loss precedes endothelial inflammation ⬆️VCAM1 in 👤cerebral Small Vessel Disease 11k microvessels (φ4~19 μm)🤠 in precentral gyrus grey & white matter N=20👤 Morph-O-Matic 2D cell segmentation zenodo.org/records/1735... @axelmontagne.bsky.social bioRxiv 2026 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

Japan is calling - submit your late breaking abstract for the ICN2026! The ICN is the premier meeting in neuroendocrinology and only happens once every four years. Be there! 😎🧠🌟 @infneuroendo.bsky.social @paneuroendo.bsky.social @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social

More then ever there need to accountability in discussion and the way to do that effectively is in person meetings. Whatever money savings they think they get from travel is out the window with suboptimal decision making.

Went from 23°C in Kauai 🍍🌊🌴🐓🏄‍♀️🤙 for #MPA2026 to -3°C in the snow ☃️ back home in Quebec City 🇨🇦 last night but at least Easter weekend = start of snow crab season 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 🤤

Big congratulations to Laurence, very 1st MSc student of my lab, for winning @ulaval.ca Prix Élan for the best 2025 PhD thesis in the health category 🏆👏🌟 @cervo-ulaval.bsky.social

Happy to finally share our labor of love with the microglial community: "Constitutive expression of CX3CR1-BAC-Cre introduces minimal off-target effects in microglia" authors.elsevier.com/a/1msDZ,99wr... 🧵Thread below:

Incredibly proud of this paper led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social and @mathiasgua.bsky.social titled Basolateral 'Amygdala Astrocytes Encode Anxiety States'. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧵 below

Very happy to have contributed to this mastodon of a paper by Yinan @yinanwan.bsky.social. Whole-mount spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish y'all 🐟🧪

Exciting news! 🎉 Abstract submissions are now open for the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN), happening July 8–11 in Niagara Falls, NY. Share your latest research and enjoy the stunning views at #SBN2026 🌈 Submit here: whova.com/call_for_spe...

Registration for the @canacn.bsky.social 2026 Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting is now live! Looking forward to hosting this event with @franklandlab.bsky.social again, and we're looking to have 4 trainee talks as part of the satellite. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/1984146883...

Here is the FindAPhD weblink to our BHF-DRI PhD programme! Deadline: *April 14* Please spread the word!! eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Please consider joining us in May by registering ! Abstract submission deadline extended to March 12th! The last 48hrs to submit your work 😇 Register until April 30th to attend our 3rd CANGlia symposium, with Cagla Eroglu as keynote speaker, and excellent symposia 😎 #Glia #neuroscience #conference

Don’t forget to submit your abstracts!! Deadline is quickly approaching! 🧠🧠 #CANGlia2026

Tell me your favorite neuroimmune, microbiology, and brain barriers journals...need to go journal shopping. 🛍️🧠 (Looking for a 'home' for our arachnoid barrier - meningitis story...up as a preprint - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

Just 2 more days to submit an abstract for #CANGlia2026! Don’t miss this opportunity to share your exciting glial research!! Submission link in bio!

🚨 New preprint from our lab led by Sophia Kim w/ @kellydoran.bsky.social group @cuanschutz.bsky.social -- using neonatal 🐭 model of bacterial meningitis ➡️ arachnoid barrier is leaky, Cldn11 junctions are disrupted & cytokines are part of the problem. Lots of 🤩🧠🦠🔬 & compelling data, check it out! 1/5

In imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (Xenium CosMx), 40% RNAs are Not assigned to segmented cells This amazing preprint @fabiantheis.bsky.social studies the origin, heterogeneity & biological inference (Modeling cell protrusion/contacts😎) of unassigned RNAs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It was great to share this experience with @thetransmitter.bsky.social Can't wait to begin this course again in Fall. If you're interested in something like this for your own class, I'm happy to discuss. www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

I had the opportunity to write a research briefing for Nature, in which I summarized our recent work in African Striped Mice. It’s a short read for anyone who wants a quick overview! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨New paper alert🚨 We built a fully standardized, integrated hardware and software solution for real-time welfare monitoring in mice. We used it to look at pain management after brain surgery. Not much has changed from the preprint (see below). Brief: hold back on opioids! doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Read CAN President Douglas Zochodne's letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney highlighting the importance of Neuroscience research and the CIHR Project Grant shortfalls. can-acn.org/read-our-let...

Early bird registration deadline for the CAN 2026 meeting is today! Don't miss this chance to register at the best rates! Date limite d'inscription aux tarifs lève-tôt aujourd'hui! Ne manquez pas cette chance de vous inscrire au meilleur prix! can-acn.org/meeting-2026/

New neuroscience job at Wilfrid Laurier University. You may not know the name, but science has been growing fast. It is also down the street from Canada's top tech university (Waterloo) and a world class physics institute (Perimeter). I feel happy and lucky to be here careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Excited to share this in final form @sfnjournals.bsky.social: An Open-Source Restraint System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Rats www.eneuro.org/content/13/2... if anyone wants to try doing it, give us a call! Happy to help you get going!

Registrations and abstract submissions for #AstrocyteCafe2026 are now OPEN!!! Spread the word 🤩 We hope to see many of you on June 3-5 in Pamplona!!! Thanks Kernel Science, for our brand new website and for helping organize this conference! 👇👇👇👇 astrocytecafe.com#/conference-...

Chuffed to see our paper with @geneyeo.bsky.social finally published in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very grateful to Fede, Susie, and Dave from my lab, and Sammi, Eric, and Pratibha from Gene's lab. What did we find? ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Kids born the same year that the term “RNA-seq” was coined are heading to college this fall. We are all unspeakably ancient.

Join us Sep 5-12, 2026 in Venice at the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies for a course on Integrated Brain-Body Neuroscience featuring world-class speakers @mcalpinelab.bsky.social @jonykipnis.bsky.social @scottrussophd.bsky.social Jessica Able, Jens Brüning, Ivan de Araujo & Kara Marshall.

Congrats to @pact-lab.bsky.social postdoc @ryanntansey.bsky.social on her recent paper looking at the impact of elevated anandamide via FAAH inhibition on brain function in patients with PTSD What does it do? Well....not much 😬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

Very excited to get to share culmination of this large-scale project to understand spatial gene expression in schizophrenia. Really proud of the amazing team work here working out lots of roadblocks to deploy these spatial strategies and analysis methods at scale!

We've been quiet for a while, but the lab has been quite productive, publishing several articles. Today, in Molecular Psychiatry, we published a study on sex differences in placebo and antidepressant response to intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression! www.nature.com/articles/s41...