Excited to share the newest work from the lab, examining the role of dorsal striatum astrocytes and neurons in alcohol stimulation. Huge congrats to superstar postdoc @cherishardinger.bsky.social and the team on this beautiful work! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

SOOO excited to share this new story from the lab, in which we identify a functional influenza-induced immune engram with behavioral and immune consequences, along with a potential therapeutic target within the lung-brain axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Save the date 😎 #CSHL #BBB

Final version of our paper on zebrafish pericytes and BBB function is now out in Elife! Congrats to Oz the first author and all contributors. elifesciences.org/articles/104...

Computational Behaviour launches July 2027! 🤓 A fully remote two-week course, open to participants worldwide. ➡️ Learn more and get involved: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds @connectedminds.bsky.social

Congrats to the Montreal Victoire on becoming the PWHL Walter Cup champions 🏆 🔥

Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seismographs in Montreal can detect Habs goals. montreal.citynews.ca/2026/05/19/h...

Lineup, including trainee talks, is all set for this year's Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite at @canacn.bsky.social, co-hosted with @franklandlab.bsky.social . One week away, with a few tickets remaining for anyone interested! www.eventbrite.com/e/neural-cir...

Join us next week, Thursday May 14th 7pm @theneuro.bsky.social!! All are welcome, please invite family and friends for an engaging (and free) lecture!! Registration link in bio! 🧠🧠🇨🇦🇨🇦 @canacn.bsky.social @salmasolab.bsky.social

Come be our colleague! 🫁 @cuanschutz.bsky.social is a great place to start a lab and be successful...please apply! 👇

Deadline fast approaching! ACNP Travel Award Applications are open for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. Deadline to Submit is May 14, 2026, at 5:00 pm Central. tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va #ACNP2027 #travelawards

Get your tickets for the CAN 2026 Public lectures - happening May 7 - 5-8PM Learn about past, current and future memory research in Montreal with engaging lecturers. Featuring Eric Andrew-Gee, Mihaela Iordanova and Blake Richards - www.eventbrite.ca/e/je-me-souv...

Not long left til the @canacn.bsky.social annual meeting in Montreal! I'm excited for the Career Networking event that I am hosting with @lohmanaw.bsky.social We'll give you a free lunch and a chance to sit down with people from all different career trajectories! 👇 can-acn.org/meeting-2026...

Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Now accepting proposals for ISSR 2027! Please share widely!

Sharing the latest from the lab. Led by Yunlong Liu, this work explores how microglia and engram neurons interact during fear extinction in the hippocampus. rdcu.be/fgNH7

The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology is looking to grow! We opened a position for an assistant or associate professor, please distribute ! facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...

Just 2 weeks left to apply: Tenure-track faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh for someone studying the mechanisms of pain. Looking for interactive colleagues. Please spread the word! Info here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Excited to share an early look at psilo-seq, a web portal for exploring our lab’s single-nucleus RNA-seq data in mice following psychedelic treatment.

Excited to share our latest in @currentbiology.bsky.social (they who publish the coolest papers!) Memories are encoded by sparse neuronal ensembles (engrams). But most evidence comes from "simple" associative learning tasks. What about more integrative memories like spatial navigation?

Excellent post. Scientific inflation is likely 2X that of retail price index. Add to this the creep in the amount of data now required to support a grant application or paper and the fact that grant values still do not cover all expenses and we are between a harbour wall and an approaching tsunami.

Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!

📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control www.levine-lab.org

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...