🚨 Please share! My lab is hiring a Research Assistant! This is a great opportunity to gain experience with cutting-edge systems neuroscience techniques in a collaborative research environment. If you're interested, check the link for further details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

Please share: I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab in Oslo! For this project, we will investigate the role of striatal interneurons during action selection, using a combination of behavior, in vivo voltage imaging, and slice ephys. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #NeuroJobs #NeuroSkyence

Chronic nicotine reduces nigral dopaminergic activity and remodels pedunculopontine cholinergic subpopulations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705607v1

New lab preprint! Can we study conscious perception of gut sensations in mice to reveal its neuronal basis? Can we train mice to report their gut sensations? Omer Rafael and Stav Shtiglitz in the lab teamed up to discover that…YES! Thread…1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Restaurants, billboards, commercials… what brain circuits link context to appetite? 🧠🌎🍽️ Very happy to finally share a major update in our work exploring the hippocampus and lateral septum in calibrating food consumption! 🍩 Major thanks to our lab and collaborators! ⭐️⭐️ www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

someone should make a tool and name it ChatGFP

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...

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

Hubble or cluster cut?

First of a few postings for jobs in my lab-we are hiring an entry level technician! www.gwu.jobs/postings/124...

Excited to share this preprint of my postdoc work, only several years late to the party 🎉 We examined how loss of function in SETD1A, a high confidence schizophrenia risk gene, impacts neural synchrony across circuits supporting working memory in mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Divergent ethanol drinking phenotypes are linked to region-specific dysregulation of serotonin systems in the mouse brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702832v1

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Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Very few people in the history of our species have saved as many people's lives as William Foege, who designed and lead the global elimination of smallpox, a highly contagious disease that killed 1 out 3 people it infected. ✊ www.scientificamerican.com/article/smal...

Ventral pallidal perineuronal nets regulate opioid relapse https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.700926v1

Memory erasure by dopamine-gated retrospective learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700100v1

I hate to admit it but exercising does make me feel better

Exciting new preprint on oxytocin neural circuits for massage led by Manon Bohic in Vicky Abraira’s lab. Sasha and I were glad to contribute imaging experiments to this collaborative effort, spanning mice to humans. Vicky is a master at bringing people together. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

From the bottom of page 9 of my (rather lengthy) course syllabus:

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Protip: The *earlier* you fill out your availability, the more plausible it is for you to say later, "Sorry, I'm no longer free then. Go ahead and meet without me."

People of Bluesky! Are you ready for the Top Squirrels of 2025??????

Postdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC Please RT

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

iGluSnFR4 is now available @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates 🧪

New work from kashlab led by Dr. Jobe Ritchie @jobeneuro.bsky.social .. our old pal serotonin is back.

PSA: the super flu is no fun at all

#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

🚨 Our year-long, post-bacc internship positions are now open for application! 🚨 This new program is designed to provide mentorship and on-the-job experience for recent grads. Full list of open roles: https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships-and-postbac/

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

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.

Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

½ New preprint reveals a twist in dopamine’s role: Cue-evoked dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens core doesn’t just boost reward pursuit—it shapes how we pursue. #RewardSignals #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Excited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Lecturer position in Neurobiology at UMass Amherst. Come join a great group of instructors teaching in the Biology, Psych & Brain Sci, and Neuroscience majors. Review starts Jan 5, 2026. Please forward/apply! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #NeuroJobs #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

A high #fat #diet increases risk taking and suppresses escape neurons in🐁🐁🐁 #neuroscience www.cell.com/current-biol...

🧠 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

(1/3)Excited to share PKU tags—our lab’s latest contribution expanding the toolkit for cell-type labeling with a new shape dimension! Developed at PKU, these genetically encoded tools enable multiplex cell-type labeling compatible with both light and electron microscopy.

In @elife.bsky.social: Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!

Excited to share my postdoc work with @yttrilab.bsky.social and @ahmarilab.bsky.social where we show that the striatal indirect pathway mediates hesitation in mice (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). And I'm honored to have @ahmarilab.bsky.social introduce the findings with a musical abstract!

Closing tabs with papers I promised myself i'll read

The world has lost a giant of virology, molecular biology and science advocacy David Baltimore’s obituary by Stephen Goff www.nature.com/articles/d41...