Cell vulnerability within the sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus underlies REM sleep behaviour disorder in prodromal α-synucleinopathy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.719687v1

Our newest preprint shows sex specific effect of exercise on motor coordination and dopamine neuron excitability! This was actually really surprising to us.

📢 Unraveling Parkinson’s. Advancing Precision Medicine. New CRN grants in partnership with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research bring together 32 global teams to map the biology of #ParkinsonsDisease and build tools to accelerate discovery. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4ugkfes

New preprint led by recent PhD graduate Dalton Fitzgerald characterizing two distinct populations of VTA dopamine neurons that differ in ion channel expression, intrinsic excitability, and response to drugs of abuse. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There is still time to apply. I'm now looking for someone who likes imaging, for a project like this: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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...

🚨It turns out that semaglutide, known to reduce food intake and obesity, causes rats to increase their food choices compared to cocaine! This effect is particularly evident when the effort required to obtain cocaine is intermediate www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Check out our new profile! Dr. Anila D'Mello (@aniladmello.bsky.social) studies language and cognition, and how the underlying brain circuits are altered in neurodevelopmental disorders. Follow the link below to learn more! #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

New preprint from the lab🧵🧪 Eating ultraprocessed foods leads to poor health outcomes, but HOW they do it isn't understood. "HOW?" is important, as "how" can allow targeted policy, reformulaiton, or recommendations to reduce harmful effects. We started to ask that question doi.org/10.64898/202...

If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

Today is World Parkinson’s Day! 🌎 More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease, and in the United States alone, someone new is diagnosed with PD every 6 minutes. (1/2)

Topographic structure and function of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717727v1

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

🧠 CRN Team Surmeier released a new #publication exploring how sustained dopamine levels during dyskinesia reshape striatal neuron activity, revealing state-specific changes in excitability and connectivity. 🔗 bit.ly/3Nsmzzk

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Laura DeNardo (@ladenardo.bsky.social) studies how the mPFC integrates environmental cues to control adaptive responses to threat. Click below to learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Submit your abstract until May 15 for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) to get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and panel speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/invited-spea... Please repost!

As a reminder: I am hiring a postdoc and at least one research assistant for a project on VTA circuits and cognitive function that starts this summer. Get in touch if interested!

A cortical circuit for orchestrating oromanual food manipulation www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... - Om! Nom! Nom! Nom! (the neuroscience of...) 🍪

Join us in shaping the future of science! @hhmi-science.bsky.social is hiring a new Scientific Program Officer to support the #HannaGrayFellows #FHScholar programs hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re hiring a full-time Research Coordinator in the Preston Lab at UT Austin (start May/June 2026). Work on behavioral + fMRI studies of how memory & decision-making develop from childhood to adulthood. Learn more & apply: preston.clm.utexas.edu/news/join-th... Please repost!

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

A PI who still hopes to spend time at the bench

We have an opening for a Lab Manager position in my group at UCSF. Consider joining us! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Sweet portrait collage by Michela Buttignol : How Caitlin Vander Weele made science communication her business. Her favorite part of research was talking about it. So she left academia and turned that passion into a successful company. By Katie Moisse: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Meet Sarah Heilbronner, a neuroanatomist building wiring diagrams to understand the structure of pathways in the brain. 🧠#AskaNeuroscientist @srheilbronner.bsky.social

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

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📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions

Super stoked to share that I’m starting my lab at UHN @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social / @kbi-uhn.bsky.social and the University of Toronto! If you’re interested in neuron-myelin interactions in circuit maturation and cognition, please reach out - we are hiring! www.oligodendrocyte.org 1/

New preprint shows spike protein persisting in the GI tract - and how it affects the environment around it 🦠 Wow! A lot to unpack here. This team performed gut biopsies and found spike protein in the GI tract of Long COVID patients. 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This piece reflecting on how I formed the ideas for my research was fun to write, and I hope you enjoy reading it!

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I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️

Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster

Always awesome to work with you and your team Bryan!

My secret life as a cat.

Interested in addiction and cormorbid disorders? Join us for our ICAN symposium on Mar. 18 in @ucirvine.bsky.social, featuring Josh Gordon, @neurovoice.bsky.social, Tony George, @nanopharmnc.bsky.social, Khaled Moussawi, Meg Fox, Firoza Mamdani, & more! All welcome! www.bio.uci.edu/event/ican-s...

Had a lot of fun teaching the first year students about the cerebellum today! Opened with the Powerpuff girls, how the mayor was absolutely useless and horrible at his job, but his assistant was essential, ran everything, and kept the town afloat. Her name was Ms. Sara Bellum. Got audible gasps!

My alma mater is hiring in behavio_u_ral neuroscience—Waterloo ON is a fine place to live and there are some very clever folks in the Dept, strongly recommend!

Check out our latest paper on choice between alcohol and social reward in rats

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

when it's your turn to give lab meeting and you don't have new results to show