I mean, technically, it also impacts rocket science, brain surgery, and solving the climate crisis...

More NIH chaos. NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

I was wondering how my feed had nothing about the shutdown. You guys know this means no grants, study sections, etc….

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

Hot take #3: “BLA subdivisions contain specific subtypes of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Hot take #4: Genes downregulated in PTSD load mainly onto specific subtypes of inhibitory interneurons that are highly conserved across primates.

Hot take #1: Amygdala neuron types are highly conserved across different primate species. No human specific innovations. Hot take #2: Canonical gene markers identified for murine amygdala neuron types are not especially informative inferring cell type identifies for the primate amygdala.

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

WE ARE HIRING!! Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI. I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Wow what a rich dataset! Amazing work @jungheejung.bsky.social !

[7/7] 🚀 Sharing this to collaboratively advance naturalistic, cognitive, pain, & affective neuroscience! Huge thanks to all amazing co-authors who made this possible! Paper: rdcu.be/eBTy2 @ScientificData Dataset: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

So sad about this news. Nina has been a powerful advocate and leader for the intramural program and it’s painful to imagine it without her. Very grateful for all she has done as DDIR!

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

I've heard from several scientists who are scandalized because NIH people now cannot buy anything (!!) betw mid-Aug and Oct 1. Except that's been the case for decades. It's because appropriated funds expire at the end of the fiscal year, so there's an extremely complex process to close out the yr.

I really enjoyed working on this with @laurenatlas.bsky.social. The editor was also amazing to work with. I learned a lot along the way. Stay tuned for more work from @laurenatlas.bsky.social, David Finn and me.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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...

For those following the NIH budget fight, the next big development will be this Tuesday, Sept 2nd, with the House LHHS subcommittee markups. The bill text will likely come out late Monday. The House bill is likely to be closer to the president's budget request than the Senate's was, so be prepared.

Thanks to @massih.bsky.social for inviting me to co-author this commentary @science.org Mapping the anatomy of placebo analgesia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aha this explains all the new followers. Welcome! Passing it forward.

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The dearth of reviewers for papers often overlooks the expertise of lesser-known ECRs. If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!

Major news! Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation: Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al Thread 👇 osf.io/preprints/os...

I’m so proud of this paper. Truly a labour of love that started when I was in my PhD program. It took ~10 years from inception to fruition. The question is: does pain compete with other tasks based on salience or pain? journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

The NIH Has Two Months Left to Spend Billions. “Whether or not Congress cuts NIH’s budget, the Trump administration has devastated its ability to operate.”

#JNeurosci | Hwang, Murray, and colleagues discovered that the orbitofrontal cortex is pivotal to the arousal of the autonomic system in macaque monkeys when they view reward-predictive cues. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0619-25.2025

It is with profound sadness that we share that Professor Andrea Evers passed away. Andrea was a visionary leader, a brilliant scientist, and a compassionate colleague. As we begin to process this immense loss, let us remember Andrea for her remarkable legacy and kindness she brought into our lives.

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Fox finds raccoons in henhouse. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/07...

Great chance to work with a rapidly growing research university embedded in the heart of downtown Toronto.

Senate Appropriations has a modest *INCREASE* in NIH funding but it will need to be recconciled with the house cut. If you have not been calling your representative of late now would be a good time to start again www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

Hot tip: try to avoid thinking about the implications of your research on how information about painful procedures enhances pain the night before having a painful skin biopsy 😬😓

Almost missed that this is out! Former postdoc Liz Necka led this long overdue FMRI study formally comparing two types of pain modulation: Placebo analgesia & predictive cues. TLDR: these are NOT the same! Placebo analgesia reduced cue effects, & brain mechanisms were nearly all dissociable. 1/4

Almost missed that this is out! Former postdoc Liz Necka led this long overdue FMRI study formally comparing two types of pain modulation: Placebo analgesia & predictive cues. TLDR: these are NOT the same! Placebo analgesia reduced cue effects, & brain mechanisms were nearly all dissociable. 1/4

At BRAIN CAMP this year, we are doing giant brain 🧠 sculptures to be displayed at our local market, explained by the kids on what they learned about their brain & then auctioned off for display in the community 🙌. Follow us to watch the progress on the sculptures this week! @cuanschutz.bsky.social

“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join! forms.gle/2DBgs8S1fktS...

Can we study emotion by using eye puffs that are "irritating"? Check this Transmitter piece about the original paper in Science and some views for an against. @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion-proc...

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

⚡️🧠A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain Now published on the cover of Science Advances @science.org Check it out 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...