Eerie how timeless this quote is. Came across it while walking in downtown San Diego.

Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters. Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill

Excited to be representing the @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social lab at @krfoundation.org 's 2025 Innovations symposium! If you're here, feel free to say hi and come talk about brain-immune system interactions! #idb #brain #neuroscience #immunology #research #scicomm

1/10 Our latest research, led by Monika Moissidis, identifies a mechanism regulating the maturation of PV interneurons in the #cortex. This is the story @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... ⬇︎ thread @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Equity in science isn't optional, it's essential! Explore @cellpress.bsky.social Inclusivity in Science collection, featuring research and perspectives that push for a more diverse and inclusive scientific community 🔬🔎🌍https://www.cell.com/cp/collections-inclusivity

New collaborative study out with Mark Wu’s group identifies a thalamic reuniens-zona incerta circuit as both responsive to induced sleep deprivation and essential for mediating recovery sleep. Further perspective on this work follows./1 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025. I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now. A (sad) thread /1

Exciting to see growing work on microglial GABA receptors and their role in regulating inhibition. Here, hyperactive inhibitory neurons in epilepsy activate microglia via GABA. Activated microglia then eliminate inhibitory synapses through a GABA–C3 feedback loop. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am looking for a postdoc with an immunology background interested in joining a Yale neuroscience lab to study how the brain controls immunity. At Yale, we have a wonderful interdisciplinary & collaborative #neuroimmune community. Please reach out or share with anyone who might be interested!

"An AAV capsid proposed as microglia-targeting directs genetic expression in forebrain excitatory neurons" www.cell.com/cell-reports... Xiangmin Xu & colleagues @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social

International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation. Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down. Classic bully behavior. We Stand Up for International Students. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

Type 2 cytokines act on enteric sensory neurons to regulate neuropeptide-driven host defense www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @kuchroolab.bsky.social @thexavierlab.bsky.social

I am looking for a postdoc with an immunology background interested in joining a Yale neuroscience lab to study how the brain controls immunity. At Yale, we have a wonderful interdisciplinary & collaborative #neuroimmune community. Please reach out or share with anyone who might be interested!

It’s been fun to contribute to this work, go check the latest subtype specific enhancers from Gord’s lab!

Check out the neuroview and all the great articles of new tools to target different cell types with enhancer-mediated AAVs!

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

May issue is online! Explore reviews on the #neuroimmune axis! The beautiful cover was designed by Ella Marushchenko, working with @jonykipnis.bsky.social. A brain encased in a walnut shell that is cracking open symbolizes our growing understanding of #neuroimmunology www.cell.com/immunity/iss...

A few of the incredible women representing the future of neuroimmunology #neuroimmuneGRC

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Bonsai is out! Finally, we can visually explore high-dimensional data in a distortion-free way. Try it out! It works from scRNA-seq data (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...) up to football statistics (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...). 
Ever wondered why low-dimensional embeddings like t-SNE

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Online now: Monocytes can efficiently replace all brain macrophages and fetal liver monocytes can generate bona fide SALL1+ microglia

A drop of milkshake takes a wild ride as it passes through the body. Rachel and Kiersten and the team came up with cool strategies for visualizing food passing through the mouse GI tract and mapping the activity of the same 100s of brainstem neurons across weeks during feeding and other behaviors.

‼️BIG news ‼️ #ReThinkNeuroimmunology #RTN registration is open and live! The program is amazing! Hurry up to register while prices are low! See you in Boston in October! genelayinstitute.org/rtn/

Great commentary on recent work from FASI PI, Andrew Wang: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #foodallergy #allergy #immunosky

🧵This is so damn cool!!! And, of course, NIH $$$ were used in this study

Hot off the science presses! The largest map of the brain's wiring and activity to date is featured on the cover of @nature.com. 🧠📈 Check out 'Cortex in Context' at: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Excited to share the latest work from our lab where we examined the role of pyramidal cells in regulating microglia development! As per tradition here is a graphical summary of our paper in comic form. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

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Hi #neuroscience community! This is one of my favorite posts ever. In close collaboration with @liddelowsa.bsky.social and Ye Zhang, we've built a new tool that we are eager to share! www.webseq.net

While 'forgetting' is often considered to be an inconvenient fact of living with an imperfect brain, there is reason to think of forgetting as more of a 'feature' than a 'bug'. Forgetting allows us to tailor our internal models of the world. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Big congratulations to the new NGL cohort! Thrilled to see familiar faces and can’t wait to meet everyone else. Welcome to the group—this is going to be awesome! 🥳

Delighted to highlight our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it's big, and it's a review of 601 papers on the topic - but here's an update on Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by Michael Heneka, published in @natrevimmunol.bsky.social today (MANY more authors listed and linked below)

Plasma proteins and brain aging. Assessment of ~3,000 proteins in ~11, 000 UK biobank participants w/ over 11,000 MRI phenotypes 1. Brain aging is non-linear, with protein waves at ages 57, 70 and 78

My inaugural post on Bluesky - quite fittingly, I'm thrilled to share our first study on heat acclimation, which identifies a neuronal mechanism that drives heat tolerance in mice. (www.nature.com/articles/s41... ) Here is the gist 🧵 (1/n):

Well this is some cool single molecule imaging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New @science.org from my Scripps Research colleagues on H5N1 A single mutation can increase the virus's binding to human receptors, highlighting the need for rigorous surveillance science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This new tool will be quite transformative for immunology, neuroscience, and more. PAGERs are DREADD-inspired programmable GPCRs to study ligand/antigen-driven cellular responses.

Fun facts — many chronic diseases are infectious diseases (eg Lyme). Others are autoimmune diseases triggered by responses to infections (eg MS). Some cancers are caused by infections (eg liver ca). Some can be prevented by vaccines. To do your own research: read medical school textbooks.

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

#neuroinflammation #covid 🧵 Compelling study: Covid spike protein persists in the skull-meninges-brain axis in COVID patients. In mice, spike protein induces brain pathology, brain vulnerability and exacerbates neurological damage. mRNA vaccines reduce spike burden #neuroskyence, #neuroimmunology

Excited to share our work @science.org. led by our incredible @tommyz626.bsky.social at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social! By profiling 21 million single cells across life stages, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows!

Stress disrupts engram ensembles in amygdala to generalize threat memory by acting on PV neurons via retrograde endocannabinoid signaling -- so many things packed in this interesting paper just out in Cell! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How do hibernators survive for months without water? Reduced neuronal activity in the CVOs is key! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is pretty impressive--closing the gap between superresolution microscopy and structural biology is one of the Holy Grails and this is a big step in that direction--check out the nuclear pore imaging