Pete Davidson getting a soccer dad minivan was not on my bingo card for 2025, but here we are 🚐

Congratulations to my @dpn-journal.bsky.social colleagues on this milestone 🥳! It's been incredibly gratifying and a privilege to help build this journal from the ground up. I’m excited for all that’s ahead as we continue to grow 🤩

🆕 DPN article from @drsarahsperry.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that daily physical activity may improve mood in people with bipolar disorder ⬇️

Researchers with lived experience of mental illness/SUDs bring vital insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation & leadership This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Things I currently think you should be considering in your proposals. Although this thread will be NIH-centric, my guess is that some of this applies to NSF, etc. Much is synthesized from public information. Much of this is what we've advised all along, just with, um, more emphasis. Here we go:

Notice of early expiration of NIH SBIR/STTR funding announcements. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... If anyone knows the backstory, please share.

At #SFN2025 and interersted in the 🔵? Check out posters from Leslie Hassanein (D52; neuromelanin in the mouse locus coeruleus) and Maggie Tish (C59; human 3D locus coeruleus organoids) today from 1:00-5:00!

More new NIH institute and center director positions posted with a closing date of 11/26/25. hr.nih.gov/careers/open... These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ... 1/3

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Take a Deep Dive into a recent DPN article showing that negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be detected using speech spectrogram-based convolutional neural network analyses. Work by Gleb Melshin, @lenapl.bsky.social, et al: youtu.be/nEr7X-YuujQ?...

Congrats to @lahuuki.bsky.social and many members of @kr-maynard.bsky.social and @lcolladotor.bsky.social teams in our division who contributed to this study! Really excited to see this paper now published with contribution of data resources for molecular profiles of human habenula cell types 🧠🔬🧪

Kicking this off with the Great Pumpkin 🎃

went ahead and put on our costume for tomorrow (new profile pic) share yours with us! bonus points for science-themed costumes and/or pets in costumes 🎃🕸️👻

Check out this write-up of a recent DPN article from @bbrfoundation.bsky.social highlighting BBRF awardees @christianwebb.bsky.social, @erika-forbes.bsky.social, and @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social. Congrats! bbrfoundation.org/content/smar...

You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH. Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind.

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Primers are short DPN articles written for a broader audience to teach clinicians a concept or approach from basic neuroscience or vice versa. Have an idea for a Primer? DM us or email [email protected] Check out our growing collection of Primers!

🆕 study by @hadarfisher.bsky.social @nigeljaffe.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @christianwebb.bsky.social tested whether smartphone mobility sensing & LLM ratings of text can track behavioral activation in teens to boost engagement in rewarding activities www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Furlough day 7

🆕 study by @carterfunkhouser.bsky.social, @dpagliaccio.bsky.social et al assessed how resting-state brain connectivity relates to emotional expression in text messages in adolescents, identifying EEG signatures linked to negative language and depressive symptoms www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

Congrats to @alessandraborsini.bsky.social, @bdalile.bsky.social, and others 🎉 See you in the Bahamas 🏖️! #ACNP2026

The latest DPN Deep Dive covers research by @lauramcampbell.bsky.social et al. exploring intraindividual variability in smartphone-based cognitive tests. The study showed that individuals who performed better on average tended to have more consistent scores across days. youtu.be/JVzu1D7mAaI?...

Big news at @npp-journal.bsky.social HQ 👇 We are thrilled to welcome @briannaegeorge.bsky.social as our new NPP Editorial Intern 🎉 We are looking forward to working with Dr. George and are excited to have such a fantastic addition to our team 🤩

This is definitely the vibe today 🍂

The DPN Deep Dive podcast is now on Spotify! Follow us there to get updates when new episodes are released 🎧 open.spotify.com/show/0IjilX6...

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social www.libd.org/careers/ Links to individual positions in the thread below.

New NIH structure for applications/awards with foreign components: Effective for due dates on or after 1/25/26, competing apps must use the PF5 activity code for grants (UF5 for cooperative agreements). Policy: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... News news article: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Today's ✨DPN Deep Dive✨ covers a study by Braund et al. which examined whether teenagers' smartphone typing reflects specific depressive symptoms. Check it out! youtu.be/w06Jq6R55GU?...

Tune into the NIMH Council Open Session today at 1 pm EST to hear Institute updates and concept clearances. Concept clearances *may* be developed into a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) after NIMH receives public input its merits. Agenda & videocast: www.nimh.nih.gov/about/adviso...

I am really impressed with this AI-generated podcast summary of our recent paper! Thanks to @dpn-journal.bsky.social for sharing it! These excerpts can be really useful when you are in a time crunch (grant deadline!) but still want to know the take home message of a study.

Nice paper from @superkash.bsky.social and team in @npp-journal.bsky.social comparing the contribution of CRF and GABA release from the same BNST neurons to ethanol self-administration. Tom you know I am obsessed with co-transmitter release this is really elegant work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The NIMH Director job announcement and search is back on: hr.nih.gov/jobs/search/... The NIMH Director provides executive direction and scientific leadership for NIMH, overseeing a $2.3 billion budget and ~1600 employees, trainees, and contractors. Up for the challenge 😉? Apply!

🆕 DPN Deep Dive‼️ Our latest episode delves into a recent study by O’Neill, @sneuroble.bsky.social, @dreryilmaz.bsky.social et al which examined whether connectome-based models can identify brain connectivity patterns that predict cognitive outcomes in early psychosis. youtu.be/lqkEq2j8ZrU?...

Thanks to Heather Thomas and everyone on the @oneneurojhu.org team for coming over to @lieberinstitute.bsky.social to interview us and hear about research being conducted by our teams! 👩‍🔬🔬🧠🔵

Check out this @dpn-journal.bsky.social podcast episode on how smartphone language use patterns can be linked to mental and physical symptom severity after a traumatic event. Nowadays our phones are digital extensions of our bodies, and they may provide clues about our wellbeing.

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

Nice dissection of how the subjective effects & experiences elicited by different psychedelics may impact therapeutic outcomes. Perhaps the question isn't just if hallucinogenic effects are necessary for efficacy, rather how do the subjective effects impact healing & resilience?

Are hallucinogenic effects critical to the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? 🆕 Primer by Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social breaks down what's known about the role of therapy & subjective effects in driving psychedelics' putative efficacy www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check out the full article published in DPN by @tiffanycheingho.bsky.social ‪and colleagues last year: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check out the newest episode of @dpn-journal.bsky.social's new(ish) podcast!

Just learned that my @acnporg.bsky.social panel was accepted! With my colleagues Zoë Hughes, @jordanhamm.bsky.social, Bryan Baxter & Patricio O'Donnell, our #ACNP2026 panel will highlight cross-species approaches using functional brain-based biomarkers to address translational gaps in psychiatry

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is:

🚨Update for PIs planning NIH app submissions for Oct/Nov deadlines: Many NIMH NOSIs I'm engaged with are expiring on Sept 8th so plan accordingly! This includes: 1. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 2. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 3. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Check out this 🆕 article from Minerva, @cate-cholamine.bsky.social, & colleagues reviewing the pros, cons, and best applications for currently available genome-wide sequencing technologies in neuropsychiatric research www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How does social media affect youth mental health? Our latest podcast dives into work by @dpagliaccio.bsky.social et al using an exposome-wide association approach to reveal aspects of social media/smartphone use that relate to mental health youtu.be/GwBFapo77R4?...

So happy to be on this team!!!

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So grateful to have @brittonrae.bsky.social on our team contributing her social media prowess to promote the DPN journal 😁