Convergent and divergent neural and behavioral responses to chronic cocaine use in macaques https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678075v1

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Love how this project came together with the amazing @endoeartha.bsky.social ! Have you wondered about the role that testosterone plays in the ability to re-pattern social behavior when you are at home in your "territory" vs away? We have answers for you...

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department! I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad. 12/12

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

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.

Our new preprint!: arxiv.org/abs/2509.18399 Imaging fast glutamate or voltage sensors? New method to amplify electro-optical deflectors enables MHz line rate imaging. No new laser required. Led by @clwarkentin.bsky.social & @hari-shankar.bsky.social. MHz random-access imaging is in the works…

Reposting this information for our neuroscience graduate program virtual open house events with a fixed QR code - you can also register directly at this link - forms.gle/zJDcZBteMtsD...

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

First R01 officially submitted! Need to do a big 1 year of PI lab website update but first we have a lot of walks to catch up on

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you, Keri!

My group at Science has been running a big campaign to engineer new channelrhodopsins. Excited to share the first results from it today: a suite of highly sensitive new opsins. We call them "WAChRs". Everyday indoor office lighting is enough to activate them pretty strongly.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W

WAChRs are excitatory opsins sensitive to indoor lighting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675947v1

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On repeat for the last few days bc world events

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Spatiomolecular mapping reveals anatomical organization of heterogeneous cell types in the human nucleus accumbens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675374v1

TFW it’s Wednesday

Excited to share this update to our paper investigating the role of superior colliculus inputs to the ventral midbrain in learning and movement. Studies led by the amazing Dr. @carlipoisson.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

I’m sorry I can’t hang this weekend I’m still processing learning about these ants that have been cloning and giving birth to a different species of ant for millions of years to maintain their own species survival 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!

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't. If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Summers not over yet Levi!!

It's Friday night baby

the early bedtimes will continue until morale improves @jpbrammer.bsky.social

Honored to be elected to serve as the next vice co-chair, along with the amazing @sciolinolab.bsky.social, for the Catecholamines Gordon Research Conference. I first came to this meeting in 2011 as a grad student and it was transformative for my career. Excited to help cultivate that for others.

What he's saying is that he can tell by looking at children which ones he wants to murder for his eugenicist delusions.

Anyone out there with insight to NIDA and NINDS missing from Katz R01?

I wrote about God and Cracker Barrel johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/christ-in-...

NIDA missing from participating ICs?

My hero!!!!

We are thrilled to announce that OneNeuro Co-Director Patricia Janak, Ph.D., has been elected as the 2026-2027 President of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). @janaklab.bsky.social View the official announcement: www.sfn.org/publications...

Q for anyone in the US who has ever had a Canadian CIHR postdoc fellowship - was that stipend considered the entire salary, none of the salary, or part of the salary?

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our Version of Record in eLife! We find that two ways of inhibiting a brainstem structure (PPN) actually result in completely different and even opposite behaviors. One inhibitory connection is rewarding and one is aversive.

It has been "known" that musical experience improves auditory coding in the brainstem. But...a new multilab study concludes "Our findings provide no evidence for associations between early auditory neural responses and either musical training or musical ability." 👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WEAPONS was soooo goood

Proud PI of our two summer undergraduate students Selena Savatdy (McNair Scholar) and Nomar Serrano Colon (Life Sciences Summer Research fellow) who did exceptional work and generated some super cool data to boot!

I’m excited to share my latest paper, in which we used latent state modeling to reveal how fentanyl shapes decision-making dynamics in rats. Here’s a summary of what we found (thread). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind @perothwell.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...