Thanks to @katesadlerphd.bsky.social for hosting me at UTD this week! What a great department and city, and the most eye-welling I’ve ever done during an introduction.

Inspired!

Solid advice for grad school applicants #AcademicSky #MedSky #EpiSky #ScienceSky

By James Watson

Next week in San Diego!

🚨Applications are now open for 2026 @beckmanillinois.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships! We provide 3 years of support ($63k/year) for candidates conducting interdisciplinary research with two or more Beckman faculty members. Please apply and RT! beckman.illinois.edu/opportunitie...

I know most things I need to know about a person based on how they react when they hear “TELL ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE GONE.”

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

Viewpoint: Integrating psychologists into inpatient teams can reduce coercive practices, improve diagnosis and risk management, boost staff morale, and contribute to more effective treatment and discharge planning. ja.ma/3JdTQvW

Another #FluorescenceFriday image here, from an ongoing project studying circuitry of the retrosplenial cortex. Here we are using rabies to map the inputs specifically to the deep pyramidal cells (L5). Cyan shows the deep cells and magenta shows their presynaptic partners. #NeuroSkyence

Happy to share my lab's first review article! We outline how the lateral habenula is a critical regulator of almost every type of social behavior, from pro- to anti-social behaviors, in both sexes, and across the lifespan. Hopefully this can serve as a useful reference! rdcu.be/eLWPw

Happy "PROFESSOR!!! CANVAS IS DOWN!!!" day to all academics who celebrate.

An Accidental Journey Into the Black Hole of the Hippocampus and How We Learned About What Makes a Context a Context onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122

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🧠 Curious about grad school in Psych & Brain Sciences? Join UC Santa Barbara’s PBS Department for a virtual open house on Oct 14 — meet faculty, connect with grad students, and learn more about the program!

I apparently missed the announcement but happy to be in good company with other 2025 NARSAD young investigators! bbrfoundation.org/content/brai...

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

First lab paper out today! Student authors: Mikayla Cutler and Abhi Thati 🎉🤩 Hippocampus | Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It feels like the statement "I want to get this in before the gov shutdown" should be more rare than it has been in my life. #NewPI #AcademicSky

Excited to have this preprint out into the world!

Reveling in the fact that we can post our own gifs on Bsky now. My gift to you, @fim.bsky.social at the cheesiest tiki bar in Hawaii that we could find.

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

No one told me about the worst part of parenthood: Having to make a dinner every night when you'd rather just eat chips.

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026! Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

We're hiring 2 faculty in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level -- come join our amazing department at Texas A&M! apply.interfolio.com/172286 Apply by Oct 1 for highest priority.

A sure sign of aging is knowing who the stars are on Dancing with the Stars.

Thoughtful review on an excellent movie: “he’s underlining the fallacy of catharsis…vanquishing evil doesn’t undo the terrors it has already wrought—and that there’s only so much relief a conclusion can actually bring.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

My sister complied with this request and asked zero follow-up questions.

Nice write up on my sister-in-law’s bookseller, Nightlight Books. Cleveland-based - check it out if you’re nearby! thelandcle.org/stories/coun...

Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

This lab safety poster shows that the glass was already broken when it hit the foot, suggesting foul play. A mystery is afoot.

Morning commute.

Had a blast writing this insight article with @sydneytrask.bsky.social covering original research from the @michaeldrew.bsky.social lab on the stress-specific recruitment of a brain region that drives fear behaviors! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

People tell you that staying up all night is the hardest part of having a baby, when in reality it’s also staying up all day.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard. New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Incredibly detailed sex-specific breakdown of a range of behaviors that occur during each phase of the stress-enhanced fear learning procedure. learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/7...

An amygdala-cortical circuit for encoding generalized fear memories www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‼️ Join us in Neuro at Bowdoin! Looking for a TT colleague in Neuro - broadly defined, but interested in those working with computation, public policy/clinical, mental health, open data, etc. Review of apps starts 9/9 - get in touch with questions! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16648

Haverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

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...

Vegemite being the most famous Australian food is crazy when these exist.

Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share! miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

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Activity of CRF neurons in the BNST reduces anxiety-potentiated startle in female rats in an estrous phase-dependent manner www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

when i'm asked to review the revised version

New from @dralexharris.bsky.social, Ula Skupio, and myself in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social: a long in the works review trying to untangle what stress is doing in the VTA, and what the piles of confusing data might teach us about what the VTA is doing at all. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...