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...

HOW DO I LOG IN TO EDITORIAL MANAGER TO SUBMIT MY REVIEW

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...

Having a baby is so humbling. I have a large zit on my chin and instead of ignoring it like a civilized person, he just pokes it incessantly.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Huge congrats to Kameron Kaplan on his first first-author data paper and @lainey10yes.bsky.social on her first ever publication!! Seriously so proud of this lab always. Summary below (2-4). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Home after a stellar trip to Tromsø for @ibnsconnect.bsky.social and Bordeaux for @ebbsociety.bsky.social. Left feeling inspired by all the science, and heartened by time with old & new friends. Got a crash course in conferencing while parenting; thanks to both groups for being welcoming of babies.

Soundtrack for @ebbsociety.bsky.social meeting

Arrived in #Bordeaux this evening for #EBBS2025! I can assure you all science here will be hot off the press... 🔥🥵 Please join our symposium on Monday at 14:30 in Amphi E! Avoidance! Sex differences!(?)! with @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social, @sydneytrask.bsky.social & Raul Andero

“The secret to editing your work is simple: You need to become its reader instead of its writer.” – Zadie Smith #WritingSky #AcademicSky

Morning run from the top of the world

Reprieve from hell

doing Concur reports

It’s real! A couple students that graduated in 2019 noticed the typo on their diplomas. Looking back, the typo was also in offer letters (including my own) so maybe I have a PhD in Brian Sciences. Who knows.

🚨 I'm tuning into the most substantial hearing to date of two lawsuits challenging NIH's termination of thousands of grants. I'll post some of the major updates here, so follow along.

Better late than never - getting ready for @ibnsconnect.bsky.social and @ebbsociety.bsky.social meetings in the coming weeks. Anyone presenting? I'd love to make your talk or poster! (Bonus: baby attendance at poster sessions and social hours extremely likely)

Just standing here, asking reviewers for fellowships to double check when an assistant professor started their lab and ask, 'well what might have happened early on in that process that could have slowed down publications?'

Our Lab’s five years of work is out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🥳 Vasopressin (AVP) excites BNST neurons via oxytocin receptor (and not V1aR or V1bR) 🔬AVP excites CRF-BNST and OTR-BNST neurons 🧠 AVP inputs from SCN and SON excite BNST via OTR 🐁 OTR-BNST neurons reduce anxious arousal in male rats

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

A new preprint from @valentina-cs.bsky.social using @ajboender.bsky.social CRISPR tool shows that locally expressed oxytocin receptor in BNST modulates effects of stress on social approach and vigilance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many variables determine whether instrumental behaviour is goal-directed or habitual. We have documented in rats that delays between response and outcome attenuate sensitivity to outcome devaluation (a canonical test of goal directedness). In this study we replicated that observation in humans.

Check out our new review to learn about the history of menopausal hormone therapy and how me and my team at Estrigenix Therapeutics are trying to provide new treatment options for women! @neuroendoawf.bsky.social @m1rsch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have you ever wondered about the behavioral consequences of trauma? And how these consequences are processed in the brain? Have I got some good news for you! Check out our new pre-print! #ptsd #biorxiv @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Back in Milwaukee for the week. Had to run through some old spots!

Hello friends, our 🆕 lab preprint w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social is here; please enjoy! Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Neuroscience #Brain #STEM, #OpenScience #Neurosky #BrainResearch