If you're at @sfn.org check out @ykneurores.bsky.social's poster on Tuesday Nov 18th morning! EE4 - A functional input-output organization in the amygdala for emotional learning and memory

The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review By Thomas Steare, Carolina Gutiérrez Muñoz, Alice Sullivan, Gemma Lewis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you have what it takes to win Science’s #DanceYourPhD competition? We want you to top last year’s food-themed frolic from the Helsinki chemist who dressed up as a chili pepper. Or maybe you can get #AI to dance on your behalf? Learn more: https://scim.ag/3LuVObX

🌟Prof @lizcoulthard.bsky.social 🌟discussing blood tests for dementia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Damn, even the cat voting?

Kevin being Frank

🦀 🦈 A semi-transparent #crab about the size of an almond and a tiny, glowing lantern #shark are among two new species discovered by Australian scientists exploring the deep sea. 🌊 🧬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market! #neuroscience

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

New paper from the lab 🚨 Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...

Exposure to sugar early in life: a natural experiment among >63,000 @uk_biobank participants: rationing of sugar was associated with less cardiovascular risk in adulthood www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Donald Trump’s autograph

Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment @theage www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

“If our job as journalists is to hold truth to power, then surely asking legitimate questions – politely – to the President of the United States should be acceptable. But in this day and age in America now, it’s not,” ABC’s Americas editor John Lyons

Prince Andrew must be feeling a bit miffed as while he has been largely excommunicated from his peers, another, once also in Jeffrey Epstein’s circle of friends, is being flattered by the British government and King Charles like he is some sort of hero. Russell Brims, Betleigh East The Age, letters

"Not taking the mickey” Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social cartoon

Donald Trump still believes in rights enshrined in the First Amendment, but he insists on deciding who will enjoy them. Mick Hussey, Beaconsfield @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters

Ward One, West Wing

Signs of autocracy. Today’s The Age cartoon

Sadly, Donald Trump knows as much about climate change as he does about autism. Randall Bradshaw, Street Fitzroy The Age, letters

Donald Trump signs executive order that prohibits escalators stopping when he’s halfway up or halfway down. Paul Custance, Highett The Age, letters

Trump angered by ‘bad door’ at UN as White House vows to investigate malfunction.

Peace for Gaza is not a real estate opportunity. Rod Ryan, Grovedale The Age, letters

“I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.” Jane Goodall

The nervous wait.

I’ll consider putting my faith in AI the day it detects the obvious spam and phishing attempts that are constantly delivered to my email inbox. Peter Myers, St Kilda The Age, letters

A study of ~7 million Brazilian births shows that infection with #chikungunya, #dengue or #Zika viruses during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes @csthiago.bsky.social#chikungunya#dengue#Zika#viruses #epidemiology #pregnancy

I am delighted to share our new paper! nature.com/articles/s41... Lizzie Kleeman & our Florey Institute team, with WEHI, UoM & others, found that paternal COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including anxiety. This discovery has major (brain) health implications!

The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government #SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch

Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Given how stingy public research funding is overall, it's shocking that the #MRFF only spends 50% of what is allocated in the budget. This funds highly impactful, translational research focused fund that can DIRECTLY address the economic burdens of the healthcare system + improved patient outcomes

“It’s time to remove the arbitrary funding cap on MRFF disbursements so it can deliver what is has been designed & legislated to do: support medical research & innovation" - says Academy President Prof. Chennupati Jagadish, AC commenting on a story in Nine Newspapers lnkd.in/geu3QVba

The youthful immune system signature of centenarians vs controls with balance of natural killer and T cell adaptations, as seen by single-cell RNA sequencing www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Prebiotics improve motor function, cognition and gut health in HD... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulations Millicent Ekwudo, & all, on this new study! Ekwudo et al. have discovered @TheFlorey @unimelb that prebiotics have significant therapeutic effects in a preclinical model of HD!

Timeline cleanse 📷 🏞️

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

The last day of winter. Today’s @theage cartoon

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Are you planning to attend @sfn.org meeting this year? If yes, you will see this and other images of mine displayed at the San Diego Convention Center 🤓! I love seeing a blood vessel connected to the brain tissue! Markers used: astrocytes🟡, microglia🟣, neurons🟢, nuclei🔵 Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

if you're ever feeling overwhelmed I highly recommend sitting next to a kookaburra for a while

@spencrgreenberg.bsky.social grilled me on: 1. Why do humans live 80 years, instead of 20 or 300? 2. How has the understanding of death changed over time? 3. If someone walks into a teleporter, who comes out the other end? Was a great discussion! podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/276/...

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

People, I give you The Lagoon Nebula - M8. Imaged from Melbourne, Australia using a Seestar S50 Telescope. Enjoy!

Melbourne! Got a meat pie at the local bakery. Got a beer from the store. Walked to the beach. Watched the sunset. Peace.

Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)