Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life rdcu.be/eLa9z

Congratulations to Freddyson Martinez-Rivera, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋 @freddysonj.bsky.social

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on immune systems.

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026! @ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Please join us on 10/3 at 3pm at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the @bpl.boston.gov! All ages welcome!

This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk

Meet @neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social on #HumansofHBI Assistant Professor, @harvardmed.bsky.social; Director of Social and Cognitive Research at the Lurie Center for Autism brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/a...

📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025? "Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos". Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego! Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️ @joeycheers.bsky.social

Friendly reminder👇👇👇

For those following alone on #CannabinoidGRC2025, here is the starter pack to stay on top of the latest and greatest in cannabis science go.bsky.app/JmeZk14

Carla D'Amato is a very talented student who joined my lab for the summer thanks to the support of the MGH Center for Academic Development and Enrichment. I’m really proud of her and all the work she did in the lab! Stay tuned for our upcoming paper!!!

This 👇 is how decisions are made at the regional level for @ibroorg.bsky.social programs, training, and schools. Great leadership opportunity and chance to get involved in 🌍 global neuroscience 🧠.

📣 Calling for nominations! With the 2025 Elections NOW OPEN, IBRO invites #IBROmembers to nominate passionate scientists for its Regional Committees Your voice matters in building IBRO's inclusive & regionally driven leadership in #neuroscience Learn more: buff.ly/MZvrQWW @thebalelab.bsky.social

Friendly reminder… Posted somewhere at Harvard Medical School 🧬

#ThisWeekInNPP This review article examines how early life stress shapes🧠 development & emphasizes that resilience arises from active molecular, cellular, & circuit-level adaptations @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social @ericjnestler.bsky.social

🧠💥 Our new preprint is out! We pooled 5 RCTs on intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression—and found clear sex-specific patterns in how patients respond. Read it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #TRD #Esketamine #Neuropsychiatry #OpenScience #MentalHealth

Fantastic in-depth review on early life stress! 🤩

Aquí, nuestra revisión sobre la Neurobiología de la Resiliencia al Estrés en la Vida Temprana, publicado en @npp-journal.bsky.social 👇👇

📢 Don't miss our recent review on the "Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress", published in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Alessandro Bortolami, @cate-cholamine.bsky.social, @ericjnestler.bsky.social, and I highlight evidence from rodent studies... 👇 👇 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ACNP registration ✅ ACNP abstract submission ✅ NPP paper published today ✅ Feels like baby steps but they are definitely moving forward 👩🏻‍🔬

The 2 tasks measure different constructs. If you have an effect on PR and no effect on suc pref, you can conclude that your PR effects aren't due to reduced hedonics for sweets ('tho I've never really liked suc pref as a model of "anhendoia" as it doesn't translate well- more data always helps

Today, SfN joins communities across the nation in celebrating #Juneteenth — a day that honors freedom, resilience, and progress. We celebrate the remarkable contributions of Black neuroscientists whose research has expanded our understanding of the brain and improved lives worldwide. #neurosky

Thrilled to share that I have obtained a permanent position at CNRS 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks so much to everyone that supported me along the way, and especially @faurelab.bsky.social !

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

I have proudly been an IBRO alumna since 2006 and highly recommend this and many other opportunities sponsored by IBRO! 👇👇👇

The Venniro Lab developed a novel rodent model of mutual social interaction to investigate the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms motivating social peers simultaneously to engage in and maintain social interaction www.nature.com/artic...

🧠✨ Symposia submissions are NOW OPEN for Dopamine Meeting 2026! @DopamineSociety 📍Sevilla, Spain 📅 Open: May 1, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: June 16, 2025 Spread the word — don’t miss out! #Dopamine2026 dopaminesociety.org

JOIN US & Icahn Mount Sinai in congratulating @ericjnestler.bsky.social for his election to The National Academy of Sciences. This great honor recognizes Dr. Nestler’s cutting-edge work on molecular basis of #DrugAddiction & #Depression & on advancing the field of psychiatry into the molecular era!

Thrilled to see this part of my PhD work with @rcbagot.bsky.social now out in @natcomms.nature.com! (1/14) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we hosted the first New England LatinX Conference! We thank the science and panel speakers, all the 150 participants, our co-organizers (@giosg.bsky.social and the NEx scientists, and the Harvard GSAS LatinX students), and sponsors (New England Biolabs, Guilliam Fellows Program, and Beantown)

The "16th Annual MGfC Pediatric Research Day" marks my lab's debut at a scientific event. 😎 Super excited about the poster presentations of Rose Cohen, Nneka Arinzeh, and Alessandro Bortolami on persistent susceptibility to social defeat and the role of H3K27me1 and H3K27me2 in early life stress❗

Our manuscript studying transcriptional programs of cocaine Withdrawal vs Extinction is now available @naturecomms.bsky.social. thanks to the coauthors and supporters. @leanneholt @ericjnestler.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is a condition affecting ~30% of patients treated with antidepressants. Here, we profiled transcriptional changes potentially underlying TRD in a stress model. Trevonn Gyles, @e-m-parise.bsky.social @ericjnestler.bsky.social 👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transcriptional Profiles in Nucleus Accumbens of Antidepressant Resistance in Chronically Stressed Mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643727v1

Transcriptional Profiles in Nucleus Accumbens of Antidepressant Resistance in Chronically Stressed Mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643727v1

So excited to share the work of the fantastic Katarzyna, 1st 🧪PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @natureneuro.bsky.social 🥂🥳 Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

This review has turned into my go-to paper for rodent PFC circuit. Useful in the lab and for teaching. Thanks @panastasiades.bsky.social and @carterlab.bsky.social for writing this. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am proud to share this new review on The Biology of Addiction that appeared today in Science Signaling. It was fun to write the review all by myself and reflect on the tremendous progress achieved over the past three decades...

The Torres-Berrío Laboratory at MGH Lurie Center for Autism seeks a research technician with a solid molecular biology and behavioral analysis background. More information about this position by following the link below: 👇 massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

OUT NOW👉"The tools of modern genetics & neurobiology have propelled a renaissance of research that has advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology of drug addiction... Despite challenges, there is reason for optimism..." - @ericjnestler.bsky.social @science.org➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Torres-Berrío Laboratory at MGH Lurie Center for Autism seeks a research technician with a solid molecular biology and behavioral analysis background. More information about this position by following the link below: 👇 massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

If you are interested in epigenetics-immune crosstalk and neurodevelopmental disorders OR epigenetic mechanisms of stress susceptibility, apply for the Summer 2025 internship at the MGH Lurie Center for Autism and join my lab! 👇👇👇 tinyurl.com/LurieMGH Deadline: January 31, 2025