Excited to share new research from my lab in final published form! By deleting hypocretin (orexin) receptors from CRF neurons, we uncovered neuropeptide mechanisms linking alcohol drinking and negative emotional hyperarousal through BNST neuronal excitability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH. Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind.

"Do I have any proof that I do this and that this supposed allegation is anything more than scaremongering to get clicks and views? No, of course not. But you don’t really want proof, do you?"

Very proud of Dr Tracy Bale’s @thebalelab.bsky.social induction into the National Academy of Medicine yesterday evening! A brilliant impactful scientist, a champion of women, and a tireless advocate for global neuroscience at @ibroorg.bsky.social! Congratulations!

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

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We are busy preparing the IBNS 35th annual conference and want you and your colleagues to join us! Symposia proposals due Oct 28th. www.ibnsconnect.org/ibns-annual-... #IBNSSouthAfrica

" Here we present a large-scale longitudinal analysis of health records from more than 100 million individuals in the U.S that demonstrates a consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics." #Neurovirology #Alzheimer

Corrected proof - sharable version available here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is Vought’s dream, his fantasy, his fondest wishes, come true.

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

"Any honest writer,journalist,or historian in Russia must always be ready for prison" Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin was detained today on charges of allegedly spreading "false information about the army."Moscow's branch of the Investigative Committee said the reason was his posts on Telegram

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳 🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦 🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous ✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

ALRIGHT IF YOU HAVE JANE FONDA CONNECTIONS, YOU BETTER START YELLING IN MY DIRECTION. (I've asked this before, but I had 10k fewer followers. Surely, someone knows someone who knows someone) www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Last chance to join us today at 1pm ET. Link in thread.

A good day to consider chipping in for public radio. #npr www.npr.org

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour. I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳 🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦 🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous ✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible. www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

Feeling overwhelmed by the political attacks on science? You're not alone, and you don’t have to face it alone! Join Stand Up for Science's Action Hour to learn how to join our rapid-response effort to protect science and democracy. All scientists and allies welcome. Register here: zurl.co/6S33y

Some notable OG folks who will attend include Jim McGaugh and Lynn Nadel.

Thank you Guys!!! Fire the Quack! 🦆

JOIN US FOR A PHONE ZAP!⚡️☎️ We're calling swing district voters — and could use your help! Sign up at standupforscience.net for a shift on Thursday!

POST BREAK PART TWO of ex-CDC Director Monarez's testimony: We are still LIVE with updates and reactions!

1st paper from Sadler Lab is out!! Highlights: 1) A. muciniphila reverses sickle cell (SCD) pain, 2) fecal transplant from SCD mice induces pain via bilirubin-TRPM2 vagal signaling, 3) BilR+ bacteria less abundant in SCD patient poo, 4) RNAseq on HUMAN nodose ganglia! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Thank you for your service!

Vaccines save lives. Period.

👏 New Mexico!!!

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!

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in #interoception especially from a public-facing standpoint

After a > 3-month delay, it's finally here!!!!! 🥂💰🥳

this is huuuuuge!

Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...

join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!

This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment. Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

Follow the #NIH on Bluesky!

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

wrote about it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...