🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Thrilled about our new @janaklab.bsky.social paper now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social🧠⚡ Action-sequence termination cues evoke mesolimbic dopamine activity that drives habit-like behavior. Thanks to Tricia Janak, @younavandaele.bsky.social, and @yfcheng.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m very sad to share that Howard Fields has died. He made seminal discoveries in pain modulation, placebo, and addiction. He was also a wonderful mentor and friend who taught me how to think about the brain and the joy of scientific discovery. www.iasp-pain.org/publications...

#SfNHillDay is off to a great start! SfN Members and #NeuroAdvocates spent the day meeting with members of Congress and their staff, advocating for protecting NIH-funded research and scientists' ability to conduct their vital work, increased funding in FY 2027. #neurosky #brainweek

Celebrating the brain means protecting the science behind it. #SfNHillDay kicks off today as ECPAs along with other SfN Members and #NeuroAdvocates meet with members of Congress & their staff to advocate for the funding & policies that keep research moving forward. #brainweek #neurosky

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

New Neuroscience Masters Degree at Johns Hopkins The M.S. degree in Neuroscience is a full-time in-person program consisting of intensive coursework followed by 12 months of laboratory research. The application deadline is May 15, and more information is available at neuroscience.jhu.edu/graduate/51

Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/

The Neural Systems & Behavior Course (Marine Biol. Lab) is an amazing opportunity to learn about many different approaches to studying nervous system control of many behaviors. Learn from experts, expand your science network, go to "science summer camp"!

Honored to be appointed Chief Scientific Officer @lieberinstitute.bsky.social. LIBD is a uniquely collaborative place with extraordinary biological resources and a commitment to translation 🧠🔬🧪. Grateful to my colleagues and excited to help guide our next chapter! www.libd.org/keri-martino...

We just posted our new paper, “Rescuing Neurodevelopmental Deficits in AMPA Receptor Gain-of-Function Mutant”. In this paper, we, in collaboration with Shu-Ling Chiu's lab, generated a mouse model of a rare missense mutation in the AMPA receptor GluA1 subunit. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"I think this president thinks we have the world's largest economy ever because of real estate investors. It's not—it's because of science." Sen. Mark Kelly criticizes Trump's cuts to critical scientific research.

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

As the Neuroscience 2025 meeting comes to a close, it's time for us to think about the future. Do you want to help us shape neuroscience research and future @sfn.org meetings? Consider nominating yourself or colleagues: www.sfn.org/about/volunt...

Advocacy strategies that worked before may not work now. The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum provides the latest strategies for championing neuroscience research in today's shifting political landscape. Add this session to your itinerary! 🔗 vist.ly/4dn9g #neurosky #neuroskyence

Effective advocacy is more crucial now than ever. Learn how to navigate changing federal priorities while championing the importance of neuroscience research at the #SfN25 Advocacy Forum. Learn more and add to your Itinerary! 🔗 vist.ly/4dc85 #neurosky #neuroskyence

Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!), 22-24th of October: Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software. Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded. More info and to register: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...

Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org

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...

OneNeuro's August #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest winner is "Cellular Subtype Composition of an Amphetamine-activated Ensemble in mPFC," by Suhaas Adiraju from @martinowk.bsky.social at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/

I am beyond excited to host a stellar group of scientists for the first installation of our series: Brain Talks on The Isthmus. Thank you to everyone who contributed by spreading the news, submitting abstracts, reviewing the submissions, and offering kind words of support. I am grateful and smiling

Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...

The winner of OneNeuro's June #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest was submitted by Victor Omoniyi at the Marie Hardwick and Lauren Jantzie Laboratories. @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here: www.oneneurojhu.org/...

Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for the action alert and easy instructions to find the appropriations committee member in your state, with an example script. I just called, it takes max 3 minutes. www.ascb.org/society-news...

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months". If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

The most brain-like representations of visual neural networks are also the most universal ones, i.e., they are largely independent of a network’s architecture or training. Cool new work by Chen & Bonner in #ScienceAdvances! #neuroAI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In this essay in Hopkins Magazine, I talk about how NIH budget cuts will delay or stop the translation of basic science to the clinic and impact kids with intellectual disability, autism, and epilepsy. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

I just submitted a comment it was super easy - I urge you to as well. All of our lives depend on having serious vaccine researchers at the CDC, not RFK's crackpots.

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My office and government relations co-organized "Hopkins on the Hill", which allowed our researchers to present their federally funded programs to lawmakers, staffers, and agencies...and hopefully figure scientists and engineers. Huge success! More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May. 4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May. The total funded was 99! Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments. 1/2

I think the #BethesdaDeclaration has substantially changed the conversation about what is happening with biomedical research and science more broadly. The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious. 6/n

As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability. Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Thank you @sfn.org for providing some normalcy during these trying times. 😏 #SFN2025

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you: 🧪 #scicomm

The proposed 45% cut to the NIH by the current administration will preclude new awards, and even terminate (more) existing awards. This means a catastrophic decline in the development of new treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and infectious diseases How is that good for the US?

Falls kill more seniors than any other injury. New research on inner ear balance systems could prevent many of these deaths—but funding cuts threaten progress. www.oneneurojhu.org/2025/05/29/r...

The sense of sadness and despair that many of us who left countries, where science and research were not valued or that simply there were no resources, feel about the wanton and deliberate destruction of US science (a beacon for the world) is immeasurable.

Hopkins on the Hill! Johns Hopkins faculty will showcase the value of their federally-funded research on the Hill in Washington DC, talking to US representatives and their staff June 11, 5:30-7:30pm, Rayburn House Office Bldg, DC AI, health care, space exploration, public health, education, etc

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

NYT: Doctors fixed a baby born with a life-threatening genetic disorder using a customized, gene-editing therapy. "Researchers emphasized the role govt funding played in the development. The work...began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems." Gift link!

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

The sound of cells in the brain just doesn’t get old! It’s how I fell in love with #neuroscience 🧠🧪👩🏻‍🔬 Celebrating small victories - first #neuropixels recordings in the lab. Congrats to the team that made it happen!

I am sad to let you all know that one of our faculty here at BCAS and UNC, Dr. Charlotte Boettiger, has passed away. She was a wonderful scientist and a great person. She will be missed. researchsocietyonalcohol.org/member-resou...

As grants started getting cancelled a few months ago, I felt compelled to give a voice to scientists whose work has been targeted & share with the public what they do and why it’s so vital. Happy to announce the start of my new podcast, Science Amplified open.spotify.com/episode/6aUZ...

One of these federally funded breakthroughs that changed the world is GPS, which was invented at Hopkins.