We used rabies virus 👾 to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits 🧠, revealing network-specific reorganization that we didn’t expect. The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social Paper 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thread for a synopsis 👉 bsky.app/profile/alex...

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience. #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience bit.ly/4rnFnyQ

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social and to my lab for brightening my week with this rising stars in neuroscience award!! Wish I could be in #sfn to celebrate in the sun. Wonderful list of people: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Woulda guessed 50%, glass half full kinda person

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

graphical abstract goes hard

Wild! Stephen, Praneel and their team use fluorescence lifetime imaging and various manipulations to show that, in male mice, both mating drive and hypothalamic tonic dopamine release drop after a successful mating and gradually recover over the next week, paralleling the recovery in sperm count.

Featuring 2p FLIM to track DA levels over days, and a demonstration that a neurons molecular identity is pretty labile @stephen-zhang.bsky.social @markandermann.bsky.social P.S: Praneel will be applying to MD PhD and is an absolute beast. Systems neuro labs don’t miss out!!

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs! The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now. Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

I know it's not very helpful, but I find myself thinking about those who criticized Nature's and Scientific American's Harris endorsement on the grounds that "science should stay out of politics." I think about those people quite a lot.

It’s is practically guaranteed that what is happening to Harvard WILL happen to your favorite R1 institution if we don’t continue to engage our local representatives.

Reminder: Bluesky is an echo chamber. As useful as it is to get informed and feel support on here, it’s time to get uncomfortable and speak up *in real life*. Talk to those who are not here. Be ready to explain these catastrophes. Add YOUR grain of salt to the mobilization process. It matters.

Positional molecular markers guide the regeneration of the correct body parts in axolotls. Go axolotl gang!

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

Dozens of responses to my essay summarized. 1. Why aren’t scientists in an uproar? 2. Most Americans don't know that defunding science will make their lives worse. Bluesky, tell your neighbors, science matters. Scientists, roar. 🧪💙📚 #scicomm #science 🌎 🔬 ⚒️ theconversation.com/unprecedente...

TOMORROW 12pm PT/3pm ET, academic workers across the country are organizing to call Senators and Representatives, particularly from historically “red” districts, to sign onto to letters supporting federal research funding. Register here to join the phonebank: form.laborbase.org/251246245216...

Hardest surgery I’ve seen to get the coolest brainstem imaging I’ve seen! Rachel’s paper shows interoceptive information, in particular feeding-related info, is organized across PBN

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Pretty ironic that those who stand to gain the most from a quantitative arm are biologists given the reformatting of the field with new tech.

One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

🚀🔬🦠 Releasing 🤖Cellpose-SAM🤖, a cellular segmentation algorithm with superhuman generalization 🦸‍♀️. Try it now on 🤗 huggingface.co/spaces/mouse... paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @computingnature.bsky.social 1/n

The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵

I 💙 seeing team science makin it happen

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

Another NIH grant rescinded - The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

A Sensitive Soma-localized Red Fluorescent Calcium Indicator for Multi-Modality Imaging of Neuronal Populations In Vivo. It works well with wide-field imaging, two-photon microscopy, and fiber photometry biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪🧠 more new red GECIs!🚨 👏🥳 congrats to everyone involved!

There is one True Skill that defines all basic neuroscientists, and that is the ability to copy and paste arrowheads from a lil green picture of cells to their lil red picture of cells

week-long recordings of agrp neurons and circadian fluctuations in hunger (we can all relate), always exciting work from @amdouglass.bsky.social and Hakan! www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

home today

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Juan and Hugo and the rest of the authors. Not sure if anyone is on bsky yet.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch is referenced in every single one of my papers I tend to ask for it to be cited appropriately (always) when I review, too.

I have never learned so much about a conference against my will with all the #ACNP2024 spam… but I guess I have to go to the Bahamas in 2026 now

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.

I hate seeing Bluesky becoming overrun with follower-chasing accounts that post a mix of unattributed photos, AI dreck, and bad photoshop jobs. Fortunately, there are block lists: bsky.app/profile/maur...

This truly sucks and we can’t let them destroy the entire foundation of scientific research in this country www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

let all scientists be united by their use of thorlabs legos

No matter how you choose to celebrate, remember to be the annoying science nerd at the thanksgiving table telling your loved ones that turkey doesn't have enough tryptophan to make you sleepy. They'll love it.

This is one of my all-time favorite figures. It shows the size comparison between a retinal bipolar cell and a cortical pyramidal cell in a mouse. Scale bars are great and all but sometimes the sizes just don't compute. Masland. (2012). The Neuronal Organization of the Retina. 🧪 #neuroskyence

Seems... bold to try to go from fMRI to cell types. Bit too early for our technological era IMO, not interpretable. Still, nice to see these attempts. The cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read this. Think about it. What can each of us do? 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...