In a recent pub, grad students Kijoon and Corinne co-led a study where we made molecular tools to manipulate transposable elements (TEs) in mouse prefrontal cortex. We saw that transcriptional escape of brain TEs uniquely impaired complex social behavior. Read it here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’ve never been so relieved to read typos as I am grading final papers this year

Huge congratulations and kudos to RA @rehg-j.bsky.social @jorge-miranda.bsky.social who led this study that is a continuation of ongoing collaboration between the Circuits group in our division with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social Behavioral Pharmacology group led by Greg Carr! 🧠🧪

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

To our colleagues at Brown, my heart is broken. I send my deepest sympathy.

🎉DPN is now indexed in PubMed Central🎉! This expands our accessibility and helps our research reach a global audience of clinicians, researchers & scholars. We’re deeply grateful to our editors, authors, and reviewers whose work made this possible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=npp-dig...

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

10/10 celebratory happy hour with 12/10 brilliant, supportive, kind, collaborative colleagues 🥂🫶 @neurrriot.bsky.social @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social @fennak.bsky.social

"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.

Continued damage to scientific independence from political interference - NIH is now asserting the authority to terminate any grant at any time, for any reason, at the discretion of the awarding agency. (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...).

Biological brains have the upper hand over AI in at least one crucial domain: flexibility. New work from the lab of @princeton.edu's @timbuschman.bsky.social finds "cognitive Legos"— reusable patterns of brain activity—support rapid, efficient learning in primates. pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...

New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social on being named one of the 2025 "Rising Stars in Neuroscience" by @thetransmitter.bsky.social! Kim was recognized for her many early career scientific contributions and dedication to mentoring and community building 🌟 📰: pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/tr...

Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine. time.com/7333975/dei-... This presents the case in the context of lupus.

Pretty special dinner @sfn.org with these glorious women last night 🤩 ❤️ How do I have a job where I travel around the world and hang out with awesome people? @moriel-z.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social @ladenardo.bsky.social @neurrriot.bsky.social @bjmarlin.bsky.social @debiaselm.bsky.social

We are grieving our friend and brilliant colleague Natalia Duque-Wilckens. A creative scientist, artist, caring mentor, and force for change. Words can’t describe the impact she had on lives at UC Davis, MSU, NC State and beyond. I feel lucky to have known her and wish her time didn’t end so soon

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

I missed this when it came out, but such thorough work to be proud of. Especially important to share it now

Massive lab clean yesterday ahead of safety inspections, and was just awarded with this official report: “Lab was in great condition, well organized, and clean.” Special thanks to @forrestdrogers.bsky.social for leading the effort!

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Really disappointing that our #NIH colleagues will NOT be at @sfn.org this year, will NOT be discussing science, will NOT be advising us on grants, will NOT be sharing results or advancing research. 🤐

How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Tuesday after the first Monday in November! For those who are eligible and haven’t yet, please exercise your right to VOTE!!!! 🇺🇸

Early postnatal developmental atlas (epDevAtlas) for the mouse brain has been published. nature.com/articles/s41... High definition brain growth charts with GABAergic neurons and microglia highlight spatially distinct emergency of key cell types.

Just increased our monthly donations to @feedingamerica.org . If you’re in a position to give, this is a great charity helping get food to families in need across the nation

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

Oh hey look what arrived in the mail today @okaysteve.bsky.social!! So excited to read this

I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab

I am caught up on both paper and grant reviews and have done my 3x submission:review duty. Fully expecting karma to work in my favor now. Thank you universe for understanding

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!

And now UVA!! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... MIT, Brown, Penn, USC and now UVA have all rejected the loyalty oath “compact” for “excellence” in higher ed. Five of nine! (I wonder if this decision was final before today’s planned meeting www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...)

And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Check out our latest, online now at @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

🚨New job alert! We’re trying to put some tailwind behind developing out some of our new molecular, organismal, and high dimensional phenotyping capabilities @arcadiascience.com and are launching an effort to fuel the fire. But first I need a project director to oversee it.

All Americans should be proud of these students, who understood the assignment.

Landmark publication from @junnagai.bsky.social lab! Incredible work really detailing the neural mechanisms that recruit astrocyte ensembles ! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Don't @*&% with public health! Over the weekend, #Trump, #Vought and #RFKJr fired hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control leaving our premier public health agency in tatters. Get on the phone, write to your members of Congress. This will not stand! actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

When your last name is actually the best spam filter

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Come join us at @westernu.ca: Chair, Department of Medical Biophysics: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

I freaking love that this team must have been like TIME TO PREPRINT Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure Does Not Disrupt Human Fetal Brain Development in Cortical Organoid Models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

one of the great tragedies of biology is that you can't write "HELLO WORLD" in amino acids since there is no O

Princeton University alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.”

Amazing (and harrowing) story about the good that can happen when science is followed: www.npr.org/sections/goa...