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...

Happy Pluripotency Day fellows scientitists #OCT4 🧪🧫

Read this and do not pretend not to have known what was happening. My fellow scientist, even if you can still get your next grant, everything will not be fine.

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

“What are your hobbies?” Calling my members of Congress.

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

Understanding adolescent anxiety through a neurodevelopmental lens: A comparative review of rodents and humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty? We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷 Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

These days, I find myself juxtaposed between fury/sadness at everything going on and gratitude almost daily, making it hard to express either #onhere without acknowledging the other. Today though, leaning in to the positive #JoyIsAFormOfResistance

Got to catch up with Pallav Kosuri, an old grad school friend, after his talk on DNA rotors (freakin cool, check it out doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1397-7). Among other things, we reflected on how grateful we are to get to do this amazing job. It’s *way* better than expected

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The bonus of doing it yourself is that your brain only uses 15 watts of power. For less energy than a refrigerator light or an idling laptop, you can have all of this. Without LLM!

In the @nytopinion.nytimes.com, PNI’s @sebastianseung.bsky.social warns federal research cuts endanger Americans’ health. "Think about Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's disease. The dollar cost of these are huge. And the emotional costs are even huger. Can we wait?" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

If you care about children’s public health, download this image and pin it to your profile. This is a snapshot of our best knowledge of vaccine safety. It may be years before it’s accurate again.

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Minerva! @ilanawitten.bsky.social and I are so proud!

Q for anyone in the US who has ever had a Canadian CIHR postdoc fellowship - was that stipend considered the entire salary, none of the salary, or part of the salary?

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We're hiring! The Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology invite applications for a joint hire Assistant Professor in human cognitive neuroscience 🧠 Review of applications begin Oct 15. More details here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Congratulations to PNI’s @fennak.bsky.social, who has been named a @pewtrusts.org Biomedical Sciences Scholar! 🎉 🎉 Her lab will study how microglia shape primate brain development, which might help researchers better understand neurodevelopmental disorders 🧠 pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/fe... ‬‬

‼️ Join us in Neuro at Bowdoin! Looking for a TT colleague in Neuro - broadly defined, but interested in those working with computation, public policy/clinical, mental health, open data, etc. Review of apps starts 9/9 - get in touch with questions! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16648

Bowdoin College is hiring in Neuroscience and AI with our exciting new initiative for AI and humanity! 🧠 x 🤖 Join amazing colleagues and undergrads in our growing and thriving community! Please share! @blackinneuro.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @ostem.org @outtoinnovate.bsky.social @sfn.org