✨ April is #GraduateStudentAppreciation Month! 🏐 Highlighted here, Emma Andraka. Mentored by Daniela Schiller & @brianmsweis.bsky.social, Emma is developing a cross-species task for elucidating decision-making processes & neurophysiology underlying social interactions in rodents & humans. AMAZING!

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our recent review, which highlights algorithmic and implementational degeneracy in studies of cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you @drnancypadilla.bsky.social for hosting me! I hope this can be a helpful resource for students considering if the MD/PhD path is right for them!

Thank you @drnancypadilla.bsky.social for hosting me! I hope this can be a helpful resource for students considering if the MD/PhD path is right for them!

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪

Congratulations to our 2026 Scholars! This year’s projects span molecules to circuits to behavior and reflect the highly collaborative environment that defines neuroscience at Mount Sinai. Sincere thanks to the donors whose support makes this type of curiosity-driven science possible.

The KM Lab is hiring! We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc. Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community. Learn more: sites.google.com/site/krookma...

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Really important insight from @suthanalab.bsky.social. There seems to be lots of general agreement about the importance for cross-species analysis. But, in practice and in the trenches - there's a real divide on how to do it and how to implement it. Appreciate these conversations being raised!

How does neuronal gene expression evolve over time in response to experience? CytoTape will help us find out - a major milestone for neuroscience, providing new ways to study memory & aging 🧠 Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉

🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky

(1/6) We have a new paper out in #eNeuro! How does the brain’s reward processing change across social contexts? We mapped brain activity (cFos) & found that social context reshapes how reward circuits are coordinated🐭🏆 Read more: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Reminder: Applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now OPEN! Don’t miss your chance to join an incredible week of science, discovery, and connection with the brightest minds in optogenetics 💡🧠 Apply now for the best chance of acceptance: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

NOT TO MISS! In @mountsinainyc.bsky.social's 2025 issue of Science & Medicine magazine, Dean @ericjnestler.bsky.social discusses his vision for Icahn Mount Sinai, and how his distinguished academic career & research expertise have prepared him. 👉 scienceandmedicine.mountsinai.org/article/2025...

A Special Congratulations to @ericjnestler.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Synapsy Prize. This prestigious award celebrates lifelong dedication to translating fundamental neuroscience discoveries into tangible clinical advancements in mental health. Learn More 👉 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Stop by our posters tomorrow afternoon at #SFN25!! #sfn2025 @sfn.org #neuroscience

✨ New preprint ✨ What if we could watch AND control thousands of individual neurons in behaving mice—with stable access over months? 🧠⚡ Our work introduces transgenic all-optical tools that make this possible - and a resulting surprising discovery! 🔭💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/13 🧵

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📣We are hiring! 📣 
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress! Details are below: 📩 [email protected]
🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214

For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social

"The way forward has become very clear"- Dr. Brendan G. Carr A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!

When I moved to BCM, an extremely talented movement disorders neurologist, Nora Vanegas Arroyave, reached out to discuss brain circuits responsible for non-motor deficits in Parkinson's Disease. I have learned so much from her and from this collaboration. One paper out, more to come!

We are also considering applications from undergraduate students and Master's students in the local New York City area! Please check out our website for more information on how to become involved: sinclaboratory.com/apply

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026! @ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

We're looking forward to the first annual New York Memory Hub conference later this week! Can't wait for all the talks and discussion about all things learning and memory 🧠

So excited for this! Can't wait to see everyone there!

The amygdala helps mobilize #Stress hormones cortisol & adrenaline w/in about 15 minutes. A recent study by Icahn Mount Sinai's Dr. Sarah Stanley suggests a 2nd role for the #Amygdala in response to #Fear & #Anxiety. Dr. Stanley discusses her research @pnas.org 👉 www.pnas.org/post/journal...

The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

#FluorescentFriday The lab’s 1st slice physiology recordings! Timelapse recording of striatal neurons ex vivo using a Thy1-GCaMP mouse 🐭 🧠 + glutamate in the bath. Thanks @neuromanonyc.bsky.social! Shout out to @keyenceusa.bsky.social who has been great to work with customizing the BZ-X800🔬

Couldn’t be more excited to see this work out!! Not just manipulating PV+ cell theta phase, but also shifting seizure susceptibility! how much cooler can it get?!!!

Check out new work from our lab! We developed a new way to directly control the precise timing of interneurons during behavior and found that theta phase locking is a causal mediator of seizure susceptibility in both healthy and epileptic mice.

🚨New preprint alert🚨 We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)

Neuro Current Ep. 38 features #JNeurosci authors discussing their paper on disrupted choice behaviors in a rat model of FASD. Listen to learn more about their methods. 🎧Listen: vist.ly/45w9g 📺 Watch on demand: vist.ly/45w99

Congrats Herbert and team!

Research Network 2023 Pilot & Feasibility awardee @brianmsweis.bsky.social published two papers in Science Advances in July of this year that feature his research on the neuroeconomics of decision making. Join us in congratulating Dr. Sweis! shorturl.at/d65WV shorturl.at/DoU4p

Welcome to one of our newest @acnporg.bsky.social Associate Members, Dr. Brian Sweis 🎉 #WelcomeToACNP👋

Congrats to Brian Sweis, M.D., Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17 A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging Pls share!

This speaks to the importance of cross-species research that is constantly forward- & back-translated between the clinic & lab. The importance of animal models leading to unanticipated discoveries - even in the realm of human psychology - is invaluable, especially in psychiatry🧠 tinyurl.com/yur3j2n8

New paper alert!🚨📝 Paper: tinyurl.com/2cycsy6d Press release: tinyurl.com/yur3j2n8 How the brain 🧠 engages in change-of-mind decisions taps into cognitive biases that depend on sensitivity to sunk costs & regret - both of which may contribute to negative rumination…however…🧵👇1/6 #ScienceAdvances

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)