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)

Last day for early-career scientists (advanced PhD, postdoc, and faculty) to apply for a McEwen Fellowship, an up-to-$6,000 individual award available for research related to animal models and the social determinants of health and aging. Apply here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career. buff.ly/VdljzxQ #bwfcams

Important PSA: #NeuroEconomics is an "or" not an "and" descriptor. You can be neuro, econ, or a little of both and we want to hear your work at Neuroecon this fall! (You can also be a psychologist, or consumer behavior-ist and we want to hear you too - go ahead ask me how I'd know 😁)

Do you do research on decision-making? We want to hear it! Late-breaking abstract submission for the Society for Neuroeconomics fall conference in Cambridge MA is *open*. Submit your work and come hang out with us this fall! neuroeconomics.org/abstract/

This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Remider! Applications for the McEwen Career Development fellowship in Social Determinants of Health supported by the NIA-BSR High Priority Research Network animalsocialaging-network.org are now open! apply here animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/fell...

Great piece from @thetransmitter.bsky.social about the field’s current understanding of the hippocampus! Honored for the nod to our recent paper among these many other excellent studies www.thetransmitter.org/memory/expan...

Love this 👏

10 years of social dynamics and over a year of vocalization by wild mice in the wild, simply amazing! Great work by @nickjourjine.bsky.social at the very precious mouse barn established by Barbara König

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

The application window for our Pilot awards and McEwen fellowship closes soon! If you have a project proposal that focuses on animal models and comparative studies to study the social elements of human aging, we encourage you to apply! See more here: www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/

NEW: Judge Young, a 1985 Reagan appointee, delivered an extended rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown research grants it seems related to DEI or gender ideology. w/ Danny Nguyen www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

Reminder - funding opportunity available trough the @animalsocaging.bsky.social Pilot & Feasibility Awards Application period - June 1 to June 30 B. McEwen Career Development Fellowship Application period - June 15 to July 15 Small/Working Group Awards Application period - July 1 to July 31

Applications for the Trainee Professional Development Award are now open! If you have submitted an abstract for #SfN25, you may be eligible to receive complimentary registration and a travel stipend! Submit your application by June 24, 5 p.m. EDT. 🔗 bit.ly/4dWku7h #NeuroSky #AcademicChatter

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠

📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards! Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below! www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo... @smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices.

New Research Network publication alert! @sheehanmj.bsky.social and @matthewzipple.bsky.social, both recipients of Network Pilot & Feasibility awards, have published a paper in Aging Cell on ecological realism and epigenetic aging in mice. Congratulations, Mike and Matthew! doi.org/10.1111/acel...

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026! We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues. More details coming soon👇🏽 tinyurl.com/esvrabsu

🧪 New paper alert! In new work led by Adele Mossa out now in @natcomms.nature.com, we find that the #autism risk gene #DDX3X is a critical regulator of sexual dimorphisms in neuronal neurodevelopment 🧬 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵 1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Here's the video; thanks to folks who sent it to me. Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in. youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...

very 😎 work just in by @dr-stan.bsky.social , dissecting discrete components of decision making under motivational conflict! 🧠🧪 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... @svmahler.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @sfn.org

The Cai Lab is at @mpfneuro.bsky.social's Emerging Neurotechnology course this week, running a #Miniscope workshop. The course kicked off Monday with an AMAZING keynote by Nobel Laureate @stefanhelllabs.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the week’s activities! 🤓 #Neuroskyence