We are definitely going to sell out of laser cut brain earrings early in the conference!!! Warning! #SfN25

You know SfN will be awesome when you run into old friends and meet new ones before the conference even starts!! Thank you @bjmarlin.bsky.social @thiagoarzua.com and @stutzman-alexis.bsky.social for stopping by on Friday! Also @nbaumgar.bsky.social (not pictured…yet!!!)

I was invited to Canada to give a talk many years ago. My host knew of my obsession with tardigrades, and made this for me as a gift. I have been very lucky.

Can’t wait to meet everyone and present for the first time at SfN! Please come by to support the rest of the Sohal Lab members 💛🐭

Landed at #SfN and we have lots of fun new results to share. See below for Yassalab poster presentations. If you want to talk #Alzheimers or #mentalhealth come chat with us. #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter

WE LOVE YOU BACK NICK WAN!!!!

I love two photon!!!

We are ready to see you tomorrow at #SfN25 at the #ArtofNeuroscience exhibit! Meet the crew: Danny, @isabel-luna.bsky.social, Tera, @ellieho21.bsky.social and me!! We have lots of new stuff for you this year!

Thought now was as good a time as ever to join bsky - Excited to share a big part of my PhD work is finally published- 7+ years of experiments from a great team of people. Wishing I could be at #sfn2025 to celebrate with you guys! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So stoked for another year with the best crew in the Art of Neuroscience exhibit at #SfN25! Thank you @artologica.net for compiling all the artists in one digital space for all to peruse!

Heading to San Diego for #sfn25 today! I’ll be presenting a poster on this work Monday afternoon! looking forward to meeting neuroscientists! please stop by my poster or reach out if you’re going and want to talk motor neuro/behavior, evolution, neuroethology…or whatever else! 🧠🥳 #neuroskyence

#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.

An auspicious start for my travel to San Diego for #SfN25 #SfN2025 - the elusive airport sparrow! If you want to learn more about songbirds, come to my poster Saturday evening or Monday morning!

#sfn #sfn25 #sciart

Come by my poster and nanosymposium talk if you'll be at SfN this week!

Make sure to check out our lab’s work at #SfN25!! Especially the poster presented by my mentee @isabel-luna.bsky.social, who just submitted her first PhD application last night!!!

Please come by the Sohal lab posters at #SfN2025 to join the discussion about all of our favorite things: cognitive flexibility, gamma oscillations, PFC social encoding, autism mouse models, dopamine, & more!

Packing for #SfN2025! Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones 🧠

Isn’t this the most beautiful soap ever?? Made by @cllantz.bsky.social inspired by #GRCpsychedelics!

Kicking off #BINW25 Day 2 with a session on science communication. We're learning from three leaders in this space on combating misinformation, science accessibility, and building visibility for underrepresented scientists. Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/blackinneuro...

The first ever @blackinneuro.bsky.social in-person conference has officially started!!! Join us virtually: www.youtube.com/blackinneuro...

For #FluorescenceFriday - image credit to JHU Neuro grad student Suhaas Adiraju - parvalbumin 🟢, somatostatin 🔴, vGlut1 (Cyan). 🟣 marks cells activated by amphetamine using the Fos-TRAP activity-dependent tagging system. 🔬🧪🧠

Just a reminder, the NOSIs for Research Continuity and Retention Supplements (childbirth, healthcare issues), and Re-Entry, Re-integration & Re-training Supplements, are ending Sept 9th. If you were thinking about one of them, apply soon. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Who’s all going to acnp in January? I have to decide today whether or not to submit a poster! 😅

The 1st day of Intro Bio is about the expts showing DNA is the heritable material, not protein which seemed to make more sense. Every year I emphasize the importance of discarding pet hypotheses, that Nobel Laureates can be wrong (or Nazis!), & that science is political. This yr got a 2025 update 🧪

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

I’m sorry but the “should scientists be activists” train left the station for the last time when we started spending billions to build concentration camps. I feel like you guys are engaging with the science stuff as though the camps thing is like, happening on a different TV show

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.

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

Really important article in the NY Times today about cuts to NIH diversity grants, featuring a profile of Ashley Albright @aralbright.bsky.social who is an amazing and super inspiring cell biology postdoc whose K99 was prematurely terminated.

The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.

to the PIs, is it advisable going on job market this fall when things are seemingly falling apart, or riding the postdoc wave for longer (while funding lasts) for some semblance of stability?

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

If you work on climate change and health, but are striking out in the current funding landscape, this might be the job for you. We're looking for someone who can do a lot of work in one year to launch something big. If you think that's you, take a look at our lab website, and then drop me an email:

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

The Knight Foundation and others are trying to raise $50 million to rescue public radio and TV stations, prioritizing ones that historically received more than 30% of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and are among the only sources of information in their communities.

There is a lot to be upset about these days, especially if you're paying attention. Remember that there have been times when things seemed hopeless in the past and good has overcome evil. We can do it again, but we need everyone on board.

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

It’s eely important that we sell enough advent calendars to support Skype a scientist. The moray we sell the more good work we can do in 2026! Scratch off the boxes to reveal facts about eels! Get a calendar at EelFacts.Net

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists. We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38! Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science. Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly. www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

At what point do we shift from being complicit in genocide to directly perpetrating it? If we haven’t already crossed that line (though I’m certain it can be argued that we have), surely this is another big step towards it.

Excited to finally share this collaborative effort led by Philip Boone, Michael Talkowski and @abepalmer.bsky.social!

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Heartbreaking. Anas Al-Sharif posted this 1 hour before being assasinated tonight. “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”

New preprint + thread 🧵 #Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect? Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/12