Some news: excited to share that I'm building @dittobio.bsky.social with @adairb.bsky.social and Emily Weiss as part of the @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy W26 batch! We're discovering drugs for autoimmune disease by harnessing parasite biology. www.ycombinator.com/launches/PNb...

Portland friends - This Sunday at 11am I’m going to be bringing my EEG, sleep diary and drawings into Waterstone Gallery to show how I used my sleep recordings to inform my Nocturnal Worlds paintings. I’m now only slightly regretting how detailed my notes are in my sleep diary… #sciart #pdxart

Also peep the @christineliu.art sparkly brain pin in the featured image of the article 😍 🧠. I'm in my lapel pin era.

Here is the @fralinbiomed.bsky.social write up in @virginiatech.bsky.social news. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Happy to share part I of Renesa Tarannum's thesis (my first grad student!) looking at how neuropil localized RNAs are spatially organized in the hippocampus. #Skeetorial #Neuroskyence 🧪 www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Excited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Past Biology, Current Biology, and Future Biology

One of the things I was most excited about 1yr ago was joining 1 of the MOSIAC UE5s as a project scientist to work with those ECRs assigned to it. The opportunity to serve our greater communities. Truly a program that supported people across broad institutions, unlike the parent.

I’m so grateful to be the first in my family to apply to graduate school 🥹 I learned so much throughout the process and I look forward to seeing what the future holds! Definitely would not be where I’m at today if it wasn’t for mentors like @christineliu.art who truly believed in me 🙏

Congrats to my awesome undergrad mentee @isabel-luna.bsky.social for finishing all of her PhD applications! Keep an eye out for this superstar neuroscientist-in-training!!! Any program would be so lucky to have her!!!

MICE is less than a week away! I will be there tabling both days and on Saturday, 12/6, from 1-2PM, I will be a part of the Science Comics Carousel doing a reading from my new comic, BRAINS! www.micexpo.org

Hi #academicSky, any words of wisdom or kind advice for a humble postdoc trying to write a fellowship and feeling overwhelmed? What made/makes things a bit easier for you in this situation? Things you wish you had known before? #Asing4aFriend

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

We are also seeing how people respond to the world burning down: looking out for themselves or finding solidarity to maintain something that can work for a broader array of people. How science and scientists respond to disruption has always been a microcosm of our larger society’s response

"Science Communication for Scientists" is a new textbook for scientists and experts at all career stages to learn how to communicate more effectively. We are proud to sponsor this book, which is available open-access here: bit.ly/46KSzFD

These guys have suction cups and can stick to your preferred smooth surface!

Pleco plushies are in stock again over at www.palaeoplushies.com !! Support a small business (me and my sister) this holiday season, so we can keep doing this!

The brain is also @christineliu.art!! That was from my first SfN 😀 Shop here for more beautiful pins/patches/art: twophotonart.com They're currently on a break (due to SfN) but should be back up soon!

Back in the office after a super #SfN25 and adding my new pin from @christineliu.art to pin corner! Look at that little mouse sailing his weigh boat 😍 I hope y'all got home safe!

$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research! For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in! I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply! 🧪🧠

The slides and posters that I submitted to F1000 research about nanopore sequencing are suddenly all getting DOIs. Now you can cite my poster "Rho, Rho, Rho Your Cells", worrying less about the possibility that it may disappear at some point in the distant future.

Tomorrow: UCSF & AFSP host the 2025 Survivors of Suicide Loss Day gathering at 9:30 a.m. in SF’s Dogpatch. Walk-in registration welcome. Virtual options like Survivor Day Live are also available. More info: psychiatry.ucsf.edu/survivorday

Besides the awesome neuroscience I learned at HSN and @sfn.org, I was reminded of my incredible support system and the many inspiring women in neuroscience who currently guide and influence me! @nicolecrust.bsky.social @libertysays.bsky.social @storiesofwin.bsky.social to name a few.

@accumbenshelley.bsky.social re-writing the textbook on neural circuit function

Journal of Neuroscience papers were my entry point into the field as a young grad student and I was so thrilled when we published one of my PhD papers there back in the day. So this is kind of a lovely full circle moment.

So stoked to have our image on the cover of this week's issue of Journal of Neuroscience!! @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci #SfN25. Check out the final version of the paper here www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

We’ve thought a lot about how 💊 drugs act on dendrites of neurons, but what about when it is a 🧬 mutation that affects dendrites? PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/6

Grad fair at #sfn25 is over but feel free to come by our booth if you wanna chat about any of the places where I’ve done neuroscience! University of Oregon (undergrad) UC Berkeley (PhD) UCSF (Postdoc) @biocompasskids.bsky.social is also here and they were at UT Dallas for their PhDs!!

Prima 2.2 companion device to restore vision for blindness caused by dry macular degeneration!! Created by @science.xyz !!!! Tera looks like a cartoon! Love it!!!!!! And optogenetics with ambient light by Amanda Tose and @gottapatchemall.bsky.social

Weill Neurohub Fellows spotted at #sfn25! Lisa Randolph and Maya Nesbit! 👯‍♀️ Congratulate them if you see them around!!

Our #BlackInNeuro social is always the highlight of my year 🤩 These were our undergrads/lab tech, graduate student, postdoc, and faculty/professional attendees respectively ✨ Love seeing our community continue to grow & support each other in tumultuous times 💞 #SfN25 @blackinneuro.bsky.social

There are only a few booths at sfn where you can buy original, handmade, not mass produced artwork, and Michele’s is one of them! Make sure to stop by today before #sfn ends!!

These 2 UC President’s Fellows just learned that our hiring incentive is not going to be defunded….for now! UCs, please hire us for faculty positions ASAP haha!!! (But seriously if you’re at #sfn25 , let’s chat 😌)

We are thrilled to announce that the preliminary program for the 2026 GRC on the Frontal Cortex is now live! www.grc.org/frontal-cort... Registration is now open for both the GRC and our GRS, chaired by @albitc.bsky.social and @jorge-miranda.bsky.social!

Love being neighbors with you @christineliu.art !! And here’s my score on the pin trade which I adore! It’s a mouse doing experiments to a human 😂🥰🤓

We only have 3 more pairs of these new Neuron Dangle earrings in Gold!!! Still some left of Rose Gold and Silver though!! None left at home to sell online so grab them while you can! #sfn25

If you didn’t get a chance to purchase the exclusive 5-year #BlackInNeuro pin last night, I have more with me today! ✨ We’re asking for $15 donations to support BIN programming ❤️ blackinneuro.com/donate Allies are welcome to purchase pins as well 🙌🏾 #SfN25

Did my annual pin trade with the lovely @laurabundesen.bsky.social !! Love her new pin this year!! #sfn25

We loved seeing so many of you at our #sfn2025 booth and at our community social gathering. It’s such a treat connecting with you all in person! Come by booth 3704 to chat about: 🌟 #ComputationalNeuroscience courses 🌟 Opportunities to be a TA or mentor 🌟 If you are a former student, TA, or mentor

But how does reward processing impact our decision-making? Chris studies how receiving a reward - or not - might change the next decision we make. By studying different dopamine circuits , we can understand how the brain tracks whether an outcome is expected and plan our next decisions.

Don’t you hate when you buy something from a vending machine and it gets stuck? Dopamine tells your brain that the outcome wasn’t what you expected. You've probably heard about dopamine as the "feel-good hormone", but it does so much more!

Scan to sign up and share with your lab and colleagues. And follow us on Instagram and TikTok: this is where we regularly post our videos!

Meet our interview team! @meghangallo.bsky.social @awestbrook.bsky.social @sabina-srokova.bsky.social @annadarling.bsky.social

Going to SfN? We want to connect with you! Meet up with us to collaborate and share your science journey: from the questions that drive your work to the breakthroughs that inspire you. Sign up here: calendly.com/investnscien... And share with your science friends!

BEST DAY EVER!!! The award is called the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications & is run by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #scicomm #phdstudent

Starting now! Still some seats in the room, come on in!!

Happening soon! #sfn25