Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

The Science for Public Good Fund is back! Apply today for up to $1500 to support your science advocacy efforts. 📌 Apply here: act.ucsusa.org/4nCzPhl

theconversation.com/canada-loses... “Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. Before the measles vaccine was licensed for use in 1963, nearly every child got measles infection and more than 2 million children died from measles each year.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.” Alexander Verbeek, Dutch environmentalist and former government advisor.

Sunday, November 9, 2025, Cure Addiction Now is sponsoring a free event open to the public. This is a chance to listen to a panel of scientists discuss many latest advances in helping to cure addiction. See registration link: cureaddictionnow.org/the-raw-trut... #CAN, #SUD, #CureAddictionNow

This is Harvey. He was brought to the rescue with an injury that left him missing part of his jaw. He is a messy eater but a sweet lap cat and deadly hunter. #resilience #caturday

There is an amazing book on misinformation, “Killer Underwear Invasion.” It is incredible how much of an impact it’s made on my kids. Just a few days ago my kid saw something on TV and said proudly, “that’s man is like the puppy pinchers!”

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

I’m recruiting a new postdoc to join my team at RFU! If you’re interested in LGBTQ+ youth, bi+ mental health, and/or longitudinal/ESM data, consider applying! Prefer a Feb/Mar start date, but open to later. Prefer in-person, but open to remote. For more: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!

Come work with us! We have three openings right now.

There are still open desks in our new Human & Machine Intelligence lab at Princeton. Express your interest in joining us: lake-lab.github.io/apply/

I wrote in the New York Times about how I think companies saying women are leaving because of "return to office" is a cop out. Nursing, a fundamentally in person job, is almost 90% female. So what do women really want? Boundaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here! The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets. 🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas #neuroskyence

exploringyouruniverse.ucla.edu/eyu-2025/ Happening tomorrow at UCLA! Fun for kids and adults!

Stretch for #Caturday

ONE WEEK TILL CROOKED CON! Get ready. Limited tickets still available! Get them now at crookedcon.com.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Continuous delivery: Oral administration (with benserazide) of bioengineered gut bacterium producing L-DOPA maintains therapeutic plasma L-DOPA concentrations &⬆️CNS dopamine levels while transiently residing in the gut; Improves mouse model of #Parkinsons www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

My quote of the day Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

Billie Eilish has a message for billionaires: “Give your money away, shorties.”

Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

1/3 The stakes keep getting higher, but we are not backing down. Earlier this month, we launched Science Fight Club, and are recruiting members to fuel our 12 month fight to take back Congress, stop Trump, and save science and public health in America. Can we count on you to join? zurl.co/dKjQ1

‼️ The top 1% controls 46% of world's wealth- Oxfam.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... “Within campuses, the tactics are creating even more conflict. Although the primary lever of the Trump administration is withholding funds for research, most of the compact’s conditions involve …admissions or teaching in humanities and social science departments.”

🚀 #ALBADiversityWeek 2025 starts today! We celebrate diversity & intersectionality by highlighting key activities and sharing valuable resources. 👀 Stay tuned all week as we revisit achievements and launch new initiatives. Share our posts to join the #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth celebration. 🧵

How we vibe today. #Meta #Vibes www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

New tenure track faculty position in glia and/or neurovascular coupling! Please come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30864 #neurosky #neuroskyence #glia #neurojobs

bsky.app/profile/poll... This is making me very nervous and I don’t see any CA folks on BlueSky talking about it. IF YOU LIVE IN CA - check out Hilton’s posts on X and tell me you’re not worried about him having even 1% lead in polling…..

Congrats 🎉 Tom Carmichael for your groundbreaking contributions to our knowledge and treatment of stroke… (but not mentioned anywhere is the foundational macaque PFC neuroanatomy) stemcell.ucla.edu/news/3-ucla-...

⏰ The deadline is approaching for the #BrainAwarenessWeek #Grants! Apply by 31 Oct and make brain health more relatable, accessible & engaging in your community: https://ibro.org/grant/brain-awareness-week-grants/ #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm Dana Foundation‬

Happy to share a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social from the lab, led by talented postdoctoral fellow #MinhooKim: "Single-cell exploration of ovarian aging across vertebrate models", a meta-analysis study of public ovarian aging sc/snRNA-seq data! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵, 1/5 🧬🖥️🧪 #GeroSky

✍️Title revision: CDC experts could not get approval to attend pivotal meeting on infectious disease. Subheading: because Brainworm requires HHS approval before we can go to any conferences and he refused to sign off on our attendance prior to the government shutdown 🚫 apnews.com/article/infe...

The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance. All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.

bsky.app/profile/jere... Yet another blow to the integrity of NIH leadership. No search committee. No process to evaluate expertise or vision for the institute. Just a favor to the VP’s buddy.

Dartmouth becomes the 6th university to reject Trump’s higher education compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

As Jane Goodall said, “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” #resist 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...

My lab is seeking to co-hire a postdoctoral fellow with the @shaonsengupta.bsky.social team. See details below! I'll be #ASHG2025, so open to discuss further there if interest. careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...

time.com/7325448/trum... Compact being offered to ALL colleges and Universities. “Higher Education has lost its way, and is now corrupting our Youth and Society with WOKE, SOCIALIST, and ANTI-AMERICAN Ideology,” - Trump, Truth Social

Re: the ongoing measles outbreak. If you’re old enough to have experienced the longterm, devastating consequences of infectious diseases prior to widespread vaccination campaigns in the 1950s-60s, please TELL YOUR STORIES. On social media, in letters to the editor, on the radio., etc. #NotForgotten

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...

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone. Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... Great article by NIH postdoctoral fellow Ian Morgan. Discusses the plight of both intramural (in labs at the NIH campus) and extramural students / postdocs. The degree of Bhattacharya’s indifference to the pain impacting intramural postdocs is shocking.

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies, and for this reason, we are called to defend and guarantee it” “transparency of sources of ownership, accountability, quality and objectivity” - The Pope

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Bessie Stringfield, was born Bessie Beatrice White on February 9, 1911 (some records list March 5), in Edenton, North Carolina, to Maggie Cherry and James White. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-strin...