If you had the choice of studying cocaine addiction in rats alone in a cage with only cocaine or at least one other substance, what would you do? In this new interesting study, Nowak and her co-authors chose the second option. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

You might be in a Wisconsin bike race if your camelbak freezes 15 minutes in, there’s hammerschlagen (mandatory) and beer stops on the course, and you lose points for not wearing plaid or animal print

Is Penn Vector Core still offering services for external users? If not, what are some reliable sources to have custom high purity AAVs for in vivo use made?

My wife’s commute soundtrack this morning: “Danger Zone.” Even by Wisconsin standards, that feels about right.

Graduate school interview season is approaching. After ~12 years of interviewing PhD and MD/PhD applicants, I’ve noticed some common interview mistakes that hold otherwise strong candidates back... #GraduateSchool #PhDLife #MDPhD #GradSchoolTips #AcademicBluesky 👇

First post in a while. I wanted to share our amazing summer research opportunity (follow me for more opportunities related to biomedical education): x.com/mcwgradschoo...

Dissertation and seed grant funding opportunities through the Brain Injury Association of America: biausa.org/professional...

Very nice work supported by NIH grants: R01DA046679 R01DA058374 R01DA035443 T32DA024635 F32DA056201 K99MH135177 TL4GM118977 R01MH119089 Among other sources

Let’s all take a moment to celebrate our ancient lab equipment that just keeps going and going!

Fantastic resource!

(Recycled from X-just putting some science out on bluesky) Congratulations to @baileycsarka.bsky.social! Her dissertation work showing sex-specific intensification of opioid seeking in a model of neuropathic pain was published in Addiction Biology. #PhDlife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to have Shuai's work out in Translational Psychiatry now! nature.com/articles/s41...