New preprint from the lab. @markgergues.bsky.social and crew show that the PVT gates ventral hippocampal salience coding, shifting output between threat- and reward-weighted representations during associative learning and anxiety-related behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture

Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Woo!!!!!! PenningtonLab.com is live!

Lineup, including trainee talks, is all set for this year's Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite at @canacn.bsky.social, co-hosted with @franklandlab.bsky.social . One week away, with a few tickets remaining for anyone interested! www.eventbrite.com/e/neural-cir...

Full band in the studio this summer! LP coming soon.

Join us in Paris this summer for our #Miniscope Workshop 🔬 We'll teach you everything you need to know about miniscopes and have a blast while we're at it! Applications close on May 22, so don't wait 👇

'The subiculum: cell-type-specific composition, computation, and function' by Adrienne Kinman @adriennekinman.bsky.social, Larissa Kraus & Mark Cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

We’re really excited to announce our next international, hands-on #Miniscope workshop covering everything from microscope design to experiments to analysis! Applications are now open for the 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop (July 1–3, ESPCI). Apply by May 22: forms.gle/4CWh7MeMchLS...

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Trainee going to CAN? Check out the Circuits & Behaviour satellite and apply for this amazing opportunity!! Register here by April 24 for full consideration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

What drives us to act and when do we stop? Dr. Milan Valyear (@milanium.bsky.social) is a new @psych.ubc.ca faculty member studying the brain circuits behind reinforcement and disengagement. From childhood tinkering to cutting-edge neuroscience, his work is all about curiosity and discovery.

Exploring beautiful Vancouver with new friends 😎 @milanium.bsky.social @taracdelorme.bsky.social

ACNP Travel Award Applications open on Monday, April 6, 2026. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va #ACNP2027 #travelawards

Meet @zachtpennington.bsky.social, a new researcher at the DMCBH and @psych.ubc.ca who is exploring how the brain regulates stress and emotion. He is also an advocate of building open-source tools to make science more accessible for all. Read more: www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/from-sk...

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

An amazing opportunity for students to get their foot in the door for neuroscience research! Great to see a program explicitly welcome applicants from community colleges and folks with no prior experience!! www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/03/10/a...

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

Super stoked to share that I’m starting my lab at UHN @dkjei-uhn.bsky.social / @kbi-uhn.bsky.social and the University of Toronto! If you’re interested in neuron-myelin interactions in circuit maturation and cognition, please reach out - we are hiring! www.oligodendrocyte.org 1/

Hey Hypothalamus heads! We are now accepting abstracts for the HypoGRC this August (now at the lovely Sunday River location). We have an exciting program planned for you so that we can really wild out about our favorite subcortical region. www.grc.org/hypothalamus...

The KM Lab is hiring! We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc. Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community. Learn more: sites.google.com/site/krookma...

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social as Assistant Professors in our Behavioural Neuroscience area and members of the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social. Read their Q&As: psych.ubc.ca/news

Can hardly wait for my first Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting 🇨🇦🧠!!! Also, check out the insane lineup of speakers I get to present with at the Neural Circuits and Behaviour satellite meeting. I AM STOKED!

A bittersweet farewell to the Cai Lab and Mount Sinai ❤️. 7 incredible years with some of the kindest, fun, inspiring people I've ever met. So many lab antics, life lessons, amazing meals, and scientific discoveries. I will miss them dearly. @denisejcai.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social

Circle of life with @acnporg.bsky.social mentorship. My first mentee from way back in 2016 @caromenard666.bsky.social now with her mentee (my grand-mentee lol) @zachtpennington.bsky.social who just moved to UBC and is now a fellow 🇨🇦 #ACNP2026

In partnership with UBC's Department of Psychiatry, we are excited to be recruiting for a CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cognitive Resilience for Dementia Prevention and Mental Wellness in Aging. Learn more: med-fom-psychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/1...

Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! @moeneuro.bsky.social and @drnancypadilla.bsky.social discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #AcademicBluesky #NeuroJobs

21 years sober today. So grateful for the chance to embrace life today and for the people that have loved and guided me along the way. Photo from last week’s trip to Iceland (go!).

Always fun talking with @denisejcai.bsky.social & @joezaki.bsky.social. Listen in for our conversation about mentor-mentee relationships, where we discuss choosing a mentor, following your joy, what it's really like to work with Denise, and more!!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026! @ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

Incredible work by @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social, @tristanshuman.bsky.social, and crew, using the closed-loop system they developed to realign interneuron firing to hippocampal theta and reduce seizure susceptibility!

The study also describes how activating a serotonin receptor in the brain of a mouse model of ASD restored positive emotional value (also known as “valence”), with encouraging implications for the development of future therapies. Learn More @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ll be eating fortune cookies daily from now on!

Applications are open for our Diversity Mentorship Program! This program is open to undergraduates or recent graduates, anywhere in the world, who are interested in graduate studies in psychology. Apply here by Aug 25: psych.ubc.ca/diversity

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)

We are #hiring! The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics is looking for talented postbacs interested in basic & translational neuroscience research studying how the #brain makes decisions at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, NY. See job posting below. Please repost! 🧠 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share! sites.google.com/view/molaslab #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience

Check out a new lab paper from Mayumi Watanabe's thesis work showing how different subregions of medial prefrontal cortex differentially regulate extinction of aversive memories through projections to the locus-coeruleus-noradrenaline system: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Come through, NYC!!!

🔥 PAVLOVIAN 2025 UPDATE 🔥 Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪 We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees! Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Labmate shared this super helpful link for contacting representatives about NIH cuts, plus so much more: 5calls.org. The number of calls they receive matters!

New paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment. www.cell.com/cell-reports...