All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

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HUGE CONGRATS @seemiller.bsky.social on being named one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s 25 Rising Stars in Neuroscience Read more about the award, which recognizes “achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come” here: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What an exciting program for GRC Frontal Cortex in 2026! www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Would you believe sweet little Alice is apparently a 💯 trash talker

We have a little bit less than 2 weeks left until we begin application review-consider joining us at Penn State! We are open to ANY areas of neuroscience, and I can genuinely say The PSU Biology Department is a fantastic place to work. please share broadly! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Key contributions to lab meeting

🧠 + 🎃 + 👻 + 🔬 = 📽️ Behind-the-scenes of Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Associate Director Patrick Drew & me filming some spooky season neuroscience videos for Penn State. We got to nerd out on frightening brain facts and old experiment. Can you tell my lab had fun decorating 😂

Excellent first day at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social for the Marker lectures hanging out with science celebrities @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social @drohsopretty.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social plus several more folks I was too shy to ask for selfies

Homecoming, Eberly College of Science style #WeAre @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

Excited to share the Special Issue on "Stress and Addiction" in Addiction Neuroscience is now available. Huge kudos to guest editors Karl Schmidt and Anushree Karkhanis and all the authors who contributed. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Horror movies lists for Halloween season starting tomorrow. No one is more excited then @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

I was going to write a whole post about all this incredible work with all these amazing scientists and organizations, but I’ll just leave @stellatecomms.bsky.social design sizzle reel here. It speaks for itself. youtu.be/x2O7DkpIoCA?...

OPEN INVITATION to the One Health Microbiome Symposium, May 13-14, 2026!! This is not your typical siloed topic conference. It unifies diverse research fields in microbiome science across Ag, Envtl, and Human Health. 1/n www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-one-h...

Probably my one and only time with a game view like this!

We are excited to announce our 2025 SPINE Fellows! We also appreciate everyone who submitted applications this year - it was great to read about everyone's awesome science! If you have not already, please register for SPINE by 9/24 and submit poster abstracts by 9/22 (extended) at spinephilly.org!

Really excited that our special collection generated from the last CPPC conference is in the Journal of Neuroscience. Check out this article for a preview of all the great work featured. w/ @erinlrich.bsky.social @narayananlab.bsky.social and Jeremy Seamans www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

HUGE CONGRATS to Victoria Nudell for receiving the NOA on her NIAAA F30 NRSA award. This is the first F30 fellowship for our lab!! Many thanks to her co-mentor Leon Coleman at UNC for his guidance and support of double docs, and to NIAAA to continue to support our work and vision.

kindergarten and 5th! work friends are in for a real treat as Alice has planned a week of matching dresses to celebrate 😂

Excited to announce that I’ll be the Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Genomics Core Facility starting mid September 🧬🧪🧫 www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

and here is the key, "The clear message to emerge here is that the reporting of both methods and results needs to be improved." does not equal a replication crisis or indicate that studies cannot be replicated. It is a problem. It just isn't that particular problem.

Check out the August Penn State Neuroscience Institute newsletter! eepurl.com/jkshiI

Still on vacay mode 😎

While everything is burning around us, a rare great day for Flanigan Lab! Thank you to BBRF for funding our NARSAD! Thank you to MUSC COBRE CNDD for funding our Pilot Proposal! Looking forward to doing some awesome science

Wiki sticks are the grossest of kids toys, no contest. Germ collector masquerading as a creative toy.

Hosting the Big10 neuroscience annual meeting at Penn State was an absolute blast, but also exhausting and I missed my family. Reunited yesterday 🥰

This is a dream project with an absolute dream team (pun 100% intended). Thanks to the W.M. Keck Foundation for seeing the vision. www.psu.edu/news/enginee...

It was really fun to chat with Penn State’s student newspaper The Daily Collegian about our new work! It’s unfortunately also very clear how much I rely on the PSU writers to edit out my conversational “likes” and “ummms” 😂 www.psucollegian.com/news/campus/...

peep the program book for next week's Big10 Neuroscience Annual Meeting here: www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-a... & follow along with #BIG10Neuro

When grandma takes the babies to…. Falconry lessons

Check out this NPP Hot Topic by @seemiller.bsky.social "A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking". Read it here: tinyurl.com/3hrbswkr

Crowley 4th of July

Used a slip & slide with the kiddos today and have never been more confident I was going to completely lose a knee. Also Alice on campus Friday.

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

How could you not fall in love with Louisiana

Crowley lab is at RSA! Great talk by Julio Flores Cuadra (neuroscience PhD candidate and American Heart Association predoctoral fellow) on EtOH, SST, and sleep. Plus - find Harrison and tell him how you know me! #RSA2025

Job is up, consider joining us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...

Job is up, consider joining us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨!! Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology are recruiting a new lecturer/associate professor! an amazing opportunity to join our fantastic dept! @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social post here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🎙️ INVITATION to A Special Lecture for World Microbiome Day | Register here: lnkd.in/ejPZMxgP Join us on JUNE 27th at 10 AM EDT for a pivotal webinar featuring Professor CURTIS HUTTENHOWER, a renowned authority in computational biology and microbiome science. www.psu.edu/news/huck-in...

Some more new work out of the lab! June has turned out to be very busy for us 😊

We are really excited to receive a new grant from The W.M. Keck Foundation with our usual partners-in-crime Nanyin Zhang and Patrick Drew. Stay tuned for more info on this one - it is probably the most creative and philosophical grant I've ever gotten to write. It's goin to be a dream to study.

sharing an early heads up that we will be hiring a research technician ASAP. responsibilities will include colony management, ordering, & helping with science. lots of learning opportunities & most of our techs have had independent projects. learn about the lab at www.crowley-lab.org DM me for info

New work from my lab looking at how dopamine neurons are affected by stress and males and females! This paper comes to you through three rounds of major building construction, a pandemic, six months that we could not get TTX, some animal facility shenanigans and now is here on your internet!

I waited to repost these to make my first ever contribution to #FluorescenceFriday 😁

These images by @sicheravery.bsky.social 😍😍😍😍

New preprint from our lab led by @seemiller.bsky.social