Congrats to @torwager.bsky.social and Deanna Barch for the @nationalacademies.org Atkinson prize!! Within the umbrella of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, they recieved it for their work in the psychiatric space (Wager: emotion/pain; Barch: Schizophrenia). www.nasonline.org/award/atkins...

Congrats Nautiyal lab on some really interesting findings!!! @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social

Alicia Pietramale et al. discovered a disconnection between microglial processes that surveil or respond to acute damage and those that contain mitochondria. Cytoskeletal components and metabolic enzymes underlie these differences. Final version just published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Day Lab will be representing our work at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference (@sfn.org) in San Diego this week in two sessions - stop by to see updates on a lot of really cool science! #SfN2025 #Neuroscience

Folks at SfN come see the first Fraser Lab poster ever at FF6 on Tuesday Nov 18, 8am. Serena Miller has oodles of data to share on a new direction for us. Also, that day happens to be my birthday so you have to come say hi or else

We also have a real TREAT today! Check out a 🆕 study from a team at @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social that helps address a 🔑 issue when working with rodent operant behavioral datasets - how can we most effectively organize, store, and visualize these data? 🤔 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Dorsal Raphe Nucleus Enkephalin Peptide Modulates Behavioral Preference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683947v1

Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...

Our first virtual open house for the University of Michigan #neuroscience #graduateprogram is tomorrow, October 15th, from 7-8:30 PM EST. If you would like to join us, please register by 9 AM tomorrow using this link: forms.gle/N6LjUrfrr6qL... or scan the QR code below. 👇

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

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...

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hung-tu Chen, Nicolas Tritsch, Matt van der Meer, and I have submitted a new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...) in which we use simultaneous hippocampal ephys and ventral striatal (VS) fiber photometry to establish a link between sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) and VS dopamine (DA) in mice. (1/9)

Fantastic Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth! Thrilled to share the stage with these brilliant new faculty. Especially on Int’l Women's Day! (@laurenwalker.bsky.social , @emilylbehrman.bsky.social & Pia O’Niell)

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

What are folks doing for lasers these days?? Any cheaper options out there? Asking for a certain #newPI who is having decision anxiety 🙏😫

First day teaching a course as a professor (asst.) in the books! Thanks to the proud parent (@katenautiyal.sky.social) for documenting it 😂

Thats a wrap for the Warlow Lab’s first term! It’s been a wild ride, but also so fun. We have most equipment in the bldg, mice breeding, our coveted label maker, and many comically sized items 😂 Excited to welcome more lab members & begin experiments in the new year! Happy holidays!

Initial thoughts as I evaluate PhD applicants for the first time: 1. everyone is amazing 2. can’t we accept them all?! 😭 and 3. how tf did I get into any program?

Nothing says cozy reading by the fireplace like our new review, “Molecular heterogeneity and development of the VTA” Thanks @bensaunders.bsky.social and @bellonec.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special issue on #Dopamine! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIwj8MqMi...

Placebos work by "changing the central value and motivational systems, so it's changing the suffering and changing the evaluation of pain." @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor @torwager.bsky.social shares insights from his research on placebos in The Scientist.

Latest from our group in collaboration with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and other Novo scientists. They developed a GLP-1/Leptin co-agonist that we put through its paces in a number of mouse models to prove that both parts of the molecule matter. More options on the table! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.622499v1