@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social I am facilitating a Writing Retreat focused on writing an Aims page and wrote up the attached document to crystallize some thoughts. Maybe some will find it helpful. But more importantly, I’d love to hear your tips/tricks/strategies/psychology

Beautiful presentation by @briandias.bsky.social on mechanisms of intergenerational stress - inspired & excited about potential future directions from this work

Enjoyed writing this book chapter with Sam Stack, Layla Vasquez & Will Taylor.

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

Plasticity of visual looming response reveals a dissociation of innate and learned components https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628938v1

I have a story out today about a remarkable woman named Linde Jacobs. Three years ago, at 33 years old, Linde found out that she carried a genetic mutation for a devastating brain disease, frontotemporal dementia, which begins in middle age. (Thread)

Following @daylab.bsky.social’s nice paper on eRNA regulating Fos, and then our paper showing eRNA mediated regulation of NR4A2, here’s yet another eRNA controlling NPAS4. LncRNAs for the win in the brain! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636

Such a thoughtful and well-contextualized talk by @briandias.bsky.social, strengthening evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (and amazing poem to start with) Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper from the lab, where we show how the co-chaperone and psychiatric risk factor FKBP5 acts in CRH-expressing neurons to shape stress- sensitive social behavior. Deep phenotyping using #DLC and #DeepOF was key to unravel these effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨new paper✨10 yrs since we used smell to study legacies of stress (Dias & Ressler 2014). Then reversal (Aoued et al 2019), next, cause (germline RNA)+consequence (better learning) (Aoued et al 2020). My thoughts on how studies of chemosensation across species shed new light on such legacies.