I am incredibly excited and proud to share my first preprint from my postdoc! Thank you to all of the co-authors for all your hard work! Check out the paper for big insights into plasticity mechanisms in navigation circuits! And surprising motifs for inhibitory synaptic plasticity!

🚨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! 🧵

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature Neuroscience What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠✨ Symposia submissions are NOW OPEN for Dopamine Meeting 2026! @DopamineSociety 📍Sevilla, Spain 📅 Open: May 1, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: June 16, 2025 Spread the word — don’t miss out! #Dopamine2026 dopaminesociety.org

I’m excited to present a new research project at #cosyne2025 this year!

Our new study: Dopamine in the tail of the striatum facilitates avoidance in threat–reward conflicts. Congrats Iku-Tsutsui Kimura, Melissa Tian and others! Led by Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Pre-Print led by @emilyprevost.bsky.social Glutamate-dopamine, nonglu-dopamine, and glu-only neurons and neurotransmitters they use have dissociable contributions to motivated behavior. Important to segregate DA subcell-types to better understand the many motivation-related functions of DA

1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!

Help #neurosky #neuroskyence Are you (or do you know) someone studying the transcription factor Ascl4/Mash4? 🧠 #neurodevelopment #differentiation #neurons #wiring N.b. This is not the same as the acyl CoA synthetase protein ASCL4 I have some questions 💡 Please share! 🙏

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain THREAD ⬇️ 1/n