Stares in Suns fan

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

As a postdoc in funding limbo I’d love it if the NIH director would walk the walk wrt trainee funding

The 14th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & Shucart Lecture is this week (Thursday, October 16th), featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers related to the theme of "Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Processing: From Synapses to Circuits":

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!

My response to a reviewer that said I’ve been a postdoc for too long

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

Being a scientist during this regime

The Friday news dumps of all news dumps. Emphasis on dump 💩

Can’t wait! Huge thanks to ACNP and congrats to all the other awardees!

I’m excited to share my latest paper, in which we used latent state modeling to reveal how fentanyl shapes decision-making dynamics in rats. Here’s a summary of what we found (thread). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Time to call congresspeople

The ACNP Global Scholarship Application link is OPEN! The ACNP 64th Annual Meeting is January 12-15, 2026, in Nassau, Bahamas. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2025, at 5:00pm Central. Don’t miss out! #ACNP2026 Click here for more info: tinyurl.com/j8a9zybu#ACNP2026

Amygdala GRC fed my soul in a time of doom and gloom. Ready to keep climbing knowing that there’s such a fantastic community with me.

Someone at the power hour brought up peak science twitter. I miss that too. Towards building/maintaining the GRC-Amygdala community, here is a starter pack with attendees. Please add folks who are attending!! go.bsky.app/13BbBW9

Headed to Amygdala GRC excited to hear about everyone’s science and to share what I’ve been doing recently! Can’t shake the feeling that I’m like a cellist on a specific ocean liner in 1912 though…

Absolutely thrilled to have been selected as an @acnporg.bsky.social Travel Awardee! Can’t wait for the Bahamas!

First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠 Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

let—and i cannot stress this enough—them fight

Yes, the tariff we were charged on an antibody was definitely helpful

chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our department is hiring! Huge endorse! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Pour me a cup of billionaire tears

Ah shit

i love being bilingual

I am from Middletown, OH, (the same hometown as JD Vance) and was especially compelled by the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social movement. I am happy to have my article out on this #standupforscience2025 day. #sciencenotsilence www.daytondailynews.com/ideas-voices...

All my PV-Cre mice are woke

Very proud of the good folks in Vermont today

🚨📃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

Clearly a bait and switch here and we shouldn’t fall for it

Shared some of my recent experiences and thoughts with @callimcflurry.bsky.social of @thetransmitter.bsky.social. In these chaotic times, it’s important that there’s an ability for voices to be heard. I’m very thankful to Calli and The Transmitter for the opportunity.

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

The BRAIN K99 is back but I withdrew after being advised to so I could submit to the Parent K99. Feeling somehow even worse than last week?

A real message would have been inviting fellow socal rapper YG to perform with him considering who was in attendance

I’ve been stressing for a couple weeks over my BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 resubmission and got word today that that NOFO is no longer active. Saw it coming but still a gut punch.

Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this. It's important to understand the historical track we are on.

🎉🎉🎉 Get ready to fight again when it’s time for budget bills to get written!

DSPAN website back up

Woke up saying "We need to scrub anything related to being Native from our next grant", like I was trying to assimilate again (a lot of Natives go through that phase, mine was high school and undergrad). Fricking grim stress dream, sheesh.

I made my voice heard this morning by calling Senator Warren’s office. I look forward to her and the other Congresspeople’s response to the President’s unconstitutional executive order.