Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

❗️Viktor Orbán congratulated Magyar on his victory in the 🇭🇺Hungarian elections. 46% of the ballots have been counted. In Tisza, 136 out of 199 seats.

Thank you for submitting to Nature Screams Into The Void. We receive many more screams into the void than we can accept & are returning yours without further review. Be assured this does not represent criticism of the quality of your scream. We hope you receive a more favourable response elsewhere.

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again. Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

Who else is still feeling the joy this morning? 🙋‍♀️🚀🧑‍🚀 THIS is what science can do!!

Long ago, a cat died from being fed four minutes past feeding time. Cats have told their children of this for 3,000 generations.

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

Now that my standard funding curves are updated weekly automatically on grant-witness.us (grant-witness.us/funding_curv...), I have been working on some other important items to track. One is the amount of funding committed to multi-year grants. 1/6

If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

NIAAA's P60 Alcohol Research Center mechanism is not being renewed. I’ve had the chance of being part of one for the last 20 years.

You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀

There is no McTry.

Sometimes you need a kitten...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.” ― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman 2014 @LensScientific

📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16. Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8) Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!) See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

New paper lead by my fab grad student Quynh Nguyen (who is on the postdoc job market btw) 🧵https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-026-10226-5?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20260408&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs11031-026-10226-5

#EMA #ESM - target article for friday's lab meeting ...

Interested in writing a Primer that bridges psychiatry and neuroscience? 💫 Email us your idea at [email protected] 💫

Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch. #nasa #artemisii

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

Join the MAClab in Chicago for #ADAA2026! 🧠 Catch Dr. Annmarie MacNamara’s presentation on the "Advances in Positive Emotion-Focused Interventions" on April 10th (8:30–10 AM CT). See you there for the latest in anxiety and depression research! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Cortical maps diverge, representations converge along cortical hierarchy

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Can published findings be reproduced from the same data + same analysis? As part of SCORE, Miske and 127 co-authors tested this across social and behavioral science papers from 2009–2018. www.nature.com/articles/s41... OA: osf.io/preprints/me... 1/

This is the last day of Women’s History Month. We didn’t get our rights by asking nicely. We protested. And it was hard. #Pinks

Cancelling continuous submission for reviewers seems like just about the worst possible idea. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Unless of course breaking the system is the point. Many PIs are already quietly boycotting review. Some not wanting to lend credibility to an increasingly corrupted NIH…

Please do not boycott reviewing for the NIH. Help the SROs and other staff who are doing their part to get grants funded. And help the applicants - your peers and most importantly, young investigators - who deserve experienced reviewers.

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wondering what happened to NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy? This article reveals a lot about where NIH is and how it got there, starting from politicization of NIH, through fear leading to staff over compliance, ending in harm to science. undark.org/2026/03/30/s... Highlights:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fear Learning–Induced Brain Dynamics Predict Individual Extinction Memory Expression following Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | Kai Zhang...& Mohammed R. Milad

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

A new way to improve emotion control in social anxiety by targeting rhythmic brain circuits via dual-site tACS: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.