Migrants to Australia have displayed an inability to assimilate with local values and refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, a study covering the last 237 years has found.

This looks like a postdoc project, definitely an excellent team

Symposia / Satellite Proposals open for IBNS 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa! ibns.memberclicks.net/meetings

Put it this way: The universe does not care if we live or die. It is a dangerous and hostile place and the best tools we have to prevent suffering, death, and misery is science. And it’s an “arms race” in some aspects. Science has saved more humans than any other investment throughout history.

Our latest on how and why people differ in good decision-making and why some people persistently make poor decisions.

Days have passed since the conference ended, but we want to take a moment to congratulate once again the winners of the Young Investigators Award! Your research is inspiring 🌟

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...

Pleased to see this published. We show an FGF21 analogue selectively reduces alcohol motivation and consumption in mice, potentiates efficacy of low dose GLP1, and reorganises drinking related activity in the accumbens. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If the US is willing to ignore Europe in its dealings with Russia and Ukraine, who seriously thinks they will care what Australia says about China, Taiwan or anything to do with our region? The US doesn’t want allies or partners, it wants servants. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

And up next, the remarkable Yulong Li, his first but we hope not last, visit to Australia.

Keynote by the excellent Dr Lizzie Manning at Optogenetics Australia (@drlizziemanning.bsky.social)

Zane Andrews (@zane-andrews.bsky.social) at 4th Optogenetics Australia meeting. AgRP neuron stimulation and feeding.

A wonderful meeting, submit a proposal and join us in Almeria.

Seasons greetings: FGF21, alcohol, and GLP-1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoyed this paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41... One interesting aspect is how similar these data are to data by Kamin showing intact LTM despite poor STM when one uses a single session of behavioural training (Kamin, 1957)

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | Alpha Wave Direction Differentially Impacts Working Memory; New Insights on Neuron Loss in a Huntington's Disease Mouse Model www.jneurosci.org/content/44/5...

I do love graduations. Today we saw Dr Sophia Gilchrist graduate from her PhD. I had so much fun supervising Sophia alongside my wonderful colleague John Power.

ANS24 in Perth this week. A fantastic meeting, well done to the LOC. Great to see old and meet new friends. I had the privilege of giving the Elspeth McLachlan Plenary - an honour I share with an amazing team and wonderful collaborators. Looking forward to Hobart 2025.