Join us in beautiful Montreal for the 2026 S4SN Conference (Aug 23–26)! Share your latest research, spark new collaborations, and engage with a vibrant social neuroscience community! Symposium proposals and individual abstract submissions are underway: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/pages

I’m excited to share my new paper! 🤩 We showed that maternal sucrose intake during pregnancy alone disrupts testosterone and allopregnanolone levels in critical regions of the fetal brain 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kiransoma.bsky.social

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social as Assistant Professors in our Behavioural Neuroscience area and members of the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social. Read their Q&As: psych.ubc.ca/news

Spot on, but so sad.

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

“they should be careful not to deprioritize the kind of curiosity-driven, investigator-led research that has a strong track record in advancing humanity’s knowledge, producing the types of innovation that prosperity and well-being depend on.” 🧪 #Research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Terrific piece by @rexhuppke.bsky.social on Elon Musk, White Nationalist

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%. Early 2000s: 30%+. Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system. We’re calling for $1B over 5 years. Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46

Foreign tourism to the U.S. fell 5.4% in 2025 while the rest of the world saw a 4% increase. Canadian visits dropped nearly 30%. buff.ly/MSynHSJ

The Globalization of Canadian Rage www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o... 🎁 link

STEM Black History Fact 4/28 Dr. Percy Julian pioneered the large-scale synthesis of steroid hormones, enabling modern cortisone therapies, sex hormones, and birth control medications. www.pbs.org/education/bl...

PSA for all #microglia lovers: certain Iba1 antibodies (see our new paper below for details) label not only microglia, but also vasopressin neurons, at least in mice. Brain region and species matter. A friendly reminder to always validate your antibodies! 🔬 www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...

Embargo over @cp-neuron.bsky.social High hippocampal estrogen levels promote #plasticity but also maladaptive They allow stress-induced memory loss in both sexes changing chromatin state www.cell.com/neuron/fullt.... c awesome @eahellerphd.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social @tollkuhn.bsky.social

Check out our new paper, investigating the role of estrogen in stress-induced memory disruptions. 🧠 online now! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... @talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social

news.uci.edu/2026/02/03/h... Happy I could contribute to this exciting project! @talliezee.bsky.social @eahellerphd.bsky.social

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Thrilled to see this out! Here, we developed a simple and rapid method to directly measure free (unbound) glucocorticoids in 30 uL of serum. Should be useful for many future studies. Anna Mazurenko and Melody Salehzadeh did a fantastic job! 👍 @psych.ubc.ca journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The shingles vaccine has demonstrated in what is now a 4th replication that it results in a ~20% reduction in dementia. This is better than any drug ever designed and tested for Alzheimer’s.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

www.weforum.org/stories/2026... This is worth reading!

Change has never been easy. It takes persistence and determination, and requires all of us to speak out and stand up for what we believe in. As we honor Dr. King today, let’s draw strength from his example, and do our part to build on his legacy.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

People with autobrewery syndrome had increased levels of the ethanol-producing bacteria Escherichia coli, according to a new study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3LJGLeY

“Universities are not a commodity in which quality holds steady regardless of price. Rather, starving the system of overall steady funding means a few winners and a race to the bottom for the others.” today’s @theglobeandmail.com #academicsky #psychscisky #neurosckyence

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

4 yr PhD studentship at the U. Edinburgh (Roslin Institute & The Roslin Foundation) to investigate the mechanism by which light exposure during artificial incubation of eggs exerts positive effects on post-hatch chicks Deadline 13/02/2026 @roslininstitute.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Poets are a not a group generally known for violence.

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

JOB ALERT: DMCBH Director, Finance and Administration The Director of Finance and Administration plays a lead role in strategic and operations planning, budget management, coordination of new initiatives, facilities and space management, information management, and policies and procedures.

Hoping the pivotal finding of increased inflammation with #LongCovid will be responsive to tirzepatide (Zepbound) in our ongoing 1,000+ participant randomized, placebo-controlled trial (full enrollment completed in <1 month!) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natimmunol.nature.com

Testosterone Is Misunderstood www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o... Free gift article 🎁

Substantial preclinical, real world and anecdotal data link GLP-1R signaling to reward pathways and attenuation of substance use disorders. Yet ++ challenges remain. More clinical trial data is coming in 2026, hopefully moving the field forward www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

About 0.1 percent of the global population, some 8.8 million people, identifies as scientists, which means only a small fraction of people personally know a scientist. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-shape-of-wonder-researchers

Newly-announced scheme, supporting international PhD students and postdocs who want to come to Canada www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canad...

I really liked this paper - data supporting super interesting idea that Alzheimer's disease pathology may have evolved as part of an innate immune defense response to microbial infection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Free 🎁 article.

Nothing to see here Just the NIH Director speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 👀

UBC Psychology Majors are invited to a Strategic Planning Meeting for undergraduate students. We’d love to hear what’s important to you, what’s working well, and what could be improved! Learn more and RSVP: psych.ubc.ca/events/event...

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Nice work by Cecilia Jalabert and Megan Liu, former graduate students in my lab! 🎉👍🏾

Zuranolone (allopregnanolone) is one to watch 👀

Textbooks said neurons don’t burn fatty acids for energy🤔. Our study delivers the first in vivo demonstration that fatty acid oxidation in defined memory neurons fuels memory formation. Closing chapter of my PhD 🥳, out today in Nature Metabolism💥 @natmetabolism.nature.com

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... free 🎁 link.

The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country. You want to read this series. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

It was another great year for the DM Centre for Brain Health! 👀

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.