Hey Philly! I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city. Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible. Please help us spread the word! Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.” “Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.” “You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad. “I am going home now to bake a cake.”

It’s PhD admission season in the US and elsewhere. Is anyone collecting and sharing info about what admissions letters are saying this year, especially in the neuro/psych/bio space? Last year there were some (unfortunate) changes at some Unis, eg www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/08/u....

Influenza is a very serious infection This season we are seeing more complications of flu due to the high case numbers and a late second peak of cases. In the last 10 days I have seen - 2 cases of severe rhabdomyolysis with kidney failure caused by Flu B - FluA myocarditis - pt had troponin > 50,000

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

I've been thinking about community-based hypothesis generation. Like gathering non-researcher folks' theories and hypotheses as a step in hypothesis formation. Are there any good open science models to look at? I've seen a few for citizen science in health but they're kind of limited

#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

279 postdoctoral fellowships! Download freely our database of postdoctoral fellowships and grants. For each entry, we provide eligibility criteria, $ amount, deadline, etc. Good luck! Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Really wish free mask distribution was a regular feature of progressive events for example.

Happy New Year folks!! Start the year off with a submission into Black In Neuro’s first ever special issue. 18 days until the deadline, keep an eye out for the release 📝 ✨ @binmanhattan.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations. ja.ma/3Yx9hDD

mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection 🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025 🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply #comppsychiatry #socialneuro

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

Neuroscientists - Nominate an outstanding colleague for this prize, with opportunity to give a special lecture at the FENS Forum #FENS2026!

Faculty opening for candidates "working with human, non-human animal, or computational models to advance the understanding of brain and behavior relationships in the context of lifespan development" Stony Brook Psychology is an exceptional dept with amazing colleagues apply.interfolio.com/171691

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

Come join us at @westernu.ca! Chair/Chief/Department Head, Psychiatry universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database! Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Please RT: My lab in the Neuroscience Dept at MUSC is hiring a technician. We study oligodendrocytes — unique non-neuronal brain cells — using cutting-edge imaging. Recent grads especially encouraged to apply. Feel free to reach out! #neurojobs musc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MUSC/job/Cha...

Haverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Neuroimmunology is advancing rapidly & belongs in undergrad (neuro/bio/immuno etc.) curricula. If you're planning a course or a module, @ecleininger.bsky.social, Sumali Pandey, & I have developed a curriculum using core concepts in neuro. and immunology, & curated resources to help you get started!

Ever wondered how fasting and lactation affect gene expression in the hypothalamus? Looking for a dataset to mine? Look no further! We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the arcuate nucleus and medial preoptic area in 4 groups of female mice: zenodo.org/records/1531...

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are aware of our own body parts, but can be fooled to think that rubber arms are ours; this is known as the rubber arm illusion. 🐒 and 🐀 have shown a similar effect, but what about other animals? In this correspondence, authors report a very similar phenomenon in 🐙 www.cell.com/current-biol...

INSEPARABLE??? www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀 Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

Researchers have known for decades that chimpanzees drum, but two new studies show that the animals drum to a distinct beat—which varies across their societies. Learn more on #WorldChimpanzeeDay: scim.ag/3YJ7R9r

A patient page for GLP-1 drugs and importance of integration of lifestyle factors with these meds jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Professor and C4R coLAB, Aparna Shah (@neuromusings.bsky.social), discusses our new unit on establishing proper experimental controls. Check out her blog post at bit.ly/4eAIxcl and play with the Controls unit at c4r.io/units

Come join us at the School of Neuroscience in beautiful Blacksburg. Happy to answer any questions!

I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...

Y'all..she was lost in the wilderness for 3 weeks. She had to splint her own leg, pop her knee back into place, survived by foraging (which she is an expert in) and melting snow, and she did all this while having ballerina syndrome! See her interview here. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTja668Mx/

The Brain-Body Research Institute @IcahnMountSinai is hiring an Associate Director to build clinical and translational research in brain-body sciences. See ad here: neuroscience.mssm.edu/pdf/Brain-Bo.... @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social

Check out this article about Dr. Phillip's course 'War and the Brain' - a collaboration between neuroscience students and the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets addresses impacts of military stressors on cognitive function and training. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Class of 2025: Michael 'Mikey' Harrigan finds purpose through innovation: The College of Engineering and School of Neuroscience Outstanding Senior focused on others in his drive for success in academics, research, and athletics. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

The Community for Rigor is creating a full, free, online curriculum to help scientists acquire the research skills they need to do reliable, reproducible, and transparent science. Learn more at c4r.io and sign up for news and updates at c4r.io/join #scientificrigor #betterscience #c4r

The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect. I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now. Check it out in pdf form: drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...

THIS WEEK! On Wed, May 7, The American Brain Coalition, AAN, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Dana Foundation, IEEE Brain, Simons Foundation, SfN & Kavli Foundation, in cooperation w/ the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, invite you to a special briefing 👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/25zfk538

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

Super cool new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at MIT via the HEALS initiative. Biswas Fellows receive *4 years* of funding to pursue independent research with *any* MIT faculty member! Please share widely with the trainees in your life! heals.mit.edu/biswas-fello...

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

Any 5th-8th grade #science teachers out there who would be interested in an awesome pen pal program? 📝 Applications to participate in Letters to a Pre-Scientist are open! I've enjoyed connecting with my pen pals over cats & books, along with my science. #EduSky prescientist.org/for-teachers/

Powerful @plosglobalpublichealth.org blog post by Ankita, an international student @mcgill.ca Invisible Baggage: The Mental Health Crisis Among International Students speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/04/11/i...