Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

rdcu.be/eIyQB Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it

I was very happy that our lab was able to play a small part in this fantastic new paper from @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social , showing that neuroflammation in the pDMS promotes goal directed behaviour, whereas activation on hM4Di in astrocytes has the opposite effect www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

One more 😴 till I catch up with @abcaustralia.bsky.social #ScienceHour on #TripleJ with @doctorkarl.bsky.social and Lucy Smith! Get your #Nutrition #Science questions ready!

Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

From “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” to “Give me 100K”

It's been fun. Thanks for hosting us, beautiful Almería, and thanks to everyone at #EBPS2025 for making it a fantastic meeting. Hoping everyone has safe and easy travels. 🤞 See you at #EBPS2027 in Cork!

Big congratulations to postdoc Sarah Najjar from the Margolis Lab on receiving a NIH K01 award to study serotonergic mechanisms of pain! 🌟 A huge step toward independence and groundbreaking discoveries ahead! 👏

Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up! 📍 Melbourne 📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮 📢 Register to secure your place today! ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

🧠 Are you an early-career brain science researcher interested to attend #FENS2026 in Barcelona, Europe’s largest #neuroscience meeting? Apply for the ALBA-CHS Travel Awards! ✈️ Tiered grants for EU & non-EU candidates ✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 years post-PhD/MD 👉🏽 loom.ly/7FOgCJc 📆 21 Oct 2025

🎉 Massive News! 🎉 The inaugural Jilya Indigenous Psychology Conference is happening 5 Dec 2025 in Perth! ✨ Keynote by Dr Tracy Westerman AM 🎟 Only 300 tix + livestream available events.humanitix.com/the-jilya-in... #IndigenousPsychology #DrTracyWesterman

Really lucky to work with this legend @guycameron.me on this great program that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to get there foot in the door of research Thanks to generous support from the school of biomedical sciences and pharmacy at UoN youtu.be/I1nWOyoLvbA?...

Landmark study by Dr. Angela Roberts and colleagues 👇

Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level). If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Come visit newy to join the "protestival" at the largest coal port in the world, to demand the Australian government takes action on climate change

🌊 Registrations are OPEN for the 2025 #PeoplesBlockade! 🌿 Unite in Muloobinba/Newcastle to stop coal exports at the world’s largest coal port and demand a plan to support coal workers. 🌏✊ #FundNewJobs #ClimateJustice 🌿 More info + FAQ: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Had a blast writing this insight article with @sydneytrask.bsky.social covering original research from the @michaeldrew.bsky.social lab on the stress-specific recruitment of a brain region that drives fear behaviors! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...

Help us raise even more money to help Palestinian refugees from Gaza by buying a virtual ticket as a donation to the charity PARA that is helping refugees from Gaza in Australia to settle here. Go here: events.humanitix.com/philoxenia-f...

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

Three(!) excellent preprints by Liqun Luo and collaborators, elucidating the nature of brain wiring and circuit assembly, by focusing on the coordinated expression of wiring molecules, Ten3 and Lphn2 🧪🧬🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Incredibly detailed sex-specific breakdown of a range of behaviors that occur during each phase of the stress-enhanced fear learning procedure. learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/7...

✨Normal science funding is broken but the showgirl must go on ✨ We are crowdfunding for our project to identify a next-gen preclinical OCD mouse model! 🔗 researchhub.com/referral/joi... #OCD #Neuroscience #CrowdfundingScience 🧪👩‍🔬 🧠 🧬 💸

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @janetsong.bsky.social shares how she plans to expose trainees to new ideas during lab meetings and Rachel Parkinson emphasizes the importance of taking a step back and reminding yourself about the joys of science. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/4mFNGCQ

Unbelievable that the HHS Sec pressures a top medical journal (annals of internal medicine) to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper with n=1.2M

THRILLED to share @acnporg.bsky.social news x2! 1) Our study group “Centering Lived Experience in Psychiatric Neuroscience Research” @ericjnestler.bsky.social @mayaschumer.bsky.social @deffinger.bsky.social @viscidula.bsky.social @noelvest.bsky.social @cahill-lab.bsky.social=ACCEPTED! 🤩 #ACNP2026

I am very proud of lead author Tara Arbab for completing this most recent manuscript from the lab! --> Intracranial electrophysiological biomarkers of compulsivity in OCD. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

Hosting the Pavlovian society annual meeting in SYDNEY was the highlight of my career! Thanks to all who came from near and far to present their awesome science. Looking forward to 2026 in Montreal. Come and join us!

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out the preprint of this work: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great to see @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social presenting recent work at Pavlovian conference in Sydney. Back-translation of our VMAC task and links to compulsivity in animals.

Postdoc alert. Laura Corbit in Toronto is hiring! Seen at Pavlovian conference.

Wednesday’s anniversary comes at a time when possession of nuclear weapons for deterrence is increasingly supported by the international community, including Japan. But survivors want nuclear abolishment, not deterrence.

When the U.S. dropped a uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Kunihiko Iida was 900 meters away from the hypocenter. Despite many health issues, the 83-year-old survivor volunteers as a guide at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park as a way to raise awareness. wapo.st/4okSO0Z

Very excited & grateful waking up to hear my BBRF YI award was successful 🎉 But perhaps even more excited to hear my good friend who I pestered to apply, who thought their work might not be a good fit, was also successful 🎉❤️ This is our team's first external support for a preclinical TMS project 🧲

Yep. It was definitely POs and not DOGE or political appointees at NIH...

I can tell you so many here are two from 2 diff profs in 1988 - first y of grad school: 1) (about a poster prize) “did you win because of your science or your looks”; 2) asking about my mark: “ you don’t need to worry about your marks you are pretty enough” ..

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci

Oooh interesting. I'd love to know how you did it. Just between you and me (and anyone reading this post, lol), we have some more recent data in which we've induced neuroinflammation in NAC core which prevents rats from showing sign-tracking, but they still show a VMAC effect on measures.

New preprint from the lab, produced in collaboration with Simon Killcross' lab: Modelling compulsive actions in rats and mice: The back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to rodents doi.org/10.31234/osf... I will be presenting some of this work at Pavlovian next week!

Seen at @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social