We phenotyped 836, with extended access over several weeks, plus measures of escalation of intake, motivation under progressive ratio, and continued use despite footshock. A quick breakdown of the results.

The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.

And the number of Black NIH-funded folks was already too damned low, and not representative of the population. Historical NIH success rates show that Black applicants are roughly 10% to 13% less likely to receive investigator-initiated research awards (like R01s) compared to white applicants.

🎉 Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 OHBM Australian Chapter Annual Meeting! 🇦🇺🧠🇦🇺 Get your ticket now! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Registration: events.humanitix.com/ohbm-austral... 📝 Submit your abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🏆 Nominate a colleague (or yourself) for an award: ohbm-aus.github.io/awards/

Congrats to the recipients of the 2026 McKnight Scholar Awards! www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...

New paper out! For decades there has been a ‘standard model’ for gamma oscillations. This upends that model - PFC gamma oscillations are not one thing. Rather they dynamically recruit diverse cell type-specific synchrony motifs to implement multiple functions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it. The textbook story: immune system sees foreign object, attacks, builds scar. Incomplete. We found microglia monitor what the device does to nearby neurons in real time, then adjust behavior to match. 🧵

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

Starting a petition to standardize brain-region acronym pronunciation based on the precedent that NAc = “knack” ACC = ack VTA = vita SNc = sink DMS = dims GPi = guppy mPFC = m’puffk LHb = luh-hub BLA = blah CeA = see-ya DRN = durn

Check "Dec25" tab & you'll see ARC had FT26 announcements at 6–17 Jul. They introduced huge delays to all schemes in Jan, & FT26 changed to 13 Aug–23 Oct! All other schemes got similarly useless 3–4 month windows! Yesterday ARC changed it to 13–27 Aug (2 weeks). FT27 opens 23 Sep, 1 month later.

Thanks Lizzie! Forgot to post 🫠 but this work is extra special… the last project led by @kynaconn.bsky.social before she left the lab to follow her new path. Well done mate, and thanks to all the legends who contributed to this work 🙏🏻

@arc-tracker.bsky.social is it normal to have 6 month gap between rejoinders and announcements? I swear FF was originally listed as announcements in June-July... Asking because the last round (2026) is being followed by a round closing September 2026 🫠🙃

Abstracts and registrations are now open for #NeuroAlliance2026 🧠 Submit your latest research for consideration as an oral or poster presentation at this landmark joint meeting of ANS, ACNS and BPA. Visit: neuroalliance26.eventsair.site/call-for-abs... Deadline: 22 July 2026, 23:59 AEST

Exciting new work from @foldi.bsky.social 🍄↔️🧠

#NeuroAlliance2026 is coming 🧠 🏆Pitch Event: pitch your science, find your next collaborator (Sun 29 Nov) 🍹Social Night: unwind, connect, make friends across the field (Mon 30 Nov) 🍳Mentoring Breakfast: real advice on the stuff that matters (Tues 1 Dec) Spots limited. Don't miss out. Register here

2026 poppy photo 16 Photos of Poppy at this month's Newcastle greyhound walk. Looking so happy amongst her pack

2026 poppy photo 15 My girl turns 10 today!

What does this mean for the translational relevance of the sucrose preference test?

FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...

My PI @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social wrote an excellent article in @dpn-journal.bsky.social, on her toolkit for supporting new PIs setting up their labs. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

From cells to behavior, this #OptoGRC2026 session explores how neural activity shapes behavioral outputs 🧠⚡ Featuring @j9kwapis.bsky.social, Catherine Peña, @nicoleferrara.bsky.social, Kevin Franks, Priya Rajasethupathy, Jennifer Lawlor & Yasmine Ayman, you won't want to miss this lineup!

Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.

Tim Spellman demonstrates his open-source tool, FlexRig. Read the paper for the full instructions and parts list to build the tool. #eNeuro #OpenSourceTools https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0364-24.2024

Two FANTASTIC papers are out in @cellpress.bsky.social using preclinical TMS to dissect neural mechanisms contributing to iTBS effects. lnkd.in/eTeNT6yp from Conor Liston's team using "opto TMS" lnkd.in/egyg84qs from Scott Wilke's team using miniaturized rodent coils from the NIH

We tracked mice in space! This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩‍🚀 Preprint thread below 👇

Two more weeks until the @ACNP Travel award deadline. Lock-in an ACNP member to be a letter writer, consult the Travel Award ambassadors (it’s a me…), make sure to apply.

Excited to share an early look at psilo-seq, a web portal for exploring our lab’s single-nucleus RNA-seq data in mice following psychedelic treatment.

We’re really excited to announce our next international, hands-on #Miniscope workshop covering everything from microscope design to experiments to analysis! Applications are now open for the 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop (July 1–3, ESPCI). Apply by May 22: forms.gle/4CWh7MeMchLS...

📢 Applications for the #ECR Travel Award AND ECR Project Grant close on April 24th, 2026. Applications must be submitted before the close of business in the latest timezone in Australia (i.e., 1700 Perth time AWST), which is 1900 AEST 🔗 More information here #Science #EarlyCareerResearcher #ACNS

⚠️ An uncomfortable finding from our lab that I want to state carefully. BCI trials are enrolling participants without routine genetic screening for neurodegeneration risk. We have mouse data that makes this worth examining systematically. 🧵

2026 poppy (video) 14 We met a majestic Borzoi today 😍 it absolutely made my week. It was like seeing a celebrity 📸 pictured with lovely queeny (black hound), and poppy coming up between them later in the video

I always thought that mice couldn't over groom their own backs in a pattern like this, and that instead it was due to their cagemates eg barbering?

Just a regular day in Australia Traffic diverted due to a seal taking a nap on the road

Check out our new collection of Primers, which bridge the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience 🌉🌉 Each Primer translates a single concept across disciplines so that these communities can more effectively communicate and interpret findings in a shared language. www.nature.com/collections/...

2026 poppy photo 13 The perfect in between weather stripey outfit 😍

2026 poppy photo 12 Easter long weekend vibes *Yes poppy has two cuddlepillars, one used to belong to my old boy Spacey 😢

2026 poppy photo 11 A cuddlepillar head makes a great pillow *The greyhound love of a cuddlepillar (giant caterpillar toy) is truely bizarre

Submit your abstract until May 15 for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) to get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and panel speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/invited-spea... Please repost!

2026 poppy video 10 Yesterday we had a bit of a cold snap! Summer is coming to an end 😭 poppy looking cute (and knowing it!) prancing around in her purple coat makes it a little easier 💜💜💜

🚨The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics at Mount Sinai is searching for a postdoctoral research fellow! If you or someone you know is searching for a position, please share! 📄 📌Link to job flyer here: tinyurl.com/3vapfpn5 🧠 🐁 🔬🏙️🌆🧪🧬💊🧫💡🏥 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @mountsinai.bsky.social

We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc. The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...

2026 poppy picture 9 The weird and wonderful shapes that greyhounds make (how is this comfortable!)

Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

2026 poppy (video) 8 Today we visited Stockton beach with ~40 if poppy's greyhound friends. Greyhounds are so sweet when they're together and we have a great community of hounds/families in Newcastle! Poppy gets super excited galloping through the water 😍

2026 poppy (video) 8 Today we visited Stockton beach with ~40 if poppy's greyhound friends. Greyhounds are so sweet when they're together and we have a great community of hounds/families in Newcastle! Poppy gets super excited galloping through the water 😍

The continued underspend of the MRFF is a missed opportunity, impacting our future health, economic prosperity, and biomedical sovereignty. Please support Dr. Monique Ryan MP's campaign calling on the government to fully release the MRFF funds: www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

Back translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to mice (experiment 1) and rats (Experiment 2). Very nice work by @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social et al. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...