2026 photo 6 Poppy was glaring at me for disturbing her sleep (by trying to leave my desk on a Saturday 😅) She is the queen of my house

We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?

The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.  Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.  Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.

Photo 5 (need to catch up) Poppy looking beautiful in her yellow jacket with a rainbow this morning. How can you not smile at that photo?

We are a rich enough country to be funding 37% of all basic research proposals, not just considering "the best" 37% and then maybe only funding 12% in the end.

Does #ChronicStress weaken our ability to cope with stressful situations? 🔍 A new study from @kbi-uhn.bsky.social's Dr. Jaideep Bains (@stressynomics.bsky.social) says maybe not. Our bodies can adapt and keep stress‑response systems working when it counts. 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture to rats and mice is now published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, and it's open access! Yay. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Who's coming to IBNS this June? Got any cool South Africa travel tips to share? Who's going on Safari? 🚌👀🦁🐘🦒 Don't forget to submit your abstract this Friday!

In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week). 1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops). bsky.app/profile/andr...

Another good one! :)

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! For its 11th year, we’re celebrating eight women neuroscientists working toward gender equality in the field. By Paige Miranda #WomeninScience #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...

2026 photo 4 Poppy's happy face after a group walk with 39 other beautiful hounds 😍🥰❤️ We have a lot of fun with the "Hounds of Mayfield" group in Newcastle Lots of hounds like Poppy who are sometimes a bit antisocial love being with their own, are so relaxed and have such a good time

2026 photo 4 Poppy's happy face after a group walk with 39 other beautiful hounds 😍🥰❤️ We have a lot of fun with the "Hounds of Mayfield" group in Newcastle Lots of hounds like Poppy who are sometimes a bit antisocial love being with their own, are so relaxed and have such a good time

Very happy to share a new paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social I thought I knew what would predict escalation of cocaine use. Well, I was wrong. After tracking behavior daily for weeks, the answer turned out to be the opposite of my prediction, and it changed how I see addiction.

Could high levels of estrogen, during, say, perimenopause, be a risk factor for stress related cognitive decline and dementia in women? @ajshackman.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social @bangasserlab.bsky.social

I was just watching this online last night (I was registered online) and it was such a good session. Anyone who hasn't watched it yet and had access to the recordings should make sure they watch it while they still have access (before Feb 16 ) Thanks to the speakers for sharing their experiences

As someone with an interest in 1) ways of enhancing extinction learning to attenuate recovery and 2) assessing the evidence for memory erasure, I read this preprint from the Namboodiri lab with attention. Here are a few thoughts on the preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵

Planning for ACAN 2026 is well underway and we're excited to announce that Dr Christina Mo has joined as a co-director (florey.edu.au/researcher/c...). Christina's expertise strengthen our focus on bridging imaging approaches and in vivo systems neuroscience. @ausneurosoc.bsky.social

📣ACAN 2026 applications are now open! ACAN continues in 2026 at UNSW from May 10 - 30. Go to ans.org.au/acan/applica... and submit by Saturday 8th March 2026. Over 50 faculty from around the world will provide hands-on training in ephys, imaging, behaviour and more. You don't want to miss out!

2026 photo 3 Poppy is afraid of thunder and we had a short thunderstorm today She has a spot she always goes to, & today I heard it coming and got her bed in there so she was more comfy Recently I've found cuddlepillar helps settle her too This pic is her relaxing after the storm ended

Waking up in beautiful Tuscany - not to be underestimated! #GRCBasalGanglia 😍

A bit behind on poppy posts but I'll try catch up because we need some sweet dog photos to bring a little joy to the world to help people keep warm and brave and strong I just got back from a 10 day break and this was my cute shadow this afternoon 🥰

She uses the bristled end of a deck brush on her back and hindquarters, using repeated place-and-pull motions. For more sensitive areas such as the belly flap, udder, and anal region, she switches to the stick end, using careful, repeated poke-and-lift movements. See video link: youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ

Registration is filling up fast!

Very important research to establish African ancestry cell lines! #Neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/cellular-neu...

Looking forward to contributing to @acnporg.bsky.social panel session: Unlocking Clinical Mechanisms Through Animal Models: A Wellcome Initiative. On now (9AM) in Imperial Ballroom B! Chair Susannah Tye leading off #ACNP2026

Kicking off the appetite and addiction session @borglandlab.bsky.social shows high fat diet disinhibits OFC and impairs outcome devaluation, which is associated with astrocyte hypertrophy and inflammatory cytokine expression #acnp2026

Identifying the neural pathways that link drug cues to relapse is critical to improving substance use disorder treatments. New work from my lab found that #CBD reduces cue-driven heroin seeking in rats, related to changes in gene expression 🧠👇 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

🤓 So grateful to learn from powerhouses like Erin and @huda-akil.bsky.social during our Stories of WiN panel. We spoke about defining your legacy in science & beyond and a clear theme emerged: do science & lead according to your values. Listen here: www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

The Diehl Lab is hiring a full-time Research Asst to be filled asap! We study neural circuits of fear & avoidance during social interactions in rats & are seeking a motivated team player. For more info & to apply --> careers.k-state.edu/jobs/researc...

***2026*** I'm going to try post a weekly picture of my dog to make this online world a little brighter For anyone who doesn't know her, please let me introduce my 9 year old greyhound Poppy Fun fact: greyhounds *universally* love these giant caterpillar toys (pictured) called a "cuddlepillar"

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

🧠 Why it matters 🧠 -The results challenge a prevailing view that 5‑HT2A activation alone drives psilocybin’s therapeutic actions. -Highlights the importance of polypharmacology 🥳, and points to the 1B receptor as a target for non‑hallucinogenic antidepressant and anxiolytic pharmacotherapies.

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

We are thrilled to share that @IBROorg will support @acancourse.bsky.social again in 2026! The next Australasian Course in Advanced Neuroscience (ACAN) will be in May. Sign up for updates here: ans.org.au/acan/ #training #neuroscience #IBROSupportedSchool #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBRO

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

See you in Geneva! We have such an incredible line up of speakers this year! #optoDBS2026 – registration now open at www.optodbs.ch As last time, we are expanding scope way beyond just DBS and optogenetics – for instance including TMS and LIFU applications this year!

The RFK, jr effect.

Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Great opportunity for students who recently completed their undergraduate degree with an interest in behavioural neuroscience, binge eating and eating disorders.

📣 Exciting news - the lab is growing! I'm hiring a Research Assistant to join the lab to work on translational research examining neural mechanisms underlying binge eating and eating disorders! If you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass along! 🐀🧠 careers.upmc.com/job/22707636...

Excited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A high #fat #diet increases risk taking and suppresses escape neurons in🐁🐁🐁 #neuroscience www.cell.com/current-biol...

In other exciting news, @mattgeramita.bsky.social’s @natneuro.nature.com + Eric Yttri paper exploring the neural circuits underlying hesitation just dropped today! 🧠🎤 To summarize the findings, please see my musical abstract (with apologies to Peter Frampton 🎶) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Excited to share my postdoc work with @yttrilab.bsky.social and @ahmarilab.bsky.social where we show that the striatal indirect pathway mediates hesitation in mice (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). And I'm honored to have @ahmarilab.bsky.social introduce the findings with a musical abstract!

Coming up in 1 hour at #ANS2025 and online @ausneurosoc.bsky.social and @network-alba.bsky.social panel on making meaningful change to enhance equity diversity and inclusion at our institutions!

Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle