Very mixed feelings about this study. While its results are somewhat consistent with prior animal studies using causal methods, I don’t like that they use prior work as a free pass to skip over functional localization of the tFUS effects.

This is precisely the situation where I believe functional synthetic serum markers could help with interpretation of tFUS results. And where cognitive neuro has to look past novelty-maxxing tFUS results & build direct translational bridges with animal studies (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

I’m just frustrated with how cog neuro loves to move fast and break things while standing on the shoulders of preclinical animal work, while in parallel also saying look we don’t need preclinical animal work anymore because in cog neuro we can move fast and break things.

The @mind-western.bsky.social #fluorescencefriday entry focus on the hippocampus of an aggressive AD model Appnl-g-f with IBA1 (yellow) and abeta (magenta). thanks to @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social and @kesummers.bsky.social

Mechanistic insights into the therapeutic properties of delta opioid receptor | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At the Special Town Hall, @paulkennyphd.bsky.social was joined by other brain science leaders, including @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social's Dr. Daphna Shohamy & @mpfneuro.bsky.social's Dr. @rangarajuvidhya.bsky.social. #BrainAwrenessWeek #BrainWeek NOT TO MISS! Airing 4/10, details to come!

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Some thoughts from @docqhuys.bsky.social and I on the IMPACT project in computational psychiatry: a valiant effort, which may fall short by spanning diagnoses, having a narrow battery, and not leveraging lived experience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Some thoughts on @franziskaknolle.bsky.social recent paper on speech expectations, hallucinations, and glutamate: illness and chronicity may be important in understanding the role of glutamate in prior weighting www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcO2Em

Most narrative CVs would be a huge improvement over the “everything I’ve ever done in the past 5 years” CV if written to contain those features. That’s what reviewers want to know - a sense of who ”you” are and why you are well suited to conduct the proposed work.

CIHR update re transition to Tri-agency CV for Project Grants … not to be used for PG “until Fall 2027 at the earliest” cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54668.html

probably one of the most well powered personality neuroscience papers so far!

Check out Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives response to the 2026 Ontario budget by @ricardotranjan.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... see also !

The Bowles center is a great place to be a postdoc if I do say so myself 😌 come join us!! ⬇️⬇️

Absolutely the best place to do alcohol research!

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Incredibly honored to be named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This distinction recognizes the work of my students and trainees over the years. Congratulations to the other Vanderbilt faculty elected AAAS Fellows as well.

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

In a new preprint, we use a combination of 2AFC and discrimination tasks to quantify sensory, decisional, and metacognitive noise in units of the physical stimulus. We find that, across two experiments, sensory and decisional noise are comparable, while meta noise is lower. osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is hilarious … or tragic www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

Early for #FluorescenceFriday, but got an early peek in a project meeting - strucure is just so incredible - zoom in of tryptophan hydroxylase 2 labeling 🟣 of serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe of human 🧠. Experiment and image credit to @ishbeldelrosario.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social

An amazing opportunity for students to get their foot in the door for neuroscience research! Great to see a program explicitly welcome applicants from community colleges and folks with no prior experience!! www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/03/10/a...

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

The first preprint from the lab is up! Are structural MRI correlates of substance use shared across substances, or are there unique associations? And do these reflect predispositional risk and/or possibly the effects of substance exposure? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FUN STORY! When I started @standupforscience.net Emory leadership instructed the Wheel not to cover me or the protests we led around the WORLD. I asked for support & Emory sent General Council to meet with me and then refused to allow the NYT photographer onto campus...BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...

So yeah, @theatlantic.com that's why. Signed, A PhD Candidate at Emory University who leads a global movement and organizations fighting for science and democracy.

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

How empathy and race shape American attitudes toward refugees

Intriguing finding: Pretreatment with the psychedelic DOI mitigates LPS-induced hippocampal inflammation and behavioral impairments in mice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41872747/

Please join us for this CIC talk on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, at 2:00 pm. douglas.research.mcgill.ca/calendar/ent... *** Venez participer à ce nouveau séminaire du CIC le mercredi 1er avril 2026 à 14 h. douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/calendrie...

Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges. The first edition features nontraditional model organisms that are well suited for studying certain behaviors or neurological conditions. bit.ly/4v6x506

Very grateful to MP Dr. Helena Jaczek for meeting with CAN representatives yesterday - Dr. Jaczek is a long time champion for science and health research in Canada and understands that scientific research in one of Canada's most strategic investments. Thank you for the insightful discussion!

For whoever going to BonnBrain in March, consider extending your stay by one day and participate in our hands-on! workshop. Imaging neuronal activity with Inscopix 2P miniscope and voltage imaging with the Ultima 2P Plus multiphoton microscope. www.bruker.com/en/news-and-...

Want to hear me talk/rant about eugenics? Come through!

Great piece by the Transmitter on our recent paper on the stability of the head-direction representation over time and environments.

OpenAI news: 1. Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine be a blessing. 2. Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

Wow! Structural energetics of cold sensitivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please repost! We have one postdoc and one PhD student position open in my lab (starting from Sept 2026), neuroscience of decision making and learning. Join us @hhu.de in gorgeous Düsseldorf! For details please look here: www.psychologie.hhu.de/en/research-... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

This is so different from the past membership. Deeply concerning where this might be headed...

Diagnostic validity of Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment indices for alcohol use disorder: Findings from an observational case–control study

Been saying. 👏🏾 "Racial and ethnic differences in certain behaviors are just as large as the widely known differences between men and women. The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals." 📌