Our preprint "Predictive design of tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in vivo in the mouse embryo" is on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... . Amazing collaboration by @shenzhichen1999.bsky.social, Vincent Loubiere (@impvienna.bsky.social,@viennabiocenter.bsky.social),... (1/2)

Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Your annual reminder that our goats will recycle ♻️ your flocking and tinsel free Christmas tree if you're a local. @superkash.bsky.social will even pick up if within a reasonable distance

en route to Vancouver. thrilled to start my lab @psych.ubc.ca @arts.ubc.ca and join the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social - doors open Jan 2026. it's great to be back, 🇨🇦.

Welcome to Vancouver and UBC! We’re excited to have you @milanium.bsky.social!

So excited for the science to come from the Valyear lab!

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

broke: music makes you smarter woke: music makes you better at science bespoke: science makes you better at playing music extremely fast

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

A must-read review. It argues that brain areas are only one of several organizing principles and are not especially central, given their weak correspondence to function. Cytoarchitecture and connectivity are a starting point, not the endpoint. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

A new @cp-cell.bsky.social study led by @ardemp.bskyverified.social and @rose-hill.bsky.social identifies a kidney mechanism that allows renin to adjust in real time, showing that PIEZO2 enables cells to sense physical forces and fine-tune renin release.

I know a lot of people need to hear this: you can actually just criticize people directly for their direct actions instead of saying “they must be on drugs”

Happy to share another important piece of the puzzle as we try to figure out the chicken-or-egg question of cannabis use in schizophrenia: Investigating the polygenic relationship between heavy cannabis use and schizophrenia in the All of Us Research Program www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new story at The Transmitter about the PRECISION Human Pain Network's new DRG cell atlas: www.thetransmitter.org/peripheral-n... So rewarding to hear about colleagues who are already using our datasets in their own work.

It is a genuine goddamn mystery how the Ontario government can be this stupid. It would be the easiest thing in the world to reallocate PALs from institutions that can't use them effectively to those that can. But Ontario doesn't do it. Becasue cranial capacity or something. What a waste.

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Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.

Powerful short documentary about the researchers affected by NIH grant terminations and broad extortion of universities. youtu.be/DaTOmUZHeik 1/2

welp, this is definitely one we're going to need to discuss in lab meeting!

Which nations have the happiest PhD students? go.nature.com/4iXjWAP

The neurobiology of #dehumanisation: "Interpersonal dehumanization might act as a proactive empathy regulation strategy... Brain networks associated with mental state inference...might be used as an indicator of interpersonal dehumanization..." #NeuroSky #PsychSky www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A

iGluSnFR4 is now available @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates 🧪

New work from kashlab led by Dr. Jobe Ritchie @jobeneuro.bsky.social .. our old pal serotonin is back.

www.nature.com/articles/s42... great stuff and a treasure trove of important data. Well done @mattsapio.bsky.social and team at NIH.

New paper! Flexible cognition can arise when oscillatory activity organizes where information can be expressed in neuronal spiking. Oscillatory control of cortical space as a computational dimension www.cell.com/current-biol... @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social #neuroscience

This Christmas I am hoping that 3 spirits visit some of my dept colleagues to show them that academic jobs require them to do teaching, admin and research. All 3, all the time.

Harvard College Senior Fajr Khan Named 2025 Pakistan Rhodes Scholar #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvard.edu @ox.ac.uk

Neurochemical and Neurophysiological Effects of Intravenous Administration of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine in Rats www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

In this recent study, a non-invasive model of perinatal asphyxia was used, uncovering a role for IL-1 and suggesting that early anti-inflammatory intervention may mitigate lasting & behavioral impairments after perinatal asphyxia

Don’t miss out on the chance to present at #OptoGRC2026! Apply to attend and submit a poster abstract to be considered for an oral presentation during the conference 🎤 Early applications are strongly encouraged! 🔽 www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Currently accepting apps for funding of Patient Advocacy Group Family Conferences, with a focus on groups in the Simons Searchlight community. Learn more: https://www.sfari.org/grant/conference-support-for-rare-neurodevelopmental-disorder-communities-in-simons-searchlight/ #science #autismresearch

Congrats Nautiyal lab on some really interesting findings!!! @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social

I really liked this paper - data supporting super interesting idea that Alzheimer's disease pathology may have evolved as part of an innate immune defense response to microbial infection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ICYMI Assistant Professor @neuro-summer.bsky.social discusses the link b/w being prescribed opioids in the hospital and contracting infection, explaining that these medications can affect the gut and the immune system. 🔗 www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/18/o...

Why doesnt this mention NIMH, which AFAIK also doesn't have a director?

maybe a naive question: what happened to the search for NIMH leadership? the position link remains inactive hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

The paper is really well summarized in two paragraphs of the abstract. So I'm going to leave that here for food for thought. Happy holidays!

Excited for this new paper in @braincomms.bsky.social by Denise Wezel and @oknox.bsky.social The association between white matter hyper intensity volume and menopausal status in the UK Biobank @linasifi.bsky.social @nikigervais.bsky.social @dadarmahsa.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Cool basal ganglia preprints today! 2 on DA/ACh 1. @paulkramer.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2. @arifahamid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Motor learning @juangallego.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧪🧵 Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards — now open 🇨🇦 A new federal program to attract outstanding PhD students and postdocs currently outside Canada (including Canadians abroad).

McGill is hiring scholars from outside Canada! The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program is designed to attract world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. Review of applications begins 1/16/26. www.mcgill.ca/research/res...

An independent survey confirmed the increase of nicotine pouch use in young people in the UK, with frequent dual use together with smoking and vaping.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci🛟 🫁💊🧪 In the UK, there are no age restrictions for selling nicotine pouches. A new survey reveals that one in eight UK teenagers aged 14 to 17 have used these products.

New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...