Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients! Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries. SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25. Learn about the recipients. 🔗 vist.ly/4cni8 #neurosky

Whoever wins the #worldseries tonight is going to make a legion of fans for life The psychology of fans &identification with teams is fascinating Like goslings, boys imprint on the team that wins when they are young. A championship leads them to identify with a team for life, especially boys 8-12

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

🚨The paper from my postdoc in @graeffjohannes.bsky.social’s lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social is out! We show that memories can be switched on and off by simply changing the « packaging » of DNA in neurons through epigenetic editing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some amazing portrait style photos of bats here. Please reply with your favorite one. jgmartinez-fonseca.smugmug.com/Bat-Photogra...

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here! The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets. 🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas #neuroskyence

These images of a tissue block face are part of an ongoing effort to map the molecular neuroanatomy of human 🧠 basal ganglia & basal forebrain structures at high resolution 🔬🧪. You can totally get lost staring at these - human 🧠 organization is fascinating.

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life rdcu.be/eLa9z

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Finally out!!

Check out our new work from former undergrad Akash Shanmugam and team in Addiction Neuroscience directly comparing the rewarding and analgesic potencies of morphine and methadone. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a great retreat! Thanks to the entire UAB neuroscience community for contributing their science, and to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social for an awesome keynote lecture!

One of my favorite events that we @uabneuro.bsky.social host each year, and excited to have @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social here for the keynote!

Excited to be co-chairing this @acnporg.bsky.social panel with chair @kr-maynard.bsky.social on opioid-responsive subpopulations in brain reward circuits. Special thanks to @rphillips3.bsky.social for helping to assemble the panel!

Oprm1-rich D1 islands in the human nucleus accumbens! Looks like a very similar spatial distribution to what is seen in the rodent brain, on the NAc medial and lateral borders. Very curious to know what roles these cells might play in opioid reward and withdrawal!

Super excited to share this work & accompanying data resources in collab with @martinowk.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @alexisbattle.bsky.social! Congrats to all coauthors and big shout out to @svitlana-bach.bsky.social @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social for leading this NIDA-funded project.

I am thrilled to announce that I am joining the awesome UAB Dept. of Neurobiology this Fall as an Assistant Professor! 🍾🥂👩‍🔬 My lab will resolve how hormones sway neural activity dynamics & drug seeking, and subpopulation differences therein. Excited for what the future holds! @uabneuro.bsky.social

Excited to be involved in the Alabama Summit on Addiction & Pain this week, featuring NIDA Director Nora Volkow. Tomorrow morning I’ll highlight how @uabneuro.bsky.social supports addiction research on campus, and Wednesday morning I’ll discuss some new work from the lab! @uabcappi.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday image from Olivia Drake in the lab. Red = Chst9+ neurons in the ventral striatum Cyan = DAPI, a DNA marker The red cells are full of the mu opioid receptor, the major target of opioids like morphine, fentanyl, and heroin.

Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Seems like NIA and others are still under historical norms for Total Cost of external awards Total funding in plot is calculated by summing total cost by funding IC, not awarding IC

For our next Brain Chats, Dr. Kristina Visscher from UAB’s Dept of Neurobiology will bring the highly anticipated presentation “You CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Plasticity and the aging brain”. 🧠 Make plans to join us at Avondale Library on September 6th at 11AM! 😀 @visscherlab.bsky.social

Fun #FluorescenceFriday image from Olivia Drake in the lab of a sagittal rat brain section. Cyan = DAPI, a DNA marker Yellow = Substance P, a protein product of the Tac1 gene

Early in college an English Composition professor told us "college doesn't teach you how to make money, it teaches you how to spend it". At the time it felt like a revelation. I learned more about the world in humanities classes than science classes. The "classics" still matter.

A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation: -Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated

Interesting article on the rise and future of the “medical university”, with a focus on UAB. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share! miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just completed the last cycle in a 4-year stint as a member of the "Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior" study section, which reviews NIH grant proposals. Each meeting has left me impressed with the dedication and professionalism of fellow reviewers and NIH staff - its been an honor!

Pretty sure my grandfather, who was a NASA engineer that worked on Saturn and Apollo missions in Alabama in the 1960s and 1970s, would be alarmed to see what’s happening now. This is faded but here is a technical drawing he produced for fiber optic viewing of the liquid oxygen supply for Saturn V.

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to [email protected].

🧪 For those following indirect rates (not normally an issue with so much drama!): Senate bill, out today, seeks to block the admin from making abrupt changes to indirect rates at NSF, NASA, and NOAA: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT #PSYCHEDELICS AND THINGS YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

Double-blind placebo controlled trial (led by UAB faculty Dr. Timothy Garvey) demonstrates >20% weight loss with co-administration of cagrilintide (which targets amylin receptors) with semaglutide (which targets GLP-1 receptors). www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Early #FluorescenceFriday! Little pocket of D1 interface islands (my ❤️ for these cells knows no bounds) in nucleus accumbens of human 🧠 labeled with new markers we identified (pre-print coming soon 🤩). Image credit to @lieberinstitute.bsky.social team members Ishbel del Rosario and Svitlana Bach 🔬👩‍🔬🧪

I've seen some science folks react with relief that the current reconciliation bill doesn't cut NIH spending- of course this is a good thing. But we can't stand by and say this isn't our fight - there's a lot in here that will affect biomedical scientists and some really bad stuff for the country 🧵

At UAB’s annual NINDS/R25 supported NEURAL conference today and excited to learn from all of our internal and external speakers, including Corey Harwell!

Years ago, I made a tester account for this kind of thing. It is following only @NBA and nothing else. It has never posted or interacted with a single tweet. I just logged on to it. Here’s what the algorithm showed me as I scrolled for 30 seconds.

Lots of feels after finishing my term today as a standing member on the NIH/CSR Molecular and Cellular Neuropharmacology study section. I have learned an enormous amount, and gotten the opportunity to see some extraordinary science. I am definitely a better scientist (and grant writer) from this.

Neuroscientist Kristina Visscher writes, “I’m reaching out to you as a nerdy kid from Northport, Alabama, who – thanks to a great Alabama public education – got a Ph.D. in Neuroscience” @visscherlab.bsky.social www.al.com/news/2025/06...

Interested in learning more about the neuroscience underlying GLP-1 weight loss medications like Wegovy and Ozempic? Attend this FREE upcoming event featuring UAB expert @andrewhardaway.bsky.social! All Brain Chats are open to the public - we welcome your attendance and questions!

Important 'Matters Arising' from @neurome.bsky.social and Zhaoxia Yu discussing false positives due to multiple comparisons in large-scale gene expression data. I applaud Eran and others who consistently raise these issues for discussion in the community. www.nature.com/articles/s41...