🚀 #ALBADiversityWeek 2025 starts today! We celebrate diversity & intersectionality by highlighting key activities and sharing valuable resources. 👀 Stay tuned all week as we revisit achievements and launch new initiatives. Share our posts to join the #GlobalDiversityAwarenessMonth celebration. 🧵

Nobody knows it all even if he/she is an ERC grantee. Congratulations to Laura and to you Arnau @bgarcialab.bsky.social insightful and tremendous amount of data!! Keep up with the good stuff you both!!!

Delighted to take part in the #vernissage of #unavitadascienziata exhibition sponsored by @FondazioneBracco. #grateful to @Giuliagiornaliste Sardegna #100esperte www.ansa.it/amp/sardegna...

Open access link to new study in Nature: Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis. 🧪🧠 #medsky #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you @carmensandi10.bsky.social for organising such an exciting session with @bgarcialab.bsky.social Olivier and Sylvie

Today #womenstandupforscience to defend and support #freedom #science #DEI #democracy I am #grateful to @unica @cnr @FondazionediSardegna @sif @isn and to all the extraordinary and supportive #researchers and #journalists. The event will be in #streaming u.garr.it/uqcJl

ALBA-IBRO talk: Building resilience to sustain EDI efforts in neuroscience 🔗 alba.network/MNS2025 🗣️ @carmensandi10.bsky.social (CH), @francescacirulli.bsky.social (IT), @shubhatole.bsky.social (IN) #StandUpForScience #ScienceForAll @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social @christinadalla.bsky.social @fens.org 🧵

Excited and honoured to have received yesterday the “Award Francesca Sanna Sulis”, a pioneer Sardinian woman from XVIII century, by @Inner_Wheel_Club_Cagliari_Sud at the City Hall of Cagliari #friendship_service #grateful😍

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Thank you @msolinas.bsky.social for the amazing hospitality and the enriched environment and for @uif_ufi (Università Italo Francese) for this terrific opportunity @univpoitiers.bsky.social @inserm.fr

Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new #ScienceAdvances study identifies a neuroimmune pathway for treating sepsis, finding that dopamine inhibits expression of a critical regulator of immunometabolism. This suggests that pramipexole, a dopamine agonist, could effectively treat lethal infections. scim.ag/4kfAfrZ

Mentre si parla tanto di #ReBRAIN #Europe, il nostro Paese con la nuova #riforma del #reclutamento facilita il #braindrain negando l'opportunità a migliaia di #giovani #ricercatori di fare ricerca in #italia . Se siete d'accordo, condividete l'articolo di #ElenaCattaneo

I did not think we would have to debate this point in 2025, but yes the study of sex in biological studies matter! bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excellent and rich environment for both work and life 🤩👇🏻

Chimeric brain models: Unlocking insights into human neural development, aging, diseases, and cell therapies www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Today’s #cannabis has much more potent THC than in the past. How we think about & approach cannabis needs to change with this in mind - from policy & consumer perspectives. 🎧 Listen to my discussion with Julie Rose on Top Of Mind here: open.spotify.com/show/5P43AGN...

Save the date! Join us in Seville, Spain May 17 - 21 2026 for the next Dopamine meeting. More details to come. dopaminesociety.org

NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg

Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A safer, gut-stable alternative to opioids! Markus Muttenthaler @univie.ac.at and others have developed a new type of oral painkiller designed to relieve chronic abdominal pain, based on a modified form of the hormone oxytocin, best known for its role in childbirth contractions. 👉 buff.ly/vzN0834

Excited to share a new publication out! “Acute Stress-induced Alterations in Short-Chain Fatty Acids: Implications for the Intestinal and Blood Brain Barriers”. @jfcryan.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social @sarah-janeleigh.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to launch this initiative #womenstandupforscience to support #science #freespeech #DEI #democracy and grateful to all the scientists involved and to #UniCA #savethedate and #staytuned www.rainews.it/tgr/sardegna...

Interesting that aggressive encounter,but not non-social stimuli, increased SERT and serotonin in mPFC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

In a new #ScienceSignaling Review, scientists examine an emerging body of research implicating #SleepLoss as a metabolic disorder and discuss its impact on the metabolism of neurons and parallels to neurodegenerative disorders. scim.ag/4i8Ok96

with help from @ktmac.bsky.social!

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A previously overlooked dopamine-producing brain circuit drives hedonic eating, or eating for pleasure, according to a new Science study in mice.

JCI - Prefrontal correlates of fear generalization during endocannabinoid depletion www.jci.org/articles/vie...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @miriammelis.bsky.social

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC www.grc.org/catecholamin... & GRS www.grc.org/catecholamin.... In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributi... & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributi...

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

I am Absolutely delighted to share the preprint of our last collaborative efforts where we investigated the impact of sonostimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Thread -1- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am happy to announce the seminar of @msolinas.bsky.social "Investigating cue-driven choice in addiction using the probabilistic image choice (PIC) task" this coming friday at #UniCa as part of our collaboration funded by #UFI_UIF- #campus-monserrato Room 111, building A

Today all 27 EU countries endorsed the Warsaw Declaration. Thank you for your solid support in calling for the independence of the European Research Council to be preserved and for the role of the ERC to be expanded. polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/media/r5fa13... 🇪🇺

Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW! woodstock.img.cas.cz

One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

@science.org A subcellular map of translational machinery composition and regulation at the single-molecule level | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Together with @fens.org, ALBA stands in solidarity with all scientific communities facing challenges to research, collaboration, and academic freedom. Let's build a more inclusive and sustainable future for everyone everywhere. #StandUpForScience

#privileged and #grateful for having taken part to the #PEER_GROUP led by stellar @martadiforti

La cupola degli autocrati e la Grande Spartizione Dietro la raggelante sceneggiata alla Casa Bianca contro Zelensky, la cupa realtà della strategia di Trump: estese concessioni alla Russia per sganciarla da Pechino. Nel mezzo, un'Europa impotente e da frantumare phastidio.net/2025/03/03/l...

Happy Independence Day, 🇪🇪 Estonia! Head vabariigi aastapäeva! Today we look at the research of Laur Kanger at the University of Tartu. His team investigate why some future technologies can aggravate rather than solve environmental issues. #FrontierResearch @eeineu.bsky.social 🔗

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

This is a very important appeal to sustain scientific research in Italy. I ask my friends and colleagues to sign it to show support for science.

Did you know that a person’s lifetime cancer risk may be determined before birth? Recent research identifies two distinct heritable states that arise during early development, influencing cancer susceptibility. #ICCD2024 #CUREALL #Childhood #Cancer #Day 👉

It's official! I've been awarded an #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work w/ @miriammelis.bsky.social in Cagliari 🏖️🇮🇹 #SPICE-FONTS will investigate the role of my fav neurotransmitter #noradrenaline in neurodevelopmental deficits caused by prenatal #cannabis exposure 🤰🌿 Grateful @ec.europa.eu 🙏🇪🇺

Grateful and happy to be part of #SPICE_FONTS with @apiccin.bsky.social #MSCA in beautiful Cagliari #fellowship #neuroscience