Looks like the GRE is being re-introduced as a requirement for some PhD programs, particularly psych: www.linkedin.com/posts/jayvan...

i am super excited to announce i've joined @projectshort.bsky.social's e-board as co-director of outreach! i'm grateful for the trust & the opportunity to help lead a wonderful organization i've been with since i began my phd. dashboard.project-short.com/about/execut...

This could be very VERY BAD. It looks like a way to remove transparency of peer review, which would enable political apparatchiks to have much more power over decisions on where grant money goes.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

in a world of vibe coders, im harsh coding. i am not speaking a single word, overthinking every line, and being extremely critical to myself while doing it

🧠 New paper from UP NExT flips the script on brain implants! Microglia (brain's immune cells) aren't just causing inflammation & scarring around electrodes, they actively monitor & interact with stressed neurons during low-freq stim via Live 2-photon imaging #Neuroscience #BCI

Early career science journalists: Need something to do next summer? Apply to work with me as @science.org's newsletter intern! bit.ly/44yCu4o

This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host: Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness" Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

SFN 2025 let’s gooo!! Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)

Our networking event for trainees is tomorrow! Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! #SfN25 @projectshort.bsky.social

Are you a trainee in neuroscience interested in mentoring or meeting other trainees? Maybe you're thinking about graduate school but need guidance? I'm hosting a networking event at #SfN25 with @projectshort.bsky.social! Ballroom 12 @ Marriott Marquis 7-9pm Monday 11/17

We are now recruiting STEM mentors for the 2025-2026 graduate school application cycle! ⏰ Mentor applications close on July 31st, 2025 ⏰ ✨ APPLY HERE: dashboard.project-short.com ✨ Questions? Email us: [email protected] #gradschool #phd #phdapplication #gradadmissions

my f31 just changed from pending to award prepared 🥲 please send good luck my way

Nobody turns one problem into four problems quite like us #ThingsActualScientistsSay

Ever wonder how stress and the estrous cycle affects reward learning? Well we have answers for you in our paper led by @askaneuroscientist.bsky.social published in @npp-journal.bsky.social And huge thanks to the NIH and NSF who supported this research.

Cyclic shifts in estradiol levels coincide with changes in dendritic spine density and the activity of place cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in mice, a new study shows. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroendocri...

😩🙏🏻😩🙏🏻😩🙏🏻 first mamdani now this!!

very cool 3P with a large fov (3mm^2)!

(Plz repost) I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation. pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu Tyvm

Wrote this short piece for our university newsletter (the Hub) in defense of curiosity and the partnership between Universities and federal government

🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇 How do bats tell navigation from social calls? Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives. Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz

Harvard stands up Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.” From Harvard to Trump admin

The lab has had a hell of a month and I’m excited for some upcoming announcements… …but for now please enjoy these pics as we move step-by-step towards simultaneous ephys and two-photon imaging with our flexible & semi transparent electrodes

The question I've been asked most as we endure the legal dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration is, "What can we do about it when it's not election season?" @timothynoah.bsky.social has an outstanding essay in the @newrepublic.com addressing that question. newrepublic.com/article/1931...

this Wednesday is our webinar! please send to any current or prospective trainees you know who want to know more on increasing and retaining diversity in neuroscience. we'll be sharing what we do with ProjectSHORT, locally at our universities, as well as our experiences in neuroscience.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'll never stop being in awe of the brain. Raster of a single neuron in medial geniculate body responding to auditory tones.

Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow U.S. officials to begin implementing a limited plan to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

I'll be part of an @neuronline.sfn.org professional development workshop on increasing and retaining diversity in neuroscience, both with ProjectSHORT and more broadly. Please fwd to any trainees you know who would be interested! April 2nd, 1-2pm. Register here: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

my favorite part of coming back to the lab after vacation is returning to my code and going, 'who the hell wrote this crap?'

Confirmed via NPR: www.npr.org/sections/sho... h/t @sylviapperry.bsky.social

Super excited that this paper is now “in print” in Scientific Reports: links.springernature.com/f/a/chqdN90F...

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Response from a Pennsylvania GOP congress member I emailed urging the continued funding of the NIH.

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

“Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals.” This is insanity, and could have major impact on entire fields of research worldwide (we all collaborate with one another)

All study section and council meetings suspended until at least 2/2

Oooookay…

It’s an incredible feeling to see something you’ve poured your heart into come to life. This work was born from my curiosity about hippocampal “cognitive tuning.” Our interpretation of the environment depends on our actions, constantly evolving as we pursue our goals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

E.A.R.S. seminars resume this semester! First session on Tuesday 1.14 at 1 pm ET. Tania Barkat, Basel University: “Surprise response across development”. Lauren Kreeger, University of Pennsylvania : "Dynamic Temporal Processing in the Auditory Brainstem" pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96672201477 .

does anyone know of papers that used GtACR and eNpHR in the same area to inactivate separate, colocalized populations?

We experience the world through a multitude of senses, and yet most studies of sensory perception focus on one sensory modality at a time. Our paper on how odors affect sound processing in now published in Journal of Neuroscience (1/5). www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

uhh is slurm (the linux job scheduler) named after slurm (the beverage from futurama)?

Just yesterday @drnancypadilla.bsky.social's lab published a paper showing that a common behavioral paradigm in systems/behavioral neuroscience, produces distinct results/outcomes in different strains of mice. We should study a diversity of animals/strains and be humble about over generalizations.