A commonly held belief is that the brain keeps maturing until age 25 and then stops, meaning that we should limit substance use until this timepoint. A new AJDAA paper dispels that myth and provides implications for #Cannabis use policy. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SfN attendees interested in polysubstance, alcohol & cannabinoids: two of my mentees will be presenting at #SfN2025! ⭐️ Katie Ray — PSTR055.01 / A43 🧪 Abigail Bowring — PSTR102.07 / A43 Both on Sunday, Nov 16 at SDCC Halls B–H. I hope you'll stop by!

Epigenetic control of stress and environmental enrichment interplay on anxiety and prefrontal cortex BDNF expression www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Like others, I currently cannot access ASSIST through eRA commons. It looks like Help Desk tickets are not being reviewed at this time.

Petition to remove doorbell rings & door knocking sounds from NFL commercials because it fakes out the pets.

My dog was resting next to me in a fidgety sleep. Suddenly her head bolted up and she glowered at me. I think I did something in her dreams and now she's mad about it.

Me: one very specific question Exam takers: everything I’ve ever learned about biology

This seems like a really fun and exciting opportunity if you are a creative postdoc and member of the National Postdoctoral Association. Deadline for submission: Monday, November 3, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET www.nationalpostdoc.org/news/news.as...

Calling researchers, clinicians, and advocates: Join us in Seattle for the 10th International Conference on Adolescents & Adults with FASD, Apr 17–20, 2026! Share your work & help turn evidence into practice. Abstracts are due Nov 16, 2025. Details and submission: fasdunited.org/fasd2026/202...

Prenatal Acetaminophen Exposure Does Not Disrupt Human Fetal Brain Development in Cortical Organoid Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.681041v1

AJDAA is now seeking applications for their Early Career Editorial Fellowship! Applications are due by October 31, 2025. Please email Dr. Leah Mayo ([email protected]) and Dr. Abhishek Ghosh ([email protected]) for the application form.

When S.O asks, "Are you hungry?" and you aren't, but then he makes delicious smelling food so NOW YOU ARE. 😠

We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.

O'Hare airport is so unserious.

Good news! Still no solicitation or guidance but as of this morning it seems NSF has moved the deadline into November. Keep up the pressure! Sign the letter and leave a comment about what #NSFGRFP means to you.

I could not agree more on the importance of sharing rigorous null/negative data 👇👇👇

NIH issued 2,439 notices of award after 9/13/2025. Including 128 new R01. Sixteen new R01 from NIAAA (38 total Type 1 from NIAAA).

"Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Official lab 📸 #VamosLobos

NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way

Either PIs are fierce gossips when it comes to good news about their trainees, or I've accidentally favored selectively loquacious mentors. 😜

Anyone with substance use / marginalized groups data looking to go to #CPA or #CPDD? I would love to connect for a possible symposium!

"The mystery is inherent to the poetic enterprise, which is: How do I say what can't be said?" Damn, Dave Duchovny, I agree with every word of this.

✨ Science thrives when we invest in the next generation. In response to funding cuts, early career researchers are speaking out, mobilizing, and keeping hope alive. This is our call to action. 🔗 medium.com/scitech-fore...

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

LOOK HOW PRETTY MY FIRST EVER SINGLE CELL RNASEQ SAMPLE ISSSSS!!! 🎉 I cannot contain my smile right now. So much work has gone into this project, and this UMAP of a fetal mouse basal ganglia was a pilot test of feasibility before I process every sample. I'm so nervous & excited & I love science.

“Bridging science and society is a problem everywhere...As someone passionate about science and society, I want the scientific workforce to reflect the diversity of the country, and these executive orders are going to stop that.” @jpflores.rbind.io www.aaas.org/membership/m...

Check out this 🆕 article from Minerva, @cate-cholamine.bsky.social, & colleagues reviewing the pros, cons, and best applications for currently available genome-wide sequencing technologies in neuropsychiatric research www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Look I have a PhD and you should not listen to like...most of what I say

"Agencies must revise their Uniform Guidance to... require that discretionary grants include terms allowing termination 'for convenience' if the award no longer serves priorities or the national interest."

I'm deeply honored to share that I've been awarded a 2025 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from @bbrfoundation.bsky.social . I'm so grateful to my mentors & BBRF for continuing to support early career researchers during this tumultuous time. It will mean everything to scientists like me. 🥲

We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Join us Saturday, 8/23 at 3 PM for our first Teach-in event! Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/teach...

Are you a scientist who wants to advocate for federal science funding? 📣 SNAP is helping early-career researchers meet with their representatives while they’re home this August, ahead of the FY2026 budget vote, where major cuts to NIH and NSF are on the table. No experience needed—Just your voice!

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Hear from early career researchers how they are being impacted by the federal turmoil! @jpflores.rbind.io @abankston.bsky.social @siararouzer.bsky.social and others speak to how the future of science is being affected. www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian...

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

This new report analyzes the impact of the NIH BRAIN Initiative's Circuits Program which has supported cross species systems neuroscience research and facilitated team science. Congrats to my NIH colleagues for this effort to quantify the impact of these programs! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Are you planning to apply for faculty positions in North America this Fall? Our team of researchers have synthesized 3 years of applicant survey data to create a dashboard to allow assistant professor candidates to see where they stand. faculty-job-market-collab.org/dashboard/

How I've adjusted my mentoring to do better for grad students whose careers will take them beyond academia. That is, for most of them! scientistseessquirre...

Scientific funding cuts are reshaping what it means to be a research trainee. Join us & @aaas.org Section X this week, as we discuss the new reality for early career researchers, and how we’re showing up, speaking out, and pushing forward. 📅 July 30 | 🕒 3–4pm ET 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/Coz4E

BRENNAN: Are you going to release the cancer research funding? RUSS VOUGHT: We're gonna continue to go through the same process that we have gone through with regard to the Dept of Education & we will release that funding when we are done BRENNAN: The WH budget does call for a $18b cut to NIH

I’m thinking about contracting with a research assistant. Someone who has a background in journalism and politics and is (for better or worse) extremely online. Is this a thing that exists?

From @aaas.org check-in with Sudip Parikh: a letter by 14 Republican senators urge the Office of Management and Budget to release NIH funding. If this includes your state (AL, ME, WV, SC, KY, KS, AR, PA, NC, IN, AK), Sudip recommends contacting & thanking them for being American science leaders.

I paid off my car & officially own it!!!! *credit score drops four points*

⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...