I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel. buff.ly/ypISrtx

Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!

www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art

Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience. A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics. 3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year! (mini thread)

Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸

Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result. Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable

New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app

You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊

1/3 Amen. And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black. We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too. Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.

Our latest work to understand the dynamics of brain GIP and GLP-1 signaling to mediate responses to pharmacotherapy for obesity. Replicates key work from Timo Mueller and lab at the Helmholtz and takes it a little farther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today's a big day in Busan, South Korea, where nations are meeting to finalise a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The focus is on tackling the problem at its source—how plastics are made and used. This could be a turning point for addressing the #PlasticCrisis. apnews.com/article/3c50...

Sneak peek of the new stuff this season in the twophotonart.com shop! 🧠🧪 (Technically we are saying that we won’t start shipping orders til Dec 3, but I don’t leave town til tomorrow so if you order something in the next few hours, I’ll slip it in the post 🤗)

This is the good place. First one of the week. #ephys

Our group is hiring an electrophysiologist, please get in touch if interested! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

There's a first time for everything 🤷🏿‍♀️ #parafilmnomore

Beautiful Utah... Zion National Park 💕

I made a starter pack for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior #SSIB for all interested in being a #SSIBling. Please let me know if you would like to join the starter pack! go.bsky.app/8Zvp83e

Feeling hopeful for next week 🐭. We are taking all the small wins these days.

BREAKING NEW: Food and Drug Administration to be headed by the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter.

Inspired by all the new folks, I’ll reintroduce myself: I’m Adelaide, a postdoc at Michigan! I’m a fan of #bioinformatics, #genetics, and #genomics and use a variety of computational/experimental approaches to study disease. 🧪1/n

Hi Blue Sky! A reintroduction: I am a neuroscientist interested in neuron-glia interactions, astrocytes, behavior, neurodevelopment, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Currently a postdoc in the Allen lab at Salk 👩🏽‍🔬🧠 Here’s a review I wrote a couple years ago: www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

On the job market this year. Apps have been sent😰. Now we wait.

Randomized exposure to high school biology curriculum shows that moving curriculum beyond simple Mendelian treatments of genetics in ways that highlight the true patterns of human variation (e.g. Lewontin's famous results) & the multi-factorial basis of complex traits can reduce genetic essentialism

The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the Stunning Sights Above and Below the Surface www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/2023...

I’ve used lasers in my research for over 10 years….but this is my first time using them for my art! Stoked to bring some laser cut goodies to SfN this year! 🧪🐡🧠

Midwest foliage

In Autumn, we can often see variation we don't notice in greener times. This allee of willow oak, Quercus phellos, is a row of a single cultivar, clones of each other with identical genetics, growing on the same site. Yet there is great variation in leaf phenology.

The Journal Alcohol is happy to announce a special issue from Co-Editors @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social and @theerincalipari.bsky.social on #sex differences in #alcohol use disorder - Please contact our guest editors for more information

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

It was so great to reconnect with @krissylyon.bsky.social and BRAINS fam🎉

This is your annual reminder that Christopher Columbus was actually a very despicable human being (BY HIS OWN WRITINGS!!) who does not deserve a holiday. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! theoatmeal.com/comics/colum...

The death toll from two major earthquakes in northwestern Afghanistan rose to at least 813 people on Sunday, according to the local authorities, making the dual shocks one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in decades.

What do Ada Limón, the US Poet Laureate, and Otis the Bear have in common? Both are working on projects in our National Parks. Ada, my neighbor, is creating a poetry project, You Are Here, in the Parks. She is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Otis is fattening up in Kootmai NP as part of Fat Bear Week.

Tennessee warbler in Tennessee! Taken at 7 islands birding. (Only my second time seeing one. 1st photo) Stopped by after my seminar visit w/ host Keerthi & many awesome colleagues at the University of Tennessee. Neuroscience 🧠+ birding 🐦makes for an awesome trip!