Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Building a strong neuroscience community means actively supporting emerging researchers. Tonight’s Early Career Poster Session offers the perfect opportunity to connect, encourage, & invest in the scientists who will carry the field forward. Drop by! 🔗 sfn.org/ecps #neurosky #SfN25

The ASH Lab is headed to rainy San Diego! Drop by to see our work both tonight at the Early Career Poster Session and in Monday's poster sessions. See below for our lineup!

Serotonergic modulation of the BNST–CeA pathway reveals sex differences in fear learning in mice @friedmanlaboratory.bsky.social, @beckyravenelle.bsky.social, @elikhtik.bsky.social, @neshaburghardt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy

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🎉Celebrated @thefortylab.bsky.social’s move to her assistant professor position at University of Michigan I love ❤️ this photo of Amelia with her mentees! She’s had such a huge impact in the lab! We will miss her tons!! But we’re thrilled to see her in her new role 🧠🧬🔬

It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.

Uncle Reggie and Larry Legend are out here trying to help me beat my Pacers sadness today #NBAsky #Cers

My Cers 💔💔💔

This was a really fun project: We blocked obesity in mice by making them do a tiny bit of work for their food. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Excited to share our latest paper led by Kuldeep Shrivastava out now in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

We know ‘conversion therapy’ doesn’t work because many of us have been subjected to it and still bear the consequences of it today. We will not allow another generation of young LGBTQ+ people to bear this burden. Learn more: www.hrc.org/resources/th...

Somehow, in some way, it keeps hurting, more, and more, and more.

The only vibes that matter these days are Ola on zoom call vibes.

WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr. "What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...

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We are (sadly) replacing our wonderful research tech who is headed to grad school in the fall. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, please consider applying! Please RT. @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social #LGBTQInNeuro temple.taleo.net/careersectio...

I don’t know how it’s possible, but my heart keeps breaking. 💔🏳️‍⚧️ Sending love to my trans and queer community. Rest and recover, and then resist. 🚫

Program opportunity Applications for the 2025 STEM Faculty Launch Program are open! I don't have many of followers here (YET!), so please help me spread the word.

Vibes.

A poem for now.

Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Our paper is out in DPP! This is the SECOND paper from my lab, but the first headed entirely by summer students: College senior Benjamin Babaev and High school senior Saachi Goyal (!!). They also created an easy to use site so anyone can use the machine learning resource for staging estrous cycle

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interested in teaching at a nontraditional research intensive (R1) university? Our Psych/Neuro department is hiring a non-tenure track instructional faculty member. Please RT! #neuroskyence #disabilityinSTEM @latinasinneuro.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Had to teach the lab how it’s done today #unoking

Latest from our group in collaboration with Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and other Novo scientists. They developed a GLP-1/Leptin co-agonist that we put through its paces in a number of mouse models to prove that both parts of the molecule matter. More options on the table! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

Did you know you can post to these neurofeeds with just emojis: Neuroskyence: 🧠🟦 or 🧠📈 Compneurosky: 🧠🤖 or 🧠💻 Interoception: 🧠🫀 or 🧠🫁 Neuropsychiatry: 🧠🩺 Save those characters and use an emoji!

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

I enjoyed meeting Ben and he did a great job running the meeting. During breaks we had a chance to chat about various topics. He told me a story about one of the first seminars he gave a Ben. Afterwards, one audience member was overheard saying "His work is so much better than his sister's." 16/n

I had the pleasure of co-authoring with a large number of fellow queer and trans scientists a Perspective piece in PLoS Biology on conducting inclusive faculty searches for queer and trans scientists. The full commentary can be found here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Once more for reviewers in the back: sex differences in behavioral outcomes are very often NOT a product of the estrous cycle and demanding that scientists build estrous metrics into experimental design only shows your own biases about how females (but not males) are primarily hormone-driven.

A personally postive outcome from leading the Power Hour at #HypothalamusGRC this past summer was learning that some journals have begun facilitating author name changes after publication, which has been a pain point for this 🏳️‍⚧️ neuroscientist 👏👏👏 support.nature.com/en/support/s...

You won’t want to miss this amazing workshop for first-time reviewers on How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews, with @reviewerzero.bsky.social on December 4th! Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Blackademics 🧪

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...

Late to the game but I'm here! And no longer there, perhaps more importantly.