Stunning and important work. I've seen some versions of it presented over the years, and glad to see this preprint out.

Getting an NIH grant, when money is released, is getting exponentially harder. You basically will need all three reviewers to score your grant as perfect to have a shot at funding.

Very cool @nbellono.bsky.social and team! And the cover!

legend, well deserved

Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress. rdcu.be/fbd4a

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

New #VosshallLab pre-print! Test your sense of smell, coming soon to your clinic or doctor's office www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Not the news I wanted to see as I gear up for two days of study section review starting tomorrow. Sure, just remove the biggest perk of reviewing 10 R01s per study section, multiple times a year. Very disheartening. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Much respect to Scott Waddell for retracting the paper after catching a major mistake which made a subset of the data incorrect. And respect to Gaby Maimon for catching the error in the raw data and informing the authors. This is how science moves forward.

Excited to have @rafaelyuste.bsky.social as our third #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker! Join us for his talk on how neural circuits & dendritic spines work together to "orchestrate" brain activity 🎹✨ Don’t miss the chance to attend — registration closes 4/12. www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

As a child, @phosphotig.bsky.social dreamed of being an astronaut, but her curiosity led her to scientific research. Now, she leads her own lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, & studies oxidative stress to find better therapies for triple-negative breast cancer. #WomensHistoryMonth www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

We often think of survival as an individual act. But when facing hardship together, social groups may function more like a unified system than a collection of separate individuals. We are excited to share our latest work @natneuro.nature.com studying collective social dynamics. See: rdcu.be/e8LrV

Thanks for the recommendation Mayor! I picked up Iftar from this restaurant in Harlem tonight.

Congrats to #FreemanHrabowski Scholar Corina Amor Vegas & #HannaGray Fellow Marissa Scavuzzo, both among this year's MIND Prize winners! Recognizing early-to-mid-career scientists, the award honors those with innovative ideas that advance neurodegeneration research: bit.ly/46VrlMh.

Excited to share this review article I wrote. Neurobiology of Social Touch - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Congrats to David and Patrick. Very well earned. Giants in the field whose work sets the tone for others to follow.

Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi- science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!

Wow recruiting up to 16 people! Take a look if you're on the job market. I was here last fall and was really impressed by the people and environment, and all the new buildings.

idk that seems to be the understatement of the week. this is actually happening, postdocs and RAs are being let go, and projects falter. 'could face funding gaps'? this is actually happening at a large scale. 'Worry' doesnt reflect the existential crisis that many of my colleagues are in.

MacArthur Foundation “genius” @drdamienfair.bsky.social discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain, in this episode of “Synaptic.” By Brady Huggett #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/synaptic/sti...

Honored to receive the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award here at Columbia. This is a testament to the wonderful people I’ve been able to work with and mentor. fas.columbia.edu/news/2026-le...

Very important article for all of us in neuroscience. Thanks @suthanalab.bsky.social. It takes people like yourself who are comfortable breaking down these cross-species barriers to make real progress. I hope people follow you. You have improved my thinking.

We deleted a rhomboid protease… and regeneration went into overdrive. New preprint from the Neal Lab! Rhbdl2 restrains macrophage-driven regeneration in zebrafish. 🐟🔥 #Regeneration #InnateImmunity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow by the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, recognized for pioneering in vivo Perturb-seq—a gene-editing approach combining CRISPR technology and single-cell RNA analysis to uncover how genetic variation shapes brain development.

Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @shawnrhoadsphd.com talks about how he’ll implement hackathons to foster community in his lab, and @zurisullivan.bsky.social shares how weekly discussions about unfamiliar topics can encourage curiosity in a lab. bit.ly/3ZkMQl8 By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence

very darn cool!

Exciting new preprint on oxytocin neural circuits for massage led by Manon Bohic in Vicky Abraira’s lab. Sasha and I were glad to contribute imaging experiments to this collaborative effort, spanning mice to humans. Vicky is a master at bringing people together. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I enjoyed reading these 20 reviews in this special edition on interoception. This exciting field of brain-body signaling has many open questions – indicated by most articles written by PIs of labs opened within the past few years. Nice job authors and editors. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

very cool work @sethblackshaw.bsky.social and team!

Congratulations @flybottleescape.bsky.social and team on this impressive study. Greg, I still remember your job talk and you dreaming of doing things like this. You've made it happen!

Congratulations @zurisullivan.bsky.social!! I'm so proud of you and MIT and Whitehead are so fortunate to have landed you. Looking forward to seeing some amazing science come from your lab.

This really struck me too about this biography. Over and over in his career when people asked Crick what he did for a living he would respond: "I read and I think"

incredible advice @arjunraj.bsky.social!!

🎉 New Publication in @pnas.org Excited to share our lab’s latest research article: PIP₂ Corrects an Endothelial Piezo1 Channelopathy pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... (Open Access)

I read 22 books this year and these were my favorites.

Just finished this thrilling, vulnerable, and inspiring book on friendship, loss, addiction, resilience, and editing memories by Prof Steve Ramirez. Neuroscientists and neuroscience enthusiasts should enjoy this one.

Grateful to @pewtrusts.org for funding our snow fly work, in collaboration with Sebastian Brauchi at Universidad Austral de Chile. We are now looking for post-docs to work on the biophysical mechanisms that allow snow fly neurons and muscles to function below zero. newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators #research 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social @science.org

gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

Congratulations, glad to see this work out.

The 1st NYC Area Pain Research Meetup was a roaring success! What started as an idea from @dr-lupo.bsky.social and myself turned into an incredible gathering with the help of @karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social, and her team at @nyupainresearch.bsky.social. #PainResearch #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

✨ Sponsor Spotlight! ✨ Huge shoutout to Tactorum — leading the way in improving preclinical pain research and pushing the field forward. We’re grateful for your support! 🔬💡

A gathering that truly exceeded our wildest expectations! Excited to see what comes next!