Check out our latest work on the structure and function of locus coeruleus (LC)! My own contribution to this project was investigating the anatomical projections of individually reconstructed LC neurons from our ExA-SPIM pipeline (see: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...). A few more notes:

All the more reason to be excited by the latest generation of glutamate indicators: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Retinal waves are known to be important for proper wiring at the retina's downstream targets: but their role in the development of microcircuits -within the retina itself- is less understood. Some nice work on this topic by @miah-pitcher.bsky.social!

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

We've got a great lineup of speakers for our Thalamocortical Interactions GRS! Only a few spots remaining for poster presenters - apply soon!

What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

Extremely proud to share our publication on S-cone circuitry in the ground squirrel, newly available this week in PNAS. We've been staring at these reconstructions for a long time, and I'm excited for others to see the results. 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Come check out my poster this morning (FF9) to learn about thalamic innervation of frontal cortex! We've got a lot of cool data for ya #sfn2025 #sfn25

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

10 days left to be considered for a speaking slot at the Thalamocortical Interactions GRS! If you're a trainee at the NIH and unable to submit an application due to furlough, shoot me a DM and we'll figure something out.

Can’t always trust everyone. Drop your ballot in an official drop box, not in someone’s hands. To find your nearest drop box, visit: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

Fresh off the press! @selinsch.bsky.social discovered some really cool features of mouse frontal cortex pyramidal cells that co-vary with dopamine receptor expression. D3R+ cells appear very responsive to AP bursts, producing Ca transients across dendritic arbors. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH, Teresa!!!

To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/3Wx5nt3

A huge congrats to Seattle scientist Mary E. Brunkow for winning the Nobel Prize in medicine! This is exactly the kind of groundbreaking work that we should be leading on — and it’s exactly why I’ll continue to fight Trump’s cuts to the NIH and research. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Check out our resource for navigating and analyzing spatial transcriptomics data in the thalamus, which we fondly call "the THALMANAC" (𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐋amus 𝐌ERFISH 𝐀𝐍alysis and 𝐀𝐂cess), now live on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you're a trainee studying the thalamus, consider checking out our GRS on Thalamocortical Networks in Sensation, Behavior, and Disease: www.grc.org/thalamocorti.... Apply by Nov 16th to be considered for a talk!

Very few PhD students finish within 4 years. But international students will need to do that if US proposed visa rules change go through. Sound reasonable to you? Fed register is accepting comments for next month. Details at the link & comment button www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.

A great environment!

6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada. First 6..... 6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute. lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA see thread for the next 6.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

CCTV comes to Seattle.

This is amazing. The momentum to fix the 8 is UNPRECEDENTED!

Really important article in the NY Times today about cuts to NIH diversity grants, featuring a profile of Ashley Albright @aralbright.bsky.social who is an amazing and super inspiring cell biology postdoc whose K99 was prematurely terminated.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

It's been a fixture of downtown for 20 years. It’s the second big Berkeley bookstore closure this year.

Part 2 - Slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF (and NOAA, DOE, EPA and ...) undermines key employers in communities all across the US that form hubs of research and technology development. For NIH alone, we estimate $46B in economic loss and 202K lost jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined. That alone makes him a powerful senator.

ME: two of my most hated enemies are going to drag each other down YOU: right, the Trump-Musk thing ME: the what

why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...

On the NSF's 75th: “‘NSF investments have driven groundbreaking innovations, from the internet and LASIK eye surgery to the first image of a black hole... The foundation has also played a key role in the work of 268 Nobel Prize laureates, helping to shape many of their landmark achievements.’”

Check out some of our locus coeruleus reconstructions - the average fully reconstructed LC neuron is about 30 cm in length (in a mouse brain that spans ~1.3 cm front to back)

Jeopardy! is great, but my real passion… Seattle-area local transit.

My group is hiring at Oregon Health & Science University. Come work with us in beautiful Portland to study interoception and physiology. Check out the lab view! 🌲👩‍🔬 Research Assistant 2: externalcareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/32602/r... Postdoc applicants: please email me your CV and 3-4 references.

The Seahawks just ruined my day

That’s special! Check out that photo of four generations of scientists coming together for a panel discussion: Thorsten trained Carla, who trained Marla, who trained Anna.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Washington parents are calling my office, worried that school lunch programs will be frozen and that their kids will come home hungry tomorrow. That’s President Trump’s doing. Thanks to him, families are scared their children won’t have lunch. Reverse the funding freeze.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

Last night's pause on grant funding as of 5 pm today hurts the economy in all 50 states, throwing researchers studying diseases into chaos. Look up your state: unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... Read the memo here: "not limited to" doing heavy lifting: washingtonpost.com/documents/de...

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Will be personally undertaking a replication study

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social