Same work accepted at Nature Comms but rejected at Cosyne in the same week! Science is so capricious!

🧠🐭💊 Check out our work on the role of Central Amygdala cell-types in opioid withdrawal ... Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social Open-access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever wondered how many sperm are typically incubated with one egg during IVF? Find out here! 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3-T9eSK8wc&lc=UgxYzaI9HPaluBZ1P0N4AaABAg

Now officially: Dr Rogers🎓✨ Unofficially: still the same Sophie.. with more letters + even more legend 🧠🍄💥 You crushed your thesis defense with equal parts science and soul. From psilocybin/psychedelics to pain + aversive processing in cortex you brought rigor, clarity and creative Congrats 🍾

If the test is normal but the patient is still suffering, the work isn’t done.

“It’s giving mechanistic insight into how estrogen modulates reinforcement learning—all the way down to the molecular mechanism,” says Ilana Witten. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

Great story by @carlzimmer.com in @nytimes.com that nicely conveys the excitement for the emerging field of interoception. @dulaclab.bsky.social and others are featured, including my tattoo 😳! Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...

A very thought provoking and exciting piece on interoception!!

Did you know that puppies from the same litter can have different dads?! Find out more on YouTube! 👉 youtube.com/shorts/dte8_...

short and sweet new preprint from the lab showing that the vaginal microbiome is a key driver of endometriosis pain! 🦠🩸 more details coming soon but very excited to be working on this criminally understudied chronic pain condition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🩹The cut is in your skin. ❤️‍🩹But the ache—that lives in your story. 🧠The brain decides when you hurt—and when you don’t. 💢It can turn agony into silence, or invent pain where no wound exists. 📖Either way… Pain begins as biology, and ends as meaning.

happy belated halloween from bioZone! have you watched our final short from this year's spooky series yet? Check it out here!! 🪳💋😘🩸 --> youtube.com/shorts/dNPFW...

It’s that time of the year! Spooky science szn 👻

spooky science : deadly rabbit disease #shorts 🐇🩸 youtube.com/shorts/ib4Nk...

Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults, and recent research suggests a microbe may be partially to blame 🦠 youtube.com/shorts/YDmRu...

bioZone isn't just the name of your favorite educational youTube channel, its also an important strategy for geologists watch on YouTube to support us 👇 youtube.com/shorts/lBfg6...

Modeling Withdrawal States in Opioid-Dependent Mice with Machine Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667254v1

Science is by the people and for the people—yet so many don’t know they can access research papers for free! Help spread the word beyond the science world 🌍📚

This is an absolute masterpiece and a must read if you care at all about amygdala function bsky.app/profile/flyb...

Hot off the press 🔥 Big congrats to @jesswoj.bsky.social on her newly published paper — and for landing the cover ✨!! So proud to have been part of this ground breaking science!!

Victoria Abraira reflects on a paper from Charles Zuker’s lab that made her wonder which aspects of somatosensory circuits are hardwired, which are plastic and how we can change them, in our latest “This paper changed my life.” #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Here's our June progress!

What a great all in one resource for all pain related research (clinical, translational, and basic)!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Check out our new, interactive website for preclinical and clinical pain researchers! Webinars, podcasts, interviews, job listings, meeting announcements, funding opportunities, Papers of the Week and more! painresearchforum.org

Are you excited to see our new, user-friendly PRF site? We are unveiling our new website TOMORROW where you can leave comments on any PRF content, including #news, #meetings, and #PapersoftheWeek!

Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon? Dragalge is based on the Leafy seadragon ❗ watch on YouTube to support us youtube.com/shorts/1ewUI... Thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script Follow Kelly @kellyrabbit.bsky.social or on Ig @ russokm1105

Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick @kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of Pokémon videos. Stay tuned for the next episode coming this Sunday! Any guesses for our next featured Pokémon?

Pokémon’s in real life?! Check out video below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon? Shout out to Fareeda for narrating her first bioZone video! And thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script. Follow Kelly on ig @ russokm1105 or on bluesky @kellyrabbit.bsky.social

Did you know many Pokémon are inspired by real animals? We’ve collaborated with ecologist Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick @kellyrabbit.bsky.social to bring you a series of Pokémon videos. Stay tuned for the next episode coming this Sunday! Any guesses for our next featured Pokémon?

Huge congrats to Dr. Lisa Wooldridge! She crushed her PhD defense on central amygdala circuits in opioid dependence Incredible science, relentless rigor, and a fearless approach to tough questions So proud to be part of your journey, Lisa! 🧠🔥🎓🍾

Did you know that there are real animal versions of Pokemon? The Nincada evolutionary line is inspired by cicadas ‼️ Thanks to Dr. Kelly Russo-Petrick for guest writing this script. Follow Kelly on Instagram @russokm1105 or on Bluesky @kellyrabbit.bsky.social

a 800-day weekend could fix me

I recently found these cool mushrooms in my backyard that looked a lot like zombie fingers 🍄 watch on YouTube to support us 👇 youtube.com/shorts/rRF5J...

🧠🐁 Interested in a quick / reliable / reproducible tool to quantify your fluoresently-tagged axons ? Check out AxoDen, a no-coding-needed web app and downloadable GUI ... Designed + developed entriely by the amazing Raquel Adaia Sandoval Ortega www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...

🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @natneuro.nature.com Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…

Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.

On behalf of Nicole Carr: new preprint from the Chand/Moore labs! High-resolution laminar recordings reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It paralyzes your body, locks your jaw, and can stop your breathing — all from a scratch. Meet the killer protein lurking in the soil 🦠💀 Check out my latest video ⬇️

was pleasantly surprised to find out a video we posted on tiktok went viral!! (185,000 views is considered viral for us 😌) If you haven't seen it yet- check out our video on monster tumors youtube: youtube.com/shorts/4V0Gu... tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@thebiozone/...

Coining the term “seminars tour” is so iconic ✨

🧠💰K99/R00 NoA day! Huge congrats to Dr Blake Kimmey … #GameOn 🔥🍾🙌🏼 Gonna brag on this guy and say he’s on job market this year and he can bring this kinda cutting-edge placebo / pain / addiction systems-circuit neuro research to your department: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39803541/

A new medical illustration I made per request. I wish I could just do those all day. #painscience #neuroskyence #physio 🛟🧪

Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig

A trip to CMU/Pitt with an hour to explore the Cathedral of Learning. Inside are various nation-themed rooms. A dedication to learning and different viewpoints.

CONGRATS to Dr. Melissa Cadena on a brilliant & inspiring PhD defense!! 🤩 Melissa has been the director of #CLGSMI for 3 years. Thank you for your immeasurable impact on our CLGSMI scholars, CL community, & the next generation of science. 🥲💕 (Congrats also to her dog Churro!!)

An example of what we in the NIH Intramural program can accomplish. Excited to share our latest paper in close collaboration with Nick Ryba's group. We examined how inflammation transforms representation in somatosensory neurons to cause pain. Lots of surprises here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These anglerfish couples take “clingy” to a whole new level watch on YouTube to support us 👇 youtube.com/shorts/Oawsk...

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