Latest lab preprint! Astrocytes are a brain cell type vulnerable to the effects of stress and the development of psychiatric-like phenotypes in animals, yet how this translates to humans is unclear... so we dived in: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Important initiative 👇

Ready for some really hot 🔥🥵 data on stress and trauma effects across the life span, join us at the 17:30 symposium @ebbsociety.bsky.social with @biancasilvalab.bsky.social.

The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing! 🔆🪭💪 #EBBS2025

In Bordeaux for the #EBBS meeting. Looking forward to 4 exciting days of science

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest work in "The Neurobiology of Stress" where we highlight the intricate roles of neuropeptides and neurosteroids in psychiatric disorders, & how new technologies can answer old questions about these important signallers. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Be Open about Animal Research Day is starting now! Show your support and share on #BOARD25

🎉It's happening - The Neurobiology of Grief International Network (NOGIN) comes to Europe! We are happy to host NOGIN from Sept 17-19 in Regensburg/DE. Registration is already open, seats are strictly limited to 100 participants. More information here: www.neurobiologyofgrief.org/events

Excellent review by @talliezee.bsky.social and Matthew T. Birnie on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the consequences of early life adversity. Highly recommended! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Read about our recent discoveries on mechanisms that can drive resilience in females. www.psych.mpg.de/2949097/news...

The Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize honors groundbreaking work that bridges molecular & systems neuroscience to advance our understanding of cognition, emotion, memory, & decision-making. 🔬 Celebrate bold science. Nominate now. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch www.sfn.org/careers/awar...

Intergenerational Effects of Stress - A Focus on Learning and Memory doi.org/10.1007/7854...

We're using a lab TikTok account to try and get the message out about why science is important. The latest post from @neurani.bsky.social and @g-lia-lcells.bsky.social with footage from Hunter Sowards lab visit www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82fpRCA/

New paper: We show that especially female mice benefit from moderate early life adversity under stressful situations in adulthood. This pro-resilient effect requires the psychiatric risk factor FKBP51, which turns out to be also required for adaptive stress responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maternal behavior promotes resilience to adolescent stress in mice through a microglia-neuron axis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🧠 New paper alert: Stress alters neuronal balance in the developing brain 🧠🚨 Our latest study in @science.orgAdvances explores how glucocorticoid exposure—a key environmental risk factor—shapes early human brain development using #organoids. @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social @drcricru.bsky.social 🧵👇

Very interesting paper on social behavior analysis 👇🏻

European Neuroscience Societies stand up for science to support our U.S. colleagues 💪🏻

A new initiative to connect #stress and #resilience researchers around the world. A global platform, needed more than ever in these times: gsr-net.org @gsrnet.bsky.social Resources to learn, teach, find labs, methods, conferences, workshops, jobs. Benefits for early-career researchers. 1/3

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than #PubMed because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research. europepmc.org

The systematic undermining of science by the US administration is absolutely horrifying. The global science community needs to stand up for science and support our US colleagues in this time of crisis.

So excited to share the work of the fantastic Katarzyna, 1st 🧪PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @natureneuro.bsky.social 🥂🥳 Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧠Using #organoids, @le-and-er.bsky.social and his colleagues found that #glucocorticoids, often prescribed before premature delivery, alter the neuronal balance in the developing brain. 🥳 Check out his summary below! 🧪 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Really awesome work here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Welcome @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social to Bluesky. Follow for all news around psychiatric disorders, stress and more. 🧠🧪

It turns out that the environment & exposone and how you live as well as #genetics influence health #lifespan and #Aging #genetics @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this cool study by the @markcembrowski.bsky.social lab! They describe a new hippocampus cell population that responds to novel stimuli. But hold on to your seat: they don't if the object is presented again. Even 100 days later! When the behavioral memory has long faded!! 🤯🤯😱🤩

1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share Laila’s @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social first first-author paper & the very first “metabolic” paper from the lab just published @ Hormones & Behavior: "The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Despite advancements in markerless multi-animal pose #tracking tools, overcoming occlusion & crowding remains a challenge. This study develops a 2-step method, vmTracking, that enables accurate pose tracking of multiple animals in crowded environments🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4k4tFWa

Illuminating the impact of stress: in vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There are (pico)tons of estrogen in MALE hippocampus! comparable to female levels. What does the female sex hormone do a in male memory hub? 🧪🧠A >2 yr effort to measure E2 by @neurohoke.bsky.social🙏 🙏 to @kiransoma.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #Neuroskyence #NeurobiologyofStress @thebalelab.bsky.social

Version of Record of our work at @elife.bsky.social has been published! Super proud of this one after all the hard work of the lab seeing it to the end. Make sure to click through figure supplements as there is so much good stuff in there - sex differences, etc. elifesciences.org/articles/99988

I am excited to share our latest paper @Nature where we construct a hi-res spatial map of the human hypothalamus, the brain region central in appetite control. It is a collaboration between @IMS_MRL @Cambridge_Uni & @MPI_Metabolism www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great resource for all stress researchers! Check it out🧪🧠😍

Reminder for Wednesday 👇👇

Yay! PANS is on #bluesky! Welcome to the party. A fabulous community of cool neuroendocrinologists. 😎👏🏻 @infneuroendo.bsky.social @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social @endocrinesociety.bsky.social @paneuroendo.bsky.social

The use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) may be associated with a broad spectrum of health effects, including decreased risk for 42 health outcomes and increased risk of 19 health outcomes, according to a study in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/3ClpHHx #Medsky 🧪

Despite the widespread use of GLP-1 analogs, a significant gap remains: most preclinical and clinical studies fail to consistently include or analyze sex-disaggregated data. This oversight is critical, as women now represent over 75% of young patients using these therapeutics. #Ozempic #Wegovy 🧪

New review from the lab on forgetting, and a brief thread (1/4): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paper of the week: "Dorsal BNST GABA neurons are necessary for chronic unpredictable stress-induced depressive behaviors in adolescent male mice." Activation induces depressive-like behaviours, inhibition alleviates CUS-induced depressive-like behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

The 13th International Meeting of Steroids and the Nervous System is happening! Feb 2026 - There is an open call for symposia. It's one of my fav meetings - the food, wine, cheese, chocolate and science!! Deadline is March 18, 2025.

I’m thrilled to share our preprint presenting MORSE: a new way to simultaneously & quantitatively track patterns of neuromodulators/neuropeptides in vitro & in vivo using spatially multiplexed 3D imaging of 10+ green optical sensors on a microendoscope biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.26.634931v1

Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner: "Revisiting sex and gender in the brain" www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...