We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social www.libd.org/careers/ Links to individual positions in the thread below.

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Roger Davis, PhD, FRS, chair and professor of molecular medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, has received the 2026 Bert & Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from ASBMB for his outstanding accomplishments in basic biomedical research: direc.to/nMLY #ASBMB26 @asbmb.bsky.social

A long history of assertive press conference proclamations with unfounded recommendations

Big announcement : the upcoming 2026 Neurobiology of Drug Addiction GRC will be taking place May 3-8, 2026, at the Rey Don Jaime Grand Hotel, Barcelona, Spain. Registration is now open, so apply today! Kudos to Diana Martinez and Nii Addy for concocting the program 🙏 www.grc.org/neurobiology...

The new Apple Watch high blood pressure detection feature only detected 41% of people who have hypertension in their prospective trial. apple.com/health/pdf/H...

*NEW paper alert* In a recent study from our former postdoc Shreya Chowdhury and in collaboration with Kate Fitzgerald, we identified PPT1 as a negative regulator of STING in tumor cells whose targeting could reactivate T cell immunity in ovarian and prostate cancers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Many Boston-area universities earned a failing grade in an evaluation of free speech on their campuses, according to a report from a free speech advocacy group.

PJ struggles a bit with perfectionism which she comes by honestly, but we're trying to give her tools as early as we can. I got her this book to help a bit. Has anyone else read this to your munchkin?

Gene-editing tools transform cells into record-keepers, capturing hidden timelines of health and disease go.nature.com/4pBRRlh

Genetic architecture of plasma metabolome in 254,825 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Hurry! The deadline is fast approaching! ACNP is accepting applications for new Associate Member, Member, and promotion to Fellow! The deadline: September 25th. Apply today! #ACNP Click tinyurl.com/ypa4mund#ACNPfor more information.

This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 from Drs. Arulpragasam & Philips highlights how acoustic modeling is transforming low-intensity focused ultrasound; making noninvasive neuromodulation more precise than ever - simulation meets therapy

NIH issued 2,439 notices of award after 9/13/2025. Including 128 new R01. Sixteen new R01 from NIAAA (38 total Type 1 from NIAAA).

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year) (Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

Thanks go out to MDI Bio Lab Digital Image Analyst @hsomers.bsky.social for this #microscopymonday view of an adult #zebrafish (brain vasculature) from the MesoSPIM. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Newest paper from the lab, looking at how somatosensory neuron development and function is altered in a Pten haploinsufficient model of ASD. Work was all done by @alefdzphd.bsky.social, who just started an independent position at UTRGV. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Some good news, which seems rare lately: I was promoted to Associate Professor!

🧠 Science, Simplified Yi Juin Liew, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the @gwcarter.bsky.social Lab at JAX, is examining how genetic differences shape brain aging — research that could lay the groundwork for personalized strategies to prevent and treat age-related brain disorders. #NPAW2025

Stephen A. Smith is pushing $40M a year in earnings, sources tell The Athletic. And ultimately, he wants as big a voice in politics as he has in sports. On Wednesday, Smith will formally launch his bid as a political pundit, if not a Presidential candidate. 🔗: http://dlvr.it/TN7BNV

One of my favorite events that we @uabneuro.bsky.social host each year, and excited to have @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social here for the keynote!

Alcohol consumption that results in high blood levels of ethanol activates a specific ensemble of GABAergic neurons in the medial orbitofrontal cortex with long-range projections This is a truly impressive and comprehensive work 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

UMass Chan Medical School held a ribbon cutting on Friday to celebrate the opening of its Wellness Farm, a 40-foot hydroponic farm that can produce up to three tons of produce each year: direc.to/ns3_ @masseea.bsky.social @senrobynkennedy.bsky.social @repmcgovern.bsky.social @uofmass.bsky.social

in this recent 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 Drs. Beehner & Flagel call for more experimental & mechanistic field research to provide causal insights & complement lab studies, thereby ⬆️ the translational value of behavioral neuroscience research 🐭🐵🧒

Introduction of an artificial cocaine-activated brain negative feedback loop that limits cocaine use 🤩 Rats are known to titrate their cocaine use based on the dose which suggests a negative feedback regulation process. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: ABCA7 variants impact phosphatidylcholine and mitochondria in neurons go.nature.com/45ZtJBu

Super excited to share this work & accompanying data resources in collab with @martinowk.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @alexisbattle.bsky.social! Congrats to all coauthors and big shout out to @svitlana-bach.bsky.social @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social for leading this NIDA-funded project.

Oprm1-rich D1 islands in the human nucleus accumbens! Looks like a very similar spatial distribution to what is seen in the rodent brain, on the NAc medial and lateral borders. Very curious to know what roles these cells might play in opioid reward and withdrawal!

I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f... #stanford #newPI #neuroscience

Really proud of huge collaborative efforts from several teams in Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social w/ labs of @stephaniehicks.bsky.social and @alexisbattle.bsky.social to provide this resource on cell types and spatial organization in nucleus accumbens of human 🧠

Excited to be co-chairing this @acnporg.bsky.social panel with chair @kr-maynard.bsky.social on opioid-responsive subpopulations in brain reward circuits. Special thanks to @rphillips3.bsky.social for helping to assemble the panel!

Congratulations to Liam Hendriks, our 2025 Roberto Clemente Award nominee! Vote for Liam: mlb.com/clemente21

“This was unlike anything we’d ever felt before.” Pediatric cancer researcher Rachael Sirianni, PhD, whose research has stalled due to the slowdown in NIH funding, spoke to The New York Times Magazine: direc.to/nsXD Chancellor Michael F. Collins is also quoted. @docsirianni.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new paper @cp-cell.bsky.social: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Faust et al., Cell 2025

I want to start a new global movement: Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

Hearing rumor of a 2/3rds reduction in admissions to a graduate program. “The rest are made up by direct admits.” This is an inevitable response to financial pressures caused by unionized salary gains, NIH chaos and overall funding uncertainty.

Lab members watching the PI give a talk on zoom

Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

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The NIH has awarded MDI Bio Lab's Maine #INBRE collaborator @umaine.bsky.social a competitive renewal of its T32 predoctoral training grant, expanding support for doctoral students in biomedical science and engineering! Congratulations! 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬 #standwithscience #researchmatters

In a packed retreat of anatomy/neurobiology an neurobiology/ behavior departnents, marcelo wood providing current state of uci neuroscience in 2025 USA 🧪🧠 @svmahler.bsky.social @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Accepted manuscript version of this paper up on J.Neuro. @sfnjournals.bsky.social . Beautiful work led by @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social characterizing various LS projection populations and their inputs. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

1,333 Notices issued by the NIH in the past week. Including 116 new R01 projects. reporter.nih.gov/search/6lVq4...

Guangping Gao, PhD, produces viral vector used to deliver prophylactic therapy for HIV: direc.to/nteq The findings, published in @nature.com, point to potential new approaches to protect infants from HIV transmission. UMass Chan has a grant to plan a clinical trial. #HIV #AAV #GeneTherapy

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