‘Zootopia 2’ Lands Disney’s Highest Rotten Tomatoes Score Since ‘Encanto’

New computational paper from the lab! Thanks to the reviewers for helping us improve this paper from the preprint version and Nucleic Acids Research for a smooth publication process.

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Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I guess this is why my head thinks "over 30,000" is supposed to be the SFN meeting attendance. (2006 was hastily moved from NOLA to Atlanta after Hurricane Katrina, altering attendance.)

"That would coincide with a drop in abstract submissions. SfN received half as many submissions during its initial call this year as it has in recent years" #sfn25

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

My dissertation paper finally dropped in Nature Communications! Overall, the conclusion is that psilocybin may be useful in reducing drug craving that often precipitates relapse through mechanisms related to 5-HT2A activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine. time.com/7333975/dei-... This presents the case in the context of lupus.

From Gavin Newsom:

Please join us in congratulating the selected mentors and mentees for the 2026 Near-Peer Mentorship Program! More info: tinyurl.com/2v2phzza

Notice of early expiration of NIH SBIR/STTR funding announcements. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... If anyone knows the backstory, please share.

Our microbial-opsin work (and most of the field ) is basic science, but it was intriguing to review clinical progress–direct & indirect–with a wonderful team of co-authors t.co/JrJen2WGBV & adapt a fig. of PMID:28912215 (2017) with my long-time collaborator Peter Hegemann (pic: a memory from 2017).

Chief Editor Shari Wiseman @shariwiseman.bsky.social will be at the @springernature.com booth (#2220, look for the picture of a woman rock-climbing) from 2-4 today and from 10-12 tomorrow. Come stop by! #SfN2025

Come do a joint postdoc with me and @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social, splitting your time between Princeton and Columbia. Come design new activity-dependent labeling enzymes and transcriptional reporters optimized for application in the peripheral nervous system. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4

Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth

We're < 2 months away from #ACNP2026, so it's time to start the countdown @npp-journal.bsky.social journal style: by highlighting the fantastic @acnporg.bsky.social Travel Awardees who will be attending 🤩

Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦‍♀️ You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches #sfn2025

At #SFN2025 and interersted in the 🔵? Check out posters from Leslie Hassanein (D52; neuromelanin in the mouse locus coeruleus) and Maggie Tish (C59; human 3D locus coeruleus organoids) today from 1:00-5:00!

The Day Lab will be representing our work at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference (@sfn.org) in San Diego this week in two sessions - stop by to see updates on a lot of really cool science! #SfN2025 #Neuroscience

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Cal not winning MVP is so absurd #mariners

When NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said “dissent is productive”, I’m pretty sure he meant “MY dissent is productive. It got me to the top of NIH, wheeeee! But YOUR dissent won’t be tolerated”.

RTI @UMassChan scientists have received a $6M+ grant to evaluate gene editing technologies for treating frontotemporal dementia: direc.to/nE19 #FTD #RNATx @eriksontheimer.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social @jwattsgroup.bsky.social

Miller Lab at #SFN2025. Come by and say hi ya. #Neuroscience

Selection and transmission of the gut #microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shift mammalian behaviour (in mice) @microbiome.bsky.social

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

Pack rain gear if you are going to #SfN2025

Up to 323 cancelled CSR study sections. That's more than the 204 sections cancelled earlier this year. Rescheduling is going to be a hot mess with NIH staff reductions and study section members heading into finals and holidays that limit availability. 🧪

Excellent commentary on transgenerational inheritance and the importance of rigor and reproducibility. Subtitled: when a colleague drags and tries to throw you under the bus because they couldn't follow protocols @ctmurphy1.bsky.social

Hi All @sfn.org attendees #SfN2025! Please come see what's happening in the lab & support some excellent researchers (whilst getting out of the rain!). With topics ranging from #HIV, #psychedelics, #fiberphotometry, #social rewards, #risky decision making, to #opioid withdrawal cog deficits!

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...

More new NIH institute and center director positions posted with a closing date of 11/26/25. hr.nih.gov/careers/open... These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ... 1/3

After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...

A four-year, $2 million CDC award will support a UMass Chan study looking at the effectiveness of a digital lifestyle change intervention for patients using GLP-1 therapies to manage obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular disease: direc.to/nBJK #GLP1 #LifestyleHealth @prcumasschan.bsky.social

How far would you go for a billion dollars? Watch the Final Trailer for The #RunningManMovie and go see it only in theatres this FRIDAY! See it large and loud! Get tickets now: www.runningmanmovie.com

Come join us @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social as Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 in Cancer Biotherapeutics: uwo.ca/facultyrelat... DM me with questions. As a CRC 2 recruit to ACB, I highly recommend it!

@sfn.org and neuro peeps! For 10+ years, you have honored us w/your attending our Psychopharmacology Social. #SfN2025 will be the last time I and @jaredwyoung.bsky.social will host this event (Tues, Nov 18, 7-9 pm, Marriott Marquis-Grand Ballroom Salon 5). Drink, groove and mingle one last time-AND-

The biggest democracy news of the day and its only 11am! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

1/ You run ChIP-seq to find where your transcription factor binds. You run RNA-seq to see which genes change expression. Now, you ask a "simple" question, what are the "direct targets"?

Looks like a chair position in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has opened up. Any peeps looking to relocate to Pittsburgh?

AAVs are crucial vectors for delivering biosensors into neurons! Using AAV delivery, we perform two-color imaging of calcium and potassium transients in neurons. These AAVs are now available from @braincase.bsky.social www.ebraincase.com/news/new-pro...

Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators" Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024? (Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Trump officials and betting markets are warning of an extended shutdown debacle that stretches into mid-November or longer—here’s how to protect your trip from a nightmare scenario.

Trump urges Republicans to kill filibuster, warning they'll lose if they don't

Reminder, do not only work on #NIHGrant study section reviews with the online forms. Keep a document with your critiques. Cancelled meetings are removed from IAR view and potentially are unrecoverably scrubbed.