Happy holiday season!!! ☃️

New paper from the lab 🚨 Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

This was a super fun meeting surrounded by beautiful mountains (Austrian Alps). Thank you @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @markuswohr.bsky.social et al for the invite!

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

I want to know how long everyone had to stand still waiting for that dog to be in the right position 😆

After an amazing opening plenary on threat and fear at the @canacn.bsky.social meeting got to hang out with some of my favorite amygdala scientists @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @sanghalab.bsky.social & Kerry Ressler

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...

I got an email from my SRO today that we are rescheduling our study section that was canceled last week and are now coordinating schedules. The earliest date allowed for us to meet is March 25.

No surprise but the Behavioral Neuroscience Fellowship Study Section scheduled for this Thurs-Fri has been postponed. What really sucks is that, while diversity apps were initially removed, they were all added back and reviewed. Hopefully, the rumors of the Fed Register block ending soon are true.

I am actively looking for a research scientist position or research administration role within the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area! Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your labs needs :-) Lots of experience with preclinical models, translational neuroscience, and behavioral analyses!

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at [email protected]. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! #Neuroskyence Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats Kevin on the PECASE!!!

#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636

Really nice paper by @ronkeiflin.bsky.social lab on "Partially dissociable roles of the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus in context-dependent hierarchical associations" using male AND female rats. www.cell.com/current-biol...

I’m so honored to receive the ACNP Efron Award. It reflects the hard work of my lab members & collaborators. So grateful for my team & enjoy sciencing with them’

#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

Exciting UNC Job News: We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a new cross-disciplinary team that will advance substance use disorder (SUD) treatment from the bench to the bedside.

Tau filaments are packaged into extracellular vesicles derived from Alzheimer’s patient brains! Mounting evidence that EVs are important for tau transmission and pathology, as we show in our recent preprint. 🧠 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

About a month ago I took a photography workshop at the Wolf Park in Indiana where we went inside the enclosure to take photos. They came right up to us - it was pretty awesome. I took over 800 photos! Here are my 12 faves. 🧵

#Pavlovian2024 will be held from September 26-28 in Indianapolis! If you are interested in organizing a symposium, please complete this form: forms.gle/4QNv1TGBeHuf... Proposals are due 1/26/24 at 5 pm ET. Proposed speakers should be confirmed at time of submission. pavlovian.org

Our lab has 2 #sfn2023 posters featuring Dr. Daniel Gabriel on Sat and Michelle Verbrugge (Privratsky) on Tues. Daniel is presenting male/female data on a new operant safety task. Michelle is presenting female prelimbic longitudinal single cell calcium recordings during our cued safety task.

Beautiful day for a fall hike at Brown County State Park, Indiana. Featuring Juno and Athena.

Celebrating a really nice grant score on our R01 renewal 🥳

It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

"women leave or consider leaving because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance". From, Gender and retention patterns among US faculty: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Save the dates!! Pavlovian meeting in Indy Sept 26-29, 2024. Hope to see you there!! pavlovian.org I will regularly post updates here regarding deadlines for symposia proposals, etc

Last night I had a dream we were hiking up a mountain with camping gear and some ominous storm clouds swooped in so we decided to get off the mountain. The name of the mountain was Manuscript Mountain. What could this possibly mean?! 😂

Lab members Michelle Privratsky, Daniel Gabriel and David Lyvers are all successfully collecting in vivo recordings in behaving male/female rats during our safety task. NEURONS, NEURONS, SWEET, SWEET NEURONS 😍

it's almost a whole week late, but congrats to Michelle Verbrugge for reaching the white coat milestone in our IBMG program through Stark Neuroscience!

proposed pre-screening for grants: if the graphs are soooo tiny that even at 400% zoom I can't read them, then they should automatically be bounced back to applicant without review.

We are hiring a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (level full professor or eligible) In the broad area of brain circuits. Come join me, Matt Hill, Tuan Trang, Roger Thompson, Debbie Kurrasch, Jiami Guo, Grant Gordon and more. medicine.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1326343...

Hi all, I’m an assistant prof at Texas A&M hoping to get science-related content here instead of the formerly bird app. #neuroscience #psychology

FACULTY JOB OPENING - come work at UNC! feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

Hello #neuroscience #neurosykence! I just joined and looking for my neurotweeps 😊.