My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳 🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦 🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous ✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

I was very happy that our lab was able to play a small part in this fantastic new paper from @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social , showing that neuroflammation in the pDMS promotes goal directed behaviour, whereas activation on hM4Di in astrocytes has the opposite effect www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder starting in October NIH NOFOs won’t be posted in the Guide for grants and contracts. Tips on how to search for opportunities & set up a subscription for custom searches here: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

Lots of things hitting all at once so feeling a little underwater, and this image felt kind of like a self mirror for #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🔬🧪

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

Part 2: One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer. He now has the only rice farm in Illinois. You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end! A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/illi...

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

BREAKING: A divided Supreme Court ALLOWS the National Institutes of Health to withhold $783 million in funding for research related to "gender ideology," DEI & other disfavored topics with complicated reasoning. Roberts & liberals dissent. #SCOTUS www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The UAW/ACLU/APHA are seeking details on NIH grant applications that were delayed or withdrawn. The previous deadline of August 4 has been extended to August 25. I’ll include screenshots of FAQs in the replies. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

I am SO EXCITED to share this one! The latest paper from the lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. We show microglia prune NAc astrocyte processes during abstinence from cocaine-self ad which drives later drug seeking behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

The University of Arizona is holding an open-rank neuroscience faculty search, multiple tenure-track positions available! Positions will be in the new Department of Translational Neurosciences at the College of Medicine in Phoenix. tinyurl.com/42t8tcey

Very excited to be in this year's class of travel awardees! 🎉 See y'all in the Bahamas 🏖️🐟

New preprint + thread 🧵 #Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect? Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/12

The research world is feeling like a rollercoaster lately, but I'm so excited to have been selected as a Travel Awardee for #acnp2025! Very ready for a beach/science vacation 🏖️👩‍🔬

Ah, ok, more whiplash

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Are you an international (outside the US) scientist looking to attend the annual @acnporg.bsky.social meeting in January?🌎 Then see below for an opportunity to join us for #ACNP2026 in the Bahamas 😎🏖️👇

My CV 😂

New from @dralexharris.bsky.social, Ula Skupio, and myself in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social: a long in the works review trying to untangle what stress is doing in the VTA, and what the piles of confusing data might teach us about what the VTA is doing at all. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural White Americans Too www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

This excerpt from Judge Young is A+

I dreamt about responding to study session reviewers for a grant application I have yet to submit. To say that research funding is at the top of my mind would be an understatement 😭

Email from Brown admin: government stopped payment on existing NIH grants as of April 3; in three months since, the gov't has cumulatively withheld $45 million in NIH grant reimbursements. Whatever injunctions, court orders, etc. may exist, no resumption of payments... and no explanation either.

Hiring: Research Technician and Postdoctoral opportunities! My lab is looking for candidates to join or research in systems neuroscience at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago @uofilsystem.bsky.social. See details below. Please share! lujanlabuic.squarespace.com/joinus

New CNN story about clinical trials damaged by the funding freeze at Northwestern. www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h... 1/n

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Reposting this as a reminder that we have an open Research Assistant position - appreciate reposts and passing along to colleagues who may know people who are interested! Details and link to apply are in the second post!

A good visualization to challenge your terracentricism CC: @marcusrediker.bsky.social

New Wall Street Journal about Northwestern and the funding freeze. [Gift link] www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... 1/n

On 16 June, a federal court in Boston will hear two cases challenging the terminations of hundreds of National Institutes of Health grants.

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Container gardening is my new favorite hobby

New work from my lab looking at how dopamine neurons are affected by stress and males and females! This paper comes to you through three rounds of major building construction, a pandemic, six months that we could not get TTX, some animal facility shenanigans and now is here on your internet!

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

Ok. But I want my programs back and students supported and no more tanking careers just b/c of where someone is. apnews.com/article/trum...

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

Faculty position available in addiction and mental health research in beautiful Montréal 🤓 can-acn.org/assistant-or...

Breaking News: Seeking a way around the courts, President Trump issued an order that he said would stop Harvard’s international students from entering the U.S. https://trib.al/UJlY4WL

And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie.

Please consider helping, it really is up to our community to make sure the next generation of scientist even has a chance at pursuing a research career

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...