www.instagram.com/reel/Dajj0qC... the Alward lab is ready for #SBN2026! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social

Good morning, #SBN2026! The cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni (researchers) are taking over Niagara Falls! Three trainees from the Alward lab are presenting at today’s poster session. See flier below. Come by P9 (Lauren), P26 (Maddy), and P41 (Lexi) to see what we’ve been up to! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social

We just published a review in Current Opinion in Neurobiology on the utility of using cichlids for understanding social dysfunction: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... @sbn-bsky.bsky.social. Take a look!

We still have more amazing researchers in our society to celebrate! 🥳 Let's congratulate our Frank A. Beach Early Career Award winners! Hear more about their research on July 11 at #SBN2026 Dr Alward: 11:00 - 11:45 AM 🐠 🧠 Dr. Casto: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM 🧑 🧠

Excited to share our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... @sbn-bsky.bsky.social. We generated a spatially resolved single-cell atlas of the hypothalamus in the cichlid A. burtoni, revealing how social status, sex, and reproductive state shape cell-type-specific gene expression. 1/2

Our analysis found that the White House's proposed OMB regulations would threaten nearly 5,000 clinical trials. This includes more than 1,000 cancer treatment studies. Join the fight by taking action against the OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio! #standupforscience #vought #omb

Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

Hello! The Alward lab will be well represented at #SBN2026 @sbn-bsky.bsky.social in Niagara Falls! Beau Alward is giving a Beach Award talk and three trainees are presenting posters. Most posts to come. Also, we’re looking to take a PhD student next cycle! If attending the meeting reach out!

do research on hormones and the brain/ behavior? Wanna present your work at a conference of other researchers like you in Niagara Falls and get an award for it? Then apply for an SBN Elsevier Award! sbn.org/awards/elsev... Take a look to see if this award is right for you! Deadline 4/24. Pls share!

Check out Lauren Saenz’s poster on somatostatin and dominance at #sfn #sfn2025 today (Wednesday, 11/19). 8am-12pm, Poster Y4, “Investigating the role of somatostatin in regulating social dominance in a cichlid”. Spoiler alert: she used crispr to make a new mutant! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social @sfn.org

We are looking for a new postdoc to join our team! Details below. Please reach out if interested. share widely—Thanks!

New LA Times story about Jewish Faculty at UCLA standing up www.latimes.com/california/s... 1/3

Here’s @kareemabduljabaar.bsky.social talking about the importance of UCLA research to human health. Groundbreaking research at UCLA leads to new discoveries and saves lives. Go Bruins! #researchpowersprogress www.threads.com/@ucla/post/D...

*Please read and share!* My NIH funds at UCLA were suspended last week. It's hard to find the words to describe the impact of these grant suspensions. I have felt speechless and heartbroken that people in my lab, my friends, colleagues, researchers, trainees, and undergrads 1/9

So a $1 billion ransom now? It’s to scare us into submitting; To lose hope. Still not gonna stop us: Even in the face of this my lab remains committed to doing meaningful, impactful science, now more than ever. We won’t stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

We’re looking to hire a research tech. Come join our team to sink your teeth into experiments on the hormonal and cellular basis of social behavior. Strong candidates should be proficient in immunohistochemostry/fluorescence, in situ hybridization/HCR/RNAscope, and microscopy. 1/2

Please tell everyone you know that 60 minutes is covering the NIH tonight youtu.be/noyS-L5gK7k?...

Thank you to the Allard lab on summarizing the importance of NIH and why this administration’s recent cuts hurt not only biomedical reseadch, but also jobs and the potential for developing cures for human diseases.

Lillian Jackson from our lab published two papers recently on sex differences in the molecular and neural basis of aggression in cichlids. Below are links to both papers with short summaries. 1/5

Add this to your #SICB2025 itinerary!

Interested in pursuing a PhD with a focus on neuroendocrinology? Apply to the UCLA Graduate Program in Bioscience! bioscience.ucla.edu! @sbn-bsky.bsky.social 1/3 (this originally posted this thread on twitter but we are no longer active there)

First post from the lab! Click on the link below for our paper on androgen receptor expression in GnRH neurons published in an issue of Journal of Neuroendocrinology, where we got the cover! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652826...