Dr. Camilla Nord of Cambridge is opening things up with "Energy Allostasis: Uncovering the hidden link betweemln metabolic and mental health" #SSIB2026
Andrew Hardaway
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Nerd, Husband, Dad, and Neuroscientist in Alabama. Flawed. Occasionally opines on football, cats, chickens, and beer. He/him "Forth Eorlingas!" https://hardawaylab.org/
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
Today in ThermoFisher is ripping you off: Parkell C&B Metabond kit TF price: $921.49 Parkell price: $617.70 Marking it up just because they can.
Shocker all that talk about "servant leadership" last summer takes a back seat to running your mouth about your so-called "grievances" (lying to his Packer teammates about being vaccinated). Aaron Rodgers is a petty piece of shit. Tony Fauci is worth ten of him.
And a second new preprint from Lerner Lab on the same day! 👀 🎉 Led by graduate student Nkatha Mwenda! “Dopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking” #neuroskyence🧪
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d agoDopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.01.742224v1
Graphpad Prism still lets you run a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test on a freq distribution, but they no longer recommend it. They now recommend the Anderson-Darling test. Which team are you and why? Wrong answers only. #neuroskyence #electrophysiology
One more: In private, most scientists in America have their hair on fire. But too many scientific and university leaders are unwilling to criticize the Trump administration. That leads to this: to RFK claiming a scientific mantle with little pushback. Scientists must enter the arena.
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d agoHe’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist
The final version of our amygdala dopamine paper is out! BLA dopamine dynamically tracks emotional salience and not value or reward prediction error. Congrats to Dr. Megan Brickner!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basolateral amygdala dopamine transmits emotional salience - Nature Communications
The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...
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A little bit of shameless self promotion. A write-up of our recent CeA GLP-1 paper: www.uab.edu/medicine/new...
Hardaway study sheds light on how the brain responds to GLP-1 drugs | Heersink School of Medicine News
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Spiderman: Brand New Day was excellent. Brand New Day > No Way Home > Homecoming > Far from Home
The White House has finalized changes to F, J & I student visa terms. Beginning Sept 15 2026, visas will generally be limited to four years, replacing the current Duration of Status policy. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-house-finalizes-changes-to-international-student-visa-terms/
The ability of music to emotionally connect people has rarely felt so palpable than seeing, singing, and hearing the loving memorials of Glen Hansard after his passing.
Our new preprint from @daylab.bsky.social characterizes Chst9-MSNs, a specialized NAc population with high Oprm1 expression and opioid sensitivity that is required for fentanyl reward learning. Excited to share this work! 🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.
It's amazing how quickly we've forgotten how shit-ourselves scared we all were in 2020. Covid-19 was new. We had no firm idea how bad it could get, how it spread, or how to treat for it. Now, these bastards on the right act like the whole thing was just a minor inconvenience blown out of proportion.
YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.
Alabama voters, please tell me we can resist the reflexive votes for Repuglicans that would give us a governor like Tuberville. 🙄 Doug Jones calls for affordability measures, government reforms in policy speech alabamareflector.com/2026/07/27/d... #Alabama #elections
Doug Jones calls for affordability measures, government reforms in policy speech | Alabama Reflector
The Democratic gubernatorial nominee laid out an ambitious agenda in a Birmingham speech focused on healthcare, affordability and government reform.
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New most annoying airplane behavior just dropped.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
Oh, to be a young polar bear in a cold plunge pool on a warm summer day, playing with my enrichment items. This is Kallik at the Oregon Zoo, a 3 yr old sub-adult male. The name means "lightning bolt" in Iñupiaq. (📷: Oregon Zoo via YT)
One way to address this would be for a new administration to restore the canceled grant PLUS interest.
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Michael Bazaco@mcbazacophd.bsky.social · last wk.post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. Here’s four:
The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy. Pathetic.
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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