I love this dog. Lots going on with our move to 🇨🇦 but sitting on a beautiful balcony with this pup is a still and lovely start to the day
Ariel Levine
@ariellevine.bsky.social
Spinal cord and motor control scientist Levine-lab.org
Exciting day! Step 1 of my move to 🇨🇦 is complete 🥳. And I have a whole new level of respect and admiration for science immigrants everywhere
Hi All! Rebekah Evans @cellularscale.bsky.social, Kim Dougherty, and I are delighted to invite you to the 19th Annual Pre-SfN Motor Symposium, to be held Friday, November 13 at Georgetown University! 1/n
Hi All! Rebekah Evans @cellularscale.bsky.social, Kim Dougherty, and I are delighted to invite you to the 19th Annual Pre-SfN Motor Symposium, to be held Friday, November 13 at Georgetown University! 1/n
If I were doing a postdoc now, I would *highly* consider this. The project, mentor, and environment are all fantastic!
Andrew Pruszynski@andpru.bsky.social · last wk.We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Congratulations, @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social, on winning the @socdevbio.bsky.social #2026SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award! Learn more about Jeff's science and career in his @dev-journal.bsky.social interview with @saanjbati.bsky.social.
Transitions in development – an interview with Jeffrey Farrell
Jeffrey Farrell is an Earl Stadtman Investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), USA, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and ...
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Official job posting coming when I get back from the cottage but if you're interested in a post-doc doing multi-area high-density electrophysiology in the cortico-thalamic circuit during reaching, feel free to reach out!
Andrew Pruszynski@andpru.bsky.social · 2w agoVery happy to receive a CIHR Project Grant to continue our work on how sensory signals are organized in the thalamo-cortical motor circuit.
Our paper made the cover of J Neuroscience! Great collaborative effort with @ottawahospital.on.ca, @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social, & @ariellevine.bsky.social, led by @carleton.ca grad students Katie Griffiths and Jennifer Armstrong. Proud PI moment. 😊 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...
Expression and Localization of NMDA Receptor GluN2 Subunits in Dorsal Horn Pain Circuits across Sex, Species, and Late Postnatal Development
Despite being essential mediators of pain processing, the molecular identity of N -methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) subtypes in nociceptive dorsal horn circuits is poorly understood, especially bet...
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Thrilled to share the latest pre-print from the lab – TLDR: we identified the (near) full ascending spinal projection neuron repertoire that gives rise to central itch/touch/pain/temperature sensation as well as sex specific neuron types in the mouse spinal cord. Thread below (1/n):
Deep Cellular and Spatial Profiling of the Mouse Spinal Cord Reveals Sex-Specific Neuron Types and the Ascending Projection Neuron Repertoire
The spinal cord gives rise to central somatosensation and orchestrates autonomic and motor control. How its cellular diversity achieves functions across sex, longitudinal axis and links the spinal cor...
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The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.
The Unitary Executive Takes Over New Territory
The Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.
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The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒 www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab
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Come work with us! We're looking for a new lab manager to help us develop new motion capture methods, new biosensors, and to hopefully learn something cool about the brain. Bonus: you get to do all this in the ATL and, in my humble opinion, we're nice people to work with! markolab.org/careers/
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
As someone interested in both genetics & neural activity, I appreciate the common challenge of linking causal function to system-level understanding. This excellent review by @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social & Maizels shows a way forward for gene networks in development pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41803457/
Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations - PubMed
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) explain how the genome controls cellular behaviour and tissue morphogenesis, serving to connect molecular mechanism to functional output. Single-cell technologies now p...
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🕔 This is the answer to "how do you have time" for advocacy. When I read NIH workforce data at 6 AM, I read as someone who can trace an OMB memo to the biological questions that won't get asked. The same mind that builds science can fight for it.
Unfortunately this is true, BNI is shutting down very suddenly and soon. We’re still sorting through the fallout, but many incredibly talented postdocs and technicians are taking a huge hit to their careers because of this. If you know of openings, even short term, I’d be happy to circulate them.
Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 3mo agoPosting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
How did motherhood change me? Motherhood did not make me soft. It made me hard and strong and scared of very very few things.
Hey All: our colleagues need our help. Please repost, share, and contact Vibhu if you can help!
Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 3mo agoPosting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
We’re marking the first anniversary of Canada Leads – a global recruitment effort to bring 100 top early‑career scientists to Canada. Meet three scientists who came to Canada to help shape the future of health innovation.
Anyone know engineering or physics labs/teams in Toronto that would welcome a high school student this summer? My daughter is a rising senior who loves mechanical engineering, fluid dynamics, vehicle dynamics, related fields, and fast cars. We scrambled her plans by deciding to move from DC to 🇨🇦
Save the Date! The annual pre-SfN satellite Motor Symposium will be held November 13 at NIH
📣 Exciting news: my lab is moving to the Krembil Institute at the University of Toronto’s University Health Network in Fall 2026. We’ll be recruiting for all roles, so reach out if you’re interesting in joining us to study spinal circuits for sensorimotor control www.levine-lab.org
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Any favorite recs for a platform to make/host a lab website? Eg wix, weebly, wordpress… thanks!
This essay by Tinbergen on “War and Peace in Animals and Man” was too far afield to make it into the discussion of our recent pre-print on the execution of a natural behavior, but has been on my mind a lot lately. Anyone else? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
On War and Peace in Animals and Man
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Dear Devoted Users of SeqSeek, I’m sorry, but NIH has decided that we can no longer maintain the website. All of the data is still available at the links provided, and the new platform even has added functionality. Happy gene expression hunting! seqseek.ninds.nih.gov
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I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵 www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicChatter
Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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