Nice! The aspiriated “h” is quite difficult for unilingual North Americans to pronounce

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

Nice piece. Also recommend this new book ⬇️

John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 9h ago

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.

Yep and yinz should not forget that he lost the playoff game for steelers because he was too weak with flu (that is what happens when you don't get a flu VACCINE at his advanced age)

Mike Tanier@miketanier.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aaron Rodgers is an absolute piece of shit.

This guidance is for NCI for now but I assume it will become NIH wide?? "when grant proposals contain animal experiments, the proposal should also contain a plan for validation of the findings of this animal experiment in a human model"

Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · yesterday

New "guidance" on animal studies for NCI grants. This is, uh, interesting. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Wave Function Collapse may replace Schrödinger evolution It remains possible that Trump does something more hideous than what he has done so far and this ends very very very badly 😔

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d ago

Schrödinger's Strait.

🚨Happy to share a new preprint from Lerner Lab led by graduate student @nadelneurosci.bsky.social! 🚨 “Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking” This has been a wholly impressive effort by Jacob; summary below 👇 #neuroskyence🧪

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d ago

Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741478v1

Some personal news! In a few weeks, I'm starting a new job @nytimes.com, joining a science team that I've long admired, followed and envied. It's mylast day @washingtonpost.com - I'm so grateful for the 11 years I got to work with a cast of amazing colleagues. www.nytco.com/press/a-new-...

A New Reporter For Science | The New York Times Company

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Magical walk on the beech during a super low tide. I met a squadron of pelicans but they flew away before I could take their picture 😊

I joined the Sohal lab with one major hypothesis: psychedelic drugs can be powerful psychiatric treatments, depending on underlying neurobiology. Indeed, psilocybin restored cognitive flexibility in one circuit model of dysfunction, but not another! Then, we had to find out how! 🧠🍄🧪

Vikaas Sohal@vikaassohal.bsky.social · 4w ago

New preprint led by @christineliu.art! How do psychedelics improve cognitive flexibility? Psilocybin prevents inflexibility caused by aberrant mesocortical error signaling (but not inflexibility due to other mechanisms); this is tied to plasticity of PFC-MD neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scientist friends, if you submit a paper with only male co-authors and 90% of what you have cited is from male run labs, please pause and consider how to do better

Why do people stop pursuing goals they care about❓ Motivational deficits are among the most disabling symptoms, yet current treatments often have only modest effects. In @lillyt.bsky.social new paper, she asks if we're missing an important piece of the puzzle 🧠 #neuroscience #cogpsyc #psychscisky

Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits

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I partly blame journal editors for unacceptable conduct such as this. They need to read the reviews before sending them to the authors (isn't this why editors of some journals take weeks to make a decision?) and ask reviewers to modify their reviews if they see inappropriate or unreasonable language

Piali Sengupta@senguptalab.bsky.social · last wk.

If you don't like a paper, it is obviously totally fine to point out the issues. But please do NOT make egregious and unpleasant comments about the first author's qualifications. A first author who is usually a trainee. Beyond inappropriate and unprofessional.

Check out the new preprint from the lab led by Brandon Garcia-Castañeda! Huge shout out to NIH/NIDA for initially funding this line of research and continuing to support this work in a new R21/R33 with @asoshnev.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ventral tegmental area astrocytes regulate drug-cue associations and drug intake

Cocaine use disorder remains a critical public health concern with limited treatment options. Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as active regulators of neurotransmission and are emerging as impor...

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“Everyone has a plan until he gets punched in the mouth.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The U.S. Is Subtly Shifting Its Iran Strategy

Regime collapse is unlikely, but a revised approach might still degrade the Iranian position.

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What a relief because as the only one reading paperback novels on flights and trains, I have been feeling uncharacteristically unfashionable and geeky

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

The rise of the ‘hot literati’: how reading became sexy

We get asked often - what is the duration of psilocybin's effects in the mouse brain? 🧠 There exist data, and now we have also measured it ourselves: Time to peak was 33 min and brain half-life was 56 min. Part of a preprint on drug-evoked dendritic Ca2+ signals: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2w ago

Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty? Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention

was recently told by a few young scientists to avoid submitting to a (fancy) journal because that journal has bad juju 👹 I laughed but then realized everyone I know who has recently published there has had horrid professional dramas maybe bad juju will finally bring down the publishing enterprise

Breaks my heart that the beautiful and magical south of Iran is being destroyed Nice piece by @arashtehran.bsky.social on the subject highlighting that so many Iranians wished the hardliners “had as much zeal for southern Iran” as they have “for southern Lebanon” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Where the War Is Still a War

The southern coast of Iran is still getting battered. Some Iranians want their government’s hawks to see for themselves.

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Eli Lilly is buying AtaiBeckley for $2.8 billion This is HUGE for the psychedelic field investor.lilly.com/news-release...

Lilly to acquire AtaiBeckley to advance therapies for treatment-resistant depression and other mental health conditions | Eli Lilly and Company

The Investor Relations website contains information about Eli Lilly and Company's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.

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Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

In Europe and heard the news of Graham passing as soon as it happened but still waiting for Mitch McConnell to make a statement about his dear colleague - did I miss it?

Iran may not have gone far in the World Cup but my lot continues to be good in math 😇 www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/...

ICYDK the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas which is being bombed constantly is a real city with half a million real humans living there x.com/websterkaroo...

Alireza Talakoubnejad (@websterkaroon) on X

The beautiful city of Bandar Abbas, home of over half a million people and capital of Hormozgan province. It's an ancient city and it has always had great strategic importance in Iran's interactions ...

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Excited to share that our work is featured on the cover of the July issue of @natneuro.nature.com

DHA/omega3 maxing with the maximum amount of clotted cream a scone can handle (why one cannot find proper clotted cream in US continues to dumbfound me)

Want to understand the new OMB rules and why many researchers are concerned? @rossenator.bsky.social put together an outstanding video series: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... She also compiled advocacy resources: github.com/rrosslab/Pol... Please like and repost so they reach a wider audience!

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Arriving in England on the 4th of July and hoping to make a tight connection

British Army Marching into Battle

ALT: British Army Marching into Battle

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