Big congratulations to our own Laurence for receiving the 2026 Prize for the best PhD thesis 🎓 in health research in Quebec from @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social & ADESAQ the Quebec University Deans association 👏🧠🧪 Bravo Laurence on est fiers de toi!!! 🤗 @ulaval.ca @cervo-ulaval.bsky.social

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Le FRQ et l’Association des doyennes et des doyens des études supérieures au Québec tiennent chaleureusement à féliciter les lauréates des Prix d'excellence de l'ADESAQ ! ➡️ Détails : https://frq.gouv.qc.ca/prix-dexcellence-de-ladesaq-2026-trois-theses-de-doctorat-primees/

Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10

dear Canadian grant reviewers and international reviewers of Canadian grants: NOPE NOPE NOPE federal policy prohibits use of AI for grant review. **please respect the privacy / confidentiality of your peers** thank you!

QED Science@qedscience.bsky.social · last wk.

We asked webinar attendees which AI tools they use for grant review.* 52% ChatGPT · 40% Claude · 33% QED Science · 17% Gemini. Researchers aren't picking one tool. They're building their own mix around the grant process. Full summary → tinyurl.com/3aa78jf5 *Multiple answers allowed.

Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

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RIP Tim Curry, never was a man so distinctly iconic and yet such a chameleon in a role🧡😢

🧪1/Our new paper led by @georgina-craig.bsky.social is out in @naturemedicine.bsky.social - we identify that oligodendrocytes contribute to cognitive decline in aging, using a human brainbank with >70yrs of cognitive data + modeling oligodendrocyte changes. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04608-y

Very excited to share a new review with Dr. Ian Maze born out of my PhD work! 🧠🧬 We dive into how early life experiences shape the epigenetic landscape of the developing brain—and how these lasting changes may contribute to risk for affective disorders.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience@natrevneuro.nature.com · 2w ago

Early life experiences, the neural epigenome and affective disorder risk — a Review by Ashley M. Cunningham & Ian Maze #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Want to isolate astrocytes and study their function? With Nicole Blakeley, PhD Candidate in our lab, we are happy to present a new protocol, which hopefully will help labs dive into glial biology with less hurdles. Cheers ! #glia #astrocytes

Protocol for assessing molecular signatures and metabolic function of primary murine cortical astrocytes

Astrocytes are the most numerous brain cells and are central to the regulation of brain metabolism. Here, we present a protocol for identifying molecular signatures and assessing the metabolic functio...

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Yesterday I survived rafting with my sister family - special request from my 14-year-old nephew for his birthday 🥳 Didn't have time to think about 💸 grants and 🇨🇦 politics while fighting against the Jacques Cartier river 🌊 to stay in the boat! 😅

A NIH-funded postdoc position is available in our laboratory @cu-coms.bsky.social to study PDGFR dimer-specific dynamics in the mouse craniofacial mesenchyme. Please repost! Job description and how to apply: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Happy to share the latest work from the lab describing an open source system for a two choice decision making task for head-fixed mice. @maxwellmadden.bsky.social has created an affordable and versatile system that enables parallelization of training. Stay tuned for exciting Neuro results!

Maxwell Madden@maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share my preprinted manuscript "A Low-Cost, Modular Hardware and Software Platform for Head-Fixed Mouse Decision-Making Tasks". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come join our great team of interactive and collegial scientists!

UM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · 2w ago

UM-MIND is hiring! We are recruiting several tenure-track neuroscience faculty members, preferably at the Assistant Professor level, to join our institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine here in Baltimore, MD. Learn more here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... @medschool.umaryland.edu

Happy to share this new paper from the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Region-specific weighting of sensory intensity and reward prediction error by dopamine signals

Growing evidence shows that dopamine signaling is diverse, with dopaminergic neurons responding to rewarding and aversive stimuli. Here, we hypothesiz…

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Our 1st garlic 🧄 experiment is a success! 🤩 Cloves planted in October 2025, grew under the Quebec Winter snow ❄️ for 5 months and harvested today in August 2026 🌞 Outcome : 49 garlic 🧄 heads/bulbs

Macrophages near brain blood vessels regulate blood flow & waste clearance to protect against Alzheimers. #TheColonnaLab reports cMAF enables this key signaling. Congrats to Dr. Colonna! @washumedicine.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social h.bsky.social

Brain perivascular macrophages regulate endothelial cell function via a cMAF-dependent transcriptional program in mouse and human

This study identifies cMAF as a key transcription factor that orchestrates the molecular crosstalk between brain perivascular macrophages and arteries, thereby sustaining cerebrovascular function in h...

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Excited to share our new work from #CDNeurogenomics at @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaigenetics.bsky.social #MountSinaiPsych, published in @natgenet.nature.com. We map human microglial states across aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... PDF: rdcu.be/fzdIr

Plasticity of human microglia and brain perivascular macrophages in aging and Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Genetics

Molecular profiling of myeloid cells from the prefrontal cortex of 1,607 donors with varying degrees of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology delineates distinct myeloid subtypes and identifies changes associated with aging and disease progression.

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Excited to share our discovery of a convergent mechanism for cognitive restoration and seizure suppression in neurodevelopment disorders in Nature (Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Led by two amazing neuroscientists, @yutzushih.bsky.social and @jasonalipio.bsky.social + a great team 1/2

Excellent reporting on astrocyte-engram work from @junnagai.bsky.social, @m-r-williamson.bsky.social and others. This article captures just how much of a frontier research area astrocyte engrams represent, and I’m excited to see how the field unfolds. www.thetransmitter.org/memory/are-p...

Are parts of the memory trace found in the ‘astroengram?’

Neurons have long taken top billing in memory, but researchers are making the case for astrocytes.

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But wait there’s more! Our sister paper “Altered postnatal chromatin development in the NAc primes lifelong stress sensitivity” led by Rebekah Rashford and Lisa Tang (Creed Lab) is ALSO out in #JNeurosci! doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2217-25.2026

Altered postnatal chromatin development in the nucleus accumbens primes enduring stress sensitivity

Early-life stress (ELS) sensitizes individuals to subsequent stressors to increase lifetime risk for psychiatric disorders. Within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) — a key limbic and reward-associated brai...

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Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier amplifies neuroinflammation | @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/immun...

Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier amplifies neuroinflammation

Immune surveillance of the central nervous system (CNS) is regulated by the brain barriers. Antigen presentation at the blood–brain barrier (BBB) has been proposed to promote antigen-specific T-cell e...

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So proud to have “Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity” out now in Neuron! This work spanned Many years and Many people contributed. Huge thanks to @hyejaykim.bsky.social, @ja-balouek.bsky.social, Luke Geiger, and Meaghan Creed www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity

Kim, Geiger et al. report that early-life stress increases the chromatin modification H3K4me1 and its enzymatic writer, SETD7, in the ventral tegmental area. They show that this form of epigenetic pri...

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Let me know if you’re interested in getting involved with IBRO! Now, more than ever, we need to find ways of strengthening international relationships and collaborations..and supporting neuroscience in under-resourced communities across the globe. 🧠 🧪 ibro.org/ibro-2026-el...

Entendre Angine de Poitrine 🎸🎶 dans une 🍻 microbrasserie japonaise 🇯🇵 à Nagoya ✅

We are saddened to share that we lost a luminary in our field yesterday. Dr. Steven Maier died suddenly with the love of his life, Linda Watkins, at his side. Dr. Maier was one of the founders and intellectual giants of our society. He was funny, creative, brilliant, and kind.

🚨 Now available on Nature Careers ! #Recruitment #Ottawa

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Vascular Links to Neurodevelopment - Ottawa, Ontario (CA) job with University of Ottawa, Ontario CANADA | 12861923

uOttawa, in partnership with the OHRI, invites applications for a Tier 2 CRC in Vascular Links to Neurodevelopment and their impact on brain health.

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The first work of the #FalconeLab is finally out!!! 🤩 A story of #astrocytes from evolution to disease. Thanks everyone who made this possible! Varicose projection astrocytes: Conserved reactive cells in brain pathology | #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @towsonu.bsky.social

Happy 108th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

RIP Bonnie Tyler

Are you a senior postdoc with a complete scientific story to tell? Apply for our Yale Molecular Psychiatry MAPS program and tell us about your work at our weekly neuroscience seminar series. PLEASE REPOST!

Very pleased to share our latest (now published), from star student Kamal Narayana. He finds lowering (not increasing) peri-infarct blood flow beyond the hyper-acute phase, improved stroke recovery by lessening blood brain barrier disruption and neuro-inflammation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...