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 ago

Dopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.01.742224v1

🚨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 good news! Not a done deal, but important step. If you wondered if submitting your comments on the OMB rules change mattered, the answer is a resounding YES

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 3d ago

This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!

He’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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Excited to share the lab's latest on leveraging what we're learning from developmental neuroscience about the role of parents in children's anxiety to optimize treatments for youth! Led by Elizabeth Kitt and now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very cool paper systematically characterizing dopamine neuron development and striatal arborization in the mouse brain. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Single-neuron resolution mapping of dopaminergic connectivity across development, adulthood, and degeneration

Individual midbrain dopamine (mDA) neurons exhibit complex morphologies, a feature that may underlie their different functions and disease vulnerabili…

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Super fun symposium at Neuro2026 Kobe discussing ‘Adaptive glia: from homeostasis to allostasis under stress’ with Micheal Wheeler, @cate-cholamine.bsky.social , Josselyn Soto, @junnagai.bsky.social and myself! Such a fascinating and innovative field!

Excited to share this paper led by two undergrads in the lab, out now in Neurobiology of Stress! Temporal reorganization of maternal care during early life stress in mice doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Super excited to be included in this - thank you Amber Dance and @nature.com.

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2w ago

Although CRISPR–Cas first made a splash in gene editing, scientists now use it to precisely target epigenetic editors to any DNA sequence. Nature reports on companies exploring epigenetic-editing technology and a handful of early-stage clinical trials. 🧬🧪

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Early-career neuroscientist? Learn how to turn your science into policy impact. Join former SfN Early Career Policy Ambassadors for this webinar on advocacy, science communication, and connecting with policymakers. Aug 6, 1–2PM EDT. 🔗: vist.ly/5c99k

Go slow and repeat things.

Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!)@gigiomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

Science takes time. Not days, months but timeline of Years and Decades. This is not a go fast and break things endeavor

Unilateral Striatal Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Cognitive Control doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

Unilateral Striatal Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Cognitive Control

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VCVS) can treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other psychiatric conditions. Yet, optimizing its clinical efficacy is a m...

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Study in 30,000 kids shows that unpredictable early-life experience is a potent Adverse Childhood Event www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Just dropped in Nature MH, with an amazing team. 🧪🧠 And unpredictability is actionable! would love your thoughts. @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @drkoraly.bsky.social

Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems - Nature Mental Health

In this population-based cohort study, Glynn et al. tested the contribution of childhood unpredictability to mental health outcomes in ~30,000 participants, examining the relative and additive roles o...

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Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, who pioneered cell-type-specific transgenic mice and the study of engrams, has passed away at the age of 86. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/susum...

In memoriam: Susumu Tonegawa, ‘intellectual giant’

He won the Nobel Prize for his work on immunology and then went on to define the field of learning and memory.

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This analysis of the public comments suggests overwhelming opposition to the OMB grant making take over plan www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

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Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4w ago

The comment count as of Sunday July 11, 2026 1:05pm ET.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

She's right!! I hope the journal editors out there who are always mad that my reviews are [mumble] weeks late appreciate that I am adding the one critical element AI never will: procrastination

Dr. Cate Peña@cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m so outrageously mad having realized a bunch of inane reviewer comments are probably AI. I’m also too busy and would rather be compen$ated for my reviews, but 1) who are we as academics if we don’t value reading and thinking about the literature and 2) dont waste my/student’s time with slop!!

For everyone at @sbn-bsky.bsky.social #SBN2026, please find and say hi to Forrest and Jovian!

Forrest Rogers, PhD@forrestdrogers.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hey @sbn-bsky.bsky.social ! So glad to be here in Niagara Falls for the 30th annual meeting of SBN! Come check out very cool work by @jovianylc.bsky.social on thyroid hormones on Thursday (poster session 1, 53), and come by to chat about how cool striped mouse dads are on Friday (poster 63) 🧠 🧑‍🧒‍🧒🧬

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

Where Does The USWNT Rank Amongst The Winningest Teams Of All Time? | The18

The USWNT is quite good — that's what all our number crunching has led us to believe.

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Schatzi Page@schatzipage.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job

“There's a piece of NIH's mission Atlas never mentions, because it doesn't fit his story: NIH doesn't just fund experiments, it funds people. Training grants, fellowships, career development programs, and research project grants that carry graduate students and postdocs through their formative yrs”

@hellabores92.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excellent response from Dr. Bertagnolli to the article from Scott Atlas www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-a...

I’m so outrageously mad having realized a bunch of inane reviewer comments are probably AI. I’m also too busy and would rather be compen$ated for my reviews, but 1) who are we as academics if we don’t value reading and thinking about the literature and 2) dont waste my/student’s time with slop!!

🤔 Why does prior stress make future stress hit harder? In new work led by @zachtpennington.bsky.social, the Cai Lab discovered a brain circuit that controls stress vulnerability, reshaping how the brain reacts to the next stressor. I'll be speaking about at @fens.org. Come check it out!

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!

This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.

Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Abolishing the NIH has always been this admin’s plan. They told us in Project 2025. They’ve SHOWN us with their actions over the past 18 months. This is why a heads down approach will not work. The scientific community has 2 options: oppose this with all we’ve got, or let them carry out their plan.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7

Excited to share our new study characterizing spatial gene expression in the human NAc led by @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social @rphillips3.bsky.social in collaboration with @martinowk.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @alexisbattle.bsky.social @lcolladotor.bsky.social.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · last mo.

Every single Democratic Senator has asked OMB to rescind OMB-2026-0034. Now we just need some Rs to join the party. Comments are working people!!! Keep em up! People are paying attention! www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Murray, Peters, Schumer, & Merkley Lead All Senate Democrats in Demanding OMB Rescind Rule Giving President Sweeping Power to Politicize Federal Grants | United States Senate Committee on Appropriatio...

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