Carrie Ferrario
@cferrario.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, musician, work in progress
Grad students, post-docs, and early career researchers attending SSIB 2026; Don't miss out of the awesome event: "What's Next After Grad School?" a live Q&A on building your career across academia, industry, and government! Follow the QR code to sign up!
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.
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Does some current AI use remind anyone else of the tape recorder scene in Real Genius?
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!
Strong endorsement, amazing opportunity
Roxana Zeraati@roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · last mo.We (@neuroprinciplist.bsky.social & I) will soon open joint PhD & postdoc positions on cross-species mechanisms of different adaptive behaviors. If you’re interested and would like to chat during #FENS2026, drop me a message :)
#fens2026 Hi all- my fantastic postdoc Maria Ortego-Dominguez is at Fens solo, so please say hello and check out her poster in the afternoon session on the last day.
The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky
A proposed OMB rule could allow grants to be terminated mid-project, restrict international collaboration, and put political review ahead of peer review. Stand with the scientific community! Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in submitting public comments by July 13: vist.ly/58y4z #neurosky
I'm looking to hire a research technician/lab manager. This role is ideal for someone looking to gain experience and independence after undergraduate research on their way to graduate school. Please encourage anyone interested to apply: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... (job code 374183)
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The Fraser Lab at the University of Minnesota (https://fraserlab.psych.umn.edu/) is recruiting a full-time research technician to support the lab. As a part of the Department of Psychology we are involved in the greater neuroscience research community at the University of Minnesota which provides excellent access to training and professional development. The Fraser Lab is interested in the neurobiological basis of motivated behavior and investigates how defined brain circuits contribute to behavioral regulation. We make use of modern neuroscience approaches to record and manipulate neural activity in real-time as rodents perform complex behavioral tasks to relate precise aspects of neural activity to well-defined psychological processes. To do so, we regularly use optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging, biosensors, pharmacology, and immunohistochemistry. Our ultimate goal is to decipher the neural mechanisms regulating behavior and to characterize how these are altered in psychiatric illness, such as addiction, or by differences in lived experience, such as after early life adversity, to potentially identify novel therapeutics. We seek a team member who can play a lead role in lab operations, collaborate closely with the PI, and engage in team-building and growth.Duties:Laboratory logistics, maintenance and operations (30%):
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Do you know an early-career researcher who has made an unusual achievement and furthered empirical research with in the broad spectrum of experimental #psychology? Nominate them for a 2027 Troland Research Award! Learn more: www.nasonline.org/programs/awa...
The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.
Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
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Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New paper out in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social! We used machine learning to identify nutritional charecteristics of foods with addictive potential as rated from a national sample. @fralinbiomed.bsky.social This was a big collaborative effort! 1/7 🧪 ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/suppl/10...
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A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.
Late breaking abstract submission are now open until slots are filled! Don't miss out on presenting your research at the premier meeting for eating behavior. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Philly!
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Laboratory Research Technician
The primary function of this position is to assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, animal behavior, biochemistry, electrophysiolo...
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Tom Kash@superkash.bsky.social · 3mo agoKash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.
FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...
Postdoctoral Associate
The George Washington University Department of Pharmacology & Physiology is an active research department with federally funded programs in neuroscience and development, cardiovascular pharmacology an...
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A true legend of behavioral neuroscience, and exceptionally kind man. His generous mentorship touched many of us who never even worked with him. The field he helped shape mourns him today.
Josh Johansen@jojolab.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m very sad to share that Howard Fields has died. He made seminal discoveries in pain modulation, placebo, and addiction. He was also a wonderful mentor and friend who taught me how to think about the brain and the joy of scientific discovery. www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
Great opportunity here. Lorenzo gives excellent talks and his work is outstanding!
Yasmin Hurd, PhD@neurovoice.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin us on May 21 for our annual Dr. Robert Newman Lecture on the topic Confronting Addiction: A New Chapter in Alcohol Recovery 🧠 The keynote lecture by Dr. Lorenzo Leggio is followed by a panel discussion on clinical care, research & policy. 👋 Open to all! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The historical perspective in the background of the report from Yale is interesting, but their recommendations-- I too sometimes find myself sounding like my grandma, but no tech on any kind in classrooms? Hard line admissions? That's your forward-looking rec? president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Second R01 for the lab submitted despite it all. Levi is taking all the credit for it (co-I of course). Anyway continue calling your senators and reps. ICE has not left and we are still under a paramilitary occupation. My students are not safe and shouldn’t have to feel this way.
scholar.google.com/scholar_url?... A worthwhile read- particularly for trainees- by @borglandlab.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social
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🌟🫱🏼🫲🏻Join the fun & scientific excellence of Montreal and become a primary partner of Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM) [please repost]. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Scientific Director - Biomedical Research Institute in Montreal, Canada - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Centre d'innovation biomédicale - Université de Montréal | 12851492
The Courtois Institute for Biomedical Innovation (CI²B) is seeking a distinguished scientist to steer its development.
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Viral delivery of microRNA in patients with Huntington's - years of basic science at Universities, Colleges & Medical Centers make this possible. Hopeful & Exciting
Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 7mo agoPretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...
Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment. This is exactly why funding basic science is so important! www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
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