Very cool! Includes molecularly-defined CA2 👀 #keepCA2weird

Zhihao Zheng@zhihaozheng.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy to share the CA3 dataset is published. First large-scale dense connectomics from hippocampus. First connectomic dataset imaged in @princetonneuro.bsky.social. A harbinger of many larger datasets to come (for both). doi.org/10.1038/s415... #hippocampus But my personal favorite is (1/2)

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

Abstract submission deadline for the inaugural conference on Experience-dependent transcription is now extended to August 17th. Based on the success of our ongoing fundraising efforts, financial support for early career scientist will be provided. Students and postdoc fellows, submit your abstract!

🚨 It's that time of year again! 🚨 We are happy to share that we are returning to a nationwide search this year for our SPINE postdoc fellows! Application instructions, meeting registration, and relevant dates can be found in this flyer or at SPINEphilly.org

#keepIGweird ? Thanks for the invitation!

David Moorman@davidmoorman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks to @serenadudette.bsky.social for an amazing visit with the NSB program at @umassamherst.bsky.social! We were so busy with great #keepCA2weird science that I forgot to take photos, so I'll share some of the amazing results that she presented (from PMC12246475 with @neuroerin.bsky.social).

STAT story on the President's NIH budget request www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/t... 1/2

NIH would get $5 billion cut under Trump’s 2027 budget, but Congress unlikely to go along

The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of institutes and centers from 27 to 22

statnews.com

Now digging through the 1000+ page Appendix. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 1/3

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today. Important---Important---Important The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 1/9

🪄Using my CA girl powers to summon up some sunny weather for the inaugural Neuroscience of Social Behavior GRC! Welcome attendees!

For decades, government investments in basic biomedical research have been the foundation for innovation across the private sector and academia. Trump administration’s attacks on federal science are hammering away at that foundation—and without it, the house won’t stand. Learn more:

Science, Innovation, and the National Institutes of Health

Failing to support independent agency science imperils the uptake of innovative drugs.

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Great training opportunity! 👇

Pegah Kassraian@pegahkf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi all! My lab at the University of Bern @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, funded by @snsf.ch, opening in April 2026, is looking for candidates for several fully-funded positions: a postdoctoral scientist, PhD student(s) and a laboratory technician. Please share (and apply)!

Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

Many great personal stories in this special issue on the history of hippocampal research! This one by Graham Collingridge

Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC)@bertogliolab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Glutamate Receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease: A Personal Journey onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

Evidence I’m in fact old

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It was a better time

Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Hippocampus on the history of hippocampal research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

From Synaptic Plasticity and Critical Periods to Social Behavior and Stress: Getting to, and Staying in, CA2

Hippocampal Area CA2, with some exceptions, had long been neglected in in vivo studies, due largely to its small size, and in in vitro studies because of its general similarity to CA3 and CA1. Increa...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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.

thetransmitter.org

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS

The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...

pnas.org

The journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIEHS for more than 50 years, ending accepting new manuscripts in April, is now completely gone from the NIEHS website. ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp

I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...

The giant wakes up: Illumina goes spatial

Predictions on the upcoming Illumina spatial transcriptomics technology

batcheffect.com

Oh no! So sad to hear!

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD@wormsense.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected news that our colleague, friend, and mentor Daniel Madison passed away on Thursday, October 9.

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

It is depressing that we (i.e. the scientific community) can't break out of this bizarro world where publishing in a $$$ Journal is considered a valid proxy for high impact science.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu... That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...

Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733

The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology

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⛓️ October’s most-read Structural Biology paper challenges textbook views of synapses, revealing a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ instead of a dense post-synaptic layer: buff.ly/rAvREVV Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB

Who is coming to #SfN2025? Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇 @nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests! #radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development

Great research needs support. The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community. Learn more and add to your itinerary! 🔗 vist.ly/4dz53 #neurosky #neuroskyence