Lizzie Manning
@drlizziemanning.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and greyhound mum in Newcastle 🇦🇺🦘 Studying neural basis of inflexible behaviour in OCD and other psychiatric disorders 🔬🧠 Passionate about EDI, First Nations justice and climate action https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/lizzie-manning
HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p
Once again, the administration is doing everything they can to make us less globally competitive
Nina Friedman@ngfriedman.bsky.social · 2d agoStarting in Spring or Summer 2027 K99/R00 (under its new activity code KT1/R00) will only be available to US citizens, permanent residents, and non-citizen nationals. I am hearing this from many program officers, but NIH has yet to make an official statement to my knowledge.
🚨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 agoAdolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741478v1
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 agoDopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.01.742224v1
Very excited about this new preprint from @odrake.bsky.social, an incredibly talented MD/PhD student in the lab. 🧵 below, but the TL;DR: we found a rare striatal neuron subtype with unique transcriptional, spatial, and circuit properties that gates opioid reward.
Olivia Drake@odrake.bsky.social · 6d agoOur new preprint from @daylab.bsky.social characterizes Chst9-MSNs, a specialized NAc population with high Oprm1 expression and opioid sensitivity that is required for fentanyl reward learning. Excited to share this work! 🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congratulations to the 2026 @acnporg.bsky.social travel award recipients! Good to see a lot of familiar names on this list, including @mictott.bsky.social, @jtuscher.bsky.social, @kmcostalab.com, @laurenmac.bsky.social, @chanjenerational.bsky.social, and @outraajeous.bsky.social!
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Excited to be presenting our symposium, "From synapse to self: computational, brain imaging and preclinical perspectives on psilocybin’s therapeutic mechanisms", at #NeuroAlliance2026! Featuring: 🧠 Claire Foldi 🧠 @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social 🧠 @adeelrazi.bsky.social 🧠 Nicholas Everett
Reminder: #NeuroAlliance2026 🧠 Early bird registration and abstract submissions are open Don’t miss this opportunity to join us in Sydney, 29 Nov-2 Dec 2026, to present at this landmark ANS, ACNS & BPA joint meeting. Extended abstract submission deadline: next Wednesday 5th of August 11.59pm AEST
Actually you have 2 weeks left...Abstract deadline extension! neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...
Lizzie Manning@drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 2w agoYou have 3 more days to prepare your abstracts for posters, orals and blitz talks at NeuroAlliance This is the first ever joint meeting of Australasian Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry societies neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...
You have 3 more days to prepare your abstracts for posters, orals and blitz talks at NeuroAlliance This is the first ever joint meeting of Australasian Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry societies neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...
You have 3 more days to prepare your abstracts for posters, orals and blitz talks at NeuroAlliance This is the first ever joint meeting of Australasian Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry societies neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...
Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w agoEditor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
Abstracts close July 22 neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts
Proposals will be accepted until 23:59 AEST, Wednesday 22 July 2026 via the submission portal.
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 3w ago📢 Special registration rates for #FENS members heading to #ANS2026! 🇦🇺 #FENS members can register for the 2026 Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Scientific Meeting at the same rate as #ANS members. 🗓️ 29 November–2 December 2026 📍 Sydney, Australia 🌟 Deadline: 26 September 👉 buff.ly/8gkdJ0h
📢 Special registration rates for #FENS members heading to #ANS2026! 🇦🇺 #FENS members can register for the 2026 Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Scientific Meeting at the same rate as #ANS members. 🗓️ 29 November–2 December 2026 📍 Sydney, Australia 🌟 Deadline: 26 September 👉 buff.ly/8gkdJ0h
PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
If I ever write anything that isn't full of typos everyone should know that it is AI generated *This was not AI generated
Andrew Hardaway@andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 4w agoShould we start leaving at least one typo in a letter of rec so that the reader knows it wasn't AI generated?
VTA acetylcholine preprint from @kurtfraser.bsky.social is in my weekend deep reading pile. Look at this restrained the design (can I say elegant??). They take one manipulation (muscarinic vs nicotinic antagonism in VTA) run it across 6 tasks - no fancy tools just solid science And it holds up! 1/3
Ventral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation
Ventral tegmental area neurons participate in reward learning, motivation, and movement but also have an emerging role in the regulation of aversive behaviors. While these diverse contributions have b...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w agoVentral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737546v1
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...
Psilocybin selectively rescues cognitive flexibility impairments caused by aberrant prefrontal error signaling
Psychedelic drugs show remarkable potential for treating psychiatric disorders, but the mechanisms underlying their therapeutic effects remain relatively unknown. Here, we demonstrate that psilocybin ...
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🧠 ¡El #FENS2026 de #Barcelona ya está aquí! La sesión inaugural será hoy a las 16:45 y, a las 18:00, @guillelbendito.bsky.social, de @neuroalc.bsky.social y miembro de #SENC, pronunciará la Fred Kavli Opening Plenary Lecture. 📌 Programa de hoy: fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...
Excited to see our lab present at #FENS2026 this week! 🧠 Come by our posters to see how we use fUSi to study neuromodulation, arousal, vision restoration, and learning. Looking forward to many great discussions!
Looking forward to #FENS2026 next week in Barcelona! I will present a poster on effects of locus coeruleus and arousal on astrocytes and neurons in hippocampus: PS06-09PM-201 PhD student Shinjini Ghosh will present a poster on a Theremin-based auditory virtual environment for mice: PS04-08PM-568
on the 2nd day pm time at #fens2026 you think of skipping the posters & enjoying Barcelona. BUT the temptation of seeing our posters will keep you in the poster hall 😆 All new & all on frontal cortex in learning by Sandra Tan, Marko Tvrdic, Yuliia Shevchuk & @huriyeatg.bsky.social et al, No94,95,96
Getting ready for #FENS2026 at Barcelona? Our lab will be there with 7 posters and a symposium. fens2026.neuronaldynamics.eu Come by our posters 611 - 617 on Thursday morning to learn the latest about neuromodulators and how they organize neural activity and computation. @fens.org
Come find us at #FENS2026 in Barcelona with @melisa-mc.bsky.social , Teresa and Violeta. Three posters, three views of hippocampal dynamics, from brain excitability to inhibitory circuits and ripple waveforms. 🧠 @fens.org @cncajal-csic.bsky.social
