Favorite slide pic of the day. #SSIB2026

I was slacking today y’all. Today’s coffee of the day: Elixir. Bought a bag of beans to take home #SSIB2026

The NITA session is always one of my faves. #SSIB2026

Coffee stop day 2: Function Labs Coffee. Science 🤝 Coffee #SSIB2026

#SSIB2026 poster session was packed!

In the intervention and therapeutics session this morning, we learned about several new strategies to treat obesity in different contexts and an odor-exposure task delivery experiment that was a more sophisticated science-y scratch and sniff! #SSIB2026

I’ll be posting about all of the happenings at #SSIB2026 this week! One of my favorite non-science activities to do at any conference is to check out several coffee shops around town. First up: Thank you, thank you.

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What my dog taught me about leading a lab

“Zazil reminded us of the importance of looking out for each other,” this professor writes

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The lab of Dr. Michelle Bedenbaugh studies neural circuits that drive eating, stress responses and other motivated behaviors, including how individuals choose between satisfying hunger and fulfilling other needs. #MBI_Labs @drmbede.bsky.social Learn more: www.bedenbaughlab.com

Raising her right 😏. It was a great trip!

Suzanne Nolan@suzannenolan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Had the pleasure of hosting @drmbede.bsky.social for a visit to ISU last week! Loved getting to talk science, life and everything in between. And, of course, my daughter wanted to be a part of all the yapping. Learning science at a young age from one of the best!

Lab's first presentations! I've thoroughly enjoyed watching their research and presentation skills grow in such a short span of time. Definitely one of my favorite things as a new PI.

A Review in Nature Aging examines dietary restriction in the context of aging, including the roles of fasting, hunger, changes in body temperature and fat loss. The authors also consider the potential negative effects. go.nature.com/4lwzHzI 🧪

Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cortical regulation of collective social dynamics during environmental challenge - Nature Neuroscience

Raam, Li, Gu and colleagues identify neural mechanisms underlying group huddling in mice during cold exposure. They find that the prefrontal cortex encodes decisions to huddle and that silencing neura...

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Are you or someone you know graduating soon and looking for an exciting Post Bac opportunity? Come join us at Dartmouth!

Kate Nautiyal@katenautiyal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

My department is hiring! Come join a cutting-edge and collaborative environment. Details below:

It’s official! Luessen Lab will be opening its doors this Fall in the Department of Pediatrics at @emoryuniversity.bsky.social School of Medicine. Thrilled to be joining a team of awesome researchers as part of the Children’s Center for Neuroscience Research 🧠

Happy to announce that the Nolan Lab will open this fall at Illinois State University! We are looking for motivated undergraduates, graduate students (both MS/PhD options available) as well as technicians to join our group. Please repost and check our website for more info! nolan-lab.com

Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

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Science article about how grad students are writing editorials in hometown papers to celebrate Barbara McClintock, the only lone woman to win a Nobel Prize. We are reminding readers that science is here, quietly saving your life. 🧪🧬🌽🔬 @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers

Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country

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This program means a lot to me. We selected students that largely didn’t have research experience & they are presenting, publishing & going on to postbac/grad/prof programs. This was what made me realize where I wanted my efforts to be. In supporting & developing programs to train future scientists

I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · last yr.

And there it is. The last grant that I was awarded as faculty, an R25 to support undergraduate research in aging & neurodegenerative diseases is terminated. In the 3 years it supported ~12 UF undergrads in the academic year and 15 summer students. Those students were kicking ass & doing great work.

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...

A new method reported in Science allows the generation of 3D ultrasound images of gene expression and 2D ultrasound images of capillary vessels. The approach enables fast, deep, and volumetric imaging of living opaque organs labeled with echogenic reporters. Learn more this week: scim.ag/4jf4rDa

Issue 5 is complete! On the cover: A 3D reconstruction from a light-sheet fluorescent microscopy image stack depicts parallel networks of vessels (PECAM1+, CD31, magenta) and nerves (PRPH+, yellow) in a human heart at 10.0 post-conceptional weeks. See De Bono et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

I joked that answering the kids questions felt like a second qualifying exam, but I had an absolute blast during this event last week! Teaching local communities about science has always filled my cup, but it felt particularly important and gratifying this year. mbi.ufl.edu/2025/03/12/u...

UF neuroscience students share brain-research enthusiasm with schoolchildren » McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida

In celebration of Brain Awareness Week, the MBI welcomed 35 teenage homeschool students and 40 more ages 7-12 on Tuesday for lab tours, brain-related crafts and a Q&A with a working scientist.

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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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The lightsheet is finally here! #fluorescencefriday #newpi

With syGlass #VR, students aren’t just learning about science: they’re stepping inside it. And in doing so, they’re shaping the future of education itself. #EduSky #VirtualReality #SciComm #HealthScience #Neuroscience #STEM www.syglass.io/blog/bergen-...

Bergen County Academy’s Vision for the Future of Education with syGlass — syGlass

In a classroom at Bergen County Academies, located in northern New Jersey , a group of students slip on VR headsets for the first time. Their faces lighting up as they immerse themselves in a world o...

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/

Funding cuts by state

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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