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🧪

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

🚨🚨ATTENTION NEUROSCIENCE POSTDOCS!!🚨🚨 UMass Chan’s Department of Neurobiology is searching for applicants for our inaugural UMass ChanNELS series! For more information and to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New paper alert 📝🥳🧠: Your motor cortex isn't just moving your body… it's quietly telling your brain how to feel about it. We found a circuit in which physical struggle under stress translates into a brake on negative affect. 🧵 @dgordonwinder.bsky.social @mariedoyle.bsky.social

Today the Carmona Lab gained its first Ph.D. candidate! Congratulations Tenzin! 🥳🤗👏 Honestly, such a wonderful way to start the summer!

Did anyone go watch Project Hail Mary and go “oh ya, biologists totally do that glove thing” or “Wait. Why didn’t he balance the centrifuge?” 😂 I am open to being a science advisor to any book or movie productions in the future.

New Paper Alert! Our newly published study reveals adolescent-onset ethanol access eliminates sex differences seen in adult-onset drinking behavior and negative affective behavior during abstinence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Adolescent onset of volitional ethanol intake normalizes sex differences observed with adult-onset ethanol intake and negative affective behaviors during protracted forced abstinence - Psychopharmacol...

Rationale Negative affect during ethanol abstinence can lead to relapse and dependence. Voluntary ethanol drinking models are crucial for examining negative affect following chronic ethanol access, bu...

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I’m a Dr. now! 🥳

A student in the lab mentioned they have a committee meeting this week and I said “Oh ya. Me too.” Feel free to log into my defense on Wednesday to see all the work I have been doing the last few years!

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Loki is ready to go to the GRC with me!

The world is grim but I have some exciting news! 1. I am speaking at the #AlcoholGRC next month. So if you are going, keep your eyes pealed. 👀 2. I am defending my dissertation on March 4th (2pm EST)! Feel free to message me if you want a Zoom link as we get closer. Love ya’ll. Keep fighting. ✌🏼

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ALT: two men are making a heart shape with their arms

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I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Just a heads up, every patient I tested in clinic last week has been positive for influenza A. Please take appropriate precautions so you can have a healthy time together with friends & fam this holiday season😷 And if you haven't had a flu shot yet... this week is a great time to get one!💪🏾💉

A belated Happy Halloween from the Winder Lab! 🎨 🌲😂

Circuit mechanisms governing endocannabinoid modulation of affective behaviour and stress adaptation — a Review by Niharika Loomba & Sachin Patel #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

Last day to update those "TBDs"! Abstracts due today for talk consideration at the Alcohol & the Nervous System GRS and GRC! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026 GRS (Trainee pre-meeting, Feb 21-22, 2026): tinyurl.com/35zf3wte GRC (Main meeting, Feb 22-27, 2026): tinyurl.com/44z957ve

One week left for talk consideration at the Alcohol & the Nervous System GRS and GRC! Submit your abstract before October 10th! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026 GRS (Trainee pre-meeting, Feb 21-22, 2026): tinyurl.com/35zf3wteGRC GRC (Main meeting, Feb 22-27, 2026): tinyurl.com/44z957ve

Congratulations to @timmyle.bsky.social on a successful defense! You’re a doctor now. 😄

Does anyone know how to get your Bluesky algorithm to show more science related posts/people? I'm dying over here in political content. While important, I am here for learning and networking.

We are looking for more trainees to submit abstracts! Please spread the word! #science #addiction #Neuroscience #newengland #NEAN

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If you are at the Research Society on Alcohol 2025 conference, my poster is today at 5! #S14!

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Hi all. I grew up in the community of the MN legislatures that were attacked yesterday. Both are wonderful families and are well loved by their constituents. Please consider donating to the Hoffman’s gofundme for their medical bills. www.gofundme.com/f/support-yv...

Donate to Support Yvette and John Hoffman's Recovery, organized by Fernbrook PTO

Dear Flyer Community, Friends, and Supporters, Our hearts are heavy as we… Fernbrook PTO needs your support for Support Yvette and John Hoffman's Recovery

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Gilles E. Martin, PhD, identifies a group of 500 neurons associated with the suppression of binge drinking: direc.to/npLM

Gilles Martin identifies neurons associated with the suppression of binge drinking

UMass Chan researchers identify neural ensemble that suppresses binge drinking

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🚨 I am pleased to share w/ everyone a new Nature #Neuroscience paper led by Dr. Pablo Gimenez-Gomez from the lab of Dr. Gilles Martin @umasschan.bsky.social In this paper, we found a specific #alcohol activated neuronal ensemble that functions to suppress binge drinking behavior. #AlcoholResearch

Suppression of binge alcohol drinking by an inhibitory neuronal ensemble in the mouse medial orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

This study demonstrates that high alcohol concentrations during binge drinking activate a small GABAergic neuronal ensemble in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, which subsequently reduces further alcoh...

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Congrats on an amazing thesis defense Dr. Bluitt!! Loved seeing everyone from @jbesheer.bsky.social lab.

Sorry grad students mastering life-saving science, crypto bros and oil barons need to get richer, so you’re out.