Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

So, #AcademicSky PIs, a few completely random questions for you: What’s something you wish you had known/did when you started your own lab? -or- What’s something you did when you started your lab that worked out well? Asking for a friend...

Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Why do some people with Alzheimer’s do not show symptoms of Alzheimer's? During her PhD, @giorgitos.bsky.social explored this question. Part of the answer led her to an unexpected group of brain cells: underdeveloped neurons. Read the full article on our website: nin.nl/news/the-eld...

The elderly brain is less mature than you think and that could protect you from Alzheimer’s Disease - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind

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Apply for the opportunity to serve on JNeurosci’s Early Career Researcher Advisory Board to get more involved in scientific publishing and advocate as an early career researcher. Learn more and submit your application by July 25, 2025, 5pm ET: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-board-applications

Calbindin Stratifies Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons Governing Distinct Aspects of Locomotion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663227v1

Happy #Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Neuroscience thrives when diverse perspectives and inclusive spaces are cultivated to ensure all researchers are valued, supported, and empowered. This #PrideMonth SfN celebrates the contributions of LGBTQIA+ scientists within the neuroscience community and beyond. #neurosky

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

Karl Deisseroth@deisseroth.bsky.social · 3y ago

The HNC (Human Neural Circuitry) team at our launch celebration at Stanford! Story here: med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Excited to present our study in ‪@natneuro.nature.com‬: a deep brain pathway that triggers safety-driven movement—overriding needs like finding food or social contacts. A look into how the brain weighs deep instincts. Congrats to all and first author @nkrauth.bsky.social. shorturl.at/toYFN

A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs - Nature Neuroscience

Animals need to adapt behavior to balance survival with fulfillment of essential needs. Krauth et al. identify neurons in the lateral hypothalamus that, when activated, prioritize survival over other ...

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I'm proud of contributing to @nkrauth.bsky.social @clemmensenc.bsky.social @olekiehn.bsky.social discovery of the role of an hypothalamic-brainstem circuit for prioritization of safety. Really impressive amount of work led by @nkrauth.bsky.social

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Honored to share that our paper is out today in Nature Neuroscience: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We identify a hypothalamic-brainstem circuit linking internal states to locomotion: These projections drive safety-focused movement over competing behavior. #Neuroscience #Hypothalamus #Locomotion

Heads up: A ton of papers from my group at the Broad, Pittsburgh, Irvine, Caltech, Duke, Berkeley and especially the Allen are on deck for a big consortium publication on new methods to target range of specific neuronal and non-neuronal cells coming out in Neuron and associated journals May 20th!

The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

Flagging warning signs of dementia, @sabina-srokova.bsky.social studies memory and brain changes in aging. #academicsky #neurosky #aging #dementia #Alzheimers #investinscience

📣 Science matters! #FENS and its allies unite in solidarity with the U.S. scientific community facing challenges to research, collaboration, and academic freedom. 🔬 🔗 Read the full statement: loom.ly/cn7vJR4 #sciencematters #standupforscience #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall

🧵 1/ Excited to share our new research on immature neurons (ImN) in the adult human brain and their roles in healthy aging, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and cognitive resilience. Here’s what we discovered 👇

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Unique transcriptional profiles of adult human immature neurons in healthy aging, Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive resilience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.631686v1

Nature What's so special about the human brain? Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

What's so special about the human brain?

Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.

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first thing to share here! excited to share lab’s first study in Parkinson’s disease revealing the prodromal vulnerability and function of the dopamine neuron subtype defined by Anxa1 expression - a specialized system controlling procedural motor learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anxa1+ dopamine neuron vulnerability defines prodromal Parkinson's disease bradykinesia and procedural motor learning impairment

Progressive degeneration of dopamine neurons (DANs) defines Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the identity and function of the most vulnerable DAN populations in prodromal PD remain undefined. Here, ...

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A Vulnerable Subtype of Dopaminergic Neurons Drives Early Motor Deficits in Parkinson's Disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629776v1

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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Neuroscientists: I remember an essay (probably in @elife.bsky.social) by Eve Marder about being a finisher, not someone who endlessly starts new projects - and this playing a big role in a scientific career. I can't find it in the Living Science collection, does anyone know which one I mean?

Hello, (Bluesky 🦋) World! I’m Giorgia, and I’m new here. Wrapping up my PhD in the SaltaLab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. My research focuses on adult neurogenesis, Alzheimer's, and single-cell approaches. Check out our past work here: tinyurl.com/373x5r9z. Stay tuned for more!

Mapping human adult hippocampal neurogenesis with single-cell transcriptomics: Reconciling controversy or fueling the debate?

Tosoni et al. probe the challenges related to the design, analysis, and interpretation of single-cell transcriptomic studies in the adult human hippocampal neurogenic niche and propose a series of cri...

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