What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive - Nature

Whole-brain activity mapping, targeted cell manipulations and electrophysiology in mice identify wake-activated neuronal populations that are crucial for sleep drive and can persistently red...

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On the cover of Science Signaling today, the final version of our initial investigation of functional differences between VTA glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only neurons www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Distinct properties of glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only ventral tegmental area neurons

Glutamate cotransmission predicts the behavioral functions and characteristics of dopaminergic neurons in the VTA.

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🧠 We're hiring! Two postdoc positions in circuit neuroscience are open in our newly established lab at the IPNP/INSERM, Paris. We study how the brain makes sense of different seasons, in healthy and disease states. Full details here: sites.google.com/view/team-ma... Please repost!

🧠 We're hiring! Two postdoc positions in circuit neuroscience are open in our newly established lab at the IPNP/INSERM, Paris. We study how the brain makes sense of different seasons, in healthy and disease states. Full details here: sites.google.com/view/team-ma... Please repost!

"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko set to retire  — Harvard Gazette

After decades of advancing work on vision-threatening disease, she passes the torch to scientific successors.

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The Giardino Lab at Stanford is hiring a full-time post-bacc Research Assistant! If you know someone who is passionate about research and want to work at the intersection of stress, addiction, and sleep/wake neurobiology, have them apply here. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...

A European colleague came to the US recently for an academic meeting On arrival at JFK, she was whisked off by immigration officers into a windowless office, which had a giant picture of Trump, & relentlessly & aggressively questioned for hours They let her go—but she ain’t coming back to the US

Reuters@reuters.com · 6mo ago

Trump deploys ICE agents to assist TSA at US airports reut.rs/4rJ3nvf

Excited to share that I joined the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris @ipnp.bsky.social as a group leader! Thank you to FRM and BBRF for the support! My team will study how dedicated neural circuits decode seasonal changes, and drive adaptive behaviors. 🧠 ☀️ ❄️

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share! sites.google.com/view/molaslab #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

Couple of pre-prints led by @anniely.bsky.social VGluT3 BNST neurons transmit GABA and restrict feeding without affecting rewarding or aversive processing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Assessing the role of BNST GABA neurons in backward conditioned suppression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

VGluT3 BNST neurons transmit GABA and restrict feeding without affecting rewarding or aversive processing

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is involved in feeding, reward, aversion, and anxiety-like behavior. We identify BNST neurons defined by the expression of vesicular glutamate transporte...

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