The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)

Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

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Best news ever- I have finally earned my PhD in Neuroscience!!🧠 My thesis was completed in the lab of Dr. Gregory Corder @flybottleescape.bsky.social & is titled: “Opioidergic Organization of the Nociceptive Medial Thalamus & A Behavioral Model of Placebo Analgesia”

Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2w ago

Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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Thanks @khallaf.bsky.social for presenting your amazing paper in our lab meeting today. We are all quite excited about these discoveries.

Mohammed Khallaf@khallaf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

Scientists have long debated whether neurons are jacks of all trades or tend to specialize in one thing. Now @stefanofusi.bsky.social, @lorenzoposani.com & Liam Paninski present new evidence in @nature.com shedding light on how the brain performs complex tasks. tinyurl.com/yj3ew8en

Congratulations @khallaf.bsky.social. What an important discovery!

Mohammed Khallaf@khallaf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

#FreemanHrabowski Scholar Bianca Jones Marlin is uncovering how sensory cues like a pup’s cry activate oxytocin & reshape neural circuits, enabling caregiving — even in mice that have never given birth. Her research also suggests some experiences may be biologically inherited: bit.ly/4pjJISL

A new study from Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social in @nature.com finds that parenting behavior in ants—who are highly attuned to their young—appears to have evolved in by repurposing ancient neural circuits rather than inventing entirely new brain systems. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4vUY6Uc

New paper from the lab on the molecular regulation of parenting in ants. Spearheaded by postdocs Alex Paul and @tomaskay.bsky.social

Tomas Kay@tomaskay.bsky.social · 4w ago

In an article published today, we show that ancient feeding-related neuropeptides have been repurposed to control brood care in clonal raider ants. Photo: Bart Zijlstra, UNIL /1

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

UAB's Heersink School of Medicine is actively recruiting neuroscientists at early stage and established investigator levels to help grow basic research in this school-wide priority area. Apply below! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/27132 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/27135

A new tool lets researchers probe brain circuit function without requiring some kind of external stimulation as in optogenetics and chemogenetics. #neuroskyence By Simon Makin www.thetransmitter.org/synapses/des...

Designer synapses edit brain circuits in living animals

The approach could help elucidate relationships between circuit structure and function, as well as the role of natural electrical synapses.

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Big news! Congrats and welcome to ZI @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social. Everyone is very excited for you to join us 😎

Malcolm Campbell@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share that I’ll be joining Columbia's Zuckerman Institute as an assistant professor of neuroscience, starting in September! 🧵

Could we reprogram the immune system to fight the effects of aging? #FreemanHrabowski Scholar Corina Amor Vegas & team engineered CAR-T cells to recognize & destroy "zombie cells" that accumulate during aging & drive inflammation, frailty, & metabolic decline: bit.ly/4xkeeQh

How did animal senses evolve? Max Coyle et al. used choanoflagellates to uncover TRPW, ancient ion channels predating animal somatosensory receptors. TRPW links microbial prey ecology to evolution of receptor structure, sensory organelles, & multicellular processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A glowing profile of my post-doc advisor. As @yvetteefisher.bsky.social says in the piece, Rachel is truly "...one of these generational scientists who thinks extremely incisively about both the details and the big-picture frameworks." magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/stu...

By Studying Fruit Flies, Rachel Wilson Is Changing How We Understand the Brain

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According to @edvardmoser.bsky.social, director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, the four recipients of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience challenged what had long been regarded as a central dogma in neuroscience. By Alissa de Chassey www.thetransmitter.org/awards/four-...

Protein synthesis pioneers garner Kavli neuroscience prize

Their research revealed how neurons synthesize proteins in previously unrecognized places.

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Congratulations to the 2026 McKnight Scholars! Great to see many friends amongst this cohort! www.mcknight.org/news-ideas/2...

2026 McKnight Scholar Awards

The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it has selected ten neuroscientists to receive the 2026 McKnight Scholar Award.

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What if our need for the company of others is just as vital as hunger or thirst? I wrote for @knowablemag.bsky.social about the concept of social homeostasis: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪 featuring @dulaclab.bsky.social @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social et al.

Why we crave company

Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water

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Great visit back to UPenn today for distinguished lecture series. Saw so many old friends and mentors. Doing your PhD and postdoc at the same school also means you can go to dinner with your grad school advisor (Meera Sundaram) and postdoc advisor (Wenqin Luo).

Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - Nature

Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende...

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Beautiful new paper from Jennifer O'Chan in the Maze lab at Mount Sinai!

Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

Motherhood induces transcriptional changes in the brain that endure beyond short-term hormonal shifts go.nature.com/4upJBXK

Huge congratulations to @ashleyonthebrain.bsky.social on her successful thesis defense 🥳 It has been a joy to serve on her thesis committee alongside @dr-autumnivy.bsky.social. We are glad to have you in the community of Black women neuroscientists, Ashley! 🧠✨

Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature

Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...

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What a fun evening! Thanks @rubenlgonzalez.bsky.social for all of your support as our Dean of Science.

Ruben Gonzalez@rubenlgonzalez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fantastic evening honoring #KerstinPerez, @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social , and the other 2026 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award winners! So wonderful to celebrate all of what makes @columbiauniversity.bsky.social great! #ColumbiaPhysics #ColumbiaBiologicalSciences #ColumbiaCollege #ColumbiaGSAS

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

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Long-term editing of brain circuits with engineered electrical synapses! I still remember years ago when Kafui Dzirasa from @dukeuni.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social called me beaming with excitement about this new technology. Here it is today in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41... .

Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse - Nature

Connexin proteins found in white perch fish were used to engineer synthetic electrical synapses, enabling precision circuit editing in mammals.

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We were all blown away last summer in Switzerland when @tuthill.bsky.social presented this work at the Sensation and Action conference.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers have long searched for the neural circuit underlying locomotion. Now they’ve found it in flies. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...