Chairteenth 🪑

KEW@kidadaewilliams.com · 20h ago

Happy #Chairteenth y’all. ✊🏾

Holy crap my R01 was just renewed. Literally staring at the NoA in disbelief. I was told back in April it would not be funded and I was mentally preparing to wind the lab down. Now here we are with the chance to rebuild (again, if you've been with me for a while).

Is This Real Life?

Alt: Meme icon "David after the dentist" asking, "Is This Real Life?"

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Congratulations to Cummings lab graduate student Hunter Franks on his NRSA F31 award! Hunter will resolve the mPFC GABAergic circuit mechanisms of opioid reward seeking. I cannot be more proud to be his mentor 🧠🎊

This year's Neuroscience Seminar Series is 👌 with a stellar lineup of field-leading neuroscientists across career stages. We can't wait to kick this off next month! Thanks to @uabneuro.bsky.social for the generous support!

UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center@uabneuro.bsky.social · last wk.

Get ready for the 2026-2027 UAB Neuroscience Seminar Series! Coordinated by @kacummings.bsky.social, this CNC-sponsored series brings external speakers to campus for weekly seminars at the cutting edge of neuroscience.

Huge congrats to Cai Lab postdoc @destyniemedeiros.bsky.social for being named a @simonsfoundation.org Junior Fellow! 🎉 Destynie is a brilliant rising star 🌟 The rigor of her science and the leadership she has built in our community impress me again and again. So well earned. Congrats, Destynie! 🧠✨

after a prolonged drought looks like I may be hitting four conferences in four months 😆 looking forward to seeing my science friends starting at @grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social next month!

Notice of Award Monday! Grateful to NIDA for supporting some very exciting work defining the cellular and circuit mechanisms that opioids target to produce rewarding effects.

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN 📣 Our 7th annual #BlackInNeuroWeek is coming soon 🧠 From July 27th to August 2nd, we have an ✨AMAZING✨ week of events planned for you all, free and open to the public 🤗 Don’t miss out! Register for #BINW26 here ⤵️ events.zoom.us/ev/AgaErvpe_... #BlackInSTEM #Neuroskyence 🧪

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

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I encourage everyone who has submitted comments on the hot mess that is OMB-2026-0034 to also send a copy to your congress critters. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula sex-dependently regulate ethanol and sucrose consumption https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736151v1

Let's go people!!! Get those comments in!!! Almost to 300K!!!

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Kirstie Cummings@kacummings.bsky.social · 3w ago

I just submitted my comment and so can you! Commenting closes today - it is not too late to voice your concerns!

I just submitted my comment and so can you! Commenting closes today - it is not too late to voice your concerns!

Sarah Gollust@sarahgollust.bsky.social · 4w ago

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

Are you a senior postdoc with a complete scientific story to tell? Apply for our Yale Molecular Psychiatry MAPS program and tell us about your work at our weekly neuroscience seminar series. PLEASE REPOST!

2026 GRC Frontal Cortex August 9 - 14, 2026 Application deadline: July 12, 2026 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Our labs first paper! Some 😳 surprising effects. Turns out everything comes back to context 🤓

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ventral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737546v1

thrilled to share our latest work from the lab, led by the amazing @fernandezpenac.bsky.social (now a PI at @unmc.bsky.social!) where we found a new role for a tiny group of adrenergic neurons in RVLM, the C1 cells. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

We are having such a 🔥 week in the lab (independent of the Alabama heat 🥵)! Totally reinvigorating and inspiring and reminds me that, despite all the 💩 happening now, this is truly the best job with the best people!

Join me and @kacummings.bsky.social at frontal cortex GRC 🧠this year features a great line up of speakers and numerous networking oppertunities for trainees 🙌🏾

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · last mo.

Meet your #GRC-FrontalCortex vice-chairs! @kacummings.bsky.social and @drbediya.bsky.social FYI this is the FINAL week to apply! more info here: www.grc.org/frontal-cort... Can't wait to see you all August 9-12 in Holderness, NH!

Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug. 2. Join us for our 7th annual celebration of Black excellence in neuroscience. 📣 #BINRollCall ⏳ #BlackInTime (NEW!) 🧠 #NeuroRacism 🌍 #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora 💼 #NeuroCareers ✨ #BlackInNeuroJoy 😌 #BlackRestInNeuro #BINW26 #BlackInNeuro

❗️Final week to apply for the GRC on the Frontal Cortex❗️More info on registering and our 🤩 speaker line up can be found here: www.grc.org/frontal-cort... Don't miss out on this!

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Meet your #GRC-FrontalCortex vice-chairs! @kacummings.bsky.social and @drbediya.bsky.social FYI this is the FINAL week to apply! more info here: www.grc.org/frontal-cort... Can't wait to see you all August 9-12 in Holderness, NH!

Old e-phys trick... wrap EVERYTHING in aluminum foil. And then build a Faraday cage around that. And then hang some chicken bones inside the Faraday cage for good measure.

Matt Murphy@mjosmurphy.bsky.social · last mo.

Turns out the stupid electrical noise problem I've been having with my research for months was easy to solve (wrap everything in aluminum foil)

In 'How to Change a Memory', Steve Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited and even constructed from nothing. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Frontal Cortex Peeps: The full program for the 2026 GRC Frontal Cortex is now available! Applications are due July 12, 2026 - don't delay! Spots are starting to fill up! Check out the complete program and register here --> www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Don't miss out on the premier conference for all things frontal cortex! Deadline to apply is in 2️⃣ weeks!! 🤩🤩

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · last mo.

Meet your #GRC-FrontalCortex chairs! Only 2 weeks left to apply! For more info: www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Meet your #GRC-FrontalCortex chairs! Only 2 weeks left to apply! For more info: www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Look for me at SfN as Brainbow Prints! I'll be neighbors with @christineliu.art who helped encourage me to take this big step this year ☺️ brainbow.art

Brainbow Prints

A neuroscientist's experimentation with printmaking

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Your research is ready. Is your job talk? 💡 NEURO YES applications are open now! Senior postdocs: practice your job talk & chalk talk in front of UR’s neuroscience faculty and get noticed by hiring committees. Present. Get feedback. Land the role. 🌐 neuroyes.urmc.edu #NEUROYES #URochesterResearch