🎉 this paper is now out - we show how subicular plateaus are linked to reward locations. Congratulations to the whole team! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Subicular plateaus signal reward locations during goal-directed behavior

Using in vivo whole-cell recordings during goal-directed navigation, Bhatia, Adel, and Grienberger identify plateaus as a prominent feature of subiculum activity. These events preferentially occur nea...

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Christine Grienberger@cgrienberger.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 New preprint from the lab! Our first foray into the subiculum uses in vivo whole-cell recordings to show that dendritic plateaus are a prominent, learning-dependent signaling mode of subicular neurons. Feedback is welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new study shows a CHD-family remodeler can nucleate and spread H3K9 methylation de novo, inverting the canonical hierarchy between writers and remodelers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nucleosome remodeling by a CHD enzyme promotes H3K9 methylation establishment and spreading via remodeler-writer feedback

In Schizosaccharomyces pombe , the conserved CHD remodeler Mit1 function within the SHREC remodeler-deacetylase complex (a homolog of the metazoan Mi-2/NuRD complex), which is essential for H3K9 methy...

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NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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If you like ethological learning, structural plasticity, and the idea that homeostatic setpoints are malleable, this paper is for you! Congrats to Diane and the whole team on the culmination of a long and fascinating journey #dianebissen.bsky.social, #neuroskyance

@dianebissen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back to Bluesky to share the most exciting news: my postdoctoral research is now published in Neuron! We used cricket hunting to show how ethological learning persistently rewires juvenile (but not adult!) visual circuits by co-opting homeostatic plasticity. Full story www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Spain are the winners of the 2026 World Cup 🏆 Here's a look at how the materials that make up the shirts help them stand up to all the shirt-pulling and rough-housing in a typical Argentina match ⚽ #ChemSky 🧪

Our research center for #ParentsWithDisabilities faces closure after federal funding opportunity withdrawn Learn more: TinyUrl.com/ParentingCenterFunding Press release: tinyurl.com/PressReleaseFunding Toolkit: tinyurl.com/AdvocacyToolkitFolder

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🎉 New/updated preprint! From 🌟 GS Kirsten Judge + Most neuronal cilia form during development. Can adult neurons rebuild damaged cilia? Are functions restored? Does regrowth use different pathways from ciliogenesis? Answers (in C. elegans): Yes, yes, and partly. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Neuron-intrinsic and glial pathways regulate sensory cilia regeneration in adult C. elegans

Primary cilia are microtubule-based organelles that mediate cellular responses to environmental cues. Although cilia disassemble and reassemble upon cell cycle entry and exit, respectively, in dividin...

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Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social 's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages, powered by @scientifyresearch.org. #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...

Neuroscience Grants Funding Finder

Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages.

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Happy to announce that my book will be published June 9 Primetime: A New Vision for Midlife www.simonandschuster.com/books/Primet...

Primetime

Leading lifespan psychologist Margie Lachman creates an inspiring new framework for midlife, based on her landmark thirty years of research and wor...

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new kick in the teeth for US science. These are PROPOSED new rules that just dropped in the federal register. TLDR: would effectively allow political appointees to direct the $ where ever they want. Comments open until July 13.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Are you fascinated by microscopy? Love beautiful images? Enjoy image analyses and quantification? Like working with a great group of people? Then please apply for the position of Manager of our fantastic Light Microscopy Facility. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/j...

Light Microscopy Facility Manager

The main purpose of this job is to bring cutting-edge light microscopy research approaches to Brandeis researchers and oversee the day-to-day operations of the Brandeis light microscopy facility. The ...

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Mark the date - the 10th New England Glycochemistry meeting @ Brandeis is happening June 13! Register at negcmu.sites.northeastern.edu # glycotime #chemsky #chemchat

Breakthrough in solar energy: Dewar pyrimidone stores sunlight as thermal energy at 1.6 MJ/kg, activated at 300 nm. A nod to DNA design! PMID:41678586, Science 2026, @ScienceMagazine https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec6413 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

Let your representatives know what you think about proposed cuts to science (54% cut to NSF!) in the presidential budget request. Science makes America great.

AAU@aau.edu · 4mo ago

AAU urges Congress to reject the proposed cuts to scientific agencies in the FY27 presidential budget request. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

Ribbon cutting for our new imaging facility equipment funded by @malifesciences.bsky.social with special guests Mayor Jeannette McCarthy and Rep Thomas Stanley www.brandeis.edu/stories/2026...

Brandeis light microscopy facility marks a new era with ribbon-cutting ceremony

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The @nationalacademies.org Awards for Excellence in #scicomm have honored some of the best thinkers & creatives I know, like @chanda.blacksky.app @neillewisjr.bsky.social @cbo.bsky.social Top award: $40,000. Deadline: April 3. Explore & apply www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...

National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications

The National Academies are accepting submissions to an annual award program that aims to recognize and develop excellence in science communication by research scientists, science journalists, and scie...

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Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

Anyone publish NIH-funded work in Nature recently? And what have you done about compliance regarding submission of the AAM to PubMedCentral? Really confusing advice from everyone and on their website. Gold OA is an extortionary $13K. Their website says 6 mo embargo for self depositing the AAM. 🤯🤯🤯

Due to a series of unfortunate events, we have a number of temp positions open on the preaward team in our Research Administration office. Our faculty are nice to work with and it's a great place to learn new things or share your experience. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

Temporary Pre Award Grant Administrator

The Office of Research Administration is looking for a temporary Pre Award Grant Administrator. The Grant Administrator, DISC Pre-Award supports departmental and institutional efforts in securing exte...

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Boston rally: fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/?

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Stand up for Science

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We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

Research Technician

Research Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is...

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"Losing my institutional email address felt like losing a small but vital piece of the scientist I had become." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3OGpS67

According to data from NSF, universities contributed $30.2 billion of their own funds to research in FY24 – at least $7.07 billion of which went to cover essential research costs known as F&A. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

Thanks to the Nature team for digging into this. Apportionment is one of those inside-baseball issues that I hoped never to need to learn about... But here was are.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Wrote up a plain-language guide to the NSF GRFP — eligibility, what it pays, what changed in FY2026, and how the application actually works. Will update when the FY2027 solicitation drops. If you're considering applying this fall, start here: www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...

The NSF GRFP, Explained: What It Is, Who Qualifies, and What Changed in 2026 — Ya'el Courtney

A complete guide to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from a coach who's supported 25+ GRFP applicants. Covers eligibility, the application, review criteria, and the major FY2026 changes — includin...

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Our second paper of the year is online at @pnas.org. Led by recently graduated PhD student Anjali Pandey, we describe how seemingly symmetric neuronal responses can be mediated by underlying asymmetric molecular mechanisms. Link to longer preprint post below. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚀 New preprint from the lab! Our first foray into the subiculum uses in vivo whole-cell recordings to show that dendritic plateaus are a prominent, learning-dependent signaling mode of subicular neurons. Feedback is welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...