Super excited to be selected as a NSP Fellow for 2026! I'm currently studying how inhibitory interneurons in the prefrontal cortex regulate compulsive behavior. 🐀👩‍🔬

Society for Neuroscience@sfn.org · 2d ago

It's #NSPWeek! For 40+ years, SfN’s Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) has supported grad students and postdocs in neuroscience nationwide. 📣 Calling all #NeuroScholars, past and present: where has neuroscience taken you so far? Drop a comment below and tag a fellow #NSPeep! #neurosky

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 · 4w ago

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!

Fellow @rsaofficial.bsky.social attendees: I hope you will come to our RSA Animal Research and Ethics Committee session “From biobanks to behavior” TODAY from 1:30-3 pm! Learn about several large-scale repositories and join in on discussions about reproducibility, rigor, and translation #RSA2026

You’re at the bar having that first drink of the night 🍻 the excited, energized feeling you may have is the “stimulant response” to alcohol - a risk factor for alcohol use disorder. We researched an understudied cell-type’s role in this response #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Comments are now open. You can comment here: www.regulations.gov/search?filte... Note that even if the administration goes ahead with this abomination, the comments are essential to aid subsequent litigation! 2/2

Jordy's 'Just My Two Cents' on Breakfast TV

ALT: Jordy's 'Just My Two Cents' on Breakfast TV

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🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Tom Kash@superkash.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.

FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Drinking Culture

Hi, My name is Georgia Kash and I am an 8th grader at dukeschool in durham which is a project based school, and for my final project I am studying the effect of mocktails on the society. A part of th...

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Back in the lab and reflecting on all of the amazing science at last week’s Alcohol and the Nervous System GRS and GRC! So excited to co-chair the 2028 GRS with @katiegbry.bsky.social!

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Notice of Temporary Extension of Eligibility for the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00): for Individuals whose final due date was September-November 2025 and January-March 2026. As always, reach out to your PO/IC contact to discuss. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience

Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

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A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026 #alcoholGRS2026

Excited to share a new lab preprint. This paper is entirely due to the efforts of @oliviaortelli.bsky.social, an incredibly talented PhD student (who is starting to look for a postdoc!). She combined her love of the Hank Sampson operant sipper tube drinking model... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A review of operant ethanol self-administration using the sipper model: Methodological advances and a novel standardized analysis tool

Despite decades of research, no new FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder (AUD) have emerged in over 25 years. Enhancing the translational relevance of preclinical models by more precisely...

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(1/3) Excited to introduce our new GRAB sensors for a series of steroid hormones! These tools enable real-time detection of steroid hormone dynamics in vivo🐭🧠. Happy to share these sensors and welcome any feedback! Please contact yulonglilab2018@gmail.com for information.

Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

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Check out our new paper on the behavioral engagement of cHAPs on a 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task. Congrats, Phillip and team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40492535/

Sex and Genetic Differences in Behavioral Engagement of Crossed High Alcohol-Preferring and Low Alcohol-Preferring Mice - PubMed

Excessive levels of alcohol consumption play a major role in numerous alcohol-related harms, including a heightened risk of developing problematic drinking behaviors. Those who develop alcohol use dis...

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When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...

Does anyone know what's up with this message on NIAAA's website? "Due to HHS and NIH restructuring, this website will be maintained, but no new content will be added." I don't see that message on other institute pages...

and still no updated postings/notices for the NRSA parent F31 and F32 award mechanisms 🫠

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last yr.

RFK Jr. just said he wants NIH to support “younger scientists instead of older folks" but is cutting funding that supports entire areas of research and career support for generations of scientists.

Keeping an eye on this. What Katie shared on Friday has an estimated post date of 5/10, but has not been posted yet. There are currently NO F31 active opportunities to apply to, and very few F32. I don’t think a delay between expiration dates like this has ever happened before? What’s going on?

Katie Bryant@katiegbry.bsky.social · last yr.

Looks like there is a new announcement forecasted for this weekend so hopefuly this is just a temp thing???https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358830

Looks like there is a new announcement forecasted for this weekend so hopefuly this is just a temp thing???https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358830

Katie Bryant@katiegbry.bsky.social · last yr.

Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday

And it doesn’t look like a replacement has been announced? What’s going on?

Katie Bryant@katiegbry.bsky.social · last yr.

Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday

Parent F31 and F32 announcements were updated to expire yesterday

Me to my brain organoid in an operant chamber after animal research is defunded

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle

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This is insane. $40 billion cut to HHS. 40% of NIH budget will be gone, 27 institutes will shrink down to 8. 44% of CDC budget will disappear, all work on chronic diseases will cease. Head Start will be eliminated. SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

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