Howdy! 🤠 We’re hiring two research technicians to study sensory physiology, feeding behavior, and body-weight regulation using slice electrophysiology and viral-mediated circuit manipulations. No prior ephys experience needed, we’ll train you! Please reach out if interested 😊

New paper showing neighborhood-level socioeconomic opportunity was more strongly associated with children’s brain function than any ptherrr behavioral or environmental examined. In fact, brain activity thought to represent IQ may reflect socioeconomic context www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics

Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...

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The ovaries may have a mid-life glow up! New evidence suggesting they take on a role as an immune organ after they stop releasing eggs. academic.oup.com/molehr/artic...

The post-reproductive ovary shifts from a reproductive to an immune-like organ

Abstract. Reproductive aging in females is characterized by the irreversible depletion of ovarian follicles, yet the structure and function of the post-rep

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RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Are vultures feeding on carcasses from animals that were treated with the drug? Wow, indeed!

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

wow, link please?

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.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 9mo ago

ICE out of Minnesota NOW.

Excited to share my most recent postdoctoral work in the Jeanne lab @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! “Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We ask: how is a sensory code transformed across multiple stages of processing to inform behavior?

Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics

Extracting relevant features of a complex sensory signal typically involves sequential processing through multiple brain regions. However, identifying the logic and mechanisms of these transformations...

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I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

Girls as young as eight show a unique sensitivity to numbers representing their body weight, a new study finds. The results highlight early gender differences in attention and raise questions about how body awareness develops and affects girls’ perceptions later in life.

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Out today in @plosbiology.org! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Incompatibility between two major innovations shaped the diversification of fish feeding mechanisms

Large teeth and highly protrusible jaws are two feeding innovations that have evolved in fishes. High-speed videography and comparative phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are incompatible with e...

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Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel. buff.ly/ypISrtx

Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Best time for Ramadan, working on that inner peace. Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims around the 🌎.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resolving forebrain developmental organisation by analysis of differential growth patterns

The forebrain is the most complex region of the vertebrate CNS, and its developmental organisation is controversial. We fate-mapped the embryonic chick forebrain using lipophilic dyes and Cre-recombin...

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A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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I second Christian! Really appreciate the all around mentorship/sponsorship from Keystone Symposia!

Christian Cazares, Ph.D.@fleabrained.bsky.social · 2y ago

thanks for the mentorship!

www.latimes.com/california/s... “We are all worried about our own funding and stability, but this is very concerning for long-term scientific progress," @christineliu.art

UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews

The University of California, the nation's top recipient of federal research funding in higher education, is raising questions and concerns about the Trump administration's pause in research grant rev...

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Some murmuring blackbirds in Yolo County this PM #Birds

3 reviews on planning, execution, & validation of transcriptomic experiments in neuroscience published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social #NatureNeuroscience. A MUST READ if you're doing transcriptomics. 3 reviews, an amazing editorial, a beautiful cover – this is the issue of the year! (mini thread)

Lab get-togethers + mario kart 🥳😸

Yes!!! I’ve been saying this forever! Just a lil universal template to accompany each experiment that can be adapted and shared regardless of result. Like field notes or those quirky diary entries by scientists from eras long ago, just more searchable

Darius Valevicius@dariusliutas.bsky.social · 2y ago

There should be an open repository - like bioRxiv, but much more casual - where people can document their failed projects that aren't worth the trouble of trying to publish. A massive graveyard of hypotheses with rich indexing, focusing on methodological choices. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #science

New preprint led by one of my undergrad research assistants, Kirsten Nishino! I’m super proud of all that she’s accomplished the past ~two years and encourage others to keep an eye out for her grad school app

bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 2y ago

Functional dissection of metabolic trait-associated gene regulation in steady state and stimulated human skeletal muscle cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.28.625886v1

You will feel sleepy, you will do as I say! 😊

1/3 Amen. And the fact is that there are *plenty* of Michigan Democrats (voters and officials) in Wayne County trying to keep the City of #Detroit down because it is 77% Black. We should be building housing like crazy in this city and transit too. Michigan will never rise again without Detroit.

Paul Krugman@pkrugman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Totally agree with Appelbaum here, but worth noting that Democrats aren't the only problem. Project 2025 is all for deregulation of corporations, but vehemently defends the right of local governments to block housing construction 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

Our latest work to understand the dynamics of brain GIP and GLP-1 signaling to mediate responses to pharmacotherapy for obesity. Replicates key work from Timo Mueller and lab at the Helmholtz and takes it a little farther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Specific loss of GIPR signaling in GABAergic neurons enhances GLP-1R agonist-induced body weight loss

Dual incretin agonists are among the most effective pharmaceutical treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes to date. Such therapeutics can target tw…

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Today's a big day in Busan, South Korea, where nations are meeting to finalise a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The focus is on tackling the problem at its source—how plastics are made and used. This could be a turning point for addressing the #PlasticCrisis. apnews.com/article/3c50...

In South Korea, nations meet in final round to address global plastic crisis

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

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