1/6 Opioids trigger a dopamine surge that can create dangerous reward associations—yet that same dopamine signal may help shape central pain perception. Can the dopamine surge and reward associations be separated? Our recent Nature study says yes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you missed the news, I’ve directed a 20 minute short documentary about Bob Mould’s band Sugar & it’s coming out next week! Edited by my Other Music & Elephant 6 colleague Greg King, interviews with Bob & bandmates David Barbe & Malcolm Travis and tons of amazing archival. youtu.be/Vl_vt9HTW4I?...

Sugar - Changes: The Story of Sugar

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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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**Four** positions in AI/ML for biology at @dukemedschool.bsky.social, including in Neurobiology. @scottsoderling.bsky.social and David Page are leading a tremendous initiative in Discovery AI. Wonderful colleagues, wonderful place.

AI/ML for Biology - 4 tenure-track assistant professor positions - Durham, North Carolina job with Duke University - Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 12862109

Discovery AI Initiative and Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

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😍🎉Olivia Tremor Control release! The long-awaited 3rd album, "The Same Place" is finally ready. Release date Oct 23, 2026. They're accepting pre-order now. Thanks to MLE for the good news! elephant6.com

Happy birthday Brenda!! 108 🥲

The Women In Science Archive@wisarchive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

All I want to do is listen to Fugazi all the time

Now out at PNAS - congratulations to Ramanujan Srinath and the team! Ram's ability and willingness to connect all these data, models, and ideas has changed my thinking/interpretation of many findings. I suspect I will keep learning from this study for a long time. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The structure of correlated variability reflects task-relevant information in sensory neurons | PNAS

Shared trial-to-trial variability across sensory neurons is reliably reduced when perceptual performance improves, yet this variability is low dime...

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Marlene Cohen@marlenecohen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

One of the joys of being a scientist is the ability to think about a problem for a long time. Our new preprint solves a mystery that has been bugging me since I was a graduate student (which was, ahem, a while ago). 🧪🧠🧵1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

Noooooooiooooooojoiioo sigh

After our cable's been down for weeks, it's back just in time for extra time, go

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

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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · last mo.

I have been thinking since yesterday about why I find the 1% thing so, so disturbing. It's a visceral reaction of 'just no', which goes beyond the general yuck towards the enshittification of/via AI. I have finally put my finger on it: it is the feeling you get when

Anything with Marty Feldman, but this is so short and well delivered it kills me every time youtu.be/AS1HIThPcz8?...

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE BATHROOM DAY AND NIGHT?

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Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · last mo.

Everyone tell me your favorite Mel Brooks bit. Could be of himself or something from one of his movies or a speech, everything funny counts Mine changes, but right now I think it may be this tiny moment in Robin Hood Men in Tights. The incredulous, “you changed it *to* latrine?” WRECKS me lmao

If you haven't yet commented on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants, it's not too late! You still have about 2 weeks (by July 13). I finally had a lull in work and did it today. Many guides have been posted on Bsky, here's a good one. Submit here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Pylon Reenactment Society’s shows this weekend. Dexfest in Carrboro, NC at Cat’s Cradle. Individual tickets now available catscradle.com/event/dex-fe... Athfest in Athens, GA at Dead Beat Club Clubcrawl wristbands: www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/... or $10 at the door if space allows.

Congratulations to fantastic postdoc Ramanujan Srinath and former star tech Martyna Czarnik on their new paper on the neural basis of flexible generalization in Nature Communications today! 🥳 Stable readout of visual representations mediates flexible generalization www.nature.com/articles/s41...

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

Weather forecasting transformed how we respond to storms. What if we could do the same for human health? Looking forward to my #ISC26 keynote on HPC for vascular digital twins, chronophysiomics, and the path toward forecasting disease before symptoms appear.

The lab has been at full capacity, but with team members moving to their next career steps, we have open postdoc positions.

NIH announces the creation of the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA) to reduce use of animals in research. dpcpsi.nih.gov/oriva

Many of the scientific questions we're interested in tackling require studying learning over long periods of time across the brain. This is challenging – which is why we're excited to say we've been developing a system for chronic wireless recording using long Neuropixels probes in macaque monkeys.

Wow. $80M annually over two years for internal grants to support the life sciences at JHU. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/10/l...

Johns Hopkins announces major new investment in cutting-edge life sciences research

The Life Sciences Research Initiative will direct $80 million annually over the next two years to fuel breakthroughs and discoveries to improve human health

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We're excited to share our latest profile! Dr. Suzanne Haber studies the circuits underlying reward-based learning & decision making, and how those circuits can be therapeutically targeted to treat disease. Follow the link below to learn more! #WomenInNeuro www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Dr. Suzanne Haber — Stories of WiN

studies the circuits underlying reward-based learning and decision making, and how those circuits can be therapeutically targeted to treat disease

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Dexfest in Chapel Hill Carrboro June 26-28 www.dexfestnc.com

HOME | Dex Fest 2026

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Deeply honored to be named a 2026 Beckman Young Investigator #BYI!🧬 This recognition reflects the creativity and hard work of my incredible lab, and we are so grateful and excited for the Foundation's support as we tackle the next generation of continuous evolution.

Beckman Foundation@beckman-foundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to our 2026 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees! Twelve Researchers Selected to Receive $7.2M in Total Science Funding for Cutting-edge Research www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/... #BYI #beckmanresearch #newlyawarded

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...

I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)

SSNAP always ends with a final conference, open to the public--both in person and online. Here are the zoom links for this afternoon, for those who want to connect. Feel free to share widely! Jorge Morales (Northeastern): duke.zoom.us/j/99919297471 Zoe Drayson (UC Davis): duke.zoom.us/j/91565535456

SOOO excited to share this new story from the lab, in which we identify a functional influenza-induced immune engram with behavioral and immune consequences, along with a potential therapeutic target within the lung-brain axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...