My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2027! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

Transformative opportunity for postdocs @hhmi-science.bsky.social #HannaGray Fellows competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/han...

Postdoc-Faculty Transition Program | Hanna H. Gray Fellows | HHMI

The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports postdoctoral scientists as they launch careers in academic science, equipping them to pursue scientific research at the highest levels and to recruit, mentor...

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Faculty position (please share): UMass Biochem is hiring a tenure-track Asst Professor researching molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain development, aging, and neurological disorders. Review begins Nov 1, '26, with an anticipated start date of Sept '27. careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Neuroscience - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Neuroscience Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Location: Amh...

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Check out our fresh new paper, out now in iScience! Songbird neuronal ensembles, from dozens of simultaneously recorded auditory neurons. bsky.app/profile/did:... Led by, and thread by, @felipe-cini.bsky.social below!!

@felipe-cini.bsky.social · 3w ago

#NewPaperOut Here's a puzzle: when a songbird hears the same song repeatedly, its neurons adapt; they respond less and less to that song. But what's the network doing during that adaptation? How do excitatory and inhibitory neurons participate as a collective?

1/5 I* made a command-line DNA toolkit called cedna: Captain Ed’s DNA tools. I named it this because I am a deeply unserious person. 🏴‍☠️🧬 *codex wrote it, but I was there too github.com/jevanveen/ce...

GitHub - jevanveen/cedna: Captain Ed's command-line tools for designing, editing, and analyzing DNA sequences

Captain Ed's command-line tools for designing, editing, and analyzing DNA sequences - jevanveen/cedna

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🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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A fun collaboration across 4 labs @edvanveenphd.bsky.social @neurrriot.bsky.social @kiransoma.bsky.social made possible by an Allen Distinguished Investigator award from @allenphilanthro.bsky.social Tools available from Addgene & others in the pipeline directly from Ed van Veen

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Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10

Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10

Best two weeks of my career - my postdoc paper was accepted, had a fab hypoGRC, and my K99 was funded!! Celebrated with carbs. Huge thanks to the many people that supported me, especially my postdoctoral mentor and labmates @correalab.bsky.social ready to be a PI now! 🌝 stay tuned for more on 🤰🏻🌡️🧠

The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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🚨NEW CNE PAPER 👶 A prolactin-receptive neural circuit drives maternal interactions with pups in mice @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scia...

A prolactin-receptive neural circuit drives maternal interactions with pups in mice

A prolactin-sensitive MPOA-VTA pathway supports maternal care by motivating a mother to interact with newborn offspring.

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I really have no idea how to write OMB rule comments, but I did my best. I wrote it directly in the OMB comment website since websites can track how people write. I hope they don't judge how badly I type ;-) But I copied it over here in case it helps others. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

So valuable to have multiple mentors and perspectives!

CorreaLab@UCLA@correalab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So special that Laura got to share the magic of working with these amazing mentors. Ngl, “why don’t you ask Nancy?” is a totally valid way to seek answers at UCLA too.

What an amazing way to kick off #SBN2026! 🎉 Our first session on mentorship lead by Drs. Nancy Forger, Alexandra Castillo- Ruiz and Laura Cortes sparked an inspiring discussion about the value of strong mentor–mentee relationships and the impact they have on scientific careers.

We have an opening for a Research Technician Specialist and/or Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on a NIH-funded project that examines neural responses to offspring vocalizations using a songbird model! 🧠🐦🐣More information and Links to the applications are below 👇

Hello! The Alward lab will be well represented at #SBN2026 @sbn-bsky.bsky.social in Niagara Falls! Beau Alward is giving a Beach Award talk and three trainees are presenting posters. Most posts to come. Also, we’re looking to take a PhD student next cycle! If attending the meeting reach out!

High scores for my grant = objective truth Low scores for my grant = subjective randomness

F99/K00 Predoc to Postdoc Transition Award NOFO is published. First due date is August 8th. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

As an NIA F99/K00 awardee, a lot of students reach out to me about my experience. A screenshot from the NIA website now tells applicants to pursue the F31 instead of the F99. The F31 is closed to non-citizen PhD students, it is also a much smaller + shorter award. www.nia.nih.gov/research/tra...

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5mo ago

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

do research on hormones and the brain/ behavior? Wanna present your work at a conference of other researchers like you in Niagara Falls and get an award for it? Then apply for an SBN Elsevier Award! sbn.org/awards/elsev... Take a look to see if this award is right for you! Deadline 4/24. Pls share!

Checked how my institute is doing (NICHD) using the grant curves from grant-witness.us/funding_curv.... It is somehow worse than I thought.

Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 7mo 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. 🧵👇

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers

Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging

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I conclude that NIH should make use of the large amounts of data that they have available to examine hypotheses before proposing developing new policies. 6/6

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ALT: a cartoon character says just take a look will you while holding a tablet

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