🤯TRIPPING IN YOUR SLEEP: Psychedelics, The Placebo Effect, & How Human Connection Heals the Brain with Dr. Boris Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social💭 Ep. 51 of A Chat with Uma out now! 🌟 This ep is truly a dream come true (no pun intended)-a MUST listen! 🙌🏾 Tune in📲 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

✨Normal science funding is broken but the showgirl must go on ✨ We are crowdfunding for our project to identify a next-gen preclinical OCD mouse model! 🔗 researchhub.com/referral/joi... #OCD #Neuroscience #CrowdfundingScience 🧪👩‍🔬 🧠 🧬 💸

In this month’s “Liftoff,” ‪ @agonru.bsky.social talks about the importance of taking care of the little things, and Andrew Kesner says that the real key to success lies in your collaborator community. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

Liftoff: New lab alerts

Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

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New from @dralexharris.bsky.social, Ula Skupio, and myself in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social: a long in the works review trying to untangle what stress is doing in the VTA, and what the piles of confusing data might teach us about what the VTA is doing at all. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Untangling the multifaceted VTA responses to stress

Stress has profound impacts on the ventral tegmental area (VTA). However, the complex and opposing effects of stress on the VTA have limited our abili…

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U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers

Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country

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New work from my lab looking at how dopamine neurons are affected by stress and males and females! This paper comes to you through three rounds of major building construction, a pandemic, six months that we could not get TTX, some animal facility shenanigans and now is here on your internet!

Sex‐Specific Adaptations to VTA Circuits Following Subchronic Stress

Subchronic variable stress, a paradigm shown to have divergent behavioral effects in males and females, induces shared and distinct physiological adaptations in the VTA. While both males and females ...

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Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training! I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪 Please share with any students who might be interested! Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro

BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true. The request released moments ago would: - Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget - Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC - Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas' There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding... I barely have words. Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking.

Dr. Becca@docbecca.bsky.social · last yr.

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Very creative, San Francisco! 8647 ✊

Check out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠

@stanfordbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

What can AI teach us about how the brain understands language? In today's podcast, we explore how LLMs are helping neuroscientists study how we process language with Stanford psychologist and faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/what-ch...

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄 @theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A multi-institutional investigation of psilocybin's effects on mouse behavior

Studies reporting novel therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs are rapidly emerging. However, the reproducibility and reliability of these findings could remain uncertain for years. Here, we impleme...

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

I was delighted to have an editorial in my hometown paper on the administration's threat to the NIH and what it means for the health and welfare of my peeps. For the good it may do, I urge you to also write one @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social Bonus: It's cathartic to write a scream into the void.

submitted my 4th grant application of 2025 ✅✅✅✅

a dog is sitting on top of a bed with the words `` i go to bed now night '' written on it .

Alt: a dog is sitting on top of a bed with the words `` i go to bed now night '' written on it .

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From Newmarket, NH, 🫎 to Stanford, neuroscientist Robyn St. Laurent researches OCD & addiction to develop new treatments. ‘The opportunities I had shouldn’t be the exception; they should be the foundation for the next generation.’ 🧪🏠 @robynstlaurent.bsky.social www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

Robyn St. Laurent: Why science funding matters more than you think

Cutting funding to NIH and and NSF does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; it threatens the well-being of people.

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I wrote an opinion column for the local newspaper in southern NH where I am from. Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration! Please consider doing this in your hometown! #SciAdvocate 🧪👩‍🔬 www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

Robyn St. Laurent: Why science funding matters more than you think

Cutting funding to NIH and and NSF does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; it threatens the well-being of people.

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SfN joins 600 organizations & more than 3,500 people across the country in @researchamerica.bsky.social's coalition letter urging Congress to protect vital NIH funding. Read the full letter: bit.ly/3XhgFCJ #NeuroSky #NeuroAdvocate

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

🔗 Contact your representatives using SfN’s Action Alert Center: bit.ly/413khdN #NeuroSky

Today a reporter reached out to me after seeing posts I made on Bluesky about what’s going on at NIH. Keep typing, keep talking, keep shouting, because your voice goes beyond the void.

At the opening remarks for #WCBR2025 and the biggest round of applause followed a statement about Winter Brain’s continued commitment to DEI. As the infrastructure crumbles we can and will double down on supporting those who are being disproportionately affected by the current admin! 🧪🧠👩‍🔬

Great opportunity for a visiting AP in behavioral neuroscience at my alma mater. Colby is an awesome place and the psych department is chock full of great people! See Melissa’s post for the deets! ⬇️

Melissa Glenn, Ph.D.@astroglia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rat behavioral neuroscientists! Colby College is looking for a Visiting Assistant Professor to replace me while I'm doing admin work. Position is for up to 3 years. Great resources, amazing lab space, wonderful students and colleagues. Happy to answer questions. apply.interfolio.com/154806

Check out @acnporg.bsky.social first time attendee @sedonaewbank.bsky.social @StanfordMed present her poster “Quantitative Profiling of the Effects of Subanesthetic Ketamine on Naturalistic Behavior and Brain Microstructure” stop by W25 and say 👋 hi! #ACNP2024 Airan Lab

Ok wow, I thought #SfN24 fomo was rough. Let me tell you, I was *not* prepared for #ACNP2024 on BlueSky. Who wants to invite me next year 😭