On CNN, El-Sayed is asked about this Trump post. He says it represents "two different visions of America:" "Two people who don't like each other but are joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you. Or, two people who genuinely love each other, enjoying some panacakes together."

Ruffed Grouse 40-50 cm Canada,Alaska, N and W US permeant residents diet summer green leaves, clover, all berries seeds and insects winter buds catkins from aspen birch and cherry trees The drumming is a male mating ritual

Proud to share the first of a series of papers on “Picture a ‘Black in Neuro’ Scientist.” A thoughtful perspective on how mentorship is a reciprocal ecosystem and a necessary institutional investment! academic.oup.com/oons/article...

Mentorship as a Mechanism for Equity, Retention & Scientific Innovation in Neuroscience-related Careers

Abstract. Despite rapid advances in neuroscience, Black scientists remain persistently underrepresented across training and career stages, reflecting struc

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Sign our petition in support for Dr. Fauci! : zurl.co/6tdkA Article: zurl.co/1zgnt

GOP senators vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for invoking the Fifth during tense hearing

Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions over 100 times during last week’s hearing, angering Republican lawmakers who have targeted him for years.

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The Trump Admin is harassing Fauci to scare scientists from speaking up against the administration's war on science, sowing public distrust in scientists and public health experts. We are standing up for Fauci. JOIN US by signing our petition at the link: zurl.co/RCYN8

The final version of our amygdala dopamine paper is out! BLA dopamine dynamically tracks emotional salience and not value or reward prediction error. Congrats to Dr. Megan Brickner!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basolateral amygdala dopamine transmits emotional salience - Nature Communications

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

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Mother swan with her adorable cygnets getting a ride on her back, brilliant !

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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This Ruby-throated Hummingbird pose makes me think of a teeny tiny penguin.

It's the fun time of year when the hummingbird moths appear! This one is a Hummingbird Clearwing. They are moths that hover while sipping nectar, with Bee Balm being one of their favorite flowers.

📚 New editorial from @ejneuroscience.bsky.social! 🌟The Inspiring Journeys of Women in Science by Marian Joëls, Paige R. Nicklas and Dana L. Helmreich 📖 Read the more here: buff.ly/ipg7tjg

"There's an extreme, radical, right-wing agenda coming out of the federal government targeting higher education. The AAUP won’t exist in an ivory tower and wait for politics to be done to its members. That’s not the AAUP of 2026." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements

The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.

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Musician Wren 12 cm Amazon Rainforest, S America famous for its rich fluting-oran-like song Diet: insects, spiders, berries and fruits Nest: 2 eggs, female incubates, both parents feed the chicks

Why can traumatic stress increase aggression? This study identifies an orbitofrontal–amygdala pathway that is activated by stress and required for persistent, maladaptive aggression following trauma, highlighting a potential therapeutic target

Traumatic stress recruits an excitatory orbitofrontal–amygdala pathway to drive maladaptive aggression

Neuropsychopharmacology - Traumatic stress recruits an excitatory orbitofrontal–amygdala pathway to drive maladaptive aggression

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The Women’s Health Research Cluster is proud to launch our annual Women’s Health Seminar Series #WHSS! Starting September 2026, we’re hosting #FREE virtual seminar series led by nine experts sharing their new research on #womenshealth.

Very excited about this new preprint from @odrake.bsky.social, an incredibly talented MD/PhD student in the lab. 🧵 below, but the TL;DR: we found a rare striatal neuron subtype with unique transcriptional, spatial, and circuit properties that gates opioid reward.

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Our new preprint from @daylab.bsky.social characterizes Chst9-MSNs, a specialized NAc population with high Oprm1 expression and opioid sensitivity that is required for fentanyl reward learning. Excited to share this work! 🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

You, yes you, "You're Invited: A Conversation on NIH's Unified Funding Strategy" the Webinar. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

An analysis of fossil mammals in Science suggests that Mexico served as a long-term evolutionary “holding pen” where North American species adapted and diversified for millions of years before sweeping into South America 2.8 million years ago. https://scim.ag/4fu2QKL

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How the SCN Maintains the Estrous Cycle; How Humans Control Eye Movements While Multitasking https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/30/etwij46302026

Excited to share this paper led by two undergrads in the lab, out now in Neurobiology of Stress! Temporal reorganization of maternal care during early life stress in mice doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Lesser Florian Is a grassland bird found only in India, smallest of the Bustard species. Their diet consist of caterpillars insects, frogs lizards, and berries The male is famous for its dramatically, leaping courtship dances by jumping hundreds of times to attract a female as seen here

This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Such a cool and surprising discovery: "octopus ribosomes produced proteins that were less likely to misfold or clump together than ribosomes from squid, other mollusks, or even humans"

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A Chance Discovery Reveals an Unexpected Twist in One of Biology's Oldest Molecular Machines 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rishav902.bsky.social @treyjscott.bsky.social @nbellono.bsky.social @danafarbernews.bsky.social @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

#JNeurosci: Myers et al. mapped the brain regions that communicate with 2 nodes of the ACC in monkeys, revealing distinct connection patterns that help explain why 1 node is linked to mood regulation & the other to motivated thinking & decision-making. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0337-26.2026

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The OMB Grant Proposal is yet another step in Trump’s campaign to destroy science in America, but it may be the most dangerous step yet. Visit the link to contact your MoC’s about the proposal: zurl.co/wvbjB Article: zurl.co/MkbeQ

‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees

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Glia in Focus 🔬 Astrocytic oxytocin receptors are changing how we think about oxytocin signalling. These images and calcium recordings show that astrocytic OTRs are functionally active and contribute to brain circuit function. Image by: Denis Clémence

“This plan raises profound concerns about the future of publicly funded science. It does nothing to make anyone healthier or safer, and it isn’t what Americans want.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicsky

Trump wants smarter computers, dumber people | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the Gen Z revolution takes on India.

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Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.