Jones Parker

Parkinsonian striatal acetylcholine dynamics are refractory to L-DOPA treatment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.686401v1

why bother when our <5th percentiles are turned away?

Great to hear. Congrats!

Any update on the outcome of this. Did you ever receive NoA?

One of my colleagues was asked to do an ‘interim no cost extension’ in lieu of an NOA. Didn’t even know that was a thing.

Though not posted to the register, SMN study section is tentatively re-scheduled for 4/22-4/23.

For anyone lurking here for this information (as I do for an MCNP re-scheduling announcement).

Ooof. What a depressing outlook. So bad for people at NIH, us, and the country as a whole.

NIH funding cuts could have ‘devastating impact’ on medical advancements, Chicago researchers say The National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump announced this month that it was cutting payments covering overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants.

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation.

Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed.

And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

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saw that. bummer. I have one at study section this week (not on register) and am scheduled to be on a study section next week (also not on register).

This seems to be the next one that isn’t listed in the register. Scheduled to meet tomorrow. public.era.nih.gov/pubroster/pr...

Maybe all the checking to see if it's offline overloaded the server 😅

Like ribbon candy

I saw these camping in TN after thanksgiving. No idea how this occurs.

As someone who worked with dopamine deficient mice and DAT-TH KO mice that were largely ‘normal’ (not cited therein), I’d say that’s a big MAYBE. Something going on there, we don’t know what, and is doesn’t prove that the dynamics are unimportant under physiologically relevant conditions.

Reposting for the grad school applicants who may have recently joined the blue place. Also will be at ABRCMS so swing on by booth 639!

A starter pack! Some of my favorite women in neuroscience (sorry if I forgot you, I will add!)

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I made a starter pack for neuroscience folks but I just saw that it’s capped at 150 people. Sorry if I missed anyone! Maybe #neuroscience folks should start making subfield starter packs? 🧪

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My plea to Dem leaders, liberal elites, social scientists, and every critical thinker who wants to keep fighting is to think beyond the perennial assumption that working-class drift can only be arrested by tweaking economic policy or talking points. Free to all. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

Yes. Great to see! I shut mine down for good Wednesday.

My run after lab meeting this morning!

Cool new pre-print from the Ford lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm in! Follow for content related to dopamine, in vivo imaging, and neuropharmacology. #neuroscience