David Moorman

New Special Issue out in #AddictionNeuroscience edited by @talialerner.bsky.social on dopamine circuitry and heterogeneity in addiction with articles by @daylab.bsky.social, Tom Hnasko, @mtorregrossa1.bsky.social, and Awatramani Rajeshwar check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Another reminder as we've crossed into the second half of February. There's still time to apply for the Neurobiology Chair position at Duke University! Just send in a letter of interest and CV by Feb 28. Love of Duke basketball is not required.

Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.

This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!

App deadline is March 15!

Get ready for the next GRC Frontal Cortex this August! Excited to be co-chairing this conference with @rudebecklab.bsky.social!! Spread the word and hope to see you there! 🧠

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg
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My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

This is a catastrophic unforced error.

It was quite something to hear @ohsunews.bsky.social President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ.

“Teammates” don’t support rivals.

Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research

“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”

Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social

There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.

Take action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NIH looks to turn primate research center into a sanctuary The health research agency is offering the Oregon National Primate Research Center federal money to stop testing on primates.

NIH and some outside interest groups are trying to force the closing of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, and it looks like they might win. This would be a huge blow for translational research. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

📢 GU Pharmacology & Physiology is hiring!
Tenure-track / tenured faculty position at Georgetown University Medical Center.
apply.interfolio.com/180562

Please share with your networks.

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!

Graphical ad showing Hobson Lab Postbac position: parakeet sociality and cognition, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

Gettysburg College is hiring 2 VAPs. Applications are due Feb 20th! Reach out if you have any questions and please share!

VAP Human Cog - gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/6092

VAP Health Psychology - gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/6086

Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.

Inhibitory insula-ACC projections modulate affective but not sensory aspects of neuropathic pain - PubMed The insula and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) are brain regions that undergo structural and functional reorganization in neuropathic pain states. Here, we aimed to study inhibitory parvalbumin positive (PV+) posterior insula (pIC) to posterior ACC (pACC) projections, and to evaluate the effects of …

Neuro friends: Any one ever try tract-tracing studies in the insula or cingulate (in rats or mice) and find a connection there? It keeps showing up in resting-state studies and outside of pIC to pACC inhibitory projections here (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37605272/), I can't find much else!

We are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in Neuroscience for the 26-27 school year at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, with an emphasis on teaching Neuroanatomy for our undergrad Neuroscience major. More info: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5034
Please share!
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#neurosky
#neuroskyence

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:

“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer

Depression treatment… at home?

The FDA has approved the first at-home brain stimulation device for depression — something that used to be limited to clinics.

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Plot of modeling new NIH grants after a switch to 100% MYF. There is a large drop in grants in the first year with a gradual recovery over 5 years.

There is a lot of talk lately about multi-year funding (MYF) at NIH. This is mostly a paperwork issue, but it can have a dramatic impact on the number of grants that get funded. I was curious how this would impact grant numbers over time, so I did some simple modeling. 1/n

DeGette Introduces Bill to Protect NIH From Political Interference WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, introduced the Follow the Science Act to shield the National Institutes...

NIH needs statutory protections against partisan politicized decision-making - especially around grant terminations. This bill is a solid start to achieving those aims.

degette.house.gov/media-center...

NIH ends support for some human fetal-tissue research – dismaying scientists The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

NIH will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions, citing advances in alternate methods.

“It’s clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” says Lawrence Goldstein, a neuroscientist at UCSD.

By @heidiledford.bsky.social and Edward Chen

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.

That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.

A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.

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Jobs | City University of New York

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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Hey ventral pallidum fans, see our new paper showing that #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting these cells with #DREADDs potentiates active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb.
Congrats to Erica Ramirez & Marty Martinez!
doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...