Sydney Trask

An Accidental Journey Into the Black Hole of the Hippocampus and How We Learned About What Makes a Context a Context In this commentary, I recount my personal research journey that brought me to studying the hippocampus, which I vigorously avoided earlier in my career. I focus on studies of contextual fear conditio...

An Accidental Journey Into the Black Hole of the Hippocampus and How We Learned About What Makes a Context a Context
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New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122

Loved this movie. Quickly became my go-to recommendation for people who said they wanted something new.

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🧠 Curious about grad school in Psych & Brain Sciences?
Join UC Santa Barbara’s PBS Department for a virtual open house on Oct 14 — meet faculty, connect with grad students, and learn more about the program!

I apparently missed the announcement but happy to be in good company with other 2025 NARSAD young investigators! bbrfoundation.org/content/brai...

If you showed me the cartoon version and asked me who in our department I thought it was, you wouldn't even be in the Top 20.

Principles for proper peer review

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
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#neuroscience

Drug‐Related Engrams and Their Role in the Persistence and Recurrence of Drug‐Related Behaviors Memory is a cornerstone of human behavior, and addiction offers a compelling model of its persistence and plasticity. The scope of engram research has rapidly expanded to include addiction-related ph....

First lab paper out today! Student authors: Mikayla Cutler and Abhi Thati 🎉🤩

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It feels like the statement "I want to get this in before the gov shutdown" should be more rare than it has been in my life.
#NewPI #AcademicSky

Excited to have this preprint out into the world!

Reveling in the fact that we can post our own gifs on Bsky now.

My gift to you, @fim.bsky.social at the cheesiest tiki bar in Hawaii that we could find.

Evil Dead Rise is one of my favorites in that franchise. Alyssa Sutherland was made for this role. Looking forward to your countdown!

Loved Weapons, and agree that it did veer towards humor. IMO there was an interesting commentary on what happens after we see the villain get their comeuppance. With that catharsis there was also a deep sadness that nothing really was fixed with it. The Alex chapter was particularly well done.

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Oh it was so good to see you! Such a good reminder that for how much we can struggle in science it brings me people like you.

No one told me about the worst part of parenthood: Having to make a dinner every night when you'd rather just eat chips.

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026!

Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

Flyer for Texas A&M hiring of two assistant professors in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience, with link for applications.

We're hiring 2 faculty in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level -- come join our amazing department at Texas A&M!
apply.interfolio.com/172286
Apply by Oct 1 for highest priority.

A sure sign of aging is knowing who the stars are on Dancing with the Stars.

The Feel-Bad, Feel-Good Movie of the Year The horror film "Weapons" grants viewers some relief—but with a catch.

Thoughtful review on an excellent movie:

“he’s underlining the fallacy of catharsis…vanquishing evil doesn’t undo the terrors it has already wrought—and that there’s only so much relief a conclusion can actually bring.”

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My sister complied with this request and asked zero follow-up questions.

Country’s 1st disability-focused book seller Nightlight Books seeks physical space in Cleveland – The Land "As far as I know. . . we're the only ones in the U.S. I know of disabled booksellers, I know disabled writers and publishers, but not bookstores where that's the specific focus...People in the wild w...

Nice write up on my sister-in-law’s bookseller, Nightlight Books. Cleveland-based - check it out if you’re nearby!

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Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

Maybe it was like in Arrested Development where George is constantly trying to teach his kids a lesson. “And THAT’S why you always wear closed-toe shoes in lab!”

Toe-tally unsure: I think stock photo from roughly 2004 if I am placing the flip flops correctly. I definitely had a very similar pair. However, not pictured is the QR code on this poster, suggesting it was made more recently than 2004. Maybe just used an old image?

This lab safety poster shows that the glass was already broken when it hit the foot, suggesting foul play. A mystery is afoot.

A pedestrian bridge over a road with the words “BETTER DAYS” written in caution tape across the fencing.

Morning commute.

Behavioral Neuroscience: The consequences of stress on the brain and fear A region of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus mediates the impact of stress on unlearned fear responses, but is not involved in learned fear behavior.

Had a blast writing this insight article with @sydneytrask.bsky.social covering original research from the @michaeldrew.bsky.social lab on the stress-specific recruitment of a brain region that drives fear behaviors!
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