Kurt Fraser

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!

I've never heard of these cases! I wonder if this is driven by spread into the reticulata or if this engaged the compacta lateralis dopamine neurons that regulate fear learning. Very profound!

Big news!! Congrats!!

Congrats!!!!!

Reward-reset interval timing drives patch foraging decisions through neural state transitions in dorsomedial striatum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679309v1

Adolescent alcohol exposure disrupts extinction learning and retrosplenial cortex physiology in adult males https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679287v1

Government shutdowns hit the DC area very hard. Consider throwing some money at Capital Area Food Bank-they are already struggling to keep up in the face of rising demand and food costs and reduced support. They will be busy in the days and weeks to come. give.capitalareafoodbank.org

Final version of this work is now live! Mitch developed this model and found that a history of chronic neuropathic pain in the SNI model facilitates pain-induced reinstatement of ethanol CPP in male mice.

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Happy to play a small part in this really impressive effort to assess the strength of evidence for almost every phenomenon in associative learning. Heroic effort by Dominik Bach

Deep lore- Despite not being polish we sang Sto Lat directly after happy birthday at every birthday gathering growing up. It’s a much more fun version!

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with malia.escobar@emory.edu | 675335 Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Florida State University (Dept of Psychology) is hiring! We are recruiting a Tenure-stream Asst Prof in Systems Neuroscience, broadly defined. Email me for the job ad — LRinaman@FSU.edu.

lol I was just trying to find this yesterday

great news!!!

My experience as well, with the stated assumption that there are higher bars for the 2nd year applicants. Was my sense that program may have wanted/ preferred earlier apps for funding.

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

The Milgram experiment but the guy in the white coat is a chef and he's assuring me that it's ok to add more butter

depends on if you're an ion channel or not

They have been slowly moving towards this (only one shot in year 1) over the past few years but have suddenly made the shift. Timing of this becoming a strict enforcement for eligibility given the year we are collectively having is deeply unfortunate.

no more clinical psych!

2nd year grad students are no longer eligible to apply. Currently enrolled grad students must be in their first year, whether in a MS, BS-MS, or Ph.D.

Convergent and divergent neural and behavioral responses to chronic cocaine use in macaques https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678075v1

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Love how this project came together with the amazing @endoeartha.bsky.social ! Have you wondered about the role that testosterone plays in the ability to re-pattern social behavior when you are at home in your "territory" vs away? We have answers for you...

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department!

I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad.

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Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

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#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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Careers at LIBD | Medical Research Jobs | Lieber Institute View our career opportunities with Lieber Institute for Brain Development including investigators, medical research jobs, scientists, & lab techs

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social

www.libd.org/careers/

Links to individual positions in the thread below.

Our new preprint!: arxiv.org/abs/2509.18399
Imaging fast glutamate or voltage sensors?
New method to amplify electro-optical deflectors enables MHz line rate imaging. No new laser required. Led by @clwarkentin.bsky.social & @hari-shankar.bsky.social. MHz random-access imaging is in the works…

Minnesota neuroscience graduate program virtual open house events October 6th and 30th.

Reposting this information for our neuroscience graduate program virtual open house events with a fixed QR code - you can also register directly at this link - forms.gle/zJDcZBteMtsD...

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