Jared Young

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15:
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#FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Trump Slammed After Appointing Registered Sex Offender To Help Launch Kids' Fitness Program Excuse me??

Um, excuse me??

Reminder that in 2021, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have banned partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts.

Well, and terrifyingly, said.

YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar Congressman Greg Casar on Trump Trying to Rig Texas Maps

Donald Trump doesn't want voters to hold him accountable in 2026 for his corruption.

So he's trying to rig Texas maps and dilute the votes of communities of colors and working families.

We can't let his scheme succeed in Texas — or it'll spread to the entire country.
youtu.be/fZyqD9KL4TU

The NIH BRAIN Initiative’s impacts in systems and computational neuroscience and team-scale research 2014–2023 The BRAIN Circuits Program of the NIH BRAIN Initiative has impacted how fundamental discovery in integrative systems neuroscience is investigated, commensurate with the complexity to address neurobeha...

This new report analyzes the impact of the NIH BRAIN Initiative's Circuits Program which has supported cross species systems neuroscience research and facilitated team science. Congrats to my NIH colleagues for this effort to quantify the impact of these programs!

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Don't miss this 🆕 NPP Commentary on menstrual cycle and mental health in adolescents from @sibelnayman.bsky.social & Hannah Klusmann

So grateful to have @brittonrae.bsky.social on our team contributing her social media prowess to promote the DPN journal 😁

I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)

Is it just me, or does this feel like yet another movement toward the dystopian future of Gilead, since we are clearly in Gilead beta right now....
The #RoseGarden at the Whitehouse never looked so ..militaristic....

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind

@perothwell.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UCLA is the next one to be targeted for the shakedown racket.

Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Picard science tip: Investigate stellar phenomena whenever the opportunity arises. There is always more to learn.

Job growth is slowing to levels not seen since the pandemic.

Inflation is up as more tariffs hit.

Meanwhile, Trump is opening new golf courses, planning for a $200M White House ballroom, and diverting taxpayer dollars to renovate his "free" jet from Qatar.

"New Golden Age."

What killed the competitive renewal at NIH? Following up on yesterday’s whinesplaining about the relative difficulty of getting a NIH grant across pertinent career eras, I had some more thoughts on generational expectations and gasligh…

What killed the competitive renewal at NIH? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/w...

stock critiques of "incremental" and "lack of productivity" I think are common - my advice to new faculty (Before Current Era) is to leverage data from an existing grant as prelim data for a new R01 and try to interleave them rather than trying to renew grants

An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience The topographical organization of cells in the hippocampus reflects its ability to regulate mood and cognition. Here the authors generate a spatially resolved gene expression map in the human hippocam...

Excited to share this huge team effort collaboration supervised by Stephanie Page in Translational Neuroscience @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social to generate a spatio-molecular resource of the hippocampus in human 🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n... via @statnews.com

Flexible updating of reward and punishment contingencies by VTA GABA neurons In dynamic environments where stimuli predicting reward or punishment unexpectedly change, it is critical to flexibly update behavior while preserving…

New lab paper by @merridee.bsky.social identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility

GABA, but not dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come work with us! @researchtmu.bsky.social

Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University is recruiting a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Mental Health!

#neurosky #psychology
#jobs #AcademicChatter

hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

Really lovely getting to see you all - and I must say, I love New York! I wish we had more time, next time I'll make sure we meet earlier!

What a nice reunion tonight in NYC, w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @jaredwyoung.bsky.social & Chris Anacker ❤️

This is discussed in FY2026 President's budget justification

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I'm glad staffers #NSF are standing up and saying what we all know, #Whitehouse cuts & changes to funding are ideologically, not scientifically motivated
#StandUp
#science
National Science Foundation staffers sign dissent letter share.google/XHZjMMZmWzDm...

“Eventually, the monster will come for all of us.”

Said preprint is now live!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oh, please do elaborate, it's a complicated topic, especially when we talk of anhedonia on the one hand and depression on the other ....