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Understanding Aerosol-Mediated Disease Transmission This Outlook aims to update the longstanding treatment of airborne disease transmission through an interdisciplinary lens combining biology, surface chemistry, and aerosol physics, drawing parallels b...

Ever wonder how a scientist studying the surface of the ocean ends up studying airborne disease transmission? Because the surface of the ocean and surface of your lungs are so similar!! Read about here in our new paper.

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‘Anyone hired a student before?’ How a group of novice lab leaders are supporting each other By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, my colleagues and I have enacted change and battled bureaucracy.

By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, Gianvito Scaringi and colleagues have enacted change and battled bureaucracy

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the word montreal that is on a blue and white flag ALT: the word montreal that is on a blue and white flag

We are already looking ahead to our #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, next fall. Please keep an eye out for the exact dates in the coming weeks.

See you in Montreal! 👋

Relatable Corvid

In our new episode, Dr. Gina Ogilvie explains HPV, vaccination, self-collection, vaccine hesitancy, and global health equity.

🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/uxEo50XBibP
#WomensHealth #HPV #CervicalCancer

🙏 @sfnjournals.bsky.social now out! & while celltype &ephys are alike across sexes, behavioral functions and axon terminal distribution in NAc and brainwide diverge by sex and #stress. @ladenardo.bsky.social

It's not just a tuxedo: African penguins can recognize their mates by the pattern of black dots on their chest.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ogGpto #ScienceMagArchives

Tracking trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024 Funding for neuroscience-related projects more than doubled in 16 years, rising from $4.2 billion in 2008 to $10.5 billion in 2024.

NIH funding for neuroscience-related projects has more than doubled during the past 16 years. But not everyone has benefited equally.

By Natalia Mesa

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/esta...

@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC

#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro

#eNeuro | Prefrontal and Subcortical c-Fos Mapping of Reward Responses across Competitive and Social Contexts
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025

We developed a 'smart STED microscope' to detect rare objects/events in cells, and unraveled the 3D morphology of a nuclear membraneless organelle (paraspeckle). Amazing collaboration with Sjoerd Stallinga, Bernd Rieger (TU Delft) and @mixmue.bsky.social 🙏 (1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epilepsy affects women differently, but these differences are often overlooked.
A new WHRC blog breaks down the gaps in care and why women’s physiology must inform treatment.
Read more: ow.ly/iB1u50XyjHr

We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person Nature - Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up”

In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y

Join us Dec 8 with Dr. Deena Walker to learn how drugs of abuse disrupt thyroid signaling, how this alters reward pathways, and how a CNS-specific thyromimetic may reduce reward-driven behaviors.

🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/thyroid-ho...

#AddictionScience #SexDifferences

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...

Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Hey, I recognize that amazing scientist! @valentina-cs.bsky.social @briantrainor.bsky.social

Getting the most of out a scientific conference A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.

scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.

New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new report from the McKinsey Health Institute shows the women’s health gap isn’t closing.
Want to help push for change?
📣 Use our Advocacy Toolkit to take action today: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy/
#WomensHealth #HealthEquity

Seventh patient ‘cured’ of HIV: why scientists are excited A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.

A 60-year old man in Germany became the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant

go.nature.com/48C68Ib

New computational paper from the lab! Thanks to the reviewers for helping us improve this paper from the preprint version and Nucleic Acids Research for a smooth publication process.

Single prolonged stress in mice: interactions between alcohol drinking, negative affect, and fear learning - Psychopharmacology Rationale & objective Exposure to traumatic stressors can have detrimental effects on one’s well-being. Alcohol is often used as a coping mechanism to alleviate stress, leading to the development of a...

Want to combat the Thanksgiving food coma? Grab a cozy spot on the couch and read our new paper in Psychopharmacology, part of an upcoming special issue honoring the late Dr. Klaus Miczek's seminal contributions. Congrats co-first authors Aditi Buch & Ava Shipman! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark

A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3

What causes the feeling of 'butterflies' in your stomach? Flutters, knots and other stomach sensations tied to nervousness are all examples of the gut-brain axis in action.

What causes the feeling of 'butterflies' in your stomach? www.livescience.com/health/what-...

Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last? Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

This inner compass could help to explain how certain animals can achieve astonishing feats of long-distance navigation

go.nature.com/4pn3KL9

Birdwatching Is Having a Moment - And We Need to Talk About It Something is shifting.

Excellent article!

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Amy Diehl holding a paperback copy of GLASS WALLS

Hot off the press! Just got my copy of GLASS WALLS in paperback. Release date is Dec 11, along with audiobook format. Preorder here: amy-diehl.com/book

GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission Ventral tegmental area neurons projecting to lateral habenula (LHb) corelease the main inhibitory and excitatory transmitters, GABA and glutamate (VTAGG). Yet the functional role of this synchronous s...

GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission

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Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464 The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)

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