Martha Streng

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.

Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

amazing news, congratulations!

Information flyer for graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Virtual open house events on October 6th and 30th.

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

Don't worry, I'm sure they are already working on a replacement late night host

Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime. bit.ly/transvictimized

🚨New preprint alert🚨
We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.

Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Live: 23-year-old identified as suspect in shooting that killed two children, wounded 17 at Minneapolis church, two sources say Dozens of squads en route to Annunciation Church, casualties reported.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any community out there has lost their sense of humanity.”

Oh good to know! I was thinking/hoping something like that may be at play but will have to just wait and see. Fingers crossed.

NINDS too :/

❤️❤️❤️ what a different time. I do love this picture though!! I agree @heatherdsnell.bsky.social we are due for an update though there will probably be a lot more bags under the eyes 😂

I feel like Florence + the Machine is peak grant writing inspiration music because all of her songs are giving "I'm totally a chaotic mess but I'm really eloquent about it in a way that gives the impression of insight and wisdom so give me a chance here I have Thoughts on Things that are Important"

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.

"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career.

They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.

See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"

Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

Mount Holyoke is an amazing place and their Neuroscience and Behavior program has been growing in leaps and bounds. Highly recommend!

Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”

Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

These two studies represent the work of three different laboratories (Ebner, @kmlab.bsky.social and @suhasabk.bsky.social) across over 5 years (plus several life changes for me!). I'm so thrilled to see these final components of my postdoc research finally published. Excited for what's next!

We were surprised to find that not only was the cerebellum robustly modulated by epileptiform activity, but this modulation began PRIOR to any observed changes in the hippocampus. The nature of this activity is not static, and may reflect aspects of disease severity in temporal lobe epilepsy

Early and widespread cerebellar engagement during hippocampal seizures and interictal discharges Despite research illustrating the cerebellum may be a critical circuit element in processes beyond motor control, and growing evidence for a role of t…

In the second study, we interrogated cerebellar dynamics during spontaneous epileptiform activity in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy. We captured cerebellar modulation during spontaneous behavioral seizures and hippocampal electrographic events
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The correlation patterns of Purkinje cell somatic activity are modulated during different behaviors, highly activated by prediction errors, and can even predict behavioral outcomes like successful execution of a reach. We think this is a potentially new framework for cerebellar network activity

Purkinje cell spatial correlation dynamics are key to cerebellar cortical contributions to behavior A major challenge in cerebellar physiology is determining how the stereotypic, conserved circuitry of the cerebellar cortex, with its dominant parasagittal and transverse architectures, underlies its ...

In the first study, we showed that Purkinje cell population activity can be functionally segmented into two distinct networks based on their dendritic or somatic modulation, and that their correlation dynamics convey important information about behavior
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

I'm very excited to share the final, published versions of not one, but two papers examining cerebellar network dynamics in the context of healthy behavior and disease states using our new method for chronic, wide-field imaging of cerebellar cortical activity during behavior! (brief lil thread)

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan