Dr. Kathleen M. Munley

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

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

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

ASAB Guest Info ASAB is a podcast which brings on trans and non-binary guests in science (undergrad or grad students, technicians, professors, educators, researchers, science journalists, photographers, or even someo...

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location(s): New York or Shanghai – Hybrid working model Application Deadline: August 18th About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the le...

We're hiring! Nature Neuroscience is hiring an Associate or Senior Editor with experience in cellular and molecular neuroscience, glia, and genomics to work in our New York or Shanghai office. Applications are due August 19.

springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

I'm recruiting students / postdocs to join my new lab at the University of Rochester for Fall 2025 onwards! If you're interested in phylogenetic comparative methods, genome evolution, and/or computational biology, please get in touch! More info:

mhibbins.github.io

New faculty at SBN Professors Smiley Munley and Cuarenta

The future of @sbn-bsky.bsky.social new faculty @thefortylab.bsky.social @prolactingrl.bsky.social @thefishiedoc.bsky.social

A divergent astrocytic response to stress alters activity patterns via distinct mechanisms in male and female mice - Nature Communications Early-life stress has lifelong impacts on neuronal function and behavior. Here, the authors show that astrocytic glucocorticoid receptor signaling drives stress-induced neuronal and behavioral change ...

Absolutely thrilled to share the first half of my PhD work! Super proud to see it finally out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thread below for a quick (10 point) recap of what we found!
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Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Three-photon in vivo imaging of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex with sub-cellular resolution - Communications Biology Three-photon in vivo imaging provides access to medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and spinal cord in mice at up to 1.7 mm depth of neurons, dendrites, spines, astrocytes and microglia.

It is out! Read how you achieve 1.7 mm deep 3-photon imaging in prefrontal cortex with dendritic spine resolution over a week.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice Emotional responses to sensory experience are central to the human condition in health and disease. We hypothesized that principles governing the emergence of emotion from sensation might be discovera...

This! This the type of work that makes me so optimistic that the next 3 decades of brain research will be more impactful that the last for understanding/treating mental conditions. We finally have the right measurement tools & analyses (eg for emotion).

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

Lab Specialist - (Zebrafish, Microbiology, Circadian Biology) University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

With all our recent graduations, we’re hiring!! Interested in supporting a lab of diverse scientists studying microbiology and circadian clocks? Must be willing to work with animals - beyond that, there are several open projects. See thread #srbr #zebrafish

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01905

Heads up Los Angeles , Los Feliz, Silverlake, Franklin Hills

OK Bluesky do your thing, our beloved cat Bertie disappeared yesterday in Franklin Hills from around Clayton and De Loz area, he’s microchipped and has a collar and he’s very friendly, but he’s an indoor cat and must have dashed outdoors.

This is figure 1, which shows obligate cavity nesters displayed more overt territorial aggression.

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies convergent patterns of gene expression associated with aggression and nesting behaviour in obligate cavity-nesting birds. go.nature.com/4mddsib 🔒

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

Opportunities Interested in Joining the Scott Lab? The Scott Lab is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Pote…

The Scott Lab at McMaster is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Details at scottlab.ca/opportunities/

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Finding the artist in the artwork: repeatable individual differences in the nests of a North American songbird - American Ornithological Society To the world, this work may constitute just another research paper. For me, it represents my first real step into the world of science. More than two years ago as an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan Uni...

Congrats to my graduate student Chandler @gettyscience.bsky.social, whose undergraduate research on repeatability of nest architecture in Northern house wrens was recently fetaured in Wing Beat, the @amornith.bsky.social blog! Check it out! 🐦🪺
americanornithology.org/finding-the-...

The parenting styles of deer mice Single-nuclei RNA-sequencing sheds new light on how two closely related species of deer behave differently when mating and caring for young.

Why do some deer mice stick around to raise their young while others don’t?

New research shows that differences in brain cell types and gene expression may shape their wildly different parenting instincts.

Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases? A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.

"Estrogen is the Meryl Streep of hormones, its versatility renowned among scientists." -a really great and accessible overview of estrogen's actions on the brain featuring our society's president, Dr. Margaret McCarthy

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Hiura, @l-hiura.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is this year’s recipient of the Frank A. Beach Early Career Award! Congrats Dr. Hiura! 🏆

🌟 Come work with me! Our psych department is amazing and supportive and Guelph is a super cute town.

We have FOUR positions open right now.

These two were posted together; the first is in the applied social psych area and the second is open area:

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Viewing conditions predict evolutionary diversity in avian plumage colour | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Animals communicate using multiple sensory channels, including via vision. The colourful plumage of birds is a model system to study visual communication, having evolved through a complex interplay of...

Our paper, on viewing condition and the evolution of plumage colour, is published!

This was several years of work, building on our study of woodcock communication.

Working with @sheardcat.bsky.social and John was a particular privilege.

🪶🧪#ornithology

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Finally an article focused on these grant losses that scientists from underrepresented backgrounds EARNED, including my own grant (MOSAIC K99/R00). Generations of scientists from these groups will disappear. Will those with less to lose and from more privileged backgrounds advocate for us?

Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...

1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!

Celebrate International Women’s Day by following our two Starter Packs with kickass Scientists from the #zebrafish community! 👩‍🔬 🧪

Volume 1: go.bsky.app/4BegEjv
Volume 2: go.bsky.app/VoebYrt

Congratulations Eric! 🎉🥳

I am super excited to announce that I will be starting as a neuroscience professor at Claremont McKenna college in Jan 2026! My lab will continue studying the neural and molecular mechanism that drive individual and species differences in communication.

This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI By now, many of us have read the headlines: the U.S. Department of Education has ruled that race-based scholarships, cultural centers, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs violate...

I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...