Jibran Khokhar

A neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway for reformatting aversive memories during recall Tan et al. identify a neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway in rats that updates aversive memories when they are recalled. Noradrenaline from the locus coeruleus triggers synapse-to-nuclear tra...

Excited to share our new paper:
We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory.
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

💫 Dr Dori Grijseels, postdoc at MPINB Germany, is the 2026 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Awardee, for their outstanding leadership in advancing inclusive research practices and evidence-based advocacy for queer and trans scientists. Join us on 10 July at #FENS2026 for the award ceremony!

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The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

The hippocampus enables abstract structure learning without reward 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Associations between financial hardship and alcohol reduction attempts in the context of a cost-of-living crisis and alcohol tax reforms: a population study in Great Britain, 2023–25 Rising living costs and changes to alcohol taxation influence drinking behaviours. This study aimed to examine associations between financial hardship…

The latest paper to be published from our project 'Reforming alcohol taxes in a cost-of-living crisis' was led by @drsarahejackson.bsky.social with @jamiebrown.bsky.social @jholmessheff.bsky.social & @victimofmaths.bsky.social. Find out more about the project here: bit.ly/3OGifN3 #PublicHealth

a cartoon drawing of a cat holding a knife and saying chop ALT: a cartoon drawing of a cat holding a knife and saying chop

Sending best wishes and strength to all #CIHR Project Grant applicants.

Today I cut nearly 3 pages from 2 proposals using only the power of word choice and syntax.

Not as fun as scientific review (too late for that) but very rewarding!

Does the total consumption model apply to cannabis use? Aims To test whether the total consumption model and its extension, the theory of collectivity, apply to adolescent cannabis use. We estimated: (1) whether the distribution of cannabis use…

Does the total consumption model apply to cannabis use? buff.ly/24Y0dOH

SWEBAGS Webinar March 2026 – SWEBAGS Swedish Basal Ganglia Society

Join us on Friday, March 20th at 16:00 CET for our next SWEBAGS webinar:
“Striatal activity in natural behavior” with Henry Yin & Eric Yttri.
We’ll dive into how basal ganglia circuits support real-world behavior.
More info & Zoom link: swebags.ebrains.se/events/sweba...
#BasalGanglia #Neuroscience

Escalation of cocaine self-administration and drug cue-evoked dopamine 🤩

This elegant study shows that the direction of change in cue-evoked dopamine during escalation of cocaine intake crucially depends on the response contingency of cue presentation

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

Come join #LaurierBiology!
We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions!

Integrative Organismal Zoologist!
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Microbial Systems Biologist!
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Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist!
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DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!

*stares in 9/11 era Islamophobia*
I am so very very tired

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology

Join our community & shape the future of research

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Composition of world 18-21 population by region (in thousands), 2024-2046. Africa will see a 47% increase in its youth population over this period; Europe, Latin America and Asia will all see declines of about 14-15%, while North America falls by just 6% (Oceania grows 15% from a miniscule base)

🧵 New publication from the PGC Anxiety Working Group. Our GWAS meta-analysis of anxiety disorders is now published in @natgenet.nature.com! 🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of STEM Education.

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A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Headlines indeed moved on too quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names. No profiles of their lives or aspirations. No smiling photos paired with quotes from grieving families.

Some dead are memorialised; others reduced to “estimated casualties.”

What a life. What a world.

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace.

If safety demands their suffering
then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

This is the wrong take

It’s not about weapons

They killed children

They killed girls

Please, change our stance

Henrietta Lacks' immortal cell line was never not-for-profit.

Many people made vast sums of money from it.

Except for the Lacks' family. They had to sue over it.

The 2nd of those lawsuits literally just settled. As in like on Friday.

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

YouTube video by Abe Oudshoorn Research Highlight: How to do Homelessness Prevention

When I think about prevention I think about how we also need to empower people through interactions with our systems.

In this video I talk about a paper where we proposed advancing the current model on homelessness prevention to also include empowerment in the process: youtu.be/kGKUdUJEVuo

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?

We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!

Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

So much for all the outrage by the CPC this past week in parliament about immigrants pressuring the health system.

illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Researchers urge early screening for math struggles in Ontario Assessing kindergartners on counting skills could help address challenges before they mount, expert says

Could not agree more: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cb0fda6...

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

The old boys’ club: Epstein and the male scientists around him intentionally shaped the exclusion of women in academia 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst... via @19thnews.org

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
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🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol