Dr. Aparna Shah 🧠 👩‍🔬

Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

1. Is this a one-off study or a replicated finding? 2. Is it cherry-picked or consistent? 3. Was the study big enough to be reliable? 4. Did it employ robust statistical methods? 5. How big is the effect size? (If there’s a statistical association, does it amount to a big risk or a small one?) 6. Is there any evidence for a causal link or is it just a correlation? 7. Could the correlation reflect some confounding factor? 8. How does this supposed factor sit in the context of other factors (especially genetic risk for autism, which is very highly heritable)?

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

Neuroscientists - Nominate an outstanding colleague for this prize, with opportunity to give a special lecture at the FENS Forum #FENS2026!

Faculty opening for candidates "working with human, non-human animal, or computational models to advance the understanding of brain and behavior relationships in the context of lifespan development"

Stony Brook Psychology is an exceptional dept with amazing colleagues

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I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

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Good luck with the job search!

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!

Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

UNIV - Research Specialist I - Department of Neurosciences Job Description Summary The Li Lab at MUSC is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Research Specialist I to join our dynamic neuroscience research team. This position offers an excellent opp...

Please RT: My lab in the Neuroscience Dept at MUSC is hiring a technician. We study oligodendrocytes — unique non-neuronal brain cells — using cutting-edge imaging. Recent grads especially encouraged to apply. Feel free to reach out! #neurojobs
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.

Haverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues!
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Frontiers | Integrating neuroscience and immunology core concepts to develop a neuroimmunology curriculum Training students in interdisciplinary thinking is critical for the future of scientific discovery and problem-solving more generally. Therefore, students mu...

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Neuroimmunology is advancing rapidly & belongs in undergrad (neuro/bio/immuno etc.) curricula. If you're planning a course or a module, @ecleininger.bsky.social, Sumali Pandey, & I have developed a curriculum using core concepts in neuro. and immunology, & curated resources to help you get started!

Ever wondered how fasting and lactation affect gene expression in the hypothalamus? Looking for a dataset to mine? Look no further! We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the arcuate nucleus and medial preoptic area in 4 groups of female mice: zenodo.org/records/1531...

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rubber arm illusion in octopus The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

We are aware of our own body parts, but can be fooled to think that rubber arms are ours; this is known as the rubber arm illusion. 🐒 and 🐀 have shown a similar effect, but what about other animals? In this correspondence, authors report a very similar phenomenon in 🐙 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The group also attacked financial aid programs at Hopkins, including one given by alum Michael Bloomberg, making the medical school free to attend for those from families making under $300,000 a year. About two-thirds of Hopkins medical students, according to the university, qualify for the scholarship. Put the conservative group argued that "it is well recognized that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status," adding that "Johns Hopkins masks racial preferences behind income thresholds."

INSEPARABLE???

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🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!

My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!

We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀

Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

Researchers have known for decades that chimpanzees drum, but two new studies show that the animals drum to a distinct beat—which varies across their societies.

Learn more on #WorldChimpanzeeDay: scim.ag/3YJ7R9r

A patient page for GLP-1 drugs and importance of integration of lifestyle factors with these meds
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Professor and C4R coLAB, Aparna Shah (@neuromusings.bsky.social), discusses our new unit on establishing proper experimental controls. Check out her blog post at bit.ly/4eAIxcl and play with the Controls unit at c4r.io/units

Come join us at the School of Neuroscience in beautiful Blacksburg. Happy to answer any questions!

I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...

Y'all..she was lost in the wilderness for 3 weeks. She had to splint her own leg, pop her knee back into place, survived by foraging (which she is an expert in) and melting snow, and she did all this while having ballerina syndrome! See her interview here.

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The Brain-Body Research Institute @IcahnMountSinai is hiring an Associate Director to build clinical and translational research in brain-body sciences. See ad here: neuroscience.mssm.edu/pdf/Brain-Bo.... @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social

The cover is so beautiful! 😍