Lauren Atlas

Maybe. But the fight IS for brain surgery, rocket surgery, and climate science.

I mean, technically, it also impacts rocket science, brain surgery, and solving the climate crisis...

More NIH chaos.

NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

I was wondering how my feed had nothing about the shutdown. You guys know this means no grants, study sections, etc….

Title: Understanding Brain-Body Interactions to Advance Brain Health: A Workshop. Photo: picture of a transparent person with brain and nervous system illuminated.

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).

www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

Hot take #3: “BLA subdivisions contain specific subtypes of excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

Hot take #4: Genes downregulated in PTSD load mainly onto specific subtypes of inhibitory interneurons that are highly conserved across primates.

Hot take #1: Amygdala neuron types are highly conserved across different primate species. No human specific innovations.

Hot take #2: Canonical gene markers identified for murine amygdala neuron types are not especially informative inferring cell type identifies for the primate amygdala.

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

WE ARE HIRING!!

Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI.

I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

Wow what a rich dataset! Amazing work @jungheejung.bsky.social !

[7/7] 🚀 Sharing this to collaboratively advance naturalistic, cognitive, pain, & affective neuroscience!

Huge thanks to all amazing co-authors who made this possible!

Paper: rdcu.be/eBTy2
@ScientificData

Dataset: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

So sad about this news. Nina has been a powerful advocate and leader for the intramural program and it’s painful to imagine it without her. Very grateful for all she has done as DDIR!

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

I've heard from several scientists who are scandalized because NIH people now cannot buy anything (!!) betw mid-Aug and Oct 1.

Except that's been the case for decades. It's because appropriated funds expire at the end of the fiscal year, so there's an extremely complex process to close out the yr.

I really enjoyed working on this with @laurenatlas.bsky.social. The editor was also amazing to work with. I learned a lot along the way.

Stay tuned for more work from @laurenatlas.bsky.social, David Finn and me.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!

House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.

To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.

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

Picture of the House LHHS subcommittee markup schedule.

For those following the NIH budget fight, the next big development will be this Tuesday, Sept 2nd, with the House LHHS subcommittee markups. The bill text will likely come out late Monday. The House bill is likely to be closer to the president's budget request than the Senate's was, so be prepared.

Mapping the anatomy of placebo analgesia The identification of somatotopy in brainstem pain modulatory pathways could help treat chronic pain

Thanks to @massih.bsky.social for inviting me to co-author this commentary @science.org Mapping the anatomy of placebo analgesia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aha this explains all the new followers. Welcome! Passing it forward.

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NCCIH, NINR, and NIMHD were all slated to be eliminated in the presidential proposed budget. So the increased proportions are consistent with that.