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More Philly-area students are majoring in neuroscience, with some wanting to find cures for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s In 2008, 110 colleges nationally offered neuroscience majors; now, it’s about 330, said Raddy Ramos, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at New York Institute of Technology.

World on fire, but more peeps interested in #neuroscience 🧪🧠 so that’s nice (gift article) share.inquirer.com/3GeHKx @pennmindcore.bsky.social @laurabeen.bsky.social

Fantastic talks at the Serbian Neuroscience Society meeting. @ljiljanamarina.bsky.social we need to recognise that the needs of perimenopause versus post menopause people in different ways … it’s not hard to see why based on her beautiful graph on hormones.

Honoured to be in Belgrade 🇷🇸 to talk about my favourite topic women’s 🧠 health!! Thanks to @kundakoviclab.bsky.social Ana Milosevic! Ljiljana Marina Selma Kanazir Ivana Bjelobaba

Rae Silver: talking about 3 communication systems in the brain the connectomr, angiome, perivascular. Also reminding us that discovery of portal systems were first indication that hormones & brain were linked #SNS2026

Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

Day 3: #SNS2026. Sarah Winokur - maternal infection in the postpartum. What happens to maternal beh after LPS infection. As you might expect greater time spent away from nest. OXT neurons are activated with LPS with higher peaks after LPS & nursing. With diff with parity

Acute nicotine exposure blocks aromatase in the limbic brain of healthy women: A [11C]cetrozole PET study - PubMed These findings indicate acute blocking of aromatase availability by nicotine in the thalamic area. This suggests a new putative mechanism mediating the effects of nicotine on human behaviour, particularly relevant to sex differences in nicotine addiction.

Comasco: (forgot to take a picture). Nicotine blocks estrogen synthesis through reductions in aromatase in human females. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36905856/

Comasco: the interplay between estrogens and nicotine. Women get addicted faster and have more difficulty quitting. They also go through menopause earlier and have more primary disease (lung cancer) #SNS2026

Estradiol may have a protective role on negative affect across EF to ML phases as demonstrated by ERN- de Bruijn. #SNS2026

Up next: Steroid Hormones and Brain/Behaviour. Ellen de Bruijn talking about dense EEG across the menstrual cycle (almost no studies on this but look out for her work coming out soon on error-related negativity.) #SNS2026 ERN is trans diagnostic phenotype -does it show m cycle effects. Yes

#SNS2026 estradiol’s beneficial effects may be altered by cardiometabolic challenges. Ie estradiol is not always neuroprotective. Work out of Tulane!

Lacreuse: differences in primates in terms of menopause. “Longevity uncovers menopause”

Day 2 #SNS2026. Gervais: menopause & sleep is this the reason for memory complaints? older women experience greater adverse effects of disturbed sleep than men. see her review in FIN that outlines the (few) studies showing sleep consequences on cognition in females

First symposium of the meeting was on hormonal transitions in organoids, rodents to humans with large signature in females from chromatin, Xist ( of course), 5-HT transporter to structure. What more can we learn when we study females??!!

The problem posting when my brain is still over the Atlantic. Just left TO last night…& it’s jarring to go from plane to seminars. 😵‍💫🙃

Tena-Sempere: Metabolic and reproductive interplay occurs bidirectionally #SNS2026

I’m in Torino at Steroids and the Nervous System. One of my fav meetings. Up next is Manuel Tena-Sempere showing that obesity rates have accelerated globally. Obesity and health risks interrupt reproductive factors in males and females.

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Human × AI Finance Write a finance paper with AI. Get reviewed by AI. Top four presented at the Fink Center Conference at UCLA Anderson, April 24, 2026.

This seems … problematic:

Call for papers - Human × AI Finance

Write a finance paper with AI. Every submission reviewed by AI agents (no humans). Top 4 presented at UCLA.

- papers can be on any finance topic
- AI can be used for coding, writing, lit review, modeling, etc.

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PhD: Thalamo-cortical changes in Dementia with Lewy Bodies University of Southampton Alzheimer’s Society DTC PhD explores thalamo cortical connectivity and cognitive fluctuations in DLB using MRI and sensors.

New fully funded PhD at University of Southampton, funded by Alzheimer’s Society DTC, investigating thalamo cortical connectivity and cognitive fluctuations in dementia with Lewy bodies using MRI and sensor technologies. Closing date: 9th April

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-thal...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A blue Tulip (Sustentacular cell) behind some red (OMP) OSN cell bodies, and some green horizontal basal cells in the olfactory epithelium. Stylized for a science art presentation (easier to find than original).

Swap TV For Activity To Ward Off Depression, Study Suggests FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Want an easy way to head off the blues?Stash the TV remote.Dutch researchers who followed more than 65,000 adults for f

Replacing 60 minutes of TV with something more active cut depression risk by 11% — and nearly 19% in middle-aged adults. And more is even better.
For 90- and 120-minute reallocations, this decreased the risk of depression by 26%.
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Women’s heart symptoms can look different, expert warns Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for women worldwide, yet it is still widely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and under treated, according to a health expert.

For women, they often, uniquely, experience chest pain that seems like more of a discomfort or a tightness in the chest. They can sometimes experience left arm pain or jaw pain, severe fatigue, pain between the shoulder blades, or nausea and vomiting.
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This will make you smile.

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30%+.

Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.

We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
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In over 1300 different conditions, women are diagnosed 2 to 4 years later than men. Medical knowledge is based largely on research on men. Even in disorders like depression where women are twice as likely of developing, women’s symptoms are considered to be atypical. On next (MIS)Treated.

49% of Canadian new moms struggle with mental health postpartum, data shows - National | Globalnews.ca The 2024 Parental Experiences Survey found that 20 per cent of those surveyed reported that they 'needed mental health care but did not receive it.'

49% of Canadian new moms struggle with mental health postpartum, data shows

21 per cent of mothers and birthing parents reported that “no health care provider asked about their emotional well-being during pregnancy or after childbirth.”