Gorgeous images are right!! 🤩😍
1st McKinley Lab grad student’s 1st preprint!
@claireang.bsky.social studied how the uterus safely excises massive amounts of tissue during menstruation and pregnancy.
Come for her GORGEOUS images, stay for her incredible discoveries.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ @akelleher1017.bsky.social
🏆 GSRNet Breakthrough Award 2027 – Nominations Open
Know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to stress & resilience research?
Nominate them for the GSRNet Breakthrough Award.
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2026
🔗 Details: stress-and-resilience-meeting27.epfl.ch/awards/gsrne...
#GSRNet2027
Preparing to speak with elementary school kids about the brain, I was reminded how much better their questions are than seminar questions (no offense to you all). Some of my favorites:
What does a unicorn brain look like?
What part of the brain smells farts?
What are your best kid brain questions?
Hey Hypothalamus heads! We are now accepting abstracts for the HypoGRC this August (now at the lovely Sunday River location). We have an exciting program planned for you so that we can really wild out about our favorite subcortical region. www.grc.org/hypothalamus...
💡 Working on exciting questions in stress & resilience research?
Bring them to the Global Stress & Resilience Meeting 2027.
We invite proposals for:
• Symposia
• Panel discussions
• Roundtables
#GSRNet2027
Check out our latest research drop! We show BLA dopamine signaling encodes the emotional weight of sensory transitions, but not the associative strength or value of stimuli. These signals dynamically rescale when the learning context changes: "this matters most!" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This!! It is impossible to plan
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
100% - this!
As a past Next Generation Leader, I can definitively say the program helped shape how I approach my science. Collaboration is key to making an impact, and so is backing innovation with values-driven research.
I highly recommend applying for this program 🧠
Applications for our Next Generation Leaders program are open!
For 3 years, accepted early career scientists will join a supportive network and contribute to our research initiatives.
Apply by Mar. 31: https://bit.ly/3OjzdRa
📸 Photo by NGL Alum @bjmarlin.bsky.social
🆕 paper from @isaactreves.bsky.social @paulbloom.bsky.social @prof-nick-allen.bsky.social et al using natural language processing to detect suicide risk. They demonstrated elevations in suicidal language & negative sentiment before hospitalization in adolescents.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I had the opportunity to write a research briefing for Nature, in which I summarized our recent work in African Striped Mice. It’s a short read for anyone who wants a quick overview! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨New paper alert🚨
We built a fully standardized, integrated hardware and software solution for real-time welfare monitoring in mice. We used it to look at pain management after brain surgery.
Not much has changed from the preprint (see below).
Brief: hold back on opioids!
doi.org/10.1038/s416...
With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!
Lastly, we zoomed out: what’s the overall pattern of superficial tract development — where the developmental drama happens? Tract ends near sensorimotor cortex mature earlier; those near association cortex mature later. Our second axis: Sensorimotor ➡️ Association. 10/n
We truly didn’t know what we’d find. The pattern we saw was striking – and replicable. Across nearly all tracts, we saw the most developmental drama at superficial tract regions near the cortex. Deep regions showed little age-related change. Our first axis: Deep ➡️ Superficial. 4/n
I have a sticky note with “WHO CARES?!” above my computer to remind me of this.
However: a trainee once gestured to it and asked if I was ok 🤣 so maybe just in document headers is a better idea
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
Hahahaha yes bsky.app/profile/cate...
$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.
That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.
I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.
The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.
I really needed a quiet week after a series of big pushes over the last many months. So of course, today I started writing a brand new IACUC protocol #academicmasochism
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.
We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.
apply.interfolio.com/182074
Congrats!
Thank you, Junjie! You got the NYSCF preview ;)
