Huge congrats @amygleichman.bsky.social on this phenomenal study, demonstrating regional differences in astrocyte responses to stroke and a key role for astrocytes in post-stroke angiogenesis and repair!

(see also - gorgeous astrocytes for fluorescence Friday)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to share this work from my postdoc with Tom Carmichael, available online @ Neuron! Long story short: we find even more evidence that all reactive astrocytes are not equal, and we can take advantage of those differences to improve repair after stroke.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍
Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows
Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter
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Early emergence for thermal processing in the neonatal somatosensory cortex and its perturbation in ASD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681402v1

The abstract submission site for the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition is OPEN!

From groundbreaking research to practical applications, this is your opportunity to share your work with your fellow MR professionals. LEARN MORE: https://ow.ly/I96t50X39bh

#ISMRM #ISMRT

🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Graphic from Nature tells an interesting story for 🇨🇦. Since 2000, 3 🇨🇦 born scientists have won prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine after leaving the country for the US. 2 UK born scientists won those prizes after moving to Canada. In that time, no 🇨🇦 born scientist has won for work done in 🇨🇦.

🧪🧪 Nature: More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys -- The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States

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

Calling researchers, clinicians, and advocates: Join us in Seattle for the 10th International Conference on Adolescents & Adults with FASD, Apr 17–20, 2026!

Share your work & help turn evidence into practice.

Abstracts are due Nov 16, 2025.

Details and submission: fasdunited.org/fasd2026/202...

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orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

MIT!!!!! YES!!!!!!! www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Less doubt mongering.👎 More facts. 👍

COVID Vaccines Still Effective, Study www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Effectiveness:
- 29.3% against emergency department visits
- 39.2% against hospitalizations
- 64% against deaths

"Vaccines were effective across age groups"

Had such a great conversation with @phdgprotein86.bsky.social. It's always great to go down memory lane with @heydrdukes.bsky.social to the early days of @blackinneuro.bsky.social, but listening back also gave me a much-needed reminder of the power of community, especially right now.

MIT says no to the Trump admin higher-ed compact clearly and emphatically. Other universities would be well served to read, remix, and respond similarly.

"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

"Reproducibility isn’t glamorous, but it’s essential."

@annechurchland.bsky.social speaks candidly in @thetransmitter.bsky.social about the obstacles to reproducibility and shares practical advice for other neuroscience labs.

🧠📈 www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

Who knew the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to those fighting to change dictatorships to democracies and not the other way around?

Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.

#neurojobs

albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

GREAT PRESENTATION by @neurovoice.bsky.social at Mount SInai's Dean's Select Seminar Series. An exciting talk about how @mountsinainyc.bsky.social's translational efforts in #Addiction research are contributing to the development of treatments that can truly make a difference in patients' lives.

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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There's this paper on the definition of learning:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
but that doesn't really provide a taxonomy. You can find taxonomies in some specific domains, but nothing super broad as far as I know.

Everyone knows that temporal contiguity is important for associative learning. As the interval between a cue (e.g., a light) and an outcome (e.g., shock) gets longer, the conditioned response (e.g., freezing to the tone) is acquired less quickly.

There's another, often less appreciated violation of contiguity, which was nicely documented in this figure from Rescorla (1988). For very short interstimulus intervals, the conditioned response and learning speed *increase* with the interval. This is an anti-contiguity effect!

My quote of the day

We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory

María Corina Machado