Jibran Khokhar
@drjkhokhar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, CRC in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology, Open-Source Tools! Committed to knowing better and doing better!
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Jibran Khokhar
@drjkhokhar.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics | Jibran Khokhar
YouTube video by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives
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Happy to share my talk for the @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social Brain Canada The Amazing Brain 2024 event titled: Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgxb...
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Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
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Most media about academia seems to not underestand academia at all.
Although I do think that in the bad old days it was more like this... except that there's no way this would happen to a woman back then.
Although I do think that in the bad old days it was more like this... except that there's no way this would happen to a woman back then.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Most media about academia seems to not underestand academia at all.
Although I do think that in the bad old days it was more like this... except that there's no way this would happen to a woman back then.
Although I do think that in the bad old days it was more like this... except that there's no way this would happen to a woman back then.
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Just watched a movie where a character goes to get an interview for a professor position and was offered the job before she got back
Seems unrealistic
Seems unrealistic
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Just watched a movie where a character goes to get an interview for a professor position and was offered the job before she got back
Seems unrealistic
Seems unrealistic
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It's been awhile, but I found myself recommending to someone today our groundbreaking code, lead by the inimitable Andy Kern, that magically converts pdfs to... pdfs. This solves the conversion issue so many journals pose to the intrepid scientist. github.com/andrewkern/p...
GitHub - andrewkern/pdf2pdf: does the magical pdf-to-pdf conversion popular in academic journal submission sites and does it faster than they do
does the magical pdf-to-pdf conversion popular in academic journal submission sites and does it faster than they do - andrewkern/pdf2pdf
github.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It's been awhile, but I found myself recommending to someone today our groundbreaking code, lead by the inimitable Andy Kern, that magically converts pdfs to... pdfs. This solves the conversion issue so many journals pose to the intrepid scientist. github.com/andrewkern/p...
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Congratulations to my wonderful colleague Nao Uchida @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social now Jeff C. Tarr Professor! 👏🤩🧠🎉
Naoshige Uchida Named Jeff C.Tarr Professor; Launches New Simons-Funded Autism Research Collaboration 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
Naoshige Uchida Named Jeff C.Tarr Professor; Launches New Simons-Funded Autism Research Collaboration - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
MCB is pleased to announce that Naoshige (Nao) Uchida, a leading neuroscientist whose work has reshaped our understanding of learning, decision-making, and sensory processing, has been appointed the [...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Congratulations to my wonderful colleague Nao Uchida @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social now Jeff C. Tarr Professor! 👏🤩🧠🎉
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Tapping the sign again
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tapping the sign again
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Supporting data for that blog post I wrote about tied scores at the NIH. The first figure depicts the issue with real review outcomes from 2016. The "pilot study" itself, well, take a look.
public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Hal...
public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Hal...
A Pilot Study of Half-Point Increments in Scoring | NIH Center for Scientific Review
public.csr.nih.gov
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Supporting data for that blog post I wrote about tied scores at the NIH. The first figure depicts the issue with real review outcomes from 2016. The "pilot study" itself, well, take a look.
public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Hal...
public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Hal...
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#RitaAllenFoundation Apply Now
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Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Award in Pain
Application Deadline December 10, 2025
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Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Award in Pain
Application Deadline December 10, 2025
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#RitaAllenFoundation Apply Now
www.usasp.org/rita-allen-a...
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Award in Pain
Application Deadline December 10, 2025
www.usasp.org/rita-allen-a...
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Award in Pain
Application Deadline December 10, 2025
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💡 Learn. Track. Grow. 💡
Access RSA’s Continuing Education courses on TPN.health for evidence-based training on alcohol use & AUD, anytime, anywhere.
🎓 Our first Continuing Education webinar is just one week away!
Register Today: hubs.ly/Q03Vhs-R0
Access RSA’s Continuing Education courses on TPN.health for evidence-based training on alcohol use & AUD, anytime, anywhere.
🎓 Our first Continuing Education webinar is just one week away!
Register Today: hubs.ly/Q03Vhs-R0
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
💡 Learn. Track. Grow. 💡
Access RSA’s Continuing Education courses on TPN.health for evidence-based training on alcohol use & AUD, anytime, anywhere.
🎓 Our first Continuing Education webinar is just one week away!
Register Today: hubs.ly/Q03Vhs-R0
Access RSA’s Continuing Education courses on TPN.health for evidence-based training on alcohol use & AUD, anytime, anywhere.
🎓 Our first Continuing Education webinar is just one week away!
Register Today: hubs.ly/Q03Vhs-R0
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Properties and functions of transcriptionally distinct enteric neurons: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Properties and functions of transcriptionally distinct enteric neurons
Developing genetic access to transcriptionally distinct enteric neurons in vivo enables
the examination of morphological heterogeneity across cell types as well as cell-type-specific
influences on GI ...
www.cell.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Properties and functions of transcriptionally distinct enteric neurons: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states
Ährlund-Richter et al. show that in mice, discrete subregions of the prefrontal cortex
send distinct feedback signals to the primary visual cortex. These pathways differentially
modulate visual proces...
www.cell.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Had a lot of fun writing this review on prenatal cannabis exposure and the immune system with some of my fave 🇨🇦 cannabinoid colleagues @mallarchak.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @johnhowland.bsky.social @drjkhokhar.bsky.social LaboTremblay @uvic.ca
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Mental Health: A Focus on the Role of the Immune System
Globally, there is increasing legalization, permissiveness and acceptability of medical and recreational cannabis use—including among pregnant people.…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Had a lot of fun writing this review on prenatal cannabis exposure and the immune system with some of my fave 🇨🇦 cannabinoid colleagues @mallarchak.bsky.social @cannabrain.bsky.social @johnhowland.bsky.social @drjkhokhar.bsky.social LaboTremblay @uvic.ca
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Join our next #ResearchInConversation webinar on the new #JNeurosci special collection, exploring debates on computational properties of the prefrontal cortex with editors Kumar Narayanan & Erin Rich.
🗓 December 18 | 12 PM EST
🔗 Register: vist.ly/4fy9a
🗓 December 18 | 12 PM EST
🔗 Register: vist.ly/4fy9a
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Join our next #ResearchInConversation webinar on the new #JNeurosci special collection, exploring debates on computational properties of the prefrontal cortex with editors Kumar Narayanan & Erin Rich.
🗓 December 18 | 12 PM EST
🔗 Register: vist.ly/4fy9a
🗓 December 18 | 12 PM EST
🔗 Register: vist.ly/4fy9a
Back-to-back papers in Mol. Psych. by Hayley Thorpe: Genome-wide association study of delay discounting identifies 11 loci and reveals transdiagnostic associations across mental and physical health: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome-wide association study of delay discounting identifies 11 loci and reveals transdiagnostic associations across mental and physical health - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association study of delay discounting identifies 11 loci and reveals transdiagnostic associations across mental and physical health
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Back-to-back papers in Mol. Psych. by Hayley Thorpe: Genome-wide association study of delay discounting identifies 11 loci and reveals transdiagnostic associations across mental and physical health: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025
The NIH has issued a Notice (NOT-OD-26-012) which expands upon the prior warning (NOT-OD-26-005) about extending the current submission deadlines. It seems to be quite comprehensive. All grant appl…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...
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So excited to see our latest paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com! Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... VTA GABA neurons have a unique role in economic decision making - they integrate reward seeking motivation and the current cost of seeking
Ventral tegmental area GABA neurons integrate positive and negative valence - Nature Communications
The role of ventral tegmental area GABA neurons in behavior is unclear. Here, authors show that VTA GABA but not dopamine neurons integrate positive and negative valence to encode motivational conflic...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So excited to see our latest paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com! Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... VTA GABA neurons have a unique role in economic decision making - they integrate reward seeking motivation and the current cost of seeking
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📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
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$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!
I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!
🧪🧠
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Here's a paper where oscillations explain the common effects of two different anesthetics, each with different molecular actions on the brain.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Is there a reductionistic explanation for how these two drugs do the same thing? None that I know of.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Is there a reductionistic explanation for how these two drugs do the same thing? None that I know of.
Redirecting
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Here's a paper where oscillations explain the common effects of two different anesthetics, each with different molecular actions on the brain.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Is there a reductionistic explanation for how these two drugs do the same thing? None that I know of.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Is there a reductionistic explanation for how these two drugs do the same thing? None that I know of.
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I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...
Incorporating open connectomics data into teaching neuroscience
Learn to analyze open neuroscience data and introduce dry lab modules into your existing classes at the Incorporating Open Connectomics data into...
alleninstitute.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I will be co-teaching a summer course at Allen Institute on connectomics education please apply. Travel support, new connectomics data sets and learning directly from the scientists who built these datasets. Details here: alleninstitute.org/events/incor...
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Smokers, do you think you can just stop? Nuh-uh.
CDC: it takes most people 8–11 tries before they can quit.
FDA: in 2018 55% of adult smokers tried to quit. Only 8% were successful in quitting for 6-12 mos.
Guess how many smoking deaths every year?
480,000
And 41,000 more from secondhand smoke
CDC: it takes most people 8–11 tries before they can quit.
FDA: in 2018 55% of adult smokers tried to quit. Only 8% were successful in quitting for 6-12 mos.
Guess how many smoking deaths every year?
480,000
And 41,000 more from secondhand smoke
With more actors, pop stars and other celebrities spotted unapologetically smoking, the cultural taboo against it shows signs of ebbing.
Celebrities Are Making Smoking Cigarettes Cool Again
Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.
on.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Smokers, do you think you can just stop? Nuh-uh.
CDC: it takes most people 8–11 tries before they can quit.
FDA: in 2018 55% of adult smokers tried to quit. Only 8% were successful in quitting for 6-12 mos.
Guess how many smoking deaths every year?
480,000
And 41,000 more from secondhand smoke
CDC: it takes most people 8–11 tries before they can quit.
FDA: in 2018 55% of adult smokers tried to quit. Only 8% were successful in quitting for 6-12 mos.
Guess how many smoking deaths every year?
480,000
And 41,000 more from secondhand smoke
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👏👏 bravo @nicolecrust.bsky.social
Video of this event now up. One of my favorite Qs: "Is there scientific value to confrontational discourse on Bluesky and other platforms?" (50:05)
The event included a short talk by me, a Q&A with a fabulous moderator (Kellianne Kornick) and Q&A with the audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
The event included a short talk by me, a Q&A with a fabulous moderator (Kellianne Kornick) and Q&A with the audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
👏👏 bravo @nicolecrust.bsky.social
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Can we *please* stop rewarding bullying behavior in academic social media?
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can we *please* stop rewarding bullying behavior in academic social media?
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Young men are particularly at risk from online sports betting
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Young men are particularly at risk from online sports betting
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...