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Happy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by @borgkvistlab.bsky.social on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr.
Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications!
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications!
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Dopamine’s secret agent: serotonin
Dopamine suppresses GABA release from striatal terminals in the substantia nigra pars
reticulata. Molinari et al. recently demonstrated that this suppression is frequency-dependent—instituting
a high-...
www.cell.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Happy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by @borgkvistlab.bsky.social on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr.
Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications!
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications!
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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for fuck's sake
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January 31, 2026 at 7:52 AM
for fuck's sake
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www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor kansasreflector.com/2026/01/30/t...
Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor • Kansas Reflector
Misty Heggeness released “Swiftynomics,” a book explaining how female economic power radiates from the music star.
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January 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor kansasreflector.com/2026/01/30/t...
Ick!!!!!!
nearly a thousand entries
January 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Ick!!!!!!
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nearly a thousand entries
January 31, 2026 at 5:47 AM
nearly a thousand entries
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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I am pleased to share our latest paper on the role of the alternative polyadenylation factor CFIM-1 (NUDT21) in C. elegans germline development. academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
A stress-dependent postembryonic role for the core CPA factor CFIM-1 in germline integrity
Abstract. Post-transcriptional processing of pre-mRNAs by alternative polyadenylation (APA) generates a diversity of transcript isoforms at the 3’ untransl
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January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I am pleased to share our latest paper on the role of the alternative polyadenylation factor CFIM-1 (NUDT21) in C. elegans germline development. academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward
Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 AM
My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
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Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
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The Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield
It is one of the most famous Heritage Minutes ever made, all thanks to "I smell burnt toast"
And the story of Wilder Penfield is one of a man who expanded our knowledge of the brain.
It is one of the most famous Heritage Minutes ever made, all thanks to "I smell burnt toast"
And the story of Wilder Penfield is one of a man who expanded our knowledge of the brain.
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield
It is one of the most famous Heritage Minutes ever made, all thanks to "I smell burnt toast"
And the story of Wilder Penfield is one of a man who expanded our knowledge of the brain.
It is one of the most famous Heritage Minutes ever made, all thanks to "I smell burnt toast"
And the story of Wilder Penfield is one of a man who expanded our knowledge of the brain.
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Nominate a colleague for the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize! Your nominee should exemplify an innovative spirit and contribute significantly to understanding the brain.
The award will be presented at the FENS Forum and the recipient will receive a $100,000 prize.
vist.ly/4mh9i
The award will be presented at the FENS Forum and the recipient will receive a $100,000 prize.
vist.ly/4mh9i
January 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Nominate a colleague for the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize! Your nominee should exemplify an innovative spirit and contribute significantly to understanding the brain.
The award will be presented at the FENS Forum and the recipient will receive a $100,000 prize.
vist.ly/4mh9i
The award will be presented at the FENS Forum and the recipient will receive a $100,000 prize.
vist.ly/4mh9i
New Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Examining the Three‐Dimensional Spatial Architecture of Mouse Amygdala Engram Ensembles
Memories are stored in a sparse population of neurons active at the time of an event, an engram ensemble, and reactivation of the engram ensemble drives memory recall. Although the amygdala is essent...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
New Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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New paper from @ykneurores.bsky.social in our lab 📢
We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Body size predicts the selection of defensive behavioral strategies
Survival depends on the ability to respond appropriately to threats, yet the selection of defensive behaviors varies among individuals with distinct b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
New paper from @ykneurores.bsky.social in our lab 📢
We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Will find way to incorporate this into next talk! 🫶
Frontiers | Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice
IntroductionMusic has become an established complementary element of modern medicine, demonstrating beneficial effects towards various diseases such as demen...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Will find way to incorporate this into next talk! 🫶
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Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
Diedrichsenlab
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December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
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@okaysteve.bsky.social's How to Change a Memory is out now!
In this book, Ramirez draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing.
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Neuroscience #Memory
In this book, Ramirez draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing.
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Neuroscience #Memory
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@okaysteve.bsky.social's How to Change a Memory is out now!
In this book, Ramirez draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing.
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Neuroscience #Memory
In this book, Ramirez draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on & off like a switch, edited, & even constructed from nothing.
Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Neuroscience #Memory
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Exciting collab with Paul Palme, Peter Imming, & Adrian Richter!
Guided by @courbongautier.bsky.social's structure of myco ATP synthase bound to a squaramide, they have made SQAs that are less toxic, more potent, more stable than AstraZeneca's SQ31f
#MedChem #TB #NTM
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Guided by @courbongautier.bsky.social's structure of myco ATP synthase bound to a squaramide, they have made SQAs that are less toxic, more potent, more stable than AstraZeneca's SQ31f
#MedChem #TB #NTM
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Mono- and Diamino-Substituted Squaramide Derivatives as Potent Inhibitors of Mycobacterial Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Synthase
Amides of squaric acid are new drug candidates with activity against mycobacteria. Like the approved drug bedaquiline, these compounds achieve efficacy by inhibiting mycobacterial ATP synthase. Howeve...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Exciting collab with Paul Palme, Peter Imming, & Adrian Richter!
Guided by @courbongautier.bsky.social's structure of myco ATP synthase bound to a squaramide, they have made SQAs that are less toxic, more potent, more stable than AstraZeneca's SQ31f
#MedChem #TB #NTM
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Guided by @courbongautier.bsky.social's structure of myco ATP synthase bound to a squaramide, they have made SQAs that are less toxic, more potent, more stable than AstraZeneca's SQ31f
#MedChem #TB #NTM
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills.
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills.
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
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Love this💕 Thanks @bsneuroendo.bsky.social for giving me the platform to share my story. Everyone should join this amazing society! @infneuroendo.bsky.social
"People who have told me that I can't do things have inspired me to prove them wrong." - @denisebelsham.bsky.social
Watch Denise's full Alison Douglas Lecture on hypothalamic neurons for free as a BSN member (login to mySociety): my.neuroendo.org.uk/...
Watch Denise's full Alison Douglas Lecture on hypothalamic neurons for free as a BSN member (login to mySociety): my.neuroendo.org.uk/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Love this💕 Thanks @bsneuroendo.bsky.social for giving me the platform to share my story. Everyone should join this amazing society! @infneuroendo.bsky.social
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📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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[email protected] CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and @schulichmeddent.bsky.social professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances.
Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
[email protected] CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and @schulichmeddent.bsky.social professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances.
Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
(1/2)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(1/2)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
authors.elsevier.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...