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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 20d

WE ARE... hiring!

Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 20d

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

Information flyer for graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Virtual open house events on October 6th and 30th.

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · 20d

Would personally love to watch a game of mouse thumb war

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Miriam Janssen @mimijanssen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hung-tu Chen, Nicolas Tritsch, Matt van der Meer, and I have submitted a new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...) in which we use simultaneous hippocampal ephys and ventral striatal (VS) fiber photometry to establish a link between sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) and VS dopamine (DA) in mice. (1/9)

Ventral Striatal Dopamine Increases following Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples

Leading theories suggest that hippocampal replay drives offline learning through coupling with an internal teaching signal such as ventral striatal dopamine (DA); however, the relationship between hip...

www.biorxiv.org

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Aug 1

Was just getting on to tell you this…only bc it happened to me last week lol. Glad you got it sorted!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · May 10

Congrats!!!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Apr 10

Yay, happy brains rule season! Digging this year’s color theme 😍

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Mar 8

Fantastic Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth! Thrilled to share the stage with these brilliant new faculty. Especially on Int’l Women's Day! (@laurenwalker.bsky.social , @emilylbehrman.bsky.social & Pia O’Niell)

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · Feb 8

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Direct Economic Contributions

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

www.nih.gov

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Feb 8

Awesome. Congrats!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Feb 8

lol photo 2 is clear he wants to be out longer and you are trying to coerce him back in. I know that look 😂

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Jan 19

What are folks doing for lasers these days?? Any cheaper options out there? Asking for a certain #newPI who is having decision anxiety 🙏😫

Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Jan 10

Yeah! Gonna be an awesome collab 🤩

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Jan 6

First day teaching a course as a professor (asst.) in the books! Thanks to the proud parent (@katenautiyal.sky.social) for documenting it 😂

Kate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social · Jan 6

Good luck on your first day of school @accumbenshelley.bsky.social !!!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Jan 6

Wasn’t a total disaster so I guess I’ll do it again 😅

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 24

At least we can’t be sick on New Year’s Eve….right? Right??

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 24

Omg saaaame…. I’m downing cider and z-packs (antibiotics)! Yay for toddlers!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 23

Thats a wrap for the Warlow Lab’s first term!

It’s been a wild ride, but also so fun. We have most equipment in the bldg, mice breeding, our coveted label maker, and many comically sized items 😂

Excited to welcome more lab members & begin experiments in the new year!

Happy holidays!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 22

Oh absolutely not! Unless there are enough drinks in me I would actually die of embarrassment

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 22

lol ***famous I meant! Clearly I shouldn’t type so early in the morning 🤦‍♀️

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 22

Yay! I can’t believe I’m finally going to witness your infamous karaoke!

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Shelley Warlow @accumbenshelley.bsky.social · Dec 21

Initial thoughts as I evaluate PhD applicants for the first time:
1. everyone is amazing 2. can’t we accept them all?! 😭 and 3. how tf did I get into any program?

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · Dec 21

Nothing says cozy reading by the fireplace like our new review, “Molecular heterogeneity and development of the VTA”
Thanks @bensaunders.bsky.social and @bellonec.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special issue on #Dopamine!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIwj8MqMi...

Paper figure showing Allen Inst snRNAseq UMAPs of genes marking dopamine neuron clusters, relevant channels, and receptors

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