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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 12d

Our work on mind-boggling CRF-BNST neurons is out! 🥳
🔹Sex & estrous matter: CRF neurons⬇️anxious arousal (yup) after unpredictable fear in diestrus👧not👦
🔹👧show⬆️contextual fear, independent of CRF/estrous
✨Anxiety-potentiated startle🟰👍 readout in🚶‍♀️&🐀
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Activity of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis reduces anxiety-potentiated startle in female rats in an estrous phase-dependent manner

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders is higher in women than men. The severity of hallmark symptoms including hypervigilance and fear reactivity to unpredictab...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 9d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 11d

I was very happy that our lab was able to play a small part in this fantastic new paper from @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social , showing that neuroflammation in the pDMS promotes goal directed behaviour, whereas activation on hM4Di in astrocytes has the opposite effect

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

www.nature.com

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder starting in October NIH NOFOs won’t be posted in the Guide for grants and contracts.

Tips on how to search for opportunities & set up a subscription for custom searches here: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

New Tool to Explore NIH Grant Opportunities | Grants & Funding

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share this new work from the lab, in collaboration with @jtuscher.bsky.social & Rob Sorge! Here, we used single cell transcriptional profiling to define molecular adaptations induced by chronic pain and opioid experience, which often occur in conjunction.

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

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 19d

Lots of things hitting all at once so feeling a little underwater, and this image felt kind of like a self mirror for #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🔬🧪

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26d

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.

Gov. Pritzker Issues Executive Order to Protect Life-Saving Immunization Access for Illinoisans

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Part 2:

One farmer couldn’t fight the water any longer.

He now has the only rice farm in Illinois.

You have to read this story and see these photos. Get to the end!

A collaboration between @propublica.org and @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/illi...

The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...

www.propublica.org

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today.

Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now.

Civil duty to see it.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

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Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler.bsky.social · Aug 21

BREAKING: A divided Supreme Court ALLOWS the National Institutes of Health to withhold $783 million in funding for research related to "gender ideology," DEI & other disfavored topics with complicated reasoning. Roberts & liberals dissent. #SCOTUS
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · Aug 14

The UAW/ACLU/APHA are seeking details on NIH grant applications that were delayed or withdrawn. The previous deadline of August 4 has been extended to August 25. I’ll include screenshots of FAQs in the replies. Please share widely!

www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Details from an email with criteria to be included in the list

As a reminder, the supplemental list will
only include delayed, pending, or withdrawn applications. They must fit the following criteria:

The survey respondent is an APHA and/or UAW member with some relationship to the delayed/withdrawn application at issue (e.g., PI, graduate student researcher); and

The application touches on a disfavored topic (DEI, gender identity, vaccine hesitancy, Covid-19, foreign subawards, influencing public opinion, South Africa, and/or China)

or

The application is for a diversity pipeline program (non-exhaustive list: MOSAIC, F31 Diversity, IRACDA, MARC, ARC, IMSD, ReWARD, B-INSPIRE, CPACHE, BRAIN Initiative, Cancer Moonshot Scholars Diversity Program).

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Jonathan VanRyzin @jwvanryzin.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am SO EXCITED to share this one! The latest paper from the lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. We show microglia prune NAc astrocyte processes during abstinence from cocaine-self ad which drives later drug seeking behavior.

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

Abstinence from cocaine self-administration promotes microglial pruning of astrocytes, which drives cocaine-seeking behavior

Rodent drug self-administration leads to a compromised ability of nucleus accumbens astrocytes to maintain glutamate homeostasis as well as to reducti…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ashley Holloway @ashleyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congrats!!

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scaryr🩻 @merveille.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

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Melissa R. Warden, Ph.D. @mrwarden.bsky.social · Aug 8

The University of Arizona is holding an open-rank neuroscience faculty search, multiple tenure-track positions available! Positions will be in the new Department of Translational Neurosciences at the College of Medicine in Phoenix. tinyurl.com/42t8tcey

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenure Track), Translational Neurosciences (Phoenix) - Phoenix, Arizona job with University of Arizona | 12842366

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (Tenure Track), Translational Neurosciences (Phoenix) Posting Number req23491 Department COM Phx Translation...

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Ashley Holloway @ashleyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 8

Very excited to be in this year's class of travel awardees! 🎉 See y'all in the Bahamas 🏖️🐟

ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · Aug 8

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · Aug 7

New preprint + thread 🧵

#Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect?

Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks.

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

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Summary figure for study of psilocybin's effect on cortical network connectivity.

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Ashley Holloway @ashleyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congrats, Siara!!!!

Ashley Holloway @ashleyholloway.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you, Jibran!

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Ashley Holloway @ashleyholloway.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks, Brianna!

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