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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 18h

Congrats @malu-murugan.bsky.social @jarildy.bsky.social and team!

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

www.youtube.com

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats Dave and team cool story!

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 4d

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions

The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our knowledge base must be revised to remain relevant. Her...

www.cell.com

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 6d

Great news welcome back!

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Josh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴

Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.

Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 7d

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
spire.unc.edu/program-info/

About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE)

SPIRE’s Mission:

1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences

2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students

The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include:

Research
Teaching
Professional Development
Additional Opportunities

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Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 9d

Come be my colleague! Lots of exciting science, fantastic students and supportive colleagues. Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience. share.google/945Jko4W1MTA.... Please feel free to retweet and share widely.

Emory University Biology Department tenure-track assistant professor position in neuroscience - Atlanta, Georgia job with [email protected] | 675335

Candidate uses experimental approaches to examine any aspect of neural function, including molecular, cellular, systems, or developmental neuroscience

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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 9d

Just a reminder if you're getting a manuscript together (like we are) to thank your core facilities!

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 11d

VTA monosynaptic connections by local glutamate and GABA neurons and their distinct roles in behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

VTA monosynaptic connections by local glutamate and GABA neurons and their distinct roles in behavior - Nature Communications

While the connectivity of VTA dopamine neurons is well studied, less is known about the connectivity of VTA glutamate and GABA neurons. Here, authors show that these neurons form local circuits to modulate reward, aversion, feeding and locomotion.

www.nature.com

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks! Comparing doses between assays is confounded due to levels of noxious stimuli. Methadone has analgesic effects in tail flick at 1 mg/kg compared to our hot plate/von Frey at 10 mg/kg. Safer to interpret dose–response relationships between drugs within each assay rather than between tests.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 13d

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social

www.libd.org/careers/

Links to individual positions in the thread below.

Careers at LIBD | Medical Research Jobs | Lieber Institute

View our career opportunities with Lieber Institute for Brain Development including investigators, medical research jobs, scientists, & lab techs

www.libd.org

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Sofiya Hupalo @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social · 14d

New NIH structure for applications/awards with foreign components:
Effective for due dates on or after 1/25/26, competing apps must use the PF5 activity code for grants (UF5 for cooperative agreements).

Policy:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

News news article:
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

NOT-OD-25-155: New Application Structure for NIH-Funded International Collaborations

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: New Application Structure for NIH-Funded International Collaborations NOT-OD-25-155. NIH

grants.nih.gov

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 14d

Check out our new work from former undergrad Akash Shanmugam and team in Addiction Neuroscience directly comparing the rewarding and analgesic potencies of morphine and methadone. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Methadone and morphine have equivalent analgesic but not reward potency in female mice

Morphine is a potent opioid analgesic but carries high abuse potential. Some evidence indicates that the opioid methadone, used in maintenance therapy…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lindsay Schwarz @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social · 14d

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology

A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsay Schwarz in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Schwarz l...

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 14d

Strong endorse Lindsay does awesome work and is a great mentor!

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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

1/n

Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 15d

Super cool work congrats Jeremy and team! We have an ongoing project that will directly benefit immediately from these data.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18d

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Martin J. Dahl @mjdahl.bsky.social · 20d

At #ICON? – Join us tomorrow to hear about novel measurement & manipulation approaches for neuromodulatory systems!
🗓️Sept 19,
🕚11:45 am
🏫Room Sé

#ICON2025 #CogNeuro #AcademicSky #LocusCoeruleus #neuroskyence

Speakers for ICON symposium on novel measurement & manipulation approaches for neuromodulatory systems!
Sept 19,
11:45 am
Room Sé

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Johannes Bohacek @bohaceklab.bsky.social · 22d

🔵 I'm interrupting my social media hiatus to flag this important preprint from the Bruchas lab (is he not on Bluesky!?) together with @davidweinshenker.bsky.social. Very difficult experiments to show that dopamine release from LC terminals is independent of VTA 🔥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 23d

Great lineup - looking forward to it!

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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 26d

Congrats Jordan and team!

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Jordan McCall @jordacular.bsky.social · 26d

Happy to share our recent work attempting to better understand the impact of early life maternal separation on locus coeruleus function. Super proud of first author (the now Dr.) Chayla Vazquez. She brought this idea when she joined in… March 2020… and she carried it through these rough few years!

Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 29d

#ThisWeekInNPP

Early life stress profoundly impacts the 🧠 & can result in negative affective behaviors well into adulthood

Here, maternal separation stress produced dysregulated noradrenergic activity in the locus coeruleus (LC) across the lifespan, disrupting LC regulation of coping strategies

Maternal separation disrupts noradrenergic control of adult coping behaviors - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Maternal separation disrupts noradrenergic control of adult coping behaviors

www.nature.com

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Rachel Smith @rachelsmithphd.bsky.social · 26d

We're hiring 2 faculty in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level -- come join our amazing department at Texas A&M!
apply.interfolio.com/172286
Apply by Oct 1 for highest priority.

Flyer for Texas A&M hiring of two assistant professors in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience, with link for applications.

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