Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

Yay Zach!!!!!! This is such awesome news!!

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

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...

Honored by this spotlight 😊 Grew up in the ACNP: from baby PD 👶, to early career faculty member chairing the Experience and Resilience Committee💪🇵🇷

Grateful for a community that develops careers alongside science🧠 Looking forward to seeing all y'all at the E&R events in the Bahamas! 🌴☀️🌊🇧🇸

Looking forward to your talk, @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social !

One of my favorite events that we @uabneuro.bsky.social host each year, and excited to have @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social here for the keynote!

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

I've noticed a trend in requests for tenure reviews, asking letter writers to compare candidates to other "top" scholars at the same career stage. Can we please not do this?!?

Making tenure a moving and competitive target risks ratcheting up increasingly untenable expectations for productivity.

Happy Alabama Slamma Day to those who celebrate

Yes! They are good boys ☺️

And we have a Pavlovian component, too, as our roosters signal to the hens when hawks are lurking around!

Sneak peak before they're cleaned up. Psychedelic rainbow with dendrites + spines.

Is it perfect? no. Was a rainbow with a custom 3D printed embed a bit ambitious for someone who has only made 4 batches of soap? Yes. Definitely.

🔥🔥 those from low income backgrounds are also our parent's primary source of financial relief, and that there are usually no $$ retirement plans

For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status

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#AltPride #AltGov
To close out Pride Month, we are recognizing neuroscientist Ben Barres. Beyond making seminal discoveries related to glial cell function, he was also a staunch advocate for equality in science for both women and the LGBTQIA+ community. 1/n

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SIGHING WHILE PULLING UP TOMMY T AND KATIE B'S CONTACTS IN MY PHONE

Heading back from #IBNS2025 in Tromsø with an overnight layover in Copenhagan, feeling so invigorated and excited to return to the lab!

All you had to do was elect two brilliant, diligent, overqualified Women.

And the silence of the leadership here has been very noticeable

Refreshing Commons to check an R01 score knowing that even if it scored well, there's no money 🫠

Would be nice if reviewers also took into account our current funding situation and not ask for these types of extensive revisions that cost $$$ that doesn't exist 🤷‍♀️

See you at IBNS!!

Congrats Alex!!!