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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · 12d

Catalog is here: link.springer.com/journal/4063...

Psychobiology was an official journal of the Psychonomic Society. It was published between 1973 and 2000 by the Psychonomic Society. The journal is no longer ...

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · 12d

Isn’t it weird that 27 years of important behavioral neuroscience work published from 1973-2000 in Psychobiology has been disappeared because it isn’t on PubMed? That’s 100s of papers that the field has no knowledge of….

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Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you, Keri!

Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats Michael! Really appreciate the brilliance & creativity you brought to the analyses and as always, sincere dedication to open science 🧪 🧠

@mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!

Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 20d

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats Michael! Really appreciate the brilliance & creativity you brought to the analyses and as always, sincere dedication to open science 🧪 🧠

@mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!

Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · 20d

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wouldn’t lose hope; my sense is that everything is taking more time (though my impression was that things had normalized to some extent in the last couple of months)

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Aug 2

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share this collaborative paper exploring nucleus reuniens correlates of fear conditioning in both rats and humans! Congrats @tugcettuna @F_Mourao_ @MicTott Muhammad Badarnee and Moh Milad!! rdcu.be/eyTPs

Associative coding of conditioned fear in the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans

Communications Biology - The nucleus reuniens encodes associative value in both humans and rats. In rats, it also tracks defensive freezing states. The reuniens has a conserved role across species...

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · Jun 16

Hot off the presses: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... "Trump administration cuts to National Institutes of Health grants are illegal, a judge rules." #ScienceIsDefiance

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored

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Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · May 30

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · May 24

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!

Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear

Molecular Psychiatry - Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · May 21

“Additional review required”

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · May 11

Wonderful review and happy to contribute!

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

➡️ Delighted to contribute to this piece on the mechanisms underlying memory reconsolidation and persistence, together with Hugo Bayer, Cristina Stern and @stevemaren.bsky.social
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Windows of change: Revisiting temporal and molecular dynamics of memory reconsolidation and persistenc

Retrieval can bring memories to a labile state, creating a window to modify its content during reconsolidation. Numerous studies have investigated thi…

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Flavio Mourao @mouraofg.bsky.social · May 5

This marks my first-author contribution as part of the Maren Lab team! Our findings shed new light on the mechanisms underlying context-dependent extinction of learned fear. Huge thanks to @stevemaren.bsky.social , Tugce tuna, and @mictott.bsky.social for teamwork.

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

Hippocampal-prelimbic coupling during context-dependent extinction retrieval in rats

After fear conditioning, repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) alone produces a context-dependent extinction of learned fear. The hippocampus has a critical role in this process, but ...

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 9

Update: 9 weeks later and the NOA has arrived!

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Paul Marvar @pmarvar.bsky.social · Apr 6

Excellent review 👍👏 that highlights historical evidence and explores recent advancements in memory encoding research, and examines how dysfunction in ensemble coding may contribute to PTSD @stevemaren.bsky.social www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Integrating Aversive Memories in the Basolateral Amygdala

Decades of research have established a critical role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) in the encoding and storage of aversive memories. Much of this work utilizes Pavlovian fear condit...

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks Paul!!

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 9

NIMH—though there is no logic to all of this. A colleague here and I shared the same budget end date, same agency, same PO, and his renewal came a month ago.

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 9

Good news at last; no less than 9 weeks after the budget end date, I finally received the NOA for the noncompeting continuation. What a relief!

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 4

Still waiting...

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 7

Now about 5 weeks without the noncompeting renewal. Anyone else in limbo?

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Michael Totty @mictott.bsky.social · Apr 7

Very excited to share the last bit of my PhD work with @stevemaren.bsky.social! In collaboration with Mohammad Milad's group, we conducted neural recordings of the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans across fear conditioning and extinction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 5

Yep…and they are in the dark.

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 4

What was your budget end date? Mine was 1/31.

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Apr 4

Still waiting...

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 7

Now about 5 weeks without the noncompeting renewal. Anyone else in limbo?

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 26

When I transferred this summer, I was told if the change of recipient organization was not submitted before July 15, the grants would not be transferred until the following year. We met deadline and had grants transferred by August

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 26

Straight noncompeting; grants transferred with ease in August.

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 26

For those still wondering…still no NOA for a noncompeting continuation after close to two months now (Feb 1)

Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 7

Now about 5 weeks without the noncompeting renewal. Anyone else in limbo?

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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · Mar 15

Hate to hear that…of course, I can’t complain too hard about delay when so many are having grants cancelled.

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