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Behavioral Neuroscience, Vasopressin, Oxytocin, Social Play, Neural Circuits
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1/4 New Paper 🧠🐭 #Neuroscience #Dopamine #FearExtinction
#eNeuro
Altered Dopamine Signaling in Extinction-Deficient Mice www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
#eNeuro
Altered Dopamine Signaling in Extinction-Deficient Mice www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
Altered Dopamine Signaling in Extinction-Deficient Mice
A central mechanism of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and trauma-related disorders is fear extinction. However, the mechanisms underlying fear extinction are deficient in some...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
1/4 New Paper 🧠🐭 #Neuroscience #Dopamine #FearExtinction
#eNeuro
Altered Dopamine Signaling in Extinction-Deficient Mice www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
#eNeuro
Altered Dopamine Signaling in Extinction-Deficient Mice www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
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How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology.
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology.
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
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Attend monthly seminars. Learn from global experts. Gain real insights.
Attend 6+ sessions and earn a credential for your CV!
👉 Join the Women’s Health Seminar Series: ow.ly/1He350XFG1v
Attend 6+ sessions and earn a credential for your CV!
👉 Join the Women’s Health Seminar Series: ow.ly/1He350XFG1v
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Attend monthly seminars. Learn from global experts. Gain real insights.
Attend 6+ sessions and earn a credential for your CV!
👉 Join the Women’s Health Seminar Series: ow.ly/1He350XFG1v
Attend 6+ sessions and earn a credential for your CV!
👉 Join the Women’s Health Seminar Series: ow.ly/1He350XFG1v
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Register now for the next Meet-the-Expert webinar!
Learn about the principles of self-organization of synapses and circuits and how those principles underpin function.
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#neurosky #neuroskyence
Learn about the principles of self-organization of synapses and circuits and how those principles underpin function.
Reserve your spot today🔗: vist.ly/4hv6e
#neurosky #neuroskyence
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Register now for the next Meet-the-Expert webinar!
Learn about the principles of self-organization of synapses and circuits and how those principles underpin function.
Reserve your spot today🔗: vist.ly/4hv6e
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Learn about the principles of self-organization of synapses and circuits and how those principles underpin function.
Reserve your spot today🔗: vist.ly/4hv6e
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
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Northern Cardinal (male) during a snow storm today.
#birds #birding #cardinal #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #winter #snow 🪶
#birds #birding #cardinal #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #winter #snow 🪶
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Northern Cardinal (male) during a snow storm today.
#birds #birding #cardinal #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #winter #snow 🪶
#birds #birding #cardinal #birdphotography #wildlife #photography #winter #snow 🪶
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Ever wonder how a scientist studying the surface of the ocean ends up studying airborne disease transmission? Because the surface of the ocean and surface of your lungs are so similar!! Read about here in our new paper.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Understanding Aerosol-Mediated Disease Transmission
This Outlook aims to update the longstanding treatment of airborne disease transmission through an interdisciplinary lens combining biology, surface chemistry, and aerosol physics, drawing parallels b...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ever wonder how a scientist studying the surface of the ocean ends up studying airborne disease transmission? Because the surface of the ocean and surface of your lungs are so similar!! Read about here in our new paper.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, Gianvito Scaringi and colleagues have enacted change and battled bureaucracy
go.nature.com/3KATxfg
go.nature.com/3KATxfg
‘Anyone hired a student before?’ How a group of novice lab leaders are supporting each other
By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, my colleagues and I have enacted change and battled bureaucracy.
go.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
By creating a network of early-career principal investigators, Gianvito Scaringi and colleagues have enacted change and battled bureaucracy
go.nature.com/3KATxfg
go.nature.com/3KATxfg
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We are already looking ahead to our #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, next fall. Please keep an eye out for the exact dates in the coming weeks.
See you in Montreal! 👋
See you in Montreal! 👋
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December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We are already looking ahead to our #S4SN2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, next fall. Please keep an eye out for the exact dates in the coming weeks.
See you in Montreal! 👋
See you in Montreal! 👋
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In our new episode, Dr. Gina Ogilvie explains HPV, vaccination, self-collection, vaccine hesitancy, and global health equity.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/uxEo50XBibP
#WomensHealth #HPV #CervicalCancer
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/uxEo50XBibP
#WomensHealth #HPV #CervicalCancer
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In our new episode, Dr. Gina Ogilvie explains HPV, vaccination, self-collection, vaccine hesitancy, and global health equity.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/uxEo50XBibP
#WomensHealth #HPV #CervicalCancer
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/uxEo50XBibP
#WomensHealth #HPV #CervicalCancer
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🙏 @sfnjournals.bsky.social now out! & while celltype &ephys are alike across sexes, behavioral functions and axon terminal distribution in NAc and brainwide diverge by sex and #stress. @ladenardo.bsky.social
#JNeurosci | Taniguchi, Goodpaster et al. found structural and functional differences between sexes in a reward-related brain pathway—a pathway that previous research showed is affected by early life adversity in males but not females.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1239-25.2025
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1239-25.2025
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🙏 @sfnjournals.bsky.social now out! & while celltype &ephys are alike across sexes, behavioral functions and axon terminal distribution in NAc and brainwide diverge by sex and #stress. @ladenardo.bsky.social
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It's not just a tuxedo: African penguins can recognize their mates by the pattern of black dots on their chest.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ogGpto #ScienceMagArchives
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ogGpto #ScienceMagArchives
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It's not just a tuxedo: African penguins can recognize their mates by the pattern of black dots on their chest.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ogGpto #ScienceMagArchives
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ogGpto #ScienceMagArchives
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NIH funding for neuroscience-related projects has more than doubled during the past 16 years. But not everyone has benefited equally.
By Natalia Mesa
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/esta...
By Natalia Mesa
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/esta...
Tracking trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024
Funding for neuroscience-related projects more than doubled in 16 years, rising from $4.2 billion in 2008 to $10.5 billion in 2024.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NIH funding for neuroscience-related projects has more than doubled during the past 16 years. But not everyone has benefited equally.
By Natalia Mesa
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/esta...
By Natalia Mesa
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/esta...
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC
#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC
#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
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#eNeuro | Prefrontal and Subcortical c-Fos Mapping of Reward Responses across Competitive and Social Contexts
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#eNeuro | Prefrontal and Subcortical c-Fos Mapping of Reward Responses across Competitive and Social Contexts
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025
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We developed a 'smart STED microscope' to detect rare objects/events in cells, and unraveled the 3D morphology of a nuclear membraneless organelle (paraspeckle). Amazing collaboration with Sjoerd Stallinga, Bernd Rieger (TU Delft) and @mixmue.bsky.social 🙏 (1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We developed a 'smart STED microscope' to detect rare objects/events in cells, and unraveled the 3D morphology of a nuclear membraneless organelle (paraspeckle). Amazing collaboration with Sjoerd Stallinga, Bernd Rieger (TU Delft) and @mixmue.bsky.social 🙏 (1/3) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epilepsy affects women differently, but these differences are often overlooked.
A new WHRC blog breaks down the gaps in care and why women’s physiology must inform treatment.
Read more: ow.ly/iB1u50XyjHr
A new WHRC blog breaks down the gaps in care and why women’s physiology must inform treatment.
Read more: ow.ly/iB1u50XyjHr
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Epilepsy affects women differently, but these differences are often overlooked.
A new WHRC blog breaks down the gaps in care and why women’s physiology must inform treatment.
Read more: ow.ly/iB1u50XyjHr
A new WHRC blog breaks down the gaps in care and why women’s physiology must inform treatment.
Read more: ow.ly/iB1u50XyjHr
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“There were some cells in there that were very messed up”
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Nature - Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“There were some cells in there that were very messed up”
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y
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Join us Dec 8 with Dr. Deena Walker to learn how drugs of abuse disrupt thyroid signaling, how this alters reward pathways, and how a CNS-specific thyromimetic may reduce reward-driven behaviors.
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/thyroid-ho...
#AddictionScience #SexDifferences
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#AddictionScience #SexDifferences
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join us Dec 8 with Dr. Deena Walker to learn how drugs of abuse disrupt thyroid signaling, how this alters reward pathways, and how a CNS-specific thyromimetic may reduce reward-driven behaviors.
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/thyroid-ho...
#AddictionScience #SexDifferences
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/thyroid-ho...
#AddictionScience #SexDifferences
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Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
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Hey, I recognize that amazing scientist! @valentina-cs.bsky.social @briantrainor.bsky.social
At @ucdavis.bsky.social, research knows no bounds. From more treatments to cleaner air and safer communities, our research touches every aspect of life, but funding is crucial for bringing these breakthroughs from our labs to your lives.
Learn more: https://www.ucdavis.edu/research/labs-to-lives
Learn more: https://www.ucdavis.edu/research/labs-to-lives
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Hey, I recognize that amazing scientist! @valentina-cs.bsky.social @briantrainor.bsky.social
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A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
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New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A network of basolateral amygdala projection neurons contributes to stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
A network of basolateral amygdala neurons, but not singular projections, contributes to the neuroendocrine response to stress.
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New lab paper drop, this one has been a long time coming! Driven by Rob Aukema (now a postdoc with Kerry Ressler) this paper in Science Advances answered the lingering question of what role the amygdala plays in stress-induced neuroendocrine responses.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A new report from the McKinsey Health Institute shows the women’s health gap isn’t closing.
Want to help push for change?
📣 Use our Advocacy Toolkit to take action today: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy/
#WomensHealth #HealthEquity
Want to help push for change?
📣 Use our Advocacy Toolkit to take action today: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy/
#WomensHealth #HealthEquity
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A new report from the McKinsey Health Institute shows the women’s health gap isn’t closing.
Want to help push for change?
📣 Use our Advocacy Toolkit to take action today: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy/
#WomensHealth #HealthEquity
Want to help push for change?
📣 Use our Advocacy Toolkit to take action today: womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy/
#WomensHealth #HealthEquity