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@neuronroot

Neuroscientist at CU Boulder. he/him. Mostly amplify other neuroscientists. www.root-lab.org

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Always awesome to work with you and your team Bryan!

07.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My secret life as a cat.

06.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 5392 πŸ” 592 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 31
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UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) Symposium - Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences Bridging the Lab and the Clinic to Address Addiction and Comorbid Affective and Psychosis Disorders Please register below for the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) SymposiumΒ onΒ Wednes...

Interested in addiction and cormorbid disorders?
Join us for our ICAN symposium on Mar. 18 in @ucirvine.bsky.social, featuring Josh Gordon, @neurovoice.bsky.social, Tony George, @nanopharmnc.bsky.social, Khaled Moussawi, Meg Fox, Firoza Mamdani, & more! All welcome!
www.bio.uci.edu/event/ican-s...

04.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Had a lot of fun teaching the first year students about the cerebellum today! Opened with the Powerpuff girls, how the mayor was absolutely useless and horrible at his job, but his assistant was essential, ran everything, and kept the town afloat. Her name was Ms. Sara Bellum. Got audible gasps!

03.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My alma mater is hiring in behavio_u_ral neuroscienceβ€”Waterloo ON is a fine place to live and there are some very clever folks in the Dept, strongly recommend!

03.03.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our latest paper on choice between alcohol and social reward in rats

03.03.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

03.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Research Technician Research Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is...

We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment.
brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

02.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine finally arrived

01.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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when it's your turn to give lab meeting and you don't have new results to show

27.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Up close and personal with a branching neurite in a DIV2 hippocampal neuron expressing FTractin-GFP. This was imaged every 6 seconds over 10 minutes on the trusty @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880. Happy #FluorescenceFriday

27.02.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are hiring a postdoc! If you love culturing neurons and are stellar at electrophysiological characterisation and imaging of sensory neurons, then come and work with us on this cool multi-lab project!πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ“ πŸ‘©β€πŸŽ“

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

26.02.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Eye of Sauron 2.0

27.02.2026 09:38 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo showing the Domus Medica building of the University of Oslo. The ground is covered in snow, while the building bathes in warm sunlight.

A photo showing the Domus Medica building of the University of Oslo. The ground is covered in snow, while the building bathes in warm sunlight.

Last day to apply for a PhD position with me!

Fully-funded, three year position in beautiful Oslo. Voltage imaging, ephys, all the cool stuff!

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

27.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Central amygdalar PKCΞ΄ neurons mediate fentanyl withdrawal Neuropsychopharmacology - Central amygdalar PKCΞ΄ neurons mediate fentanyl withdrawal

Circuit mapping of PKCdelta–expressing neurons in the lateral capsule of the CeA identified opioid-sensitive inputs, implicating central amygdala protein kinase C-delta neurons as key mediators of the somatic features of opioid withdrawal

26.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Open-Source Restraint System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Rats Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a critical tool for translational neuroscience, but preclinical studies frequently rely on anesthesia, which alters neural activity and limits comparison with human...

Excited to share this in final form @sfnjournals.bsky.social: An Open-Source Restraint System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Rats www.eneuro.org/content/13/2... if anyone wants to try doing it, give us a call! Happy to help you get going!

26.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074

25.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dopamine Supports Reward Prediction to Shape Reward-Pursuit Strategy Reward predictions not only promote reward pursuit, they also shape how reward is pursed. Such predictions are supported by environmental cues that signal reward availability and probability. Such cue...

πŸš¨πŸ“ƒNew Wassum Lab Paper πŸ“ƒπŸš¨

Out today, Melissa Malvaez, Nick Griffin, Andrea Suarez & team discovered that dopamine can enable reward predictions to shape how we pursue reward.

Surprisingly, we find that dopamine can constrain instrumental reward seeking.

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...

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25.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨The Psychology Department at Stony Brook University is recruiting a SUNY PRODiG+ Fellow! This is a 2-year position that will lead directly into an Assistant Professor position‼️, provided that the fellow makes adequate scholarly progress. It’s open area! Please apply/RT! apply.interfolio.com/176246

02.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Allen institute just casually dropping what will likely be highly influential papers

25.02.2026 06:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

25.02.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 8323 πŸ” 1775 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 90
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New lab paper in #ScienceAdvances: we identify a modality-common selective-attention signal in noncholinergic #BasalForebrain (BF) β€œbursting” neurons, distinct from the modality-specific attention signals typically described in corticothalamic circuits. 1/n
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

20.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Has anyone received summary statements from the last NMB? It's been over six weeks

20.02.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

New Special Issue out in #AddictionNeuroscience edited by @talialerner.bsky.social on dopamine circuitry and heterogeneity in addiction with articles by @daylab.bsky.social, Tom Hnasko, @mtorregrossa1.bsky.social, and Awatramani Rajeshwar check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

19.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

18.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7

Very excited to get to share culmination of this large-scale project to understand spatial gene expression in schizophrenia. Really proud of the amazing team work here working out lots of roadblocks to deploy these spatial strategies and analysis methods at scale!

18.02.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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EBPS2023 special issue: Stress, trauma and cannabinoids - Psychopharmacology Psychopharmacology -

Excited to share the Psychopharm Special Issue on Stress, Trauma & Cannabinoids 14 papers examining how the endocannabinoid system shapes stress & trauma responses.

Guest edited with @connorhaggarty.bsky.social, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social & Christelle Baunez.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

18.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Please share! My lab is hiring a Research Assistant! This is a great opportunity to gain experience with cutting-edge systems neuroscience techniques in a collaborative research environment. If you're interested, check the link for further details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

16.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...

Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26

15.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

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