Serena M. Dudek

🪄Using my CA girl powers to summon up some sunny weather for the inaugural Neuroscience of Social Behavior GRC! Welcome attendees!

Science, Innovation, and the National Institutes of Health Failing to support independent agency science imperils the uptake of innovative drugs.

For decades, government investments in basic biomedical research have been the foundation for innovation across the private sector and academia. Trump administration’s attacks on federal science are hammering away at that foundation—and without it, the house won’t stand. Learn more:

Great training opportunity! 👇

Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

Many great personal stories in this special issue on the history of hippocampal research! This one by Graham Collingridge

Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...

Evidence I’m in fact old

From Synaptic Plasticity and Critical Periods to Social Behavior and Stress: Getting to, and Staying in, CA2 Hippocampal Area CA2, with some exceptions, had long been neglected in in vivo studies, due largely to its small size, and in in vitro studies because of its general similarity to CA3 and CA1. Increa...

Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Hippocampus on the history of hippocampal research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.

Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment.

This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!

www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

🧠 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

Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...

Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic

Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIEHS for more than 50 years, ending accepting new manuscripts in April, is now completely gone from the NIEHS website.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp

Aphrodite the queen

The giant wakes up: Illumina goes spatial Predictions on the upcoming Illumina spatial transcriptomics technology

I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD

www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...

Oh no! So sad to hear!

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!

Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!

All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems

PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc

www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

It is depressing that we (i.e. the scientific community) can't break out of this bizarro world where publishing in a $$$ Journal is considered a valid proxy for high impact science.

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.

Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733 The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology

After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...

⛓️ October’s most-read Structural Biology paper challenges textbook views of synapses, revealing a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ instead of a dense post-synaptic layer: buff.ly/rAvREVV

Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB

Who is coming to #SfN2025?

Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇

@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!

#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development

Great research needs support.

The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.

Learn more and add to your itinerary!

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#neurosky #neuroskyence

Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.

#neuroskyence

bit.ly/47MXYLH

Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)

This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.

8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).

Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).

Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.

hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Show off your research!
Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover
Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#cover_art

🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026!

If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism

Well this happened

www.science.org/content/arti...