Drinking coffee in our last @astrocytecafe.bsky.social conference espresso cup to remind you that abstract submission closes in two days 👀

(and that you will have another cool cup at #AstrocyteCafe2026..for spanish coffee this time! 😜)

And so it continues – please enjoy more parking spot savers and signs spotted around town - PoPville Thank to Derek for sending above: "Getting wild up in Columbia heights with people defending shoveled parking spots 😬" 'NO PARKING Parking here will result in flat tires!!' Thanks to Phil for sharing ...

And so it continues – please enjoy more parking spot savers and signs spotted around town - PoPville www.popville.com/2026/01/park...

What a wonderful day yesterday to give a talk at GWU and to have some pretty inspiring chats with faculty and students of the Dept of Pharmacology and Physiology🤩

Thanks again, Paul
@pmarvar.bsky.social for the invitation!

#EvolutionaryGlialBiology

Speaker addressing a large audience at the American Physiology Summit in a spacious, well-lit conference hall.

Meet the 2026 Game Changers! These 8 sessions at #APS2026 feature topics impacting life and health today. Top scientists from around the world will come together to present these vital issues. Learn more: https://ow.ly/XJAR50XsRhc #WeArePhysiology 🧪

The great Tom Petty, gone eight years ago today.

Of “I Won’t Back Down”, he said: more fans connected to the song “than anything I ever wrote. I've had so many people tell me that it helped them. .. I'm still amazed about the power a little three-minute song has.” 🙏🏼

#RIP

Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds Tubes in mouse and human brains may also influence spread of brain disease

Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@gwibs.bsky.social

Silhouette of a person standing on a mountain with arms raised, at sunset.

Even the most passionate grad students face hurdles. APS member Sachin Aryal shares the lessons he’s learned navigating grad school in science. Read more on the #ISpyPhysiology blog: ow.ly/GwY350WULiL 🧪

llustration showing the gut–brain connection: arrows linking the brain and digestive system to highlight how the two communicate and influence each other.

Your gut and brain are in constant conversation! Disruptions can affect mood, thinking and digestion. New therapies may target this link. Read more in the journal Physiology: ow.ly/wW2250WJFFT #ArticlesInPresS @apspublications.bsky.social 🧪

Neuroimmune, metabolic and oxidative stress pathways in major depressive disorder Nature Reviews Neurology - In this Review, the authors describe perturbations in neuroimmune, metabolic and oxidative pathways in major depressive disorder and explore how imbalances in each of...

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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A daughter's message of a life well lived and Lewy Body Dementia David Gergen once said, "Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path and get there our own way." Gergen's path through life is filled with achievements and honors, including:

A daughter berghoff-foundation.org/blog/f/a-dau...

RIP David Gergen, who served as a presidential adviser to four presidents of both parties and educated generations of Americans about leadership and civic engagement. He was 83.

Systems biology dissection of PTSD and MDD across brain regions, cell types, and blood - PubMed The molecular pathology of stress-related disorders remains elusive. Our brain multiregion, multiomic study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) included the cen...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38781393/

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum - Learning & Behavior In order to effectively thwart predation, antipredator defensive behaviors must be matched to the current spatio-temporal relationship to the predator. We have proposed a model where different defensi...

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Factorial Clinical Trial Designs This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods article discusses clinical trials using factorial designs in which participants receive several randomized interventions simultaneously to allow efficient eva...

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An honor to meet and speak with Lt. Cmdr. Amanda Lee this week — the first woman to fly as a jet demonstration pilot with the US Navy’s Blue Angels. An inspiring trailblazer! No #Fear #WomenInAviation #Leadership check out new IMAX film for more www.imax.com/movie/blue-a...

APS President Robert Hester, a white man with white hair and glasses, wears jeans and a checked shirt and is leaning on a wooden railing.

From rebuilding engines to modeling human physiology, Robert Hester's curiosity drives innovation. As APS president, he continues to explore the intricacies of our biological systems. Read more in #TPhysMag: ow.ly/uZ3z50VO2KY 🧪

Tracking Conditioned Fear in Pair-Housed Mice Using Deep Learning and Real-Time Cue Delivery Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex and prevalent neuropsychiatric condition that arises in response to exposure to a traumatic event. A common diagnostic criterion for PTSD includes he...

🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Tracking fear in pair-housed mice with deep learning + cue delivery. Study reveals sex & circadian-specific threat responses over time. #PTSD research www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

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...