Save the date for the annual "Neural Circuits and Behaviour" satellite conference at the Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting, cohosted by @franklandlab.bsky.social and myself on May 18, 2026. We have a great speaker lineup and will be selecting 4 trainees talks from our registrants!
Extremely proud of Rachael @neurohoke.bsky.social and Kiara for this work. I have learned so much working with @talliezee.bsky.social and the whole team.
Happy holiday season!!! ☃️
New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
can confirm that there will be an automated email the evening before study section is supposed to meet. Got my email last night around 7:30pm for SS that was supposed to start today.
I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
This was a super fun meeting surrounded by beautiful mountains (Austrian Alps). Thank you @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @markuswohr.bsky.social et al for the invite!
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
I want to know how long everyone had to stand still waiting for that dog to be in the right position 😆
be careful with the fedex tariff bill - I hear that is insane
After an amazing opening plenary on threat and fear at the @canacn.bsky.social meeting got to hang out with some of my favorite amygdala scientists @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @sanghalab.bsky.social & Kerry Ressler
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
🚨 New lab paper!🚨
A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...
I got an email from my SRO today that we are rescheduling our study section that was canceled last week and are now coordinating schedules. The earliest date allowed for us to meet is March 25.
No surprise but the Behavioral Neuroscience Fellowship Study Section scheduled for this Thurs-Fri has been postponed. What really sucks is that, while diversity apps were initially removed, they were all added back and reviewed. Hopefully, the rumors of the Fed Register block ending soon are true.
Just adding that BRLE did happen today and day 2 is tomorrow. SRO confirmed it was registered a couple weeks ago so ours must have been on the cusp of this timeline
I am so sorry this happened!
I am actively looking for a research scientist position or research administration role within the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area! Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your labs needs :-) Lots of experience with preclinical models, translational neuroscience, and behavioral analyses!
I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.
ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
Image of the Ko et al. article hosted on BioRxiv and a logo of the Cai Lab in the lower righthand corner.
📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! #Neuroskyence
Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats Kevin on the PECASE!!!
#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...
the best holiday card we ever received was addressed to "Athena's Humans". I still have the envelope, I love it so much.
I love how it goes Maggie (in all 6 photos) -> Orsha (in 3) -> and then ....you 😆
