Looks like a very interesting opportunity for someone looking for a postdoc in attention

If accepted, are you automatically invited to karaoke? Asking for a friend.

a cartoon of a mermaid saying `` i want more '' . Alt: Ariel the little mermaid saying `` i want more '' .

The scientific program it is what YOU make it (You are what you eat so to speak!) We get lots of feedback/some of it is contradictory ("there is too much addiction" "the substance [use] research portfolio seemed a bit low this year.") In general people want to see more of neuroscience represented!

🧠 Fun new paper from Mnemology lab 🧠

Aging is associated with a reduction in the quality of sensory information coupled with increased reliance on semantic information

Here, we show that structural connectivity mediates this visuo-semantic representational shift (VSRS)

Semantic Support in action!

My quote of the day

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

Nicole Scherzinger

If loving Ghost Ship is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

As a reminder: I am hiring a postdoc and at least one research assistant for a project on VTA circuits and cognitive function that starts this summer. Get in touch if interested!

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

A black dog looking away laying down.

Betrayal! At the vet.

Going to start using this as an example of an aversive conditional stimulus.

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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Jack Hughes smiling while his mouth is bloody and his tooth is chipped.

When people ask how I’m doing and I say, “Great!”

A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia.

First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty.

Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.

On a call with NIH PO this morning - I knew NOSIs were no longer a thing, but wasn't aware they now have these "Highlighted Topics". Not clear how it exactly interfaces with funding and/or how you highlight alignment, but good to keep an eye on!

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I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪

Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🔥New paper out, together with @albalm.bsky.social and Mirte De Ceuninck!

➡️"Differential effects of chronic restraint stress on two active avoidance tasks in rats"

doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...

Pooh bear meme where the words 'conditioned stimulus' are by regular pooh and 'conditional stimulus' are by fancy pooh.

Richard scarry image of pigs eating hot dogs

Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up

The Diehl Lab is hiring a full-time Research Asst to be filled asap! We study neural circuits of fear & avoidance during social interactions in rats & are seeking a motivated team player. For more info & to apply -->
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Examining the Three‐Dimensional Spatial Architecture of Mouse Amygdala Engram Ensembles Memories are stored in a sparse population of neurons active at the time of an event, an engram ensemble, and reactivation of the engram ensemble drives memory recall. Although the amygdala is essent...

New Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles.

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Older Rats Switch Between Distinctly Different Behavior Strategies to Solve the Spatial Version of the Morris Watermaze
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Disruption of Pre-Bötzinger Complex neuropeptidergic tonality controls fear and metabolic response Stress profoundly impacts systemic metabolism, yet the central circuits linking stress responses to peripheral metabolic regulation remain poorly defined. Here, we identify the preBötzinger complex (p...

Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.

This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.

Blog post: Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.

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Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!

Postdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC
Please RT

The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice

New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to share our keynote speakers for the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa! Join us June 23-27th!

Proposed mechanism

🆕Lab study shows that ayahuasca enhances fear extinction, including under stress-induced deficits, and reduces fear generalization; cortical BDNF-TrkB receptor signaling contributes to these effects @isabel-werle.bsky.social @ecnp.eu
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