Today is the anniversary of my lab and new job at Ohio State—what a decade it has been!

Most back-to-school post I’ve seen yet!

🥔 Happy National Potato Day!

Whether it’s fries, chips, or roasted wedges, your brain turns simple ingredients into satisfying experiences. From the scent of browning starches to the hit of salt and fat your chemosensory system transforms simple spuds into
satisfying flavor.

Same!

🍺 It’s International Beer Day!

That first sip of beer? It’s chemoreception at work! Bitterness from hops activates receptors on your tongue, while aromatic compounds rise up the back of your throat to your nose, creating that full flavor experience your brain really notices.

Directing negative emotional states through parallel genetically-distinct basolateral amygdala pathways to ventral striatum subregions - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Directing negative emotional states through parallel genetically-distinct basolateral amygdala pathways to ventral striatum subregions

Why do some smells instantly make us recoil?
AChemS member grad student Sarah Sniffen and PI Dan Wesson at University of Florida have uncovered how the brain learns to loathe odors — like the unforgettable stench of microwaved fish.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AChemS

Love to see this! Thanks for posting Science Gorilla

Ohio! Tomorrow! Main rally at the Statehouse 12-3p to #standupforscience. Details and day of updates here: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Can't make it to Cbus? Walkouts in Cleveland, Cincy, Oxford also.

Columbus and nearby friends!! Please get loud with me on Friday!

Relatable!

Honestly why not at this point?

The choking toys come in suffocation packaging, so repacking them was important with little sister around 🫠

Oh yeah for sure you’re at the right moment! Lol yeah going to a week of daycare will be the test for us. So far she’s been basically ok, it’s just that we have to do an earlier bedtime before she starts melting 🫠

Tackle box with multiple small compartments filled with colorful pegs sorted by color in front of a lite brite pattern of a pokeball

Tackle box with multiple small compartments filled with colorful pegs sorted by color labeled “Scientifica”

Repurposing these screw kits from my Scientifica patch clamp rigs for my kid’s lite brite pegs has been keeping him busy ❤️❤️

Thank you! Same to you! I think part of the reason she seems not ready is because of the daycare schedule, so hopefully this will help her nap better there too 🤞 May we all get some rest 🙏

We’re doing this too to match the daycare schedule, not because she’s ready so, good timessssss

It’s a great way to get grad students involved and not too late to plan some lectures/events for #BAW2025!

I used to do outreach with local public libraries with @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social during brain awareness week. I prefer talking with kids but they have also done plenty of programs with all age groups! It’s super fun and relatively easy and gives back to your community.

⏳ Don't wait—submit your abstract today! The #AChemS2025 deadline is fast approaching: January 13, 2025!

Yay I’m so glad to hear that! My kitty didn’t end up having the procedure (she died before the surgery 😭 from like a tumor in or behind her eye they thought 😭 it was like 7 years ago but who’s counting), so I didn’t want to say anything til I knew Eddie was good to go!

I just came back to check on Eddie—how’s the recovery going?? ❤️❤️

Yay!! Congrats!

Awww my furry friend needed a similar procedure ❤️ I hope it goes well, and you have happy holidays together!

Looks like it’s gonna be a great meeting!

I’m with Kurt on this one. Although I have not tried the black bean hummus.

If this is all it takes to get people to switch their vote then I seriously question their values in the first place.

Your video was great, and I hope your foot recovers quickly!

Excited to be traveling to New York to attend my first Festschrift! See you in the cold ⛄️❄️

It was reading The Emotional Brain that got me to apply to grad school. Then I was lucky enough to pursue my PhD in his lab…wow! So excited to celebrate him—festschrift time!!