Flatworms have never been so relatable

Really thrilled to share my lab's latest work where we characterize the role of the CeA in integrating exogenous GLP-1 signals.

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

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter!

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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Our article examining the effects of chronic #GLP-1 receptor agonist (#semaglutide #ozempic) treatment on the incentive motivational value of a small #food reward and the cue that predicts it is now out in Psychopharmacology.

Open access article 👇
link.springer.com/10.1007/s002...

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.

Seeing this shit makes me ask myself why bother but then I remember that’s what they want me to think and feel. I end up somewhere between the two feelings and hope that we’ll see the other side of this nightmare.

Happy to share the newest study from our lab, led by superstar postdoc Dr. Rodrigo Campos Cardoso, where we resolve the infralimbic cortex GABAergic circuits of fear extinction: tinyurl.com/38vvr2my

Getting scored is a nice accomplishment these days! Great starting point

Hey ventral pallidum fans, see our new paper showing that #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting these cells with #DREADDs potentiates active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb.
Congrats to Erica Ramirez & Marty Martinez!
doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Should have gone Sands Light

I had such a great time at #ACNP2026 where I got to reconnect with and meet new friends! I can’t thank @acnporg.bsky.social enough for the travel award and am really excited for San Diego in 2027!

Deal breaker if I only want to send in my ACT score?

wrt discovering and developing curative therapies, the taxpayer is already driving this through public funding of research, with the crown jewel being the NIH whose operations have been significantly stymied since January 2025

Congrats man!

Pretty rich for the leader of this nation to be talking about stolen land

Congrats! Looking forward to reading!

very excited to share some of the final bits of work from my PhD! 🎉 we find that phasic DA in the accumbens simultaneously tracks persistent motivation towards reward cues in addition to new learning (but maybe not RPE?!) in sign-tracking rats. check out the preprint below!

weight down, less food consumed, learning normal, but motivation up!

Almost $16 million for 10 conference wins between those two programs. Time to get DOGE on the case.

Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Signatures of Surprise during Naturalistic Sports Viewing Antony et al. derive a model tracking surprise during naturalistic basketball viewing and find many links to behavioral, physiological, and neural measures, including predicted changes in neural patte...

Reminds me of this paper www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Need more structured disorder

We will fund the most meritorious of proposals but also we have to consider how we geographically allocate funds

Seeing the recent breadcrumbs about NIH has this postdoc pretty sad about K99 chances