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Rafiq Huda

@brainsonmymind.bsky.social
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Assistant professor @RutgersU studying neuron and astrocyte circuits in health and disease. hudalab.org

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about a paper that truly shaped how I think about my science by @fowleruci.bsky.social and @paulkennyphd.bsky.social! They helped make causal sense of the association that people call “Mr. Big“ in the context of 🚬!
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jobe Ritchie , a postdoc in the lab, decided he wanted to build a better platform for scoring behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ABEL: an active-learning behavior estimation and labeling platform
Detailed behavior analysis is essential for thorough characterization of ethologically relevant behaviors in model organisms, yet manual annotation of the full behavioral repertoire remains subjective...
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Lauren Burgeno @laurenburgeno.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨 New Walton × Bogacz Collab Preprint! POV: dopamine refuses to have just one job.🧠 DLS dopamine carries distinct reward AND action prediction errors — parallel teaching signals that could support value learning and habit formation. Enjoyed working with Yuhao, Juan Carlos, et al. on this one!
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Tatiana Engel @engeltatiana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Difficult decisions take time, but can we keep all accumulated evidence in mind long enough to make better choices? We find that working-memory limitations constrain decision-making, and these effects are modulated by dopamine. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... bioRxiv out with Cina Aghamohammadi et al.
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Working memory limitations and dopamine modulation in probabilistic reasoning
Difficult decisions require gathering evidence over extended periods, placing demands on working memory. Yet, how working memory limitations affect decision-making remains largely unknown. We trained ...
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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congrats @jespass.bsky.social on her new paper! PFC is widely thought to talk to HPC via nucleus reuniens - but no one has tested if this actual connectivity exists. Turns out it's wired to block it: PFC inputs to reuniens contact only neurons projecting back to PFC, not ones projecting to HPC. 🧪🧠📈
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Nucleus reuniens is organised as parallel circuits rather than a prefrontal-hippocampal relay
Interactions between the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC) are crucial for flexible and memory guided behaviour. Because there are no direct projections from PFC to HPC, it is widely presu...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dopamine serves as an independent gain regulator to shape striatal control of movement www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Happy to share the latest work from the lab describing an open source system for a two choice decision making task for head-fixed mice. @maxwellmadden.bsky.social has created an affordable and versatile system that enables parallelization of training. Stay tuned for exciting Neuro results!
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Department of Psychology at University of Minnesota seeks an Assistant Professor working on computational approaches related to cognition and/or perception (broadly). This would be in my area of the department and I’m happy to answer any questions. Posting : hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Perception and/or CognitionDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Minnesota, College of Liberal ArtsThe Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities announces a search for an outstanding scholar to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to perception and/or cognition. This full-time position in the Department’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CAB) Training Program will begin in Fall 2027.Applications are invited from researchers who would extend or complement our historic strengths in combining experimental and computational approaches to perception and cognition. Examples of desired research topics include, but are not limited to, computational approaches in human and/or non-human animal models to study perceptual function and sensory loss, learning, motivation, emotion, and/or higher cognition. While we expect the primary appointment to be in our CAB area, there is  potential for cross-affiliation with other departmental areas.The appointment will be 100%-time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May) and will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary and start-up packages are competitive. The successful applicant should have and is expected to maintain a strong research program, advise graduate students from a variety of different backgrounds, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including core courses within the graduate training program. A strong record of teaching and mentorship is desired. The individual will also be expected to contribute to the service needs of the department, college, university, and profession.A successful candidate's application will demonstrate scholarly distinction, a record of publications, teaching commitment and, if applicable to the research program and the candidate’s career stage, evidence of success in securing and/or pursuing extramural funding.Applicants are invited to review the Workload Principles and Guidelines for Regular Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts, as well as the Standards for Promotion and Tenure in the Department of Psychology.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our third preprint of the summer is up now! We use our piezoelectric crush method of head-specific traumatic brain injury (TBI) to identify which glial subtypes activate AP-1 after TBI and how glial subtype AP-1 activation affects survival. 🧪 🪰 #wewouldhurtafly doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Vincent Breton-Provencher @handle.invalid · 17/08/2026
Happy to share this new paper from the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Region-specific weighting of sensory intensity and reward prediction error by dopamine signals
Growing evidence shows that dopamine signaling is diverse, with dopaminergic neurons responding to rewarding and aversive stimuli. Here, we hypothesiz…
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Ning Leow @whatnowning.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
PhD work finally out! 🥹 This work saw much blood, sweat and tears — but it also embodied the beautiful joy of discovery that I’m so grateful to experience as a scientist Thank you most of all to Rathi who carried the revision experiments to the end! ❤️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A thalamocortical circuit encoding deviations from sensory history
Prior expectations guide attention and support perceptual filtering during decision-making. In mice performing a visual discrimination task, choices depended on trial-by-trial differences between cons...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our new preprint #manuskrypt is a labor of love and has a profound story behind it. @gritz122.bsky.social @argalloni.bsky.social (1/11) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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GIRK Channel Loss of Function Increases Dendritic Excitability in a Mouse Model of GNB1 Encephalopathy
GNB1 encephalopathy (GNB1-E) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with motor dysfunction, epilepsy and learning disability caused by mutations in the gene encoding the G protein subunit Gβ...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Cellular and Synaptic Actions of Dopamine During Behavior www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Dopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thrilled to share the latest work from the lab dissecting the neurotransmitter basis of astrocyte calcium responses in the striatum, which reflect cholinergic and dopaminergic neuromodulation and are disrupted in a PD mouse model. Beautiful work from superstar postdoc @scred62.bsky.social and team
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Patrick Mulholland (He/Him) @mulhollandlab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hey #RSA2026, we have open #postdoc slots on our #NIAAA T32 training grant - apply now!!! medicine.musc.edu/departments/...
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NIAAA T32 Training Grant
Trainees are provided with mentorship and direct training, as well as didactic lessons that stress both clinical and basic science aspects of alcohol abuse.
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Come check out our session on astrocytes and alcohol-related behaviors this afternoon 3:10-4:40p in Lone Star B (2nd floor) #RSA2026
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Excited to share the newest work from the lab, examining the role of dorsal striatum astrocytes and neurons in alcohol stimulation. Huge congrats to superstar postdoc @cherishardinger.bsky.social and the team on this beautiful work! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Sam Centanni @samcentanni.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Really excited to finally have this paper published 🎉🎊. A true team effort spanning many years and multiple lab members. Special thanks to former MS student Amanda Salazar for launching the project and current PhD student Tatiyana Adkins for leading the final push. Proud of everyone who contributed!
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Bohan Zhao @bohanzhao.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So I built a small tool that merges Allen CCFv3 with the traditional bregma-relative coordinate system (calibrated with Paxinos & Franklin's Atlas). Click any coronal or sagittal section, and get coordinates instantly. bohanzhao.com/Atlas Hope it saves someone a headache 🐭
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Mouse Brain Stereotaxic Coordinate Viewer
Free interactive tool: enter bregma-relative AP/ML/DV coordinates to navigate Allen Mouse Brain Atlas coronal and sagittal sections. Brain regions identified in real time.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Signal Aversion and Drive Avoidance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Spontaneous locus coeruleus bursts coincide withtransient global brain state changes similar to thoseelicited by surprise www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Ian Oldenburg @ianoldenburg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We are hiring a postdoc! We study neural activity and movement using holographic optogenetics, imaging, and recordings in awake mice. My first postdoc, Masashi, is starting his own lab, so now we have an opening. Seeking candidates excited about circuits, optics, coding, or ephys. oldenburglab.com
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Oldenburg Lab
Decoding the motor system through the use of multiphoton holographic optogenetics.
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David Margolis @margolislab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Very happy to share the work of Ivan Linares +coauthors who carried this whole project from behavioral task development to long term imaging of striatal neurons through learning to analysis of their behavior-related activity and its flexibility over time. Well done all!
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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Do brain circuits really sit in a 'soup' of neuromodulators? Are neurons like soggy bits of bread soaked in signaling factors? Is the whole brain just squelching around in one big pool of warm modulators?
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...
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Postdoctoral Associate
The George Washington University Department of Pharmacology & Physiology is an active research department with federally funded programs in neuroscience and development, cardiovascular pharmacology an...
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚨Exiting new preprint from Lerner Lab postdoc AJ Miller-Hansen examining the thalamus as a physiological driver of local, acetylcholine-dependent dopamine release! 🚨 DA-ACh interactions have been 🔥but what’s really going on in vivo? We think we have some answers. #neuroskyence🧪
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...
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The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal
The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal in real time.
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Happy to share with you that we have a new preprint up on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social " Biased signaling at NTSR1 differentially regulates inhibitory synaptic transmission in the extended amygdala and suppressess motivated feeding in mice" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Stick With Me Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)
Alt: Stick With Me Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)
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Rafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
At #SfN? Check out super talented graduate student Esther's poster on how acute alcohol modulates cell specific in vivo cortical activity. You can also congratulate her on recently defending her Masters thesis!!
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Maxwell Madden @maxwellmadden.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Currently building a patch ephys rig and agonizing over camera selection. Do any patchers have any advice on what specifications I should be prioritizing? Also, has anyone used the Thorlabs Kiralux sCMOS cameras? 🧪
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