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Brian Dias @briandias.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social I am facilitating a Writing Retreat focused on writing an Aims page and wrote up the attached document to crystallize some thoughts. Maybe some will find it helpful. But more importantly, I’d love to hear your tips/tricks/strategies/psychology

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Beautiful presentation by @briandias.bsky.social on mechanisms of intergenerational stress - inspired & excited about potential future directions from this work

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Brian Dias @briandias.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Enjoyed writing this book chapter with Sam Stack, Layla Vasquez & Will Taylor.

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

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Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Tenure-Neurobiology

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for 4 open-rank faculty positions in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates who apply ...

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Plasticity of visual looming response reveals a dissociation of innate and learned components www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Virginia Hughes @virginiahughes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I have a story out today about a remarkable woman named Linde Jacobs. Three years ago, at 33 years old, Linde found out that she carried a genetic mutation for a devastating brain disease, frontotemporal dementia, which begins in middle age. (Thread)

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Timothy Bredy @twbredy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Following @daylab.bsky.social’s nice paper on eRNA regulating Fos, and then our paper showing eRNA mediated regulation of NR4A2, here’s yet another eRNA controlling NPAS4. LncRNAs for the win in the brain! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A long noncoding eRNA forms R-loops to shape emotional experience–induced behavioral adaptation

Emotional experiences often evoke neural plasticity that supports adaptive changes in behavior, including maladaptive plasticity associated with mood and substance use disorders. These adaptations are...

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Hey #ACNP2024 attendees, UAB Neurobiology is looking to recruit 4 faculty in the areas of addiction neuroscience, iPSC/organoids, and neurodevelopmental disorders. All searches are open rank. Specific ads are forthcoming, but you can also apply at this link! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/18636

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School of Medicine - Open Rank Neurosciences Strategic Hire

The University of Alabama at Birmingham* (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine (HSOM)** is recruiting up to 20 investigators as part of a major strategic initiative in the Neurosciences to build on a stro...

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Such a thoughtful and well-contextualized talk by @briandias.bsky.social, strengthening evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (and amazing poem to start with) Plus a recent review! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New paper from the lab, where we show how the co-chaperone and psychiatric risk factor FKBP5 acts in CRH-expressing neurons to shape stress- sensitive social behavior. Deep phenotyping using #DLC and #DeepOF was key to unravel these effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Deep phenotyping reveals CRH and FKBP51-dependent behavioral profiles following chronic social stress exposure in male mice - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Deep phenotyping reveals CRH and FKBP51-dependent behavioral profiles following chronic social stress exposure in male mice

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Brian Dias @briandias.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

✨new paper✨10 yrs since we used smell to study legacies of stress (Dias & Ressler 2014). Then reversal (Aoued et al 2019), next, cause (germline RNA)+consequence (better learning) (Aoued et al 2020). My thoughts on how studies of chemosensation across species shed new light on such legacies.

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Legacies of salient environmental experiences—insights from chemosensation

Abstract. Evidence for parental environments profoundly influencing the physiology, biology, and neurobiology of future generations has been accumulating in the

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