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Luke Remage-Healey

@healeylab.bsky.social
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Professor, Neuroscience and Behavior, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies. umass.edu/healeylab/

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 20h
Northern Saw-whet owl feathers contain porphyrins, which fluoresce under UV but break down over time. Older feathers thus glow less intensely than newly-molted feathers. Here you can see three generations of feathers, making this an after second year bird. 🧠
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
6 days to register a comment on NIH Request for Information (RFI) on Changing Reporting Outcomes for Peer Review. They are proposing to hide the impact scores and percentiles. 🤔 funding decisions will not be transparent👎🏼. Register a comment while you still can rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/10/2026
Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
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Jessica Santollo @drjess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Our Neuroscience Faculty Position closes in about a week. Please share with anyone you know on the job market! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...
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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 07/10/2026
If you've ever wondered how the brain *really* keeps things in mind, come let Aaron, Nick & their colleagues in the Nagel lab tell you how the fly does it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal - Nature
The recurrent h∆K–PFG neural circuit generates persistent heading memories through slow excitation, fast inhibition and a disinhibitory gate, where disinhibition controls the functional...
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Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Come work with us at Penn!:
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congrats!
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zotero rules!
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/10/2026
Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The answer to this question is a very loud and resounding NO. And neurobiologists don't just consider the notion of a "lizard brain" in humans misleading. It is wrong. Very wrong. The only lizard brain is that found within lizards. #neuroethology #neuroskyence www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?
It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*she's surfing on, ofc
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's some serious Ca2+ wave it's surfing on!
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/10/2026
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. to.pbs.org/4xCEOTm
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Researchers explore new uses for abortion-related drugs
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, includi...
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🩺 OBGYN here -- Estrogen patches help millions of women manage menopause symptoms. These patches are life changing for many women. A shortage with no plan from FDA is unacceptable, RFK Jr. needs to give us answers.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations Debbie!
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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A British farm has unveiled a giant pumpkin mosaic of Sir David Attenborough to celebrate the naturalist's 100th birthday. The mosaic broke the farm's own record for the world's largest squash mosaic. The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records at the unveiling of the artwork on Tuesday.
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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sorry folks @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social et al. just proved that neurons are canonically non-binary
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Laura R Cortes @prefrontalcortes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So cool! Fly retinal motor neurons are electrically coupled through gap junctions to visual cells. Fast efference copy!!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.


Image:
Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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International Brain Research Organization @ibroorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Want to build new skills through a neuroscience training course? This IBRO #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course. 📅 Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug ⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: ow.ly/jCv250ZOerP
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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 11/09/2026
We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Neuronal response properties in the songbird auditory system change when they become parents, tuned more to chick calls! Such a fun study from @prolactingrl.bsky.social in the JNE Special Issue on Parenting. Expect great things from her new lab at UMichigan!
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Couple of pieces that we've published today, in addition to America's Compact for Higher Education. The first is from @jeremymberg.bsky.social, with an analysis of words removed from NIH grants. Spoiler: looks like the NIH testimony about there not being a banned words list doesn't hold up.
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Characterizing Coerced Word Removal from NIH Grants in Fiscal Year 2026 — Stand Up for Science Foundation
NIH staff are now charged with reviewing both new and existing grant applications for “misalignment” with “agency priorities” and enforcing changes when this is the case. This process has been called ...
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!
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Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning
I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Check out our fresh new paper, out now in iScience! Songbird neuronal ensembles, from dozens of simultaneously recorded auditory neurons. bsky.app/profile/did:... Led by, and thread by, @felipe-cini.bsky.social below!!
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Open access is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Check out our fresh new paper, out now in iScience! Songbird neuronal ensembles, from dozens of simultaneously recorded auditory neurons. bsky.app/profile/did:... Led by, and thread by, @felipe-cini.bsky.social below!!
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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🐦🧬 What does it take to complete the genome of a songbird? The Vertebrate Genomes Project has produced the first complete, fully phased reference genome of the zebra finch (𝘛𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢). Getting there took more than simply generating more sequence. #T2T #VGP #Genomics #GenomeAssembly
A male zebra finch with a bright red-orange beak, orange cheek patch, striped chest, and spotted brown wings. Text asks, “What does it take to complete the genome of a songbird?” and explains that the Vertebrate Genomes Project produced the first truly complete, fully diploid, fully phased reference genome of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).A male zebra finch standing on rocky ground. Text explains that bird genomes are relatively small, but some of their tiniest chromosomes are difficult to sequence. The complete zebra finch genome revealed 7 macrochromosomes, 21 microchromosomes, and 11 tiny dot chromosomes.
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026
Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky
A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some say he’s the natural successor to Audubon. That his illustrations bring jealous tears to Sibley’s eyes. Well… I don’t know about all that. All I know is he’s Extremely Accurate™️. Bravo, @tommysiegel.bsky.social. 👏
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My department is hiring! Come join a vibrant and thriving neuroscience group. New faculty are exceptionally well supported and we offer a very collaborative/collegial environment. employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
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Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. University of Utah Jobs
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10
graphical abstract of the manuscript depicting pink estrogen-sensitive neurons with a subset of their nuclei colored in green. These green nuclei represent estrogen receptor dependent neural gene transcription, tracked via the expression of a destabilized GFP with a 2 hour half-life. At top, in green is shown a cartoon of the neural response to estrogen across two estrous cycles, and below there is a cartoon of a mouse implanted with an optic fiber for in vivo imaging.
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Ya’el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
HHMI released the official 2027 Gilliam Fellowship details, and a lot changed. Deadline's earlier this cycle: Oct 27. Int'l & MD-PhD students now eligible. Stipend up to 50K. New postdoc pathway adds up to 7 yrs of support. No Journal names!!!! www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...
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2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship: New Deadline, Eligibility, and Award Changes — Ya'el Courtney
HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.
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