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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My new apartment is coming together!

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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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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day, if you've ever benefited from: — The weekend — 40-hour work weeks — Workplace safety standards — A minimum wage — Paid time off thank a union. Unions don’t just improve working conditions for their members, they help every American worker. Happy Labor Day!

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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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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I had the pleasure of mentoring a visiting undergraduate student this summer (my first mentee as a postdoc!) who made me this really cute card 🥺

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Felt so much love on my 32nd birthday 🎂

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Can I set up a registry for when I move into my new apartment? Why is it only newlyweds who get a bunch of home-related gifts?

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Baked for the lab today: olive oil cake with peaches and cream filling and pistachio Swiss meringue buttercream 🌹

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Got this email from a summer undergrad intern. Representation matters!

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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268

Cover image from Dis Model Mech (2026) Volume 19, Issue 5 showing C. elegans population on a Petri dish, associated with article: https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052809

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And that if we are concerned about artificial entities becoming autonomous and behaving in ways that are not aligned with our values, they already exist: corporations

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Does anyone have any books recs on brain evolution (textbook or not)? 🧠

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This was such a fun conference - met so many amazing people and left being wholly inspired by the field. I also ended up having dreams about birds throughout the week. See you all in 2028!

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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Made a starter pack for attendees of the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Conference. I'm sure I've missed people so let me know! go.bsky.app/57Ln8Bk

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Nature @nature.com · 13/04/2026

PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance go.nature.com/422vHhs

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14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered

PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My cakes recently! I will either open up my own lab or bakery, maybe both.

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I try to be intentional about not apologizing when I don’t need to, but sometimes people would say “no worries” to me after, say, telling them I can’t make it to an event, even though I didn’t say sorry. Does “no worries” imply accepting an apology or no?

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In the age of AI, I think it’s even more important to hone your own writing style, even for scientific writing. When I read old papers from my PhD lab sometimes it’s so obvious that my PhD advisor wrote it 😂

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I really am capable of starting and running my own lab in 5 years or so, then I remember that some 22 year olds become CEOs straight from college.

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Went to a wedding this past weekend and when people asked me what I did, I learned that saying “I’m a neuroscientist” gets a better reaction than saying “I’m doing a postdoc.”

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Low tire pressure light in my car went away once the weather got warmer. What a win for Gay-Lussac’s law 🔥

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

After doing mouse surgeries for 6+ years and wondering if I could use Vetbond on myself, I’ve finally tried it to close a cut on my thumb. Happy to announce that I’m still alive.

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds. apply.interfolio.com/182074

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... - new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues Different species see the world as fast as they need to...

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Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal resolution of perception.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/02/2026

Even if you didn’t intend to hurt people, even if you didn’t have control over it, why not feel sorry that people were hurt? I think I am fundamentally confused by this allergy to empathizing enough to want to apologize and say I’m sorry you were hurt

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sometimes I think about what I want to accomplish during my postdoc and it all seems so daunting. Then I look back on my PhD and think that if I was able to do it before, I’m able to do it again.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Not on my 2026 BINGO card: checking authors' names in the Epstein files before I cite their work in scientific papers.

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread! 👇🏻

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Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature

Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

These scientists on the Epstein files should not be in positions of power

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Julie Charlton @juliecharlton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

@sebastianseung.bsky.social Did you follow through on your plan to visit Epstein island?

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Richard Axel was mentioned >900 times in the Epstein Files, accepted invitations to go to Epstein’s island along with his wife Cori Bargmann, and continued to plan meetings with Epstein for years 🤮 www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

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University Professor and Nobel laureate Richard Axel, CC ’67, was invited to close friend of 11 years Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2011

<i>Updated Feb. 4 at 11:37 a.m.</i>

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Just noticed at the end of my paper that since the research was conducted at the NIH (i.e. it's government work), it is not under copyright protection in the US. So why is Nature still charging for the article? Anyway here's a Google drive link of the PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1bGCy...

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I was supposed to write 2 pages yesterday but ended up cleaning things in my house that I had never cleaned before.

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Congressman Shri Thanedar @thanedar.house.gov · 09/01/2026

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Less than two weeks left to apply for the Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference! An exciting lineup of speakers and posters, and financial aid is available upon request. 🐙🦑 www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...

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Rafael Dai Prá @rdaipra.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I had the wonderful opportunity to be part of Rising Stars Symposium this year and it was amazing! Great science, great people and a great place!! It was one of my highlights of this year! If you are a neuro grad student, I highly encourage you to apply! ✨

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Last night I watched the latest episode of Heated Rivalry twice back to back and now I need to look for a therapist

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Annegret Falkner @neurrriot.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Want to track the dynamics of estrogen in the brain across long periods of time? New paper as part of very fun collab with team UCLA Ed Van Veen and Steph Correa! We use a specialized optical reporter and show that this is possible and actually very easy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

a grad student at another institution emailed me about their interest in my lab. they attached their thesis proposal, which contained several inaccuracies regarding my work. and also a reference that doesn't exist.

Wu, M. V. & Tollkuhn, J. (2023). Sex-specific gene regulation in the brain: implications for behavior and disease. Trends in Neurosciences, 46(3), 187-200.

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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 24/11/2025

$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research! For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in! I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply! 🧪🧠

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Agree. I was naturalized during my sophomore year of college. Walked in the snow wearing a suit and non-winter leather shoes to attend my ceremony, and that ceremony was filled with pride, joy, relief.

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Finally got my paper in print! Also, what a zeitgeist of a cover.

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Baked this for my lab yesterday. Is there any way one can bake one’s way to a tenure-track faculty position? Asking for a friend.

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