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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 13/09/2026

How people are using AI can be so mystifying. How does this headline get through??

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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@kravitzlab.com doing show and tell at #SSIB2026 poster session unveiling FED4 which has a redesigned hopper, touch plate sensors, activity sensors, improved screen, built in steel nose piece, a tactical rail, and WIRELESS data logging. @ssibsociety.bsky.social

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Open Ephys @open-ephys.org · 06/08/2026

We're excited to be in Philly for the SSIB @ssibsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting. Come say hi and try to get a treat from a @kravitzlab.com FED device! See Harp in action in @bonsai-rx.org and discuss open behavior tools with Cris. #ssib2026 #OpenEphys

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 was a rough year for science worldwide (and in general), but, despite everything, I am optimistic. Why? Because of @qedscience.bsky.social! This crazy endeavour actually has a chance of changing how academia works.. 👇

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a man pointing to a sign that says believe

ALT: a man pointing to a sign that says believe

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 25/09/2025

Just got home from a trip and received this book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social!

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Open Ephys @open-ephys.org · 02/09/2025

pyPhotometry v2 is now in our store! 🚀 ⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA 🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers 🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion #OpenEphys #pyPhotometry

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pyPhotometry V2 — Open Ephys

SKU: OEPS-8011 pyPhotometry is an open source system for fiber photometry data acquisition . Version 2 includes: 2x Analog inputs for photometry signals. The system supports time-division mul...

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Lisa Beutler @lbeutler.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Excited to share work led by my PhD student Hayley McMorrow now published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Hayley showed that GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly inhibit AgRP neurons and that endogenous GIP is important for nutrient-mediated AgRP neuron inhibition. doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

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JCI - Incretin receptor agonism rapidly inhibits AgRP neurons to suppress food intake in mice

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If you missed out on a spot at the other neuroscience/psychoactive drug GRCs this summer, we still have spots open at the Cannabinoid GRC with an exciting program ranging from clinical to pre-clinical to big data to society! Register today! grc.org/cannabinoid-... RT please!

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Julie Lasselin @julielasselin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join a dynamic and inclusive research group at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology, where we investigate the interplay between behavior, brain f

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Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thrilled to announce that my lab is now open at Ohio State! We study astrocytes as gene therapy targets for brain repair after ischemic stroke and in vascular dementia, developing new viral tools along the way. If you're interesting in joining or collaborating, please reach out! gleichmanlab.com

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The Gleichman lab

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 02/05/2025

I found Jimmy Carter's Environmental Program (fittingly?) in the dumpster in the alley behind my house. "The sight of earthrise was awesome. It was also sobering. From that moment we could no longer avoid understanding that all life must share this one small planet and its limited resources."

Pamphlet of the President's Environmental Program 1979

Quote from Jimmy Carter: "Ten years ago, at the dawn of the environmental decade, we landed on the moon. For the first time people could stand on the surface of another world and look at the whole earth. The sight of earthrise was awesome. It was also sobering. From that moment we could no longer avoid understanding that all life must share this one small planet and its limited resources."

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 26/04/2025

It's funny that ChatGPT does this shit too

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

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2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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Kepecs Lab @ WashU @kepecslab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy

Cachexia, a severe wasting syndrome associated with inflammatory conditions, often leads to multiorgan failure and death. Patients with cachexia experience extreme fatigue, apathy, and clinical depres...

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Kepecs Lab @ WashU @kepecslab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

12/ This project took a *huge* team, spanning neuroscience, immunology, and cancer. Grateful to co–first authors Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, co–senior authors Marco Pignatelli & Tobias Janowitz & ours labs & all our amazing collaborators including @kravitzlab.com & Pavel Osten.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 12/03/2025

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

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Michael Taffe @effatma.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I am recruiting for postdoctoral and technician positions at UCSD. If anyone with relevant skills/interests has lost funding due to the anti-DEI jihad or the NIH purge, I’m open to discussion of ways we can try to help out.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Most of these F31 applicants who had their apps pulled from review will be first time newbies to the NIH system. They are not hardened to the brutality like most of us. So heartbreaking to contemplate their disappointment and confusion and pain over the lost opportunity.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It's time to educate our neighbors about the importance of science funding. Local news papers still exist and are read by folks. Here is the op-ed I wrote for this week's "News of Orange", a local paper in Orange Co NC. Full text is on the alt-text 🧪

Science funding is key to the future of America and the health of our community

I am a Biology professor at UNC and this semester I am teaching a course called Cancer Biology to a group of juniors and seniors. I began teaching this course 20 years ago and it’s been incredible to see and teach about the improvements in cancer treatment. Between 1991 and 2019, the cancer death rate decreased 32%. New treatments for breast cancer, colon cancer, and most recently melanoma have saved millions of lives—many of us know a cancer survivor. Similar advances occurred in treating heart disease, with drugs like statins changing outcomes. Even more exciting changes are starting to roll out: these include the first gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease and Type 1 diabetes. It’s been exciting to be a small part of this—our lab helped define how signaling between cells goes wrong in colon cancer.
None of these new treatments arise in a vacuum. All rest on decades of basic and translational research, and follow-up clinical trials, most of which is funded by our tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH). North Carolina and especially the Triangle play an essential role in this, making science and technology key drivers of our state and regional economy. In 2023 NIH awarded $2.28 billion (yes, with a b) in grants to NC institutions, and this helped us create more than 25,000 jobs. Nationwide more than 400,000 jobs are supported by NIH grants, and this generates $92 billion in economic activity.
The National Science Foundation, which funds scientific research more broadly, has a similar impact, fueling, for example advances in solar energy or helping us understand the impact of climate change on the NC coast. NSF provided $220 million in grants to NC Institutions in 2023. In total, UNC received $800 million in federal research funding in 2023, Duke $860 million and NC State $416 million. This not only creates jobs directly but is also the reason …

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder: You can always submit a grant late and include a cover letter saying why. NIH receipt and referral may take it. Or not. If you end up missing deadline because of these Commons access issues, there is this potential save move.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Journalists: When you ask the question this way, you are accepting the premise. The premise is that non-white men and women (including white women) are not qualified to do the job. Please don’t accept the premise. Frame the question in a way that challenges it. Thank you

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

guys I tried ChatGPT for drafting some summary sections in a grant application and it was just... really lame. Like vague and bland and not something that was ever going to engage a grant reviewer at 10.30pm on a Thursday night while they had a glass of red wine in their hand

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Many of you know I'm a long-time vegetarian. I don't push vegetarianism on anyone ever, not even my own kids. But I do think it's sad that all the focus is on egg prices and not the conditions that lead to massive outbreaks of things like bird flu.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

In a world of Meta and Walmart, be a Costco.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you would like to see how much economic activity and grants and how many people are employed through NIH in your state, just use this handy website. And then contact your Congressional Rep and tell them to prioritize NIH. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"WhY DoNt YoU TrAiN U.S. WorKerS...." "🫡 *destroys NIH*"

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Emily Qualls-Creekmore @quallscreekmore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm excited to share the latest work from our lab! Led by the amazing @mlmcgraw.bsky.social , we used chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress to investigate how stress influences motivated behavior during and after stress exposure in males and females. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Divergent changes in social stress-induced motivation in male and female mice

Exposure to stressors has been shown to dysregulate motivated behaviors in a bidirectional manner over time. The relationship between stress and motiv…

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Emily Qualls-Creekmore @quallscreekmore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We monitored operant responding for sucrose on a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement before, during, and after the stress period using in-home cage feeding experimental devices (FED 3.1). Many thanks to @kravitzlab.com and the FED forum members for advice as we developed our protocols.

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 28/12/2024

Working on a new gaming system for mice over the holidays

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 28/12/2024

Remarkable! Check out figure below. “We find that when ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly. Groups of people do not show such improvement and, when their communication is restricted, even display deteriorated performances. “ IG Nobel nomination?

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thewilliamslab @thewilliamslab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Resharing a starter pack i made a while back for those interested in Neuroscience and Metabolism research. Some recent additions are included. Let me know if you want to join! go.bsky.app/DGJS44y Neuroskyence: 🧠🟦 or 🧠📈 Interoception: 🧠🫀 or 🧠🫁

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 13/12/2024

I received a >50 page response to reviewers that I need to understand before I can start re-reviewing a paper I already spent many hours reviewing the first time. What are we doing???? Props to @elife.bsky.social for trying something different!

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 06/12/2024

I took this photo of Jupiter + moons from inside my house in St Louis, aiming the telescope at the bright spot in the sky and using my phone pointed down the eyepiece to capture it. Technology is amazing, this is not a fancy scope. I turned the lights off in the room but otherwise here's the setup!

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Lex Kravitz @kravitzlab.com · 02/12/2024

Congrats to Dr. Alex Legaria, the first PhD student to graduate from my lab! Lots of feelings as his PI, but mostly I'm grateful that I didn't eff it up 😄😅😁

Alex Legaria speaking at his PhD defense

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

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Kate Ellacott @neuroendo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

@stephenorahilly.bsky.social welcome! Find many in our community here via the starter pack. One of the great advantages of this site over the other 😀 go.bsky.app/NRoqMvp

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Obesity, Diabetes & Metabolism Research

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟 Cai Lab Nature (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) paper alert! In work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/10) Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature paper article with title and abstract

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our next multi-agent behavior challenge launches in <2 months! Will share bits of info here in the meantime. First, the basics: - 226 hours of top-down video of socially interacting mice - 15 contributor labs - all vids fully manually scored for behavior - 45 unique behaviors across videos (!)

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