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Dave Root

@neuronroot.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist at CU Boulder. he/him. Mostly amplify other neuroscientists. www.root-lab.org

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our new investigation examining how #SBI-553 a biased modulator of NTSR1 alters motivated feeding and NST potentiation of inhibitory transmission in the extended amygdala is now online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stephen V Mahler @svmahler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New paper showing a biological component of the so-called "gateway effect" of early-life cannabis on later-life opioid addiction. Following footsteps of @neurovoice.bsky.social, we show AdolTHC 🔼 opioid reward behaviors, and alters neural network responses to heroin doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The impact of alpha synuclein overexpression on nigrostriatal transmission www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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STAT @statnews.com · 21/09/2026
“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs. www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/n...
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The NIH budget should be $100 billion per year
“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Acronyms in biology tools these days are either already used by another method or "Here we present sMLFNJCOIMZNJQM"
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Enjoy the VA turkeys at play 😂
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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy to share the version of record of our locus coeruleus paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Prior thread on some of our discoveries in this study: bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Topographic structure and function of locus coeruleus noradrenaline neurons - Nature
Dorsal and ventral noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus form topographic subpopulations whose projection patterns and activity encode choice switching, reward-prediction errors and disregard o...
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congrats to Renata Batista-Brito, Geoffrey, and Jacob on this monster paper! It’s an amazing piece of work, and I’m thrilled I got the chance to contribute to it
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Ian Shih @shihyyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our SORDINO paper is available @natneuro.nature.com. I hope it will prove useful to the fMRI community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our earlier digest: bsky.app/profile/shih... News & Views by @shemesh-lab.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Use SORDINO in your lab: camri.org/SORDINO
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David Moorman @davidmoorman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our 🧠lab is hiring a new RA to help study neural changes associated with chronic alcohol, start date ASAP. Ideal for recent college graduates looking for research experience. Please send me any recommendations or have them reach out to me, and please forward/share with your colleagues – thanks!
Aerial view of the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, May 2018. Credit: Greg Saulmon / The Republican file
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Supramammillary projections to the lateral preoptic area drive dopamine release and active behavior www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n
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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yessssssss
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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...
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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 04/09/2026
Looking for a (neuroscience) PI position in France? You still have time to do it this year, but you need to act fast. If you have no idea how to do it, start by reading this! l1nk.dev/hk1mx6e 1/
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Ron Keiflin @ronkeiflin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New lab preprint! OFC—>M2 in rule selection. Project led by the amazing @margole.bsky.social
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence
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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our next interview is here! Dr. Julie Koenig (@juliekoeniggambini.bsky.social) studies the neural correlates of spatial representation and memory. Learn more at the link below! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
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Dr. Julie Koenig — Stories of WiN
studies the neural correlates of spatial representation and memory
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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296
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Open-rank tenure-track faculty position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My lab is ALSO recruiting a new postdoc to work on an exciting NIH-funded project. Start date ideally by early 2027. Please share with any recent or soon-to-defend neuro/psych PhDs with experience in rodent labs. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
About the Opportunity Job Summary The Shansky Lab is seeking a full-time postdoc to conduct National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded behavioral neuroscience research investigating sex differences in...
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Justin O'Hare @justinkohare.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My department is hiring for a tenure-track faculty position in neuroscience! 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Faculty Position in Neuroscience - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (Pharmacology) - Aurora, Colorado job with University of Colorado Anschutz | 12863049
Assistant or Associate Professor faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology at University of Colorado School of Medicine in Neuroscience.
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New clinical trial registered: Researchers are attempting to understand why levodopa works better in some people with #Parkinsons than others by assessing gastrointestinal dopa decarboxylase & levodopa pharmacokinetics in 40 participants clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT077...
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Lin Tian, PhD @lintianphd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking forward to speaking at the 2026 Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience (MMiN) Meeting in September! I’ll be presenting recent work on developing & using genetically engineered sensors to monitor brain activity in living, behaving animals 🧠 Register by 9/7: monitoringmolecules.org/mmin-2026/
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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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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Laboratory Technician - The Shansky Lab
About the Opportunity Job Summary The Shansky Lab is seeking a full-time technician to conduct National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded behavioral neuroscience research. The position includes lab ma...
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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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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gearing up for #WCBR2027! (Please repost!) Helpful links for submission (panels due 9/15/26, posters 10/13/26) and travel fellowships (Due 9/15/26): winterbrain.org/science-of-t... winterbrain.org/travel-fello...
Why Reserachers Choose Winter Brain, From the mouths of attendees: "Great quality science, small meeting, great location" "It was the perfect size for a meeting, with a great  networking opportunity" "The quality of the science and the networking combined with opportunity for snowboarding is very appealing"Find Your Way to Share Your Science
We are now accepting Panel, Perspective, Short Course, and Poster proposals for the 59th Winter Conference on Brain Research in Breckenridge, Colorado, January 30 – February 4, 2027.  Winter Brain seeks proposals from across different neuroscience disciplines and in different formats.

Build the Conversation: Panels
Panels have a cohesive scientific theme. Presentations that approach a theme from different experimental angles or have clinically translational themes are highly encouraged. 

Panel Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2026.
Challenge the Conversation: Perspectives
Perspectives are intended to bring people in a field together to discuss and debate ideas and findings. Brief slide presentations (1–5 slides per panelist) and audience participation should be encouraged by panelists.
Perspective Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2026.

Share Your Expertise: Short Courses
Short Courses introduce a topic/technique to non-experts, addressing its foundations, strengths, and limitations, with ample time for questions. Opportunities for hands-on participation are encouraged.
Short Course Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2026.

Put Your Research in the Spotlight: Posters
Share your latest research and connect directly with scientists in the Winter Brain Community through a Poster presentation.
Poster Proposal Deadline: October 13, 2026.Supporting the Next Generation of Neuroscience - Travel Fellows

The Travel Fellowships page provides information on how to apply for these junior investigator awards. The application deadline is September 15, 2026, for both Panel and Poster Travel Fellowships. In addition to Travel Fellowships, awards for best posters by junior investigators will be presented at the closing banquet. You can indicate your eligibility for a poster award when submitting your poster abstract.
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UM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UM-MIND is hiring! We are recruiting several tenure-track neuroscience faculty members, preferably at the Assistant Professor level, to join our institute at the University of Maryland School of Medicine here in Baltimore, MD. Learn more here: umb.taleo.net/careersectio... @medschool.umaryland.edu
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Assistant Professor, University of Maryland – Medicine Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looking for a postdoc in motor control / systems neuroscience? I'm seeking candidates to develop a Connected Minds Fellowship proposal with me at York University: $70K/yr for 2 years + benefits, plus an $8.5K/yr research allowance. Deadline: Sept 27, 2026. 🧵
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Joe Cheer @joeycheers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New opening in our lab!
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#JNeurosci: Butcher and colleagues studied how ventral pallidum GABA neurons shape addiction-like behaviors in rats seeking two opioid drugs: heroin and the fentanyl derivative remifentanil. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0119-26.2…
Diagram with brain sections showing mCherry and Substance P, GAD+ and CTL comparisons, and graphs of cFos expression.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/08/2026
Don’t miss this week’s new issue of #ScienceSignaling! A more nuanced paradigm of neurons in the brain’s reward area could reshape the study of learning, CRISPR experiments provide a resource to interrogate interferon signaling, and more. scim.ag/4bWODnv
The image shows a midbrain section from a mouse line in which glutamate-dopamine neurons (yellow) in the VTA have been genetically targeted.

Credit: Prévost et al./Science Signaling
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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience 🧠 @yaleneuro.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have 2 searches, one cell/molecular/systems neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190736) and one computational neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190740). Got questions about the searches, the department, or the process? Please ask, happy to chat!
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Dave Root @neuronroot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On the cover of Science Signaling today, the final version of our initial investigation of functional differences between VTA glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only neurons www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Distinct properties of glutamate-dopamine, nonglutamate-dopamine, and glutamate-only ventral tegmental area neurons
Glutamate cotransmission predicts the behavioral functions and characteristics of dopaminergic neurons in the VTA.
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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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Andy Baxevanis @baxevanislab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢 Applications are now open for the NIH Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Program! We're recruiting early-career scientists across all areas of biomedical research for tenure-track faculty positions in the NIH Intramural Research Program. Deadline: Sept 30, 2026. 🔗 tinyurl.com/stadtman26
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Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigators | NIH Intramural Research Program
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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Comprehensive study from Gavan McNally's team on punishment learning As always, behavioral analyses are superb👌 and the dissociable contributions of basolateral amygdala and zona incerta to retention of punishment learning is really interesting www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Brain architecture of punishment learning
Learning from punishment allows animals to suppress actions that produce adverse consequences while maintaining other rewarded behaviors. However, the brain mechanisms of this learning are poorly unde...
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Kate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We’re hiring a research technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/11232
Photo of group of Wassum lab scientists standing in front of a fountain at UCLA.
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Another fun fly Arc paper with the @thecaronlab.bsky.social! Turns out fly Arc mutants Sleep a ton. Like a LOT. See Sophie’s entertaining thread below and the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Arc capsid signaling between serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons sets sleep depth in Drosophila
Arc genes evolved from Ty3 retrotransposons and encode proteins that self-assemble into virus-like capsids that package and transfer RNA between cells. This capsid-forming property may mediate a form ...
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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Do you work in #addictionresearch? Interested in #machinelearning or #AI to better understand #addiction? Submit a manuscript to #Psychopharmacology Special Issue by Oct. 1. Big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in addiction research | Link share.google/GXfeNBPdZ95x...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Neuronal and astrocytic adaptations in the lateral habenula during withdrawal from chronic ethanol www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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davidweinshenker.bsky.social @davidweinshenker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pleased to share a new Addiction Neuroscience Special Issue "The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior" edited by Meaghan Creed with contributions from her, Anushree Karkhanis, @bensaunders.bsky.social, Asheeta Prasad, and Yvan Vachez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Addiction Neuroscience | The ventral pallidum as an orchestrator of reward seeking behavior | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Addiction Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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hombrecerebro.bsky.social @hombrecerebro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Harvard Neurobiology + Kempner are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience. The search is broad; researchers combining computational and experimental work (including nonhuman-primate research) should apply! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16615
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University invite applications for a tenure tra...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 07/08/2026
In a recent PNAS Profile, we explore Morris Moscovitch’s influential work on how the brain stores and retrieves memories. His research reshaped our understanding of the hippocampus and revealed its role in memory. Read more: ow.ly/mMrQ50ZxFZ1
Profile of Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences Member.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hi Folks, with @lisataxier.bsky.social moving on to open her own lab at Stony Brook, I am in the market for a new postdoctoral fellow who wants to do slice electrophysiology. We have a number of really exciting projects, translational to basic science, that are ephys focused.
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This study found opposing effects of fentanyl on tonic vs. phasic dopamine that may reveal insight on impaired non-drug reward seeking during opioid exposure
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Acute fentanyl induces opposing directions of changes in tonic and phasic dopamine release patterns and impairs Pavlovian task performance
Neuropsychopharmacology - Acute fentanyl induces opposing directions of changes in tonic and phasic dopamine release patterns and impairs Pavlovian task performance
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