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Serena M. Dudek

@serenadudette.bsky.social
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Synaptic Plastologist trying to stay relevant. Queen Bee with the buddy. My posts are my own- sort of. #keepCA2weird

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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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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697
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Shannon Farris @shannonfarris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very cool! Includes molecularly-defined CA2 👀 #keepCA2weird
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Mean Girls: Stop trying to make onedrive happen. It's not going to happen
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Ramen Saha @ramensaha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Abstract submission deadline for the inaugural conference on Experience-dependent transcription is now extended to August 17th. Based on the success of our ongoing fundraising efforts, financial support for early career scientist will be provided. Students and postdoc fellows, submit your abstract!
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P-SPINE @spinephilly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 It's that time of year again! 🚨 We are happy to share that we are returning to a nationwide search this year for our SPINE postdoc fellows! Application instructions, meeting registration, and relevant dates can be found in this flyer or at SPINEphilly.org
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#keepIGweird ? Thanks for the invitation!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
STAT story on the President's NIH budget request www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/t... 1/2
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NIH would get $5 billion cut under Trump’s 2027 budget, but Congress unlikely to go along
The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of institutes and centers from 27 to 22
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Now digging through the 1000+ page Appendix. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 1/3
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
🪄Using my CA girl powers to summon up some sunny weather for the inaugural Neuroscience of Social Behavior GRC! Welcome attendees!
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 08/02/2026
For decades, government investments in basic biomedical research have been the foundation for innovation across the private sector and academia. Trump administration’s attacks on federal science are hammering away at that foundation—and without it, the house won’t stand. Learn more:
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Science, Innovation, and the National Institutes of Health
Failing to support independent agency science imperils the uptake of innovative drugs.
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Great training opportunity! 👇
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
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2026 The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 30/01/2026
🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.
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NOT-OD-26-020: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period NOT-OD-26-020. OD
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Many great personal stories in this special issue on the history of hippocampal research! This one by Graham Collingridge
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
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2026 The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Evidence I’m in fact old
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Hippocampus on the history of hippocampal research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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From Synaptic Plasticity and Critical Periods to Social Behavior and Stress: Getting to, and Staying in, CA2
Hippocampal Area CA2, with some exceptions, had long been neglected in in vivo studies, due largely to its small size, and in in vitro studies because of its general similarity to CA3 and CA1. Increa...
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment. This is exactly why funding basic science is so important! www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
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How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS
The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIEHS for more than 50 years, ending accepting new manuscripts in April, is now completely gone from the NIEHS website. ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp
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Marco Varrone @marcovarrone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
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The giant wakes up: Illumina goes spatial
Predictions on the upcoming Illumina spatial transcriptomics technology
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Oh no! So sad to hear!
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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
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Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
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Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733
The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
⛓️ October’s most-read Structural Biology paper challenges textbook views of synapses, revealing a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ instead of a dense post-synaptic layer: buff.ly/rAvREVV Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB
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Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Who is coming to #SfN2025? Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇 @nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests! #radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 12/11/2025
Great research needs support. The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community. Learn more and add to your itinerary! 🔗 vist.ly/4dz53 #neurosky #neuroskyence
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH
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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 07/11/2025
Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.) This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Show off your research! Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️ www.jneurosci.org/content/informati…
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Ally Nowlan @anowlan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026! If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
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Teaching Assistant Professor
Teach three courses per semester for a total of six courses each academic year, along with service/administrative responsibilities.
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
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Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Well this happened www.science.org/content/arti...
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JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute
Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Job ad with QR code
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Submit your abstracts before Nov 1 to be considered for a short talk! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
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2026 The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Not supposed to be working, but maybe reading a thesis on the porch with Bud on a #caturday isn’t work
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
🧵 Why the obsession with p < 0.05 is hurting science.
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thanks for having me Ted! Great neuro there!
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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. @karynfrick.bsky.social‬ is a distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her lab seeks to understand how sex-steroid hormones, aging & the environment affect memory. Join us November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hey does anyone know where to get TTX these days? 🐡 None of our usual sources have it
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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
📍 Register now for #MCCS25 on November 13 & 14! Join us for talks & networking with the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. #Neuroskyence Check out the link for more information and to register & submit an abstract 👉 event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Abstract neural art with event date and location
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Serena M. Dudek @serenadudette.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Didi says hi #caturday
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
1/ No, you do not always need single-cell RNA-seq. Here's why bulk RNA-seq might still be the smarter move for your experiment.
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