Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Loyola Women in Neuroscience is planning to release a monthly newsletter in the future and we are torn between calling it The Neural Current or Neural Network. We need your help. Vote for your preference! 130
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Silent engram researchers, a student in class asked me a beautiful question today: If a silent engram is retrieved via optogenetics (AD mouse, infantile amnesia etc), does the artificial reactivation of that engram promote further natural recovery (e.g., via enhanced plasticity)? 020
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am honoured to share that I have been selected as a recipient of the 2026 BBRF Young Investigator Grant! 🎉 I am incredibly grateful to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for this support and to my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and trainees for their encouragement and support. 3658
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDBita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty? Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention 24517
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDAmelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026New preprint from @sgrella.bsky.social team: silencing ventrolateral OFC (chemogenetically) blocks spatial memory-updating. Mice detect novelty fine but can’t use it to revise an existing memory. Deficit tracks w/ reduced engram reactivation in dentate gyrus. Looking forward to digging into this. 0144
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDThe Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEMtinyurl.comBuilding a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of NeuropsychologyThere are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda... 016060
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.socialroyalsocietypublishing.orgVolume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the life sciences. 211753
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 28/06/2026static.klipy.comCanada Les RougesALT: Canada Les Rouges 031
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Artificial Reactivation of a Cocaine-Associated Engram in the Dorsal Dentate Gyrus Attenuates Cocaine Prime-Induced Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDbioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Artificial Reactivation of a Cocaine-Associated Engram in the Dorsal Dentate Gyrus Attenuates Cocaine Prime-Induced Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 22/05/20261/ New preprint from the lab 🧠💉 led by Hazel Edwards & Lola Papanikolaou. We investigated whether artificial reactivation of cocaine-related HPC memories influences relapse-like beh after extinction. We tagged dDG ensembles encoding cocaine experiences during CPP. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 383
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...unc.peopleadmin.comLaboratory Research TechnicianThe Research Technician will assist with lab management operations and assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, behavior, biochemis... 03036
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDandré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026i was glued to the broadcast every day of that mission and all i saw and heard were human scientists, human engineers, human curiosity, human determination, and human collaboration between multiple nations. what i didn’t hear was AI. 317525
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026We needed this moment of collective joy. 423229
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDAndrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026SCNR I do love this scene on Euler's Method from the movie Hidden Figures, a dramatization focusing on Katherine Johnson's, Dorothy Vaughan's and Mary Jackson's work at NASA in the 1950s and 1960s.youtu.beEuler's Method scene in Hidden FiguresYouTube video by Sergio K. 042
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew! 3253171413
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I'm moonscrolling 295189996
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDLoyola University Chicago @loyolachicago.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Your next four years could look a little like this 🐺 Rambler Day is less than a month away, tag @loyolachicago.bsky.social in your photos for a chance to be featured! 021
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Reactivation during sleep segregates the neural representations of episodic memories www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 0133
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Billy Wade presenting our work at the 36th Annual Cambridge Neuroscience Meeting. 🤩 020
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Good advice from everyone! Worked so good 😊 030
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 19/11/2025If I found an antibody in the -20 I forgot I bought two years ago, never opened, never thawed, is it still good? 661
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Me: “Adam, how do you make PBS-T?” Adam: “You make PBS, then take a bag of Lipton’s…” 🤦🏻♀️ 140
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 07/11/2025One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct. 261198230
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDKeri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Our paper using endoscopic in vivo calcium imaging to uncover how neuronal population dynamics in the prelimbic cortex track attention and task engagement during the rodent continuous performance test (rCPT) is now online www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comPatterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test - Translational PsychiatryTranslational Psychiatry - Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test 24112
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDMathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 28/10/2025This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball 4153961057
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function 838840
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDDr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...jobs.wisc.eduAssistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesCurrent Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula... 06235
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDBertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025A ventral hippocampus-basolateral amygdala circuit regulates the unconditioned stimulus retrieval-induced reconsolidation of remote fear memory doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...doi.orgRedirecting 021
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 16/10/2025There’s like 47 things on my to do list still for today and I think I’ll just turn inside out and go hide somewhere instead of doing any of them thank you.media.tenor.coma gazelle standing next to a rock with the words i 'm just gonna written below itALT: a gazelle standing next to a rock with the words i 'm just gonna written below it 030
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDJonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025www.nature.com/articles/s41... Emiliani Labnature.comHigh-throughput synaptic connectivity mapping using in vivo two-photon holographic optogenetics and compressive sensing - Nature NeuroscienceUsing two-photon optogenetics, electrical recordings and sparse signal reconstruction, the authors demonstrate in vivo synaptic connectivity mapping in the mouse visual cortex. 1217
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDLisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025 Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiringgenzellab.comWe are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab 21311
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Fred Armisen is my spirit animal. Had the best time at his show tonight. Dude is the chillest, nicest human too. 030
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Today my husband somehow laid his head down on a pillow that had a pile of vomit from the cat and I just asked my students if I had mouse poop on my face. How’s your day going? 040
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDJibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGenome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular PsychiatryMolecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals 33814
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDRon Keiflin @ronkeiflin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025🧠 Curious about grad school in Psych & Brain Sciences? Join UC Santa Barbara’s PBS Department for a virtual open house on Oct 14 — meet faculty, connect with grad students, and learn more about the program! 144
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 06/10/2025First lab paper out today! Student authors: Mikayla Cutler and Abhi Thati 🎉🤩 Hippocampus | Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comDrug‐Related Engrams and Their Role in the Persistence and Recurrence of Drug‐Related BehaviorsMemory is a cornerstone of human behavior, and addiction offers a compelling model of its persistence and plasticity. The scope of engram research has rapidly expanded to include addiction-related ph.... 34019
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 04/10/2025How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...cell.comHow prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactionsThe brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our knowledge base must be revised to remain relevant. Her... 26920
Reposted by Stephanie L. Grella, PhDBertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Stimulus‐Dependent Dopamine Dynamics from Locus Coeruleus Axons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgStimulus‐Dependent Dopamine Dynamics from Locus Coeruleus AxonsArousal is essential for survival, and maladaptive arousal processing leads to an inability to focus, anxiety‐like behavior, and dysregulated affective states. Norepinephrine (NE) is known to regulate... 031
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Wondering whether anyone is willing to contribute short videos for my methods class. The ones I already have are fantastic and so well-received in my class that I’d like to expand this. Looking for TMS, fMRI, EEG, PET - short video of you explaining the method showing the tech. Thank you!!! 🙏 000
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Has anyone tried the primary antibody: Chicken anti-c-Fos (226009 SySy)? Happy with it? 100
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 27/06/2025We're hiring! Loyola University Chicago seeks a full-time, non‑tenure‑track Instructor in Psychology/Neuroscience for Fall 2025. For full consideration apply by July 11 www.careers.luc.edu/postings/33099. Message if you have questions. #AcademicJobscareers.luc.eduPsychology, Instructor (One-year, Temporary), Non-Tenure TrackSalary Range: $60,000- $65,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candid... 0911
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Can someone please please send me this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7704620/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govMesolimbic dopaminergic neurons innervating the hippocampal formation in the rat: a combined retrograde tracing and immunohistochemical study - PubMedA major mesolimbic projection towards the hippocampal formation (HF) has been extensively described, but no clear evidence of its dopaminergic content has been demonstrated. In order to evaluate the p... 110
Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Hotel Reverie is one of my favourite Black Mirror episodes! 🍸🌙 140