Reposted by Tom KashZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 1hWinter Brain enthusists! Today is the last day to submit your panels and applicaitons for Travel Fellowships! Submissions close at midnight so get thee going!!! #WCBR2027 winterbrain.org 012
Reposted by Tom KashTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8hWe are going to occasionally talk about AI, work, data politics, and sociality here for everyday people. Some ground rules: 1. we won’t cotton to a lot of intellectual elitism (“morons” etc.) 2. This will focus on how I ask questions. This is *my* lens on the world. YMMV is always implied. 323821
Reposted by Tom KashMeghan Flanigan @meghanflanigan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Flanigan Lab at MUSC is looking for a new laboratory manager! If you're interested in stress, social behaviors, and/or serotonin, want to work in a scientific team, and are looking for a long-term lab position, this is the opportunity for you! 156
Reposted by Tom KashZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tomorrow is the final day for submissions for panels, including short courses and perspectives. It is also the final day for travel award submissions!!!! #WCBR2027 winterbrain.org 052
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My favorite was when I interviewed.. went well .. they then said sorry state money is not there. Fast forward a few months.. just had verbally accepted offer at UNC... Got a phone call that money was in. Asked when I could come for 2nd visit. I said... Sorry just accepted offer. 3251
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It always feels funny at the vet when I have to pick up some medicine for our dog and I refer to her as cinnamon Kash. She definitely feels like more of a single name, suffice characters. 2110
Reposted by Tom KashZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Our 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...sciencedirect.com 32512
Reposted by Tom KashValentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#FluorescenceFriday: Given the recently grown interest in ciliary beating, here is a movie of beating cilia in a human airway model that I captured last week with lattice light-sheet microscopy. No AI „processing“, this is the raw data! Frame rate is ca. 170fps, displayed here at 25fps. 310728
Reposted by Tom KashZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026More info here..the allegations are that after the violent assault Nike staffers coerced the young woman to sign document stating the encounter was consensual and didn’t allow her to contact her parents people.com/nike-youth-n...people.comFamily Sues Nike and Youth Nonprofit Alleging Rape of Teen Athlete at Elite CampThe family of a minor who attended a Nike training camp is suing the company and the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation after she was allegedly raped during a weekend for elite high school athle... 113
Reposted by Tom KashThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Microglia don't just prune synapses; they also reach into axons and scoop out organelles containing cellular debris, a new preprint reports, calling it "skoupocytosis." #neuroskyence By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/microglia/mi...thetransmitter.orgMicroglia scoop out garbage from inside neuronsThrough a newly identified process called skoupocytosis, neurons recruit the immune cells to remove cellular waste they find hard to deal with themselves. 01910
Reposted by Tom KashRon Keiflin @ronkeiflin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026New lab preprint! OFC—>M2 in rule selection. Project led by the amazing @margole.bsky.social 12710
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Had a great time at the Pavlovian Society (first timer!!) in beautiful Montreal. Deciding to present a new behavioral task in front of.. the best and brightest behavior folks.. was maybe not the best idea. Nervous.. but it dissipated quickly trying to get back on schedule. (Previous speaker +10 min) 0260
Reposted by Tom KashJorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 18/09/2026The Psychology & Neuroscience Department at Duke is looking to hire a Full Professor in clinical psychology (Distinguished Chair, endowed). Specific research area is open, but preference will be given to applicants employing human neuroscience to advance and improve mental health. Deadline Nov. 15.academicjobsonline.orgDuke University, Psychology and Neuroscience Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US 096
Reposted by Tom KashNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270821520
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Another Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies Retreat done. As per always, I loved being able to sit and listen to the breadth and depth of our science from trainees...and have a rousing mid day game of kahoot (even though my team lost). 1192
Reposted by Tom KashRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 430115824854
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026new paper out, led by @jobeneuro.bsky.social , exploring 5HT dynamics in cingulate and central amygdala, and how a history of alcohol consumption changes them! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSelective dysregulation of serotonin dynamics in the anterior cingulate cortex and central amygdala following binge alcohol consumption - NeuropsychopharmacologyNeuropsychopharmacology - Selective dysregulation of serotonin dynamics in the anterior cingulate cortex and central amygdala following binge alcohol consumption 46322
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I think cinnamon is dabbling with the occult... She looks guilty.. and that magic 8 ball is suspicious. 0100
Reposted by Tom KashMazen Kheirbek @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our new review is out now on the ventral hippocampus, highlighting a large body of recent work, from the information it represents to how internal state shapes its activity to how its circuits influence behavior. 03213
Reposted by Tom KashBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you 311671373
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Having been humbled by the gods for the last 2 weeks for house repair related issues that I was unable to solve... I think I need to take the rest of the month off. 1170
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I accidentally watched extreme archery tag last night. It was pretty insane. 030
Reposted by Tom KashTakuya Sasatani @takuyasasatani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Miniscope Zero, the first fully wireless Miniscope, is on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Wireless power + data enable neural recordings in enclosed mazes, 3D environments & from two animals at once! @miniscope.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... Wiki: miniscope.org/wiki/Minisco... 48934
Reposted by Tom KashTomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social 515449
Reposted by Tom KashKygosi @kygosi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The immediate aftermath of 9/11 was inspirational. I was a freshmen in college. Real heroism and genuine patriotism. The continued aftermath is something that should be our national shame. The war on terror was an unmitigated disaster spawning all kinds of needless death and destruction 121
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The first responders who ran in to chaos, the physician scientist who hopped on the back of a fire truck, The line line of people wrapped two times around a city block to donate blood to the Red Cross, The people who reached out to strangers on the streets to help them. 0100
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Kansas football is hyping John Brown. THE John Brown. Hero. 160
Reposted by Tom KashRock Chalk Rubies @rockchalkrubies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's Gameday Jayhawk Nation. #BeatMizzou 2388
Reposted by Tom KashTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote 1754241249
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026me to R this morning 'buddy, please get shoes on before you walk down the steps, you don't want to fall, right' me this morning as I was walking down steps. shoes on, falls for no reason.static.klipy.comSkeletor You Blundering FoolALT: Skeletor You Blundering Fool 4130
Reposted by Tom KashMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3645851157
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My song algorithm is now 30% Kiff soundtrack, thanks to Rafa. :) 140
Reposted by Tom KashJobe Ritchie @jobeneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I wanted to create a behavior analysis pipeline that fit our workflow in an efficient and user friendly way. ABEL delivers on that goal for new and experienced users in Kash Lab and I hope others find it to be of benefit as well. Happy to answer any questions! 053
Reposted by Tom KashZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What is that you say!? You're dreaming of frosty slopes when the weather in Durham, NC (or insert your location here) is currently 89F at 7:16pm (which is better than last night!)....well my friends....spend this #LaborDayWeekend putting together a panel for #WCBR2027 ! 3106
Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jobe Ritchie , a postdoc in the lab, decided he wanted to build a better platform for scoring behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgABEL: an active-learning behavior estimation and labeling platformDetailed behavior analysis is essential for thorough characterization of ethologically relevant behaviors in model organisms, yet manual annotation of the full behavioral repertoire remains subjective... 2219
Reposted by Tom KashSamantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Please 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/JPF11296recruit.apo.ucla.eduOpen-rank tenure-track faculty positionUniversity of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now! 06965
Reposted by Tom KashKevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A key construct we propose is a contextual gate. That we experience +/- emotions in lots of situations in daily life, but most of those situations aren't conducive to drinking because alcohol isn't available or appropriate. That doesn't matter in the lab, but it really matters in daily life. 111
Reposted by Tom KashJonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm super excited to share a new preprint in which @kevinmking.bsky.social and I propose an update to the affect regulation theory of alcohol use: "A mathematical and computational formalization of the affect regulation hypothesis of alcohol use" doi.org/10.31234/osf... 65325
Reposted by Tom KashJonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So what does the model actually claim? Most important are 3 commitments: affect reaches behavior through the urge to drink; stress biases choice by raising the value of alcohol; and context gates the path from urge to drink. 182
Reposted by Tom KashTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 111454380
Reposted by Tom KashSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future. 8957111551
