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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A modified rodent effort-related choice task (mERC) is a sensitive preclinical tool for studying effort-based decision-making and screening potential treatments for motivational dysfunction

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Effort, timing and choice: a refined rodent effort choice task with excellent sensitivity to dopamine modulators

Neuropsychopharmacology - Effort, timing and choice: a refined rodent effort choice task with excellent sensitivity to dopamine modulators

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Travis Moschak @tmoschak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We're hiring! UTEP seeks two Research Assistant Professors studying neural circuits underlying substance use disorders. • Behavioral Neuroscientist • Brain Circuit Imaging & Atlas Mapping Behavior: tinyurl.com/3wkrsrw3 Imaging: tinyurl.com/8fefztm3 #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs

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Will Giardino @willgiardino.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New preprint from the lab! We identified Vipr2-expressing BNST neurons as a distinct subpopulation of the oval nucleus that promotes feeding, is activated by food restriction, is non-overlapping with appetite-suppressing PKC delta neurons, and projects to PSTN & PVN hypothalamic feeding centers.

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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Overexpressing nuclear-localized HDAC5 in the anterior insula of 🐀 = ⬇️ cognitive control by ⬆️ prepotent responses & ⬇️ behavioral inhibition - suggesting targeting insular HDAC5 could help executive control & impulsivity-related deficits

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Epigenetic manipulation of anterior insular cortex alters neural signals and cognitive control

Neuropsychopharmacology - Epigenetic manipulation of anterior insular cortex alters neural signals and cognitive control

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Travis Moschak @tmoschak.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Interested in investigating the neuroscience of motivation, stress, and drug use? Our lab is recruiting a grad student to start in Fall 2026. Please see our website for more information! moschaklab.org

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Travis Moschak @tmoschak.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New article from blueskyless Marina Smoak et al. in our lab on prelimbic neurons tracking anxiety-like behavior! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Brady Atwood @bradyatwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Looking for a postdoc or staff scientist with brain slice electrophysiology experience. If you or someone you know is interested in, message me.

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Will Giardino @willgiardino.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We’re excited to share our new preprint from the lab! PhD student @armorningstar.bsky.social demonstrated how Early Life Stress shapes sex-specific vulnerability to alcohol behavioral sensitivity, alcohol drinking, and alcohol's effects on social behaviors in mice.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The University of Puerto Rico has built a strong neuroscience community via federally funded programs. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar explains how funding cuts threaten minority-serving institutions’ progress toward becoming premier research institutions. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/the-...

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The future of neuroscience research at U.S. minority-serving institutions is in danger

Cuts to federally funded programs present an existential crisis for the University of Puerto Rico’s rich neuroscience community and for research at minority-serving institutions everywhere.

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Jayme McReynolds @jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

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NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We’re excited to join Bluesky, along with @acnporg.bsky.social & @npp-journal.bsky.social! Follow us for the latest on digital methodologies that advance the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and modeling of mental illness. And of course, we will be posting #ACNP2024 updates! #neuroskyence

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Mitch Roitman @mitchroitman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we're grateful for the publication of our paper in #eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We measured dopamine and behavioral responses to intraorally delivered sucrose across acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion. 1/n

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It Tastes Bad Melissa GIF

ALT: It Tastes Bad Melissa GIF

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Joyce Besheer @jbesheer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Join #UNCResearch as part of our Catalyst Faculty Research Cluster Program. We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a team that will advance substance use disorder treatment. Apply here by December 15: go.unc.edu/Rt9b7

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