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Tracking PhD programs - pauses, reductions, even rescinded offers - below, with sources 👇

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x.com/jayvanbavel/... List of universities with hiring freezes in biomedical research related to budget cuts

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This week’s #PAIN Featured Image summarizes the promises and challenges of digital therapeutics (DTx) for behavioral chronic pain management. Learn more in Eccleston et al.’s new paper bit.ly/4hVK0uh

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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“The finances matter, but more important is the life-changing science, patients, and jobs that would be at risk—and not just at Penn, but throughout the large ecosystem of companies that do business or are affiliated with Penn’s research enterprise” penntoday.upenn.edu/news/takeawa...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o... Read this!

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Have you ever seen a face in an inanimate object, like the foam in your coffee? Human-like face pareidolia emerges in deep neural networks optimized for face and object recognition from Pranjul Gupta and @kathadobs.bsky.social in PLOS CompBio dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroskyence

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So glad this review paper on the possible use of Default Mode Network functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic biomarker was published in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Understanding mindfulness and meditative states using pattern recognition to detect mental states. A brief perspective with Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and Todd Braver. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kUbL8jVtv...

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An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.

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Exciting news! The first batch of baseline data from the Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) program is now available on the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) (project #5121). This includes neuroimaging data on nearly 600 participants!

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Work from our team led by postdoc Dr Nahian Chowdhury shows 5 days of rTMS can influence future pain. @daspainbrain.bsky.social

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The 29th edition of #McGillPainDay was a success! 🙌 The #QPRN is proud to have supported the next generation of scientists by awarding prizes for the best posters in basic, human and clinical science. 🏆 Thank you all for your contributions and exchanges in #PainResearch! @torwager.bsky.social

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Hello Bluesky! @vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Register at: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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Please amplify this important message from a scientist and person fighting cancer #NIH #cancer #neuroskyance

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Hello Bluesky! @vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Register at: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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In-depth article on chronic pain, with my friend @robgereau.bsky.social and Allan Basbaum heavily interviewed as scientists studying pain: ‘We die in pain, we don’t die of pain.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

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For those in LA, as well as alerts @watchdutyapp has realtime smoke exposure maps, we have updated the students as they may not have TV or know about these apps

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Local field potential phase modulates the evoked response to electrical stimulation in visual cortex iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #neuroscience

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Happy New Year! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/w...

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So many new #BluSci users 💙✨❄️, welcome! For science-minded folks, there are some very cool tricks 🚀… use 🧪 to post on the #Science feed use 🧠 for a #Neuroskyence feed If you use any of these emojis👩‍🔬|👩🏻‍🔬|👩🏼‍🔬|👩🏽‍🔬|👩🏾‍🔬|👩🏿‍🔬 your post will on a #WomenInSTEM feed Bonuses: 🕊️ 🌱 📌 Go get it 🚀🧪🧠👩‍🔬💙

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SUPER excited to share this opening for a senior (Assoc/Full) Professor of Psychiatry + endowed Chair at Dartmouth! You: a translational research scientist using imaging (fMRI, fNIRS, fUS) and/or neurostimulation (TMS, tTIS, tACS/DCS, tFUS). Please apply and repost! tinyurl.com/dartmouthneuro

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Hello Bluesky! @vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online January 8 - 10, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience. We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Register at: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications! See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...

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Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

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Traveling waves are the next frontier. Traveling waves enhance hippocampal-parahippocampal couplings in human episodic and working memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

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1/ I’m thrilled to share our new MRI study by Shachar Moskovich! We propose a method to approximate quantitative MRI (qMRI) parameters (R1 & R2) using widely available clinical and large-scale datasets, leveraging weighted MRI images like T1w, T2w, & PDw. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

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So excited to share this preprint, led by Sophie Dvali and Andy Leifer, along with Caio Seguin and myself. Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network. arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498

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If your work explores the connections between memory, emotion and forgiveness, and if it does so from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective, please consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue: link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #psychology #emotion #forgiveness

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Friends, this is urgent. Families in Gaza are starving and need our help. I have donated to and been following this soup kitchen since they started. They provide hot meals to thousands & they need funds to keep going. Please consider donating & sharing. gofund.me/aab9459d

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Hello Bluesky! I'm the Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai. I study the neurobiology underlying addiction disorders & I'm passionate about using science to end stigma 🧠 Excited to connect with scientists in #Neuroskyence & #AddictionSci 🦋

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Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

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Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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SUPER excited to share this opening for a senior (Assoc/Full) Professor of Psychiatry + endowed Chair at Dartmouth! You: a translational research scientist using imaging (fMRI, fNIRS, fUS) and/or neurostimulation (TMS, tTIS, tACS/DCS, tFUS). Please apply and repost! tinyurl.com/dartmouthneuro

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Hello Bluesky! @vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online January 8 - 10, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience. We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Register at: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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The Dana Foundation is officially on Bluesky! Our mission is to advance neuroscience that benefits society and reflect the aspirations of all people. Follow along for updates about the field of neuroscience and society. Visit us at dana.org! #neurosociety #neuro #neuroscience

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We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...

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Please consider donating to support my super hero🦸‍♀️🌟: Dr. Christine Rabinak, a Wayne State professor and my mentor and friend who is battling terminal cancer. Funds will help with treatment and caring for her two young children: gofund.me/25480f1f

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My home department at Columbia just opened a search for a tenure track position. Very supportive department with 7 junior faculty members who are all thriving. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/160181

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Just putting this out here again as the internal deadline for expressions of interest is fast approaching. The Canada Excellence Research Chairs program offers $8M or $4M over 8 years. If you are interested in ultra-high field MRI (3T, 7T, 9.4T, 15.2T) and neuroscience, shoot me a DM. www.cerc.gc.ca

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Stellar new work lead by the inimitable James Whittington in Neuron that develops a new theory unifying episodic and working memory and explains diverse hippocampal and prefrontal data: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... w/Will Dorrell, @behrenstimb.bsky.social Mohamedy El Gaby

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Another fascinating study from the Yasuda lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... CaMKII inhibition immediately after training impairs memory transiently. Memory recovers a day later!

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