Bita Moghaddam

An amazing honor to give NIH’s WALS lecture today as the last speaker under the leadership of NIH Director Dr Monica Bertagnolli

For those interested in Arab contemporary writers, here is a partial list thenational.shorthandstories.com/best-arabic-...

Friday fish feast by a squadron of pelicans TGIF

@science.org reporting today that Vikaas Sohal was the leading candidate for NIMH Director, but was told this week that HHS is going in a different direction (see article) 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

🚀 Unconventional Journeys Episode 3 has landed and features Dr Susanne E. Ahmari! The finale of the series exploring the real, often non-linear paths people take into brain research is here, supported by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). 🔗 Watch here: youtu.be/t6Hq7t5hIJE 1/2

My quote of the day Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. Dave Barry

Helen’s obituary in the New York Times will start to give you a sense of just how remarkable she was as a reporter and public health expert.

Many people are understandably upset about this but keep in mind that winning a defamation lawsuit does not determine guilt or innocence - it could merely mean the jury decided that the defendant made a defamatory statement to a third party that caused harm to his reputation

Our paper is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So my first reaction was this too: if I was holding the mic I would have asked if Tommy would disavow rightwing extremists like Timothy McVeigh. But I was wrong. El-Sayed handled it much better: he went to positive principles, of separation of church and state. Amazing. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

A prominent MIT biology professor forced out of his job over sexual harassment allegations won a defamation case against his accuser on Friday, along with a $6 million award.

Fantastic article on Canuck memory legend Karim Nader by Samia Madwar. Karim’s 2000 reconsolidation paper was a game changer, reorienting neuroscientific studies towards a more reconstructivist view of memory. thewalrus.ca/karim-nader/

Shameful. Sally Rooney is one of my favorite contemporary novelists. Trash America and American ways all you want but her books will continue to be published and sold by the American publishers and retailers

Now out in Nature Comms! Grace DiRisio & @cxue.bsky.social's work spurred new directions for us, suggesting very different neural codes for one shot learning vs. attention/working memory/decision-making, with translational implications. Stay tuned! 🧪🧠🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Greetings from the "Alzheimer room" at the LMU Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in München This is the very room where Dr. Alois Alzheimer had his microscopy and brain anatomy laboratory setup and, one can argue, where a biological foundation for a brain disorder was first discovered

What do these universities have in common? They apparently issue too many J-1 visas, which Vance claims is at "the expense of American graduate students and researchers" J-1 visas are used mostly for 2-3 yr hiring of international postdocs (not students) This will harm our scientific productivity

Disturbing all around including the possibility that the drug dealer who supplied ketamine may have “worked in a Cornell lab.” How Ketamine Emerged as a Key Factor in an Alleged Cornell Sex Assault www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/n...

Nice review AND we have actual data to support (or refute!) some of the theories here on how psychedelics may influence reward learning and behavioral flexibility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reading a review on serotonin by Peter Dayan and Quentin J.M. Huys from 2009. It's an increasingly rare experience in this LLM-blighted era to read a paper with good prose.

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament” Gloria Steinem

For my first academic position, I politely voiced concern that my salary was too low. I was told that your husband works too so the combined salaries should be considerable

This is a genuinely exciting (mouse) result that may address a big unmet need and seemingly works with non psychedelic 2A agonists (tabernanthalog worked). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m sorry but this is never going to stop being funny

All the mothers are going

Please 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/JPF11296

Hey, we’ve been studying mnemonic chunking in🐒! With @fkchiang89.bsky.social Here’s the rundown: 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

We ( @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social and I ) wrote a "Hot Topics" piece for @npp-journal.bsky.social on the potential utility of frontopolar cortex TMS in precision psychiatry. Relevant now that this region has been accessed in some excellent recent NHP studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know many scientists love Linkedin and are very active on it but I find it boring if not uninformative - my feed is 90% folks posting their latest awards or papers and others liking it 👏and/or replying congrats. No meaningful comments, no humor, no sarcasm, no disagreement What am I missing?

Two large-scale electrophysiologyical studies of psilocybin's effects in mice, from @alleninstitute.org @torbenott.bsky.social and others. Should be a treasure trove of data for those interested in perceptual effects of #psychedelics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It also puts data behind something that folks already have a general sense for: drug effects aren’t just pharmacology. Set and setting may substantially shape whether an experience is interpreted as “psychedelic-like.” 11/14

Excited to share our new paper in Psychopharmacology: A pilot study comparing high-dose oral Δ9-THC, psilocybin, and placebo under the same set and setting used in psychedelic clinical trials. @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/n

My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812

Correct, “yinz” is the only gender neutral plural pronoun that anyone should use.

Ottawa announces 64 new research chairs in international talent attraction strategy universityaffairs.ca/news/ottawa-...

“Your Nervous System Needs This” Psilocybin microdosing business in Amsterdam is quite vivacious

I noticed a paper in Nature Neurosci this week that seemed familiar but old🧐 And then I realized I'd seen the complete study presented at @acnporg.bsky.social in 2021🤯 Science is moving faster than ever so the choice to publish in glam mags is becoming silly if it takes this long to publish data

This isn’t a dig against @jenbussell.bsky.social. Her study is fantastic. But the multiple comments here from senior neuroscientists tripping over themselves to endorse mouse over nonhuman primate models as “better neuroscience” just because “more tools exist” is problematic to say the least.

My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

If you want to know how we got here this Politico headline explains a lot

A federal judge struck down Texas' ban on drag shows, deeming it an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. "The solution is relatively simple ... just don't go."