Feels like a good time for a little reminder: Countries aren't supposed to be run like businesses. Countries are supposed to spend money to support and serve their people. This means spending to support those living below the poverty line, the disabled and historically 1/

Everyone says “Today’s PhD students are so accomplished I wouldn’t have gotten in today” as if it’s a good thing. It’s not. There are amazing young scientists out there today. But grad admissions is ignoring wide swaths of them because it’s been infected with the same credentialist bullshit of faculty hiring and grants.

Excited to share our new paper out now @Nature, where we identified neural signatures of stress susceptibility and resilience in the amygdala-ventral hippocampal network to enable control of anhedonia! <nature.com/articles/s41586-0…> Thread below:

Programming worm behavior with optogenetic stimulation sheds light on working memory and has evolutionary implications. Wait, C elegans’ 185 neuron brains have working memory? Crazy. Check out the preprint by Raymond Dunn, Saul Kato and others. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Time is a flat circle

The UCSF Palestine Solidarity Encampment is launched! Health students & workers demand that @UCSF divest from genocide. UCSF worse than silent while over 35,000 Palestinians killed, over 450 healthcare workers murdered, & HCW kidnapped & tortured. @ucsf4palestine on IG

Todays noise is tomorrows data

New article out our from our lab on Angular Head Velocity cells in brainstem areas that project into the head direction circuit. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.05… Also congratulations to Patrick LaChance for winning this year's SFN's Lindsley Prize for best thesis in behavioral neurosci.

Interested in pursuing a STEM graduate degree? Join us next week virtually to learn more! @SACNAS chapters at UC Berkeley and UCSF will be hosting this information session/panel on 11/9 from 4-5pm PST! RSVP at the QR code on the flyer. We hope to see you there 🧬🔬🧠

Check out our new preprint on neural signatures of stress susceptibility and resilience in the amygdala-ventral hippocampal network! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Thread below 👇

Guess who! Honored to spend a summer writing at @SmithsonianMag as an @AAASMassMedia Fellow. Every scientific finding has a story waiting to be told.

Phew! It took a while, but this "beast" is out now in @NatureNeuro rdcu.be/c83t3 Thread coming

New paper from the lab out today! @jeremy_biane, @max_ladow and team describe how neural population dynamics in dorsal and ventral CA1 evolve with associative learning and outcome expectation. Full text here: rdcu.be/c83t3

If you are at @CosyneMeeting make sure to stop by @_fxia poster tonight! With @VFascianelli, @nineuron and @StefanoFusi2 : "Decoding stress susceptibility from activity in an amygdala-ventral hippocampal network" via @worldwideneuro world-wide.org/cosyne-23/dec…

10 years without this face, without this voice, without this mind, without this love, without this light. Ten years. RIP my darling boy.

But regardless of how you vote, we hope there’s one thing you can take away from this strike: Screw the UC and screw the neoliberal capitalist, racist, ableist, heterosexist, nationalist model of education. Regardless of the contract vote outcome, this fight isn’t over.

Quiet quitting in lab (no longer making 1X PBS)

Trying to find a suitable Control for this Experiment called "Life"

Remember, the next few weeks are peak diet culture and pseudoscience masquerading as health. Disregard it. You and your body are rad.