Congratulations to Michael Frazure, PhD and Teresa Pitts, PhD for this study!

The snake-oil salesman-to-antivaxxer pipeline never fails

The winner of last night’s Neuroscience costume contest was ⁦ClaireWard⁩, who was a -80 freezer that had been left open. The brilliant part is that she was emitting a blood-chilling beeping noise

It’s true! We’ve got openings. Come join us at Mizzou!! Want to patch? Learn circuit mapping? In vivo physiology? We have slots for anyone interested in all the above….and will train!

Conference tip for ECR:

Don't run after 'celebrity' scholars who don't care about you.

Go out & have fun with PhDs and postdocs who are kind and smart. They'll graduate and be promoted, and they'll become the best collaborators and colleagues for your entire career.

🎶Free to read this week! Preparing to sing: respiratory patterns underlying motor readiness for song (Brenton G. Cooper et al.)

🔓ow.ly/i88k50O5Yg2

#MotorPlanning #SongProduction #respiration #VocalLearning #SensorimotorFeedback #neurophysiology #neuroscience

I heard a presenter on sexual harassment say that ‘once you bring up the problem, you become the source of the problem’ and I really haven’t been the same since.

🔓The authors of this research explored the neurophysiological mechanism by which #capsaicin improves swallow performance using an infant pig model with a unilateral iSLN lesion🎇Free to read this week!

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#pediatrics #kinematics Chloe Edmonds Christopher Mayerl

No matter who we are, our roles as mandatory reporters is real. Disappointed in ⁦Jonathan Kipnis 💔⁩

Alleged sexual misconduct and support system failures cause graduate student to drop her WU PhD degree - Student Life studlife.com/scene/2022/12/…

This is reminiscent of what happens in academia with some men.

My somewhat cynical take on bullies in academia is that they’re a feature, not a bug. I touched on this with an earlier tweet, but the qualities we commonly associate with “top scientist” in academia are extremely present in the kinds of people who bully others.

2 years ago, everything was going great in my mid-career lab.

Making a choice to reduce stress and prioritize my health turned out to have ripple effects - my colleagues, family, and friends are reaping the benefits, as am I.

I tell my story in eLife - the journal
elifesciences.org/articles/82831

New #PrePrint Alert! So proud to share our latest work examining the innate motivation to consume fats and sugars. We identify labeled lines for fat and sugar reward from the gut via nigrostriatal dopamine that combine to promote overeating. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

👏 Big props to PLOS ONE for this. So nice to see a journal be consistent with its stated values of 1) being most concerned that a study is properly performed, and 2) far less concerned that a study got a particular result.