We're looking for a great postdoc to join the LaLumiere laboratory at the University of Iowa to study drug-seeking behavior! Spread it around and apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/3…

Here is a picture of Samira at my house for our yearly holiday party. She had it on her instagram. She really loved learning about Canadian culture and sharing it with her friends around the world. Town of Amherstburg Porter lab #PS752 #AlwaysInOurHearts ❤️

Loren Frank gave our first virtual seminar yesterday at the Institute of Neuroscience. It was a great talk and everyone enjoyed it! I see a bright future for at least some of our talks being virtual. A big plus: We can invite people from all over the world, increasing equity.

This looks awesome

First Nautiyal Lab paper! If a reward is worth more to you, is it harder or easier to wait for it? V excited to report results from our comprehensive behavioral analysis showing that incr reward sensitivity may be a cause for incr impulsivity in a mouse lacking 5-HT1B.

Wanna start your Neuroscience Lab in Marseille, right on the French Mediterranean coast? Apply INMED before June !

Check out NSERC / CRSNG new funding opportunity to enhance the communications skills of students and researcher. Objectives: science literacy, help counter science-related misinformation, and foster a role for science in evidence-based decision making.👇👇 buff.ly/31uT5V2

Our lab is hoping to hire a research technician with neuroscience experience to join a new project examining awareness and anticipation of body signals. The ideal candidate would have experience with stereotaxic surgery and acquisition/analysis of neural data.

Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to study neural circuit mechanisms of memory in entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. Projects use high-density in vivo electrophysiology in behaving mice, optogenetics and memory tasks. Details coming soon...

This is an important thread 👇🏼

I’m fortunate to work Department of Psychology - Concordia University & Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology with colleagues who get this.

Commentary of the month: excellent commentary of Eve Marder on misuse of popular words in grants/papers evaluation: incremental, novelty, mechanism, descriptive, & impact. Our papers that had most impact were incremental, descriptive & lacked mechanisms elifesciences.org/articles/54867

Excellent postdoc opportunity 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Husband: So how was your day? Me: you missed the part of the day where I still had words. No more words. Husband: but ... Me: food, wine, sit. No words. Nope. Husband: but ... Me: Nope. Sorry. Nighttime now. No wordy words.

The Biology of Drug Abuse NIH Postdoctoral Training Grant University of Michigan has 3 open slots for summer 2020. Please retweet. DM me for more info.

Paper of the week: excellent Biol Psychiatry (Society of Biological Psychiatry) of Andrew Holmes & Veronica Alvarez labs on the role of ventral mPFC and its projections to NAc shell (but not BLA) in punishment-induced suppression of alcohol self-administration in mice ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31937415

I can’t wait for my partner to discover these eggs in the fridge 😂

My bit about being a first gen and having a low undergrad GPA: I could only afford to take the GRE one time, I didn’t know about app waivers at all. I applied to 6 schools, I got in to 2, one being where I was a technician. When I reached out many schools said:

Congratulations to Gregory Quirk, Ph.D. for receiving the Dolores Shockley Minority Mentoring Award! Check out the acceptance video bit.ly/3nXEzij and nominator (Dr. Joshua Gordon) video bit.ly/3l4lyca Esc. de Medicina UPR Director, National Institute of Mental Health #ACNP2020