Our lab is looking for a motivated postdoc interested in dissecting the circuits of pain negative affect. More details about the lab here : massalylab.com & contact me here : massalylab.com/opportunities I will also be at #SfN24 in a couple of weeks to chat more.

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

First lab holiday party 🎉 And I can’t believe it but my first grad student just passed her qualifying exam 🙌🏻. #milestone #newPI

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It is just so sad that the #NeurIPS2024 main conference ended with such a racist remark by a faculty when talking about ethics. How ironic! I also want to commend the Chinese student who spoke up right on spot. She was respectful, decent, and courageous. Her response was

First review from the lab on nausea and area postrema: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

Another open search for UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

Congrats!

I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver

Very honored to be selected as a Sloan Fellow. Grateful for my mentors, colleagues, and my lab.

Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? wesa.fm/health-science…

Basic science is inspired by curiosity, accountable to evidence, and subject to peer review. Politics should have no role.

R01 resubmission was a waste. 3 years of work. 12 percentile on first submission and now it will not get reviewed. Trying to keep chin up and move forward is daunting. This storm is perfect to wipe out early stage investigators.

A powerful and personal editorial from Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian: "I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger." Please read and share. cnn.com/2025/04/09/hea…

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on

Wow, wow, wow!!! The structure of human sweetness cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Thrilled for the Zhang Lab to receive the Whitehall Foundation grant to investigate the neural mechanisms of nausea!

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Open Access Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… News and Views: nature.com/articles/d4158… Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05-t…

I find it amusing that these days the whole lab just leave in front of me to lunch without asking - I’m definitely the boss outsider now.

I wrote an Op-Ed about the government's attacks on Harvard. Please share with anybody who thinks these attacks help anybody. prosyn.org/PhWi74r?h=KyJ1…