Donald Trump is making a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the system, and to overwhelm you. It can be difficult to keep up. And that’s by design. But we can keep up – and respond. Here’s what he’s doing, and what it means for you. Just the facts. 🧵⤵️

Every dollar invested by NIH produces $2.46 in return. This will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and set back cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and others for decades

Thank you to Nature Neuroscience, the editorial staff and the reviewers for their immense help with publishing our work. See a more detailed thread of our work here: x.com/meghasehgal_/s…

I had the opportunity to share the joy of amphibians with some K-2nd graders after Penn State's Frog and Toad play last week. Jack and I showed off our lab's new children's book about pumpkin toadlets and I talked about some of our research. I even brought my pet frog along!

Delighted to share this new work from the lab. A tour-de-force from Cassie Klune Caitlin Goodpaster and Michael Gongwer showing how the maturation of frontolimbic circuits underlies developmental milestones in threat avoidance behaviors.

On their feet since Friday night, THON students from Penn State form the largest student run philanthropic effort in the world. The goal - raise money for a solution a childhood cancer. You can text THON to 41444 and give 🙏🏼

President Trump and Elon Musk’s funding cuts to groundbreaking medical research do NOT Make America Great. That’s why I’m on the Senate floor introducing a resolution pledging support for NIH & asking for immediate passage. Watch. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

❗️PAVLOVIAN 2025 IMPORTANT INFO❗️ The Annual Meeting will take place August 7-10 in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 👇 (1/4)

Don’t forget to submit your data blitz or poster abstracts for PAVLOVIAN in SYDNEY!🧪🧠 Due April 11th, including 5 x travel awards to help our buddies from the 🇺🇸 and elsewhere get to 🇦🇺 Our line up is 🔥 Check out our website, registration, and hotel block below 👇

🚨LAST DAY to submit poster abstracts for the PAVLOVIAN 2025 annual meeting this FRIDAY 🚨 Check out our 🔥 program and submit abstracts in the link below, with 5 travel awards available for students and postdocs! 🧠

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and

A huge thank you to Janine Kwapis Janine Kwapis (she/her) for the kind invitation to deliver a keynote talk at the Penn State University Center for the Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders Retreat this week! It was a fantastic visit. Every talk at the retreat was outstanding, the

Last week's CMIND Retreat—the first overseen by new director Janine Kwapis (she/her)—brought together invited speakers, grad students, and faculty to share their research into neurological disorders. See our full photo album on Flickr: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCe6LT

🚨 We’re hiring! The One Health Microbiome Center Penn State is seeking a Research Technologist to help bridge microbiome research + science comms. Great for early-career folks into #SciComm, outreach, & life sciences. 📣 Apply now: tinyurl.com/3erfudrb

In a historic and unprecedented move, all of the institutions at the NIH have signed on to and sent a letter, the Bethesda Declaration, to the new director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, about the chaos at the NIH. This is a big deal, as it ultimately impacts all of us. It impacts the

WIL is now accepting apps for its Outstanding Graduate Woman in Learning Award! Please email CV & advisor LoR to [email protected] by Friday, 7/25. More details and terms & conditions can be found at womeninlearning.com #Womeninlearning #Pavlovian2025

Love seeing colleagues and friends #slay! Congrats to Moriel Zelikowsky University of Utah for being becoming an HHMI Hrabowski scholar!! See many familiar faces in the list too..tina kim Xin Jin, PhD hhmi.org/programs/freem…

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (1/9)

🗳 VOTING is now open for President-Elect and EC member! Cast your vote here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Ballot closes August 9. #pavlovian2025

The Big Ten Annual Neuroscience Meeting is set to kick off this weekend with Penn State as this year's host. This feature by Penn State Eberly College of Science looks at the deep variety of brain research being done by the Huck's Neuroscience Institute: Big Ten Academic psu.edu/news/eberly-co…