Just watched Ken Loach's final film. It's not his best. But it reminds you what a good movie should be about... And what decent moral values are like. This is what we need more of, in these dark days. Thank you good sir, for all the beauty and compassion, for all these years

Solid paper (as expected) from Arif and co. Congrats, team!

I am giving a talk on Nov 7th. Help me pick a title (Polls close on Nov 6th). :: Spatio-temporal dopamine dynamics for learning, motivation, and beyond :: What shall we do now? A eulogy for science, wisdom, and hope

It may surprise the tax payer, but I work for a company that thinks “because the exact same item was 60% cheaper there” is not a justified reason to pick vendor A over the company approved (read favorite) vendor. I suppose research dollars aren’t real money.

The first piece of work from my PhD has now been uploaded to biorXiv! Short 🧵below:

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain 🧠 THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

Two favorite friends of mine talking science 😊

Imagine your favorite top level admins at your school. Who court Epsteins to meet their next fundraising goals. Who care more about the alphabet initiatives than the people the alphabet belongs to. Those have taken control of the Democratic party. And sure, pardon your son.

Excited to share work from Twitter less Juan Enriquez-Traba, grad student from the lab. Juan and the team demonstrate that dopamine regulates differential aspects of reward, motivation vs reinforcement, via co-expressed D3 and D1 receptors nature.com/articles/s4159…

(1/7) Far-red dopamine sensor is coming! Excited to introduce our chemigenetic DA sensor, HaloDA1.0! #Dopamine #FarRedSensors, #GRAB biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pls chk out the Bruchas lab's new preprint "Endocannabinoids facilitate transitory reward engagement through retrograde gain-control". Congrats David Marcus Anthony English Lab of Dr. Nephi Stella, University of Washington Benjamin Land & many other colleagues. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Indeed, it's an exciting new tool! Congrats to all. Cannot wait to start using the setup...