big day!! so excited to share the preprint of my postdoc project in @TheHongLab 🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼 we identified how prefrontal populations enable social groups to coordinate into huddles during thermal challenge! ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️

🤩I’m beyond excited to finally share our paper! 🎉 It’s been a long journey and a true team effort. Congratulations to our outstanding first authors, @LCReimon and Ayden Gouveia, and to all of the co-authors who made this possible 🙌! https://t.co/T9sBUBixqM

IL-1R1-positive dorsal raphe neurons drive self-imposed social withdrawal in sickness @CellCellPress https://t.co/PwIQfBNYrp

Before, during, after, today.

The Gowrishankar lab will be opening its doors @neuro_MUSC on Dec 1, 2025! We will be hiring at all levels. I will also be at @SfNtweets presenting my lab's vision on Wednesday, Nov 19, 8AM-12PM at poster board GG7. If you're interested, please reach out! https://t.co/ZlG2P66UAK

We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7, https://t.co/ZvyhCW7Fqg Video: https://t.co/oFOeQJ52iU

One of my next commissions will be this neuronal blue bird, composed of 17 individual neurons. 🧠🔬

Oxytocin isn’t just the “love hormone”: it helps wire the brain’s metabolic circuits! 🧠 In our new ⁦@PLOSBiology⁩ study, we show that OT neurons guide the postnatal development of POMC and AgRP pathways that control energy balance

missing out on all the SfN fun this year, but for the very best reason 🥰🫶🏽

They should also do the from PhD to homeless: how I found my way into poverty and insane job market.

Weird how we have the money for ICE but not air traffic controllers.

The Zuckerman Institute and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University (@columbiaps) are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Candidates should have demonstrated creativity and productivity. Labs will be in the Jerome L. Greene

I feel like crap. I didn’t get any grants this year, so I had to let go of my super talented postdoc—someone with a doctorate who’s now unemployed, without benefits or retirement, and still grinding away on a paper... Postdocs are the most unappreciated and undervalued positions

We're hiring postdocs! Come join our team.

Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 .

Using a cognitive bias paradigm, researchers in Science demonstrate positive affective contagion—a core component of empathy—in bumble bees. The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution.

Representations of social experience in hippocampal circuits Review by Rachel S. Clein (@grad_rachel) & Elizabeth Gould Free access before December 11: https://t.co/K9CrDwDSb6

Oxytocin modulates respiratory heart rate variability through a hypothalamus–brainstem–heart neuronal pathway https://t.co/Hli6eP1fnF

Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! Dr. Monique Smith and @DrNancyPadilla discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below! https://t.co/PHfd1ZipxU #AcademicTwitter #NeuroJobs

Just in case any one is wondering: Biomedical scientists spend an average of 12 years in training before reaching an independent position. That is more than most medical residences.

Just out! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory https://t.co/po9zIlZvPb. New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: https://t.co/OXCmcYSleI. 1/8