Dr. Aparna Shah 🧠 👩‍🔬

a 4 by 4 grid of insects that has a metallic grreen tiger beetle, a teal and black speckled sharpshooter with a yellow underbelly, a reddish brown stag beetle, and handsome meadow katydid, with the following words superimposed "Call for mural walls! we're making 3 10x10ft murals about philly's bugs. submit your walls at bit.ly/bugwalls

Hey Philly!

I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city.

Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible.

Please help us spread the word!

Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.”

“Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.”

“You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad. “I am going home now to bake a cake.”

UCSD, facing federal cuts, will no longer guarantee funding for incoming grad students The school warns admitted first-year students that their support packages are contingent on state and federal funding.

It’s PhD admission season in the US and elsewhere. Is anyone collecting and sharing info about what admissions letters are saying this year, especially in the neuro/psych/bio space? Last year there were some (unfortunate) changes at some Unis, eg
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Influenza is a very serious infection
This season we are seeing more complications of flu due to the high case numbers and a late second peak of cases. In the last 10 days I have seen
- 2 cases of severe rhabdomyolysis with kidney failure caused by Flu B
- FluA myocarditis - pt had troponin > 50,000

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

I've been thinking about community-based hypothesis generation. Like gathering non-researcher folks' theories and hypotheses as a step in hypothesis formation. Are there any good open science models to look at? I've seen a few for citizen science in health but they're kind of limited

Evolution of the median time under review of articles with female first authors, male first authors, female corresponding authors, and male corresponding authors.

#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

279 postdoctoral fellowships!

Download freely our database of postdoctoral fellowships and grants. For each entry, we provide eligibility criteria, $ amount, deadline, etc.

Good luck!

Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

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Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Really wish free mask distribution was a regular feature of progressive events for example.

Happy New Year folks!! Start the year off with a submission into Black In Neuro’s first ever special issue. 18 days until the deadline, keep an eye out for the release 📝 ✨
@binmanhattan.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Map of the USA illustrating 'Emergency Medicaid Spending for Undocumented Immigrants in the US.' States are shaded in colors ranging from light green (1%) to dark blue (2%), representing the emergency Medicaid share of Medicaid spending. JAMA, published online October 9, 2025.

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations.

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mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years

mRNA COVID vaccines tied to drop in death rate for 4 years www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

1. Is this a one-off study or a replicated finding? 2. Is it cherry-picked or consistent? 3. Was the study big enough to be reliable? 4. Did it employ robust statistical methods? 5. How big is the effect size? (If there’s a statistical association, does it amount to a big risk or a small one?) 6. Is there any evidence for a causal link or is it just a correlation? 7. Could the correlation reflect some confounding factor? 8. How does this supposed factor sit in the context of other factors (especially genetic risk for autism, which is very highly heritable)?

When reporting on these kinds of claims, the media should ask:

Neuroscientists - Nominate an outstanding colleague for this prize, with opportunity to give a special lecture at the FENS Forum #FENS2026!

Faculty opening for candidates "working with human, non-human animal, or computational models to advance the understanding of brain and behavior relationships in the context of lifespan development"

Stony Brook Psychology is an exceptional dept with amazing colleagues

apply.interfolio.com/171691

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

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Come join us at @westernu.ca! Chair/Chief/Department Head, Psychiatry universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Good luck with the job search!

We need about 300 more scientists before we let teachers loose on the database!

Tell your colleagues, we need ya!

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

UNIV - Research Specialist I - Department of Neurosciences Job Description Summary The Li Lab at MUSC is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Research Specialist I to join our dynamic neuroscience research team. This position offers an excellent opp...

Please RT: My lab in the Neuroscience Dept at MUSC is hiring a technician. We study oligodendrocytes — unique non-neuronal brain cells — using cutting-edge imaging. Recent grads especially encouraged to apply. Feel free to reach out! #neurojobs
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.

Haverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues!
www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Frontiers | Integrating neuroscience and immunology core concepts to develop a neuroimmunology curriculum Training students in interdisciplinary thinking is critical for the future of scientific discovery and problem-solving more generally. Therefore, students mu...

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Neuroimmunology is advancing rapidly & belongs in undergrad (neuro/bio/immuno etc.) curricula. If you're planning a course or a module, @ecleininger.bsky.social, Sumali Pandey, & I have developed a curriculum using core concepts in neuro. and immunology, & curated resources to help you get started!

Ever wondered how fasting and lactation affect gene expression in the hypothalamus? Looking for a dataset to mine? Look no further! We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the arcuate nucleus and medial preoptic area in 4 groups of female mice: zenodo.org/records/1531...

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...