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Meninges, cortex-to-meninges signaling, neuroimmune, Headache, Coffee, Swim, Run
A new preprint out from the Levy lab, adding knowledge to the exciting world of brain border macrophages and neuroimmunology.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Meningeal macrophages exhibit diverse calcium signaling at steady-state and in response to aberrant cortical hyperexcitability in awake mice
The meninges, which envelop and protect the brain, host a large number of resident macrophages that play a crucial role in regulating homeostasis and neuroinflammation. Intracellular Ca2+ signaling me...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Meningeal macrophages exhibit diverse calcium signaling at steady-state and in response to aberrant cortical hyperexcitability in awake mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679335v1
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Couldn't find any pot of gold.
August 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gone for some summer hiking.
August 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at:
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August 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Friday, Judge ruled in Harvard's favour, Paper accepted after minor revisions. Can I go home now?
May 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Seeing stars ✨

Astrocytes in primary visual cortex drive migraine pain.

Check out the new preLights post from Vanessa Ehlers highlighting a recent study from Dara Bree, Dan Levy (@danlevy.bsky.social) & team. #preprint

#preLight ⬇️ 👀
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Cortical astrocyte activation triggers meningeal nociception and migraine-like pain - preLights
Seeing stars – astrocytes in primary visual cortex drive migraine pain.
prelights.biologists.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Woodstock.Bio 2 & Night Science is the meeting where organizers register & pay like others! If you want to be a part of this unforeseen, unique, unbelievable, unforgettable, unpredictable & untouchable meeting, there's dozens of places left. It's 230 PAYING! Beyond that is the waiting list.
April 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!

Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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How is the input of the different kinds of primary sensory neurons responding to heat and mechanical stimuli summarized in the spinal cord? Check out our recent study.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural ensembles that encode nocifensive mechanical and heat pain in mouse spinal cord - Nature Neuroscience
Zhang et al. identify unimodal neural representations in the spinal cord of cutaneous mechanical and heat stimuli gated by a shared feed-forward local inhibitory neuron type and a neural transition du...
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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If you wish to attend a conference like no other, feed your creativity, present your research to people who don't come to your typical meetings, enjoy Prague & Bohemian woods, music, fire, some beer, then this meeting may be for you. Registration & info here: woodstock.img.cas.cz
90/230 places left
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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‘Travel agencies charge far more than it would cost an academic to arrange their own travel and accommodations - sometimes staggeringly more.’
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW!
woodstock.img.cas.cz
March 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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New research in Science uncovers the dual nature of scratching an itch; although it can worsen skin inflammation, it can also boost immune defenses against bacterial infections at the injury site.

Learn more: scim.ag/40RtBjF
Scratching promotes allergic inflammation and host defense via neurogenic mast cell activation
Itch is a dominant symptom in dermatitis, and scratching promotes cutaneous inflammation, thereby worsening disease. However, the mechanisms through which scratching exacerbates inflammation and wheth...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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IT'S HAPPENING! The Woodstock of Biology 2.0 meets Night Science @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
10-13 of June in Prague & the Woods of Bohemia...
Be there or be REJECTED. #theconferencetoendallconferences
February 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
December 2, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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💯 agree! There should be an easy way for folks browsing @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social to share with their bluesky followers, scientists & non-scientists alike. An end-of-year present for us all! 🦋🎁
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
December 2, 2024 at 1:36 PM
@hashmatghanizada.bsky.social can you add me to the CSD starter pack 🙏
November 30, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Ok, making the move to the other side.
November 29, 2024 at 8:12 AM