Jibran Khokhar
@drjkhokhar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, CRC in Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Western University Open-Source Behavioural Tools
Committed to knowing better and doing better!
Committed to knowing better and doing better!
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Jibran Khokhar
@drjkhokhar.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics | Jibran Khokhar
YouTube video by Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives
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Happy to share my talk for the @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social Brain Canada The Amazing Brain 2024 event titled: Cannabis and the Developing Brain: Vaping, Edibles and Genetics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgxb...
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“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Oregon Health & Science University board of directors has voted to begin negotiations with the NIH about potentially transitioning the university’s primate research center to a sanctuary for the animals.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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Oregon primate center to negotiate transition to sanctuary
The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously for the move.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
Assistant Professor - Biochemistry
careers.wlu.ca
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social
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Disulfiram Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Reprogramming Systemic Lipid Partitioning Independent of GSDMD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704424v1
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Disulfiram Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Reprogramming Systemic Lipid Partitioning Independent of GSDMD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704424v1
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A side note in metas court room drama is this little memo from 2018 discussing the goal of converting ten “academic allies” given that researchers were associating harms to their products.
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
A side note in metas court room drama is this little memo from 2018 discussing the goal of converting ten “academic allies” given that researchers were associating harms to their products.
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My weekly update.
Some good(ish) news.
The pace of NIH grantmaking appears to be picking up.
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Some good(ish) news.
The pace of NIH grantmaking appears to be picking up.
1/4
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
My weekly update.
Some good(ish) news.
The pace of NIH grantmaking appears to be picking up.
1/4
Some good(ish) news.
The pace of NIH grantmaking appears to be picking up.
1/4
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Non-competitive renewal awards
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February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Non-competitive renewal awards
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🧠 New bioRxiv preprint from the Microstructure MRI lab (first author: Francisco J. Fritz): “Longitudinal whole-human-brain quantitative MRI study on autolysis, fixation, rehydration, and shrinkage effects.”
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
🧠 New bioRxiv preprint from the Microstructure MRI lab (first author: Francisco J. Fritz): “Longitudinal whole-human-brain quantitative MRI study on autolysis, fixation, rehydration, and shrinkage effects.”
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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Please join us in congratulating our 2026 APA Division 28 award winners!
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Please join us in congratulating our 2026 APA Division 28 award winners!
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I don't know for sure, but AHRQ was decimated by staff cuts and losses.
I am checking on any active litigation.
I am checking on any active litigation.
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I don't know for sure, but AHRQ was decimated by staff cuts and losses.
I am checking on any active litigation.
I am checking on any active litigation.
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This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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🎓 Senior Graduate Students & Early Postdocs! Explore #Postdoctoral Training at Rutgers University! Rutgers Health & Rutgers Brain Health Institute invite you to Postdoc Peek, a two-day, all-expenses-paid, on-campus visit on May 19–20! Apply now: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/2026/01/26/2...
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🎓 Senior Graduate Students & Early Postdocs! Explore #Postdoctoral Training at Rutgers University! Rutgers Health & Rutgers Brain Health Institute invite you to Postdoc Peek, a two-day, all-expenses-paid, on-campus visit on May 19–20! Apply now: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/2026/01/26/2...
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Cooperative Effects of Cannabidiol and Cannabigerol on Autophagy in Epithelial Cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703011v1
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Cooperative Effects of Cannabidiol and Cannabigerol on Autophagy in Epithelial Cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703011v1
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Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience?
Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours - Nature
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes the value, salience and valence of learned stimuli along distinct neural dimensions, and the geometry of these representations shapes motivated behaviours in ...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience?
Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Terrific resource on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:
a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in
vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in
vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Trans-eQTLs reveal the architecture of human gene regulatory networks
Many non-coding variants influence complex traits and diseases through gene regulation, yet the mechanisms linking these variants to downstream biology remain poorly understood. Here, we present eQTLG...
www.medrxiv.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Terrific resource on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:
a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in
vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
a publicly available resource of cis- and trans-eQTLs and an in
vivo scaffold for human gene-regulatory networks 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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In @elife.bsky.social: A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging
An accessible light-sheet microscope delivers subcellular-resolution, multicolor volumetric, and live-cell imaging, lowering barriers to state-of-the-art performance.
doi.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
In @elife.bsky.social: A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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If only we knew which aspects of the polypharmacology to keep and what to discard
February 7, 2026 at 12:50 PM
If only we knew which aspects of the polypharmacology to keep and what to discard
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Psilocybin and MDMA promote adult oligodendrocyte and myelin plasticity.
MDMA and psilocybin regulate oligodendrocyte-lineage cell numbers and anxiety-like behaviors in a rat model of fear
Psilocybin and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) produce rapid, enduring therapeutic effects in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, the underlying cellular mechanisms remain…
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Psilocybin and MDMA promote adult oligodendrocyte and myelin plasticity.
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Congratulations to the University of Toronto for continuing to lead in Canada and the world. Great universities are where great students go and where great citizens come from.
February 7, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Congratulations to the University of Toronto for continuing to lead in Canada and the world. Great universities are where great students go and where great citizens come from.
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TIME magazine's university rankings (time.com/7358185/top-...) and the Times Higher Education subject rankings (www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...), both released in the past week, continue to demonstrate that research intensity, not UN SDGs and other measures are what drive reputation.1/2
World University Rankings by Subject 2026 | Times Higher Education
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:25 PM
TIME magazine's university rankings (time.com/7358185/top-...) and the Times Higher Education subject rankings (www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...), both released in the past week, continue to demonstrate that research intensity, not UN SDGs and other measures are what drive reputation.1/2
Congrats Ben! So well deserved!
February 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Congrats Ben! So well deserved!
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Is it an outrage if your NIH grant score goes from nearly funded to ND after you revise it? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/i...
Is it an outrage if your NIH grant score goes from nearly funded to ND after you revise it?
Yes, the answer is yes. It is extremely painful to have your grant proposal just miss the cut for funding on one version and then to have the revised version end up way out of the race or Not Discu…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Is it an outrage if your NIH grant score goes from nearly funded to ND after you revise it? drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/i...
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#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain
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Microglia mapped across the whole brain from the Western Mouse team—because in neurodegeneration, every cell counts. #Fluorescencefriday 🧠😍🔬
#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain
February 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Microglia mapped across the whole brain from the Western Mouse team—because in neurodegeneration, every cell counts. #Fluorescencefriday 🧠😍🔬