Ignacio Rivero Covelo
@neuronacho.bsky.social
Neuroscientist-ish at some university
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Happy to share the newest paper from the Khaliq Lab! 🎉 We show that striatal dopaminergic axons can integrate GABAergic inhibition and nicotinic excitation to shape their output.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Presynaptic GABAA receptors control integration of nicotinic input onto dopaminergic axons in the striatum
Brill-Weil et al. show that axonal GABAA receptors regulate excitatory nicotinic input
onto the axons of dopaminergic neurons. This regulation alters integration of the
subthreshold nicotinic input to...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Happy to share the newest paper from the Khaliq Lab! 🎉 We show that striatal dopaminergic axons can integrate GABAergic inhibition and nicotinic excitation to shape their output.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
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My latest obsession. Anyone else?
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My latest obsession. Anyone else?
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Wilhoit’s Law for universities: “There must be athletics programs that budgets protect but do not bind alongside academic programs that budgets bind but do not protect.”
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
CU projects record deficit driven by player costs, Sanders’ salary
The Univ. of Colorado athletic department is projecting that it will run a $27M deficit during the current FY ending in June 2026, in addition to needing $11.9M in institutional support from the unive...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wilhoit’s Law for universities: “There must be athletics programs that budgets protect but do not bind alongside academic programs that budgets bind but do not protect.”
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
Great study for all of those interested in the ventral pallidum, its neuronal populations, and regions - Single-cell sequencing of rodent ventral pallidum reveals diverse neuronal subtypes with noncanonical interregional continuity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-cell sequencing of rodent ventral pallidum reveals diverse neuronal subtypes with noncanonical interregional continuity
Ventral pallidum contains 16 cell types with diverse gene expression and spatial patterns extending beyond its borders.
www.science.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Great study for all of those interested in the ventral pallidum, its neuronal populations, and regions - Single-cell sequencing of rodent ventral pallidum reveals diverse neuronal subtypes with noncanonical interregional continuity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social
School of Medicine positions:
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School of Medicine positions:
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September 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social
School of Medicine positions:
apply.interfolio.com/170252
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School of Medicine positions:
apply.interfolio.com/170252
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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Extremely bad university governance changes coming in Texas
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July 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Extremely bad university governance changes coming in Texas
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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Finally published! Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation @jmirpub.bsky.social! xbio.jmir.org/2025/1/e68519
Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation
Background: The neural control of food intake involves interactions between homeostatic and nonhomeostatic systems. The nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) and ventral pallidum (VP) play key roles in regu...
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March 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Finally published! Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation @jmirpub.bsky.social! xbio.jmir.org/2025/1/e68519
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There were 28 premodern history TT job postings for 2022-2023 -- for the whole of the United States.
The University of Maryland is hiring 30(!!!) faculty members in Artificial Intelligence (broadly defined):
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor
The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM; aim.umd.edu) has openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.We ...
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October 31, 2024 at 12:16 AM
There were 28 premodern history TT job postings for 2022-2023 -- for the whole of the United States.
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Ellyn Lem from UWM CGS on the mass termination of tenured faculty
It’s the end of tenure as we know it (opinion)
And no, Ellyn Lem writes, it’s not fine.
www.insidehighered.com
October 3, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Ellyn Lem from UWM CGS on the mass termination of tenured faculty
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A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday.
A new kind of drug for schizophrenia promises fewer side effects
A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday.
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September 27, 2024 at 11:36 PM
A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday.
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The question that faculty in 2024 should be asking is not, “How do we stop our students from using AI?”
The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”
The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”
OpenAI also said “it will host a meeting in October with presidents and provosts of leading higher education institutions to discuss how to adopt AI effectively and responsibly in a university setting, including for teaching and advancing academic research.” 😩
OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI has hired former Coursera Inc. executive Leah Belsky to be its first general manager of education, leading the artificial intelligence startup’s efforts to bring its products to ...
finance.yahoo.com
September 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
The question that faculty in 2024 should be asking is not, “How do we stop our students from using AI?”
The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”
The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”
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Dissociable Roles of the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Human Categorization
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
Dissociable Roles of the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Human Categorization
Models of human categorization predict the prefrontal cortex (PFC) serves a central role in category learning. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) hav...
www.jneurosci.org
September 13, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Dissociable Roles of the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Human Categorization
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
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UW System has now released all of the Deloitte reports on the non-Madison campuses. Extremely embarrassing for Deloitte to have some 23-year-old flunkies fill in the same slide template twelve times. Scandalous for UW System to pay them north of $2 million to do it
www.wisconsin.edu/president/st...
www.wisconsin.edu/president/st...
2023-2028 Strategic Plan
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the UW System’s 2023-2028 Strategic Plan on Dec. 8, 2022. University Financial Assessments A third-party reviewer has completed financial a...
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September 8, 2024 at 12:13 AM
UW System has now released all of the Deloitte reports on the non-Madison campuses. Extremely embarrassing for Deloitte to have some 23-year-old flunkies fill in the same slide template twelve times. Scandalous for UW System to pay them north of $2 million to do it
www.wisconsin.edu/president/st...
www.wisconsin.edu/president/st...
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"Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical"
Food for thought (curious what others think).
#AcademicSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Food for thought (curious what others think).
#AcademicSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical - Journal of Academic Ethics
For decades, student ratings of university faculty have been used by administrators in high stakes faculty employment decisions such as tenure, promotion, contract renewal and reappointment, and merit...
link.springer.com
September 3, 2024 at 12:07 PM
"Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical"
Food for thought (curious what others think).
#AcademicSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Food for thought (curious what others think).
#AcademicSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Quoted at some length in here on the CGS badness and the Wisconsin Idea
Head of UW-Milwaukee’s faculty senate: Layoffs of tenured faculty were financially necessary
“We live in a capitalist society where, when there is not demand for certain work, businesses lay people off,” said the head of UW-Milwaukee’s faculty senate after a decision to lay off more than 30 t...
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September 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Quoted at some length in here on the CGS badness and the Wisconsin Idea
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Do you teach philosophy of science in a way that connects with issues or philosophy outside of the English-speaking canon? Maybe submit your syllabus for this prize!
PSA International Syllabus Prize - Call for Syllabi.
Entries to be submitted to Chair of the PSA International Relations Committee, Prof. Hasok Chang, by e-mail to hc372@cam.ac.uk.
The deadline: 15 September 2024. More info on the PSA newsletter: mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...
Entries to be submitted to Chair of the PSA International Relations Committee, Prof. Hasok Chang, by e-mail to hc372@cam.ac.uk.
The deadline: 15 September 2024. More info on the PSA newsletter: mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...
Philosophy of Science Association
mms.philsci.org
September 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Do you teach philosophy of science in a way that connects with issues or philosophy outside of the English-speaking canon? Maybe submit your syllabus for this prize!
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The Social, Personality, & Health area at the University of Houston is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Applications are due 10/07. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me!
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Assistant Professor - Social, Personality, and Health Psychology
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August 27, 2024 at 6:44 PM
The Social, Personality, & Health area at the University of Houston is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Applications are due 10/07. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me!
uhs.taleo.net/careersectio...
uhs.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Wisconsin Republicans were very mad that the governor was able to Do Things with federal money, so they put two constitutional amendments on a low-turnout August ballot and they still lost by 16 points
Wisconsin voters reject ballot questions restricting governor's power over federal funds
Wisconsin voters on Tuesday voted down two referendums that asked to give the state Legislature more power over distributing federal funding
www.jsonline.com
August 14, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Wisconsin Republicans were very mad that the governor was able to Do Things with federal money, so they put two constitutional amendments on a low-turnout August ballot and they still lost by 16 points
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A key protein that helps assemble the brain early in life also appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other diseases of aging.
A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s
Early in life, the protein Reelin helps assemble the brain. Later on, it appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other threats to memory and thinking.
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July 29, 2024 at 5:11 PM
A key protein that helps assemble the brain early in life also appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other diseases of aging.
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Instead of whatever thing you are feeling stressed about right now, consider that you could rather be watching League of Pigs pig racing.
January 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Instead of whatever thing you are feeling stressed about right now, consider that you could rather be watching League of Pigs pig racing.
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Found the new president of Harvard www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Wisconsin university chancellor fired over ongoing porn career with wife as 'Sexy Happy Couple'
Joe Gow, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, said the termination violates his First Amendment rights and the school's own policy on freedom of expression.
www.nbcnews.com
January 3, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Found the new president of Harvard www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...