Serena M. Dudek
@serenadudette.bsky.social
Synaptic Plastologist trying to stay relevant. Queen Bee with the buddy. My posts are my own- sort of. #keepCA2weird
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For decades, government investments in basic biomedical research have been the foundation for innovation across the private sector and academia. Trump administration’s attacks on federal science are hammering away at that foundation—and without it, the house won’t stand. Learn more:
Science, Innovation, and the National Institutes of Health
Failing to support independent agency science imperils the uptake of innovative drugs.
blog.ucs.org
February 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
For decades, government investments in basic biomedical research have been the foundation for innovation across the private sector and academia. Trump administration’s attacks on federal science are hammering away at that foundation—and without it, the house won’t stand. Learn more:
Great training opportunity! 👇
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Great training opportunity! 👇
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Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
2026 The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
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🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.
NOT-OD-26-020: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period NOT-OD-26-020. OD
grants.nih.gov
January 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Many great personal stories in this special issue on the history of hippocampal research! This one by Graham Collingridge
Glutamate Receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease: A Personal Journey
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Many great personal stories in this special issue on the history of hippocampal research! This one by Graham Collingridge
Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
2026 The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Still time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
Evidence I’m in fact old
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Evidence I’m in fact old
Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Hippocampus on the history of hippocampal research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
From Synaptic Plasticity and Critical Periods to Social Behavior and Stress: Getting to, and Staying in, CA2
Hippocampal Area CA2, with some exceptions, had long been neglected in in vivo studies, due largely to its small size, and in in vitro studies because of its general similarity to CA3 and CA1. Increa...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Thrilled to have contributed to this special issue of Hippocampus on the history of hippocampal research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment.
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Awesome article on medical breakthroughs that came from basic neuroscience research in rodents. Major success examples in postpartum depression, non-opioid pain and migraine treatment.
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
This is exactly why funding basic science is so important!
www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...
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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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Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reconstructing Waddington’s landscape from data | PNAS
The development of a zygote into a functional organism requires that this single progenitor
cell gives rise to numerous distinct cell types. Attemp...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Great to see this published: Fitting dynamical landscape models to single-cell data, creating interpretable maps of cell decision making & developmental logic
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Applied to neural tube patterning, we show how morphogen signals reshape landscapes and drive fate decisions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIEHS for more than 50 years, ending accepting new manuscripts in April, is now completely gone from the NIEHS website.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIEHS for more than 50 years, ending accepting new manuscripts in April, is now completely gone from the NIEHS website.
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp
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I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD
www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
The giant wakes up: Illumina goes spatial
Predictions on the upcoming Illumina spatial transcriptomics technology
www.batcheffect.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I collected all of what I could find about the upcoming Illumina Spatial Transcriptomics technology, with some predictions about costs and sensitivity compared to 10x Genomics Visium HD
www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
www.batcheffect.com/p/the-giant-...
Oh no! So sad to hear!
It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected news that our colleague, friend, and mentor Daniel Madison passed away on Thursday, October 9.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh no! So sad to hear!
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Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
www.cshl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
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It is depressing that we (i.e. the scientific community) can't break out of this bizarro world where publishing in a $$$ Journal is considered a valid proxy for high impact science.
Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu...
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It is depressing that we (i.e. the scientific community) can't break out of this bizarro world where publishing in a $$$ Journal is considered a valid proxy for high impact science.
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ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline.
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job
Assistant Prof job code: 364920
Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921
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After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733
The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology
jobs.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
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⛓️ October’s most-read Structural Biology paper challenges textbook views of synapses, revealing a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ instead of a dense post-synaptic layer: buff.ly/rAvREVV
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
⛓️ October’s most-read Structural Biology paper challenges textbook views of synapses, revealing a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ instead of a dense post-synaptic layer: buff.ly/rAvREVV
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/NjxVKFB
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Who is coming to #SfN2025?
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Who is coming to #SfN2025?
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
Join our minisymposium on Monday at 2 pm 😍👇
@nereokalebic.bsky.social and I can't wait to chair this minisymposium bridging most of our dearest research interests!
#radialglia #astrocytes #evolution #Development
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Great research needs support.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Great research needs support.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum helps you develop the skills to effectively share why neuroscience matters with policymakers, funders, and the broader community.
Learn more and add to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dz53
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
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Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)
This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
Enjoy a broad range of lectures and network with experts in the field at #SfN25! 🧠
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Gain valuable insights and tools to enhance your research and career.
Browse through to lectures and build your itinerary in the 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner
🔗 vist.ly/4de72
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sigh. NIH normally sends several hundred scientists to the SFN annual meeting to learn, exchange info, come up with new ideas, and advance science. (The exchange of ideas is the very core of the scientific enterprise.)
This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
This year, no one from NIH will attend due to the gov't implosion.
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8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
hr.nih.gov
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).
Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
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Show off your research!
Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover
Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#cover_art
Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover
Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#cover_art
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Show off your research!
Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover
Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#cover_art
Authors are encouraged to submit images related to their papers to be considered for the #JNeurosci cover
Learn more about submitting an image ⬇️
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#cover_art