@janaklab.bsky.social
We are a behavioral and systems neuroscience lab interested in reward processes at Johns Hopkins University
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Advocacy strategies that worked before may not work now.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum provides the latest strategies for championing neuroscience research in today's shifting political landscape.
Add this session to your itinerary!
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#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum provides the latest strategies for championing neuroscience research in today's shifting political landscape.
Add this session to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dn9g
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Advocacy strategies that worked before may not work now.
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum provides the latest strategies for championing neuroscience research in today's shifting political landscape.
Add this session to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dn9g
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The #SfN25 Advocacy Forum provides the latest strategies for championing neuroscience research in today's shifting political landscape.
Add this session to your itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dn9g
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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Effective advocacy is more crucial now than ever.
Learn how to navigate changing federal priorities while championing the importance of neuroscience research at the #SfN25 Advocacy Forum.
Learn more and add to your Itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dc85
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Learn how to navigate changing federal priorities while championing the importance of neuroscience research at the #SfN25 Advocacy Forum.
Learn more and add to your Itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dc85
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Effective advocacy is more crucial now than ever.
Learn how to navigate changing federal priorities while championing the importance of neuroscience research at the #SfN25 Advocacy Forum.
Learn more and add to your Itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dc85
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Learn how to navigate changing federal priorities while championing the importance of neuroscience research at the #SfN25 Advocacy Forum.
Learn more and add to your Itinerary!
🔗 vist.ly/4dc85
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
2025 Neuropixels course
A free online course on Neuropixels, 22-24 October 2025
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...
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Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org
Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement
www.ma3challenge.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org
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In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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OneNeuro's August #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest winner is "Cellular Subtype Composition of an Amphetamine-activated Ensemble in mPFC," by Suhaas Adiraju from @martinowk.bsky.social at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social
View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
OneNeuro's August #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest winner is "Cellular Subtype Composition of an Amphetamine-activated Ensemble in mPFC," by Suhaas Adiraju from @martinowk.bsky.social at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social
View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
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I am beyond excited to host a stellar group of scientists for the first installation of our series: Brain Talks on The Isthmus. Thank you to everyone who contributed by spreading the news, submitting abstracts, reviewing the submissions, and offering kind words of support. I am grateful and smiling
September 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am beyond excited to host a stellar group of scientists for the first installation of our series: Brain Talks on The Isthmus. Thank you to everyone who contributed by spreading the news, submitting abstracts, reviewing the submissions, and offering kind words of support. I am grateful and smiling
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Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...
Four Johns Hopkins scholars selected for Simons Foundation collaborations
The highly competitive projects bring together experts from a range of disciplines to explore promising topics of fundamental scientific importance
hub.jhu.edu
August 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...
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The winner of OneNeuro's June #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest was submitted by Victor Omoniyi at the Marie Hardwick and Lauren Jantzie Laboratories. @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social
View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
www.oneneurojhu.org/...
View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
www.oneneurojhu.org/...
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The winner of OneNeuro's June #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest was submitted by Victor Omoniyi at the Marie Hardwick and Lauren Jantzie Laboratories. @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social
View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
www.oneneurojhu.org/...
View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
www.oneneurojhu.org/...
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Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for the action alert and easy instructions to find the appropriations committee member in your state, with an example script. I just called, it takes max 3 minutes.
www.ascb.org/society-news...
www.ascb.org/society-news...
Protect NIH and NSF Funding – Your Voice Is Urgently Needed - ASCB
In the next six weeks, Congressional committees will decide how much funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will receive for Fiscal Year 2026. While ...
www.ascb.org
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for the action alert and easy instructions to find the appropriations committee member in your state, with an example script. I just called, it takes max 3 minutes.
www.ascb.org/society-news...
www.ascb.org/society-news...
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The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF
Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.
scim.ag
July 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF
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The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
July 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
www.thetransmitter.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
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The most brain-like representations of visual neural networks are also the most universal ones, i.e., they are largely independent of a network’s architecture or training. Cool new work by Chen & Bonner in #ScienceAdvances! #neuroAI
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Universal dimensions of visual representation
Probing neural representations reveals universal aspects of vision in artificial and biological networks.
www.science.org
July 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The most brain-like representations of visual neural networks are also the most universal ones, i.e., they are largely independent of a network’s architecture or training. Cool new work by Chen & Bonner in #ScienceAdvances! #neuroAI
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In this essay in Hopkins Magazine, I talk about how NIH budget cuts will delay or stop the translation of basic science to the clinic and impact kids with intellectual disability, autism, and epilepsy. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
Research funding cuts: What's at stake
Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started?
hub.jhu.edu
June 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In this essay in Hopkins Magazine, I talk about how NIH budget cuts will delay or stop the translation of basic science to the clinic and impact kids with intellectual disability, autism, and epilepsy. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
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So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
prospect.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
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I just submitted a comment it was super easy - I urge you to as well. All of our lives depend on having serious vaccine researchers at the CDC, not RFK's crackpots.
Today 6/20 is the last day to make public comments to the CDC before the vaccine committee meeting: precaution.substack.com/p/last-day-t... Written comments are getting flooded with antivax comments. Support vaccine access by submitting a written comment or registering to speak. #medsky #pathsky
Last Day to Take Action: CDC Public Comment on Vaccines Closes TODAY 6/20 11:59pm EDT
Tell the CDC we need broad access to vaccines and science-based expert advisors; Public comment to CDC ACIP vaccine committee closes TODAY 6/20 at 11:59pm EDT
precaution.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I just submitted a comment it was super easy - I urge you to as well. All of our lives depend on having serious vaccine researchers at the CDC, not RFK's crackpots.
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My office and government relations co-organized "Hopkins on the Hill", which allowed our researchers to present their federally funded programs to lawmakers, staffers, and agencies...and hopefully figure scientists and engineers.
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
June 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My office and government relations co-organized "Hopkins on the Hill", which allowed our researchers to present their federally funded programs to lawmakers, staffers, and agencies...and hopefully figure scientists and engineers.
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
June 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My office and government relations co-organized "Hopkins on the Hill", which allowed our researchers to present their federally funded programs to lawmakers, staffers, and agencies...and hopefully figure scientists and engineers.
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
Huge success!
More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
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If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
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I think the #BethesdaDeclaration has substantially changed the conversation about what is happening with biomedical research and science more broadly.
The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious.
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The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious.
6/n
June 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think the #BethesdaDeclaration has substantially changed the conversation about what is happening with biomedical research and science more broadly.
The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious.
6/n
The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious.
6/n
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As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.
Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
June 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.
Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm
🧪 #scicomm
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm
🧪 #scicomm