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A live performance by Iranian singer #ParastooAhmadi, streamed last night, has gone viral in #Iran 🎙️🎼 The first of its kind in 46 years, the performance took place at a historic caravansary without an audience. #music #tehran #viral

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. NIH Jay Bhattacharya Robert F. Kennedy Jr If long lasting, this will be potentially devastating for the medical and scientific communities, and could have dire ramifications for everything from academic institutions to quality of care at routine care visits. x.com/Daniel_E_Park/…

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Super excited to be cochairing the 2025 Cannabinoid Function in the CNS GRC with Cecilia Hillard! The not-to-be-missed program brings together global experts in the cannabinoid/neuroscience space! Topics ranging from big data to emerging tools and targets: grc.org/cannabinoid-fu… RT

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Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let’s smash stereotypes, defy gender bias, and defeat discrimination that holds women and girls back in Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math. 👩‍🔬👩‍🚀 #WomenInScience

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: scim.ag/3WWWoSD

👥 Parents, talk to your kids about cannabis! Having open & safe discussions helps kids make informed choices. Today's cannabis is stronger than it used to be. Learn the latest information on how cannabis affects the teen brain.

RT appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab (at TU Dresden). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kvQ1… to send your application and find more information. The deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have Qs.

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion

1/n 🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement: "Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience" Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin! w/ Luianta Verra & Ingrid Martin

1/2 In our new Lancet Psychiatry paper on the brain disease model for addiction, we discuss -its weak empirical support -its downplaying of psychosocial causes & maintenance factors -issues with the definition of 'brain disease' -numerous ways forward sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An amazing meeting on Innovations in Addiction Therapeutics #GATID2025 Hamburg May 25, only 25 euros for students/residents. This is an opportunity to bring medical, psychology and engineering students and entrepreneurs to Addiction Science: isamweb.org/global-therape…

Writing and thinking are deeply related. Don’t use ai to do your writing. universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/…

Are you coming to RLDM #RLDM2025? Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮🧠🪄 w/ Ondrej Zika Ingrid Martin

Amazing debate and panel discussion at #RLDM2025 happening now about promises and pitfalls of real-world reinforcement learning data led by Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social - supercool workshop about RL in the "wild"! 🐁🧠 RLDM

Talks to address Iran’s nuclear program were planned for Sunday. Instead Netanyahu launched illegal strikes on Iran, killing a top ceasefire negotiator, undermining U.S. diplomatic efforts & putting countless innocent lives at risk. We can’t be dragged into another Netanyahu war.

It takes weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran.