Luke Remage-Healey
@healeylab.bsky.social
Professor, Neuroscience and Behavior, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies.
umass.edu/healeylab/
umass.edu/healeylab/
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Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
October 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
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The answer to this question is a very loud and resounding NO. And neurobiologists don't just consider the notion of a "lizard brain" in humans misleading. It is wrong. Very wrong. The only lizard brain is that found within lizards.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?
It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
The answer to this question is a very loud and resounding NO. And neurobiologists don't just consider the notion of a "lizard brain" in humans misleading. It is wrong. Very wrong. The only lizard brain is that found within lizards.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
#neuroethology #neuroskyence
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. https://to.pbs.org/4xCEOTm
Researchers explore new uses for abortion-related drugs
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, includi...
to.pbs.org
October 4, 2026 at 8:04 AM
For years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women’s health, including preventing some cancers. https://to.pbs.org/4xCEOTm
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🩺 OBGYN here --
Estrogen patches help millions of women manage menopause symptoms. These patches are life changing for many women.
A shortage with no plan from FDA is unacceptable, RFK Jr. needs to give us answers.
Estrogen patches help millions of women manage menopause symptoms. These patches are life changing for many women.
A shortage with no plan from FDA is unacceptable, RFK Jr. needs to give us answers.
US House Democratic Women's Caucus press health secretary on estrogen patch shortages reut.rs/4hxVzcq
US House Democratic Women's Caucus press health secretary on estrogen patch shortages
The Democratic Women's Caucus in the US House of Representatives has asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address a shortage of estrogen patches to ensure a stable supply of the widely used hormone therapy, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
October 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
🩺 OBGYN here --
Estrogen patches help millions of women manage menopause symptoms. These patches are life changing for many women.
A shortage with no plan from FDA is unacceptable, RFK Jr. needs to give us answers.
Estrogen patches help millions of women manage menopause symptoms. These patches are life changing for many women.
A shortage with no plan from FDA is unacceptable, RFK Jr. needs to give us answers.
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Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion.
Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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September 30, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion.
Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social
September 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social
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Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social !
Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema
Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes!
doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema
Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes!
doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
September 29, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social !
Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema
Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes!
doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema
Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes!
doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026.
SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
September 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026.
SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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A British farm has unveiled a giant pumpkin mosaic of Sir David Attenborough to celebrate the naturalist's 100th birthday.
The mosaic broke the farm's own record for the world's largest squash mosaic.
The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records at the unveiling of the artwork on Tuesday.
The mosaic broke the farm's own record for the world's largest squash mosaic.
The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records at the unveiling of the artwork on Tuesday.
September 25, 2026 at 10:07 AM
A British farm has unveiled a giant pumpkin mosaic of Sir David Attenborough to celebrate the naturalist's 100th birthday.
The mosaic broke the farm's own record for the world's largest squash mosaic.
The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records at the unveiling of the artwork on Tuesday.
The mosaic broke the farm's own record for the world's largest squash mosaic.
The record was confirmed by Guinness World Records at the unveiling of the artwork on Tuesday.
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The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange!
Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
September 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange!
Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592
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sorry folks @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social et al. just proved that neurons are canonically non-binary
September 24, 2026 at 12:17 AM
sorry folks @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social et al. just proved that neurons are canonically non-binary
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The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
September 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8
September 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
My postdoc work at @uclacollege.bsky.social in the #CorreaLab is now published at @pnas.org! 🙌 Our broad question was - do estrogens act on the brain to coordinate thermoregulatory adaptations during pregnancy? 1/8
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**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**
Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
September 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**
Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
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The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵
September 18, 2026 at 8:32 AM
The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵
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So cool! Fly retinal motor neurons are electrically coupled through gap junctions to visual cells. Fast efference copy!!
Many thanks to @lochlanw.bsky.social and @prelights.bsky.social for highlighting our preprint!
excited to share my first preLight summarizing such an exciting preprint! from Tjalda Falt et al. @fleyes.bsky.social
Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...
Vectorial efference copy and visuomotor transformation through gap junctions prelights.biologists.com/highlights/v...
September 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
So cool! Fly retinal motor neurons are electrically coupled through gap junctions to visual cells. Fast efference copy!!
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I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
September 18, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
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Want to build new skills through a neuroscience training course?
This IBRO #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course.
📅 Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug
⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: https://ow.ly/jCv250ZOerP
This IBRO #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course.
📅 Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug
⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: https://ow.ly/jCv250ZOerP
September 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Want to build new skills through a neuroscience training course?
This IBRO #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course.
📅 Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug
⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: https://ow.ly/jCv250ZOerP
This IBRO #grant supports PhD students & early-career postdocs with course registration, travel & local expenses to attend the course.
📅 Course must start between 1 Jan & 31 Aug
⏰ Apply by 31 Oct: https://ow.ly/jCv250ZOerP
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**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.
September 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
**Second** job in computational/theoretical neuro at @dukemedschool.bsky.social! Really great opportunity, great colleagues.
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Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus:
pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
September 12, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus:
pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
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We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department.
Application deadline is October 15.
Come be our colleague.
Please RT!
apply.interfolio.com/193016
Application deadline is October 15.
Come be our colleague.
Please RT!
apply.interfolio.com/193016
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September 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department.
Application deadline is October 15.
Come be our colleague.
Please RT!
apply.interfolio.com/193016
Application deadline is October 15.
Come be our colleague.
Please RT!
apply.interfolio.com/193016
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So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.
According to a meeting I was in, UMass estimates that if the capacity of these tools were maxed out by student, faculty, staff users, the total cost to the university would be $130,000/day, or about $47 million / year.
September 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.
Neuronal response properties in the songbird auditory system change when they become parents, tuned more to chick calls! Such a fun study from @prolactingrl.bsky.social in the JNE Special Issue on Parenting. Expect great things from her new lab at UMichigan!
I'm excited to share that my postdoc paper from the @healeylab.bsky.social lab was published today! Here we show that zebra finch parents have stronger auditory responses to chick calls compared to non-parents and that females tend to be more selective in these responses! Also~my 1st ephys paper!! ⬇️
September 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Neuronal response properties in the songbird auditory system change when they become parents, tuned more to chick calls! Such a fun study from @prolactingrl.bsky.social in the JNE Special Issue on Parenting. Expect great things from her new lab at UMichigan!