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Tayler Sheahan at the Medical College of Wisconsin has an open postdoctoral fellow position in her lab, which studies the neurobiology of itch and pain.
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Stephen Montgomery at the University of Cambridge seeks a postdoctoral fellow for a project focused on mapping and analyzing whole-brain projectomes across closely related species.
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Carmen Sandi at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has two open postdoctoral fellow positions in her lab for a project that uses immersive virtual reality to look at the neuronal mechanisms of effort-based motivation.
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Portrait of Ubadah Sebbagh against a collage background of shapes, test tubes and a building.

Frameshift: At a biotech firm, Ubadah Sabbagh embraces the expansive world outside academia

As chief of staff at Arcadia, Ubadah Sabbagh gets to do science while also pushing the boundaries of how science gets done.

By Katie Moisse
20 January 2026 | 7 min read
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Neuroscience’s leaders, legacies and rising stars of 2025

Here are seven stories from the past year about some of the field’s most engaging figures.

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
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Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025

Find out what “may be one of the brain’s most underappreciated superpowers” and why it’s so crucial to “talk about our research in our everyday lives.”

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
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Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing

As chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Wiseman applies critical-thinking skills she learned in the lab to manage the journal’s day-to-day operations.

By Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 min read
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The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025

We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read

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