Steve Maren

I am so unbelievably angry....this has to stop. I am so sorry this is happening.

I was asked to do an impromptu "Ask an Expert" radio interview on memory manipulation as a therapeutic for PTSD and Alzheimer's. The topic was prompted by @okaysteve.bsky.social recent book. Have a listen if interested! www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

@beckmanillinois.bsky.social Annual Report is out! The theme is built around a children’s book our team wrote about curiosity, questions, and a young Arnold Beckman. We are working on making the book more widely available, but for now enjoy the report! beckman.illinois.edu/news/annual-...

🚨Applications are now open for 2026 @beckmanillinois.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships! We provide 3 years of support ($63k/year) for candidates conducting interdisciplinary research with two or more Beckman faculty members. Please apply and RT! beckman.illinois.edu/opportunitie...

Lots of amazing science happening at Beckman! Whether your interests are in molecules or minds, you will be amazed by our innovative, interdisciplinary research. Give us a follow to learn about our latest news, events, and employment and fellowship opportunities!!🔸🔬🧠🧪🔹
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Ted’s Café at the Beckman Institute
✅ Complete renovation
✅ Glass walls and welcoming décor
✅ New chef and menu
✅ New dining room
🩷 Ribbon cutting today!!!

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The cover of Beckman's annual report reads: Science that serves.

Beckman is on Bluesky!

If you want to see what we're all about, check out our 2023-2024 annual report. 🔷🔶

Its stories showcase how Beckman research serves real people, including athletes, educators, students and surgeons. 🤝

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Psychobiology Psychobiology was an official journal of the Psychonomic Society. It was published between 1973 and 2000 by the Psychonomic Society. The journal is no longer ...

Catalog is here: link.springer.com/journal/4063...

Isn’t it weird that 27 years of important behavioral neuroscience work published from 1973-2000 in Psychobiology has been disappeared because it isn’t on PubMed? That’s 100s of papers that the field has no knowledge of….

Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you, Keri!

Congrats Michael! Really appreciate the brilliance & creativity you brought to the analyses and as always, sincere dedication to open science 🧪 🧠

@mictott.bsky.social is on the job market!! Amazing skillset spanning wet lab/computational at molecular, cellular + systems level - and across species!

I wouldn’t lose hope; my sense is that everything is taking more time (though my impression was that things had normalized to some extent in the last couple of months)

Associative coding of conditioned fear in the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans Communications Biology - The nucleus reuniens encodes associative value in both humans and rats. In rats, it also tracks defensive freezing states. The reuniens has a conserved role across species...

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share this collaborative paper exploring nucleus reuniens correlates of fear conditioning in both rats and humans! Congrats @tugcettuna @F_Mourao_ @MicTott Muhammad Badarnee and Moh Milad!! rdcu.be/eyTPs

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored

Hot off the presses: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... "Trump administration cuts to National Institutes of Health grants are illegal, a judge rules." #ScienceIsDefiance

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear Molecular Psychiatry - Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!

“Additional review required”

Wonderful review and happy to contribute!

Hippocampal-prelimbic coupling during context-dependent extinction retrieval in rats After fear conditioning, repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus (CS) alone produces a context-dependent extinction of learned fear. The hippocampus has a critical role in this process, but ...

This marks my first-author contribution as part of the Maren Lab team! Our findings shed new light on the mechanisms underlying context-dependent extinction of learned fear. Huge thanks to @stevemaren.bsky.social , Tugce tuna, and @mictott.bsky.social for teamwork.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Update: 9 weeks later and the NOA has arrived!

Integrating Aversive Memories in the Basolateral Amygdala Decades of research have established a critical role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) in the encoding and storage of aversive memories. Much of this work utilizes Pavlovian fear condit...

Excellent review 👍👏 that highlights historical evidence and explores recent advancements in memory encoding research, and examines how dysfunction in ensemble coding may contribute to PTSD @stevemaren.bsky.social www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Thanks Paul!!

NIMH—though there is no logic to all of this. A colleague here and I shared the same budget end date, same agency, same PO, and his renewal came a month ago.

Good news at last; no less than 9 weeks after the budget end date, I finally received the NOA for the noncompeting continuation. What a relief!

Very excited to share the last bit of my PhD work with @stevemaren.bsky.social! In collaboration with Mohammad Milad's group, we conducted neural recordings of the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans across fear conditioning and extinction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yep…and they are in the dark.

What was your budget end date? Mine was 1/31.

Still waiting...

When I transferred this summer, I was told if the change of recipient organization was not submitted before July 15, the grants would not be transferred until the following year. We met deadline and had grants transferred by August

Straight noncompeting; grants transferred with ease in August.