Ann Clemens
@annmclemens.bsky.social
neuroscientist interested in natural behaviour & development of the social brain. PI of @kinshiplab.bsky.social at the University of Edinburgh kinshiplab.org
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Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
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Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology
DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies the pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during their Russian retreat. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology
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I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
merci Bordeaux for a great week of science, beautiful weather, food and some 🍷
October 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
merci Bordeaux for a great week of science, beautiful weather, food and some 🍷
Happy to share that my ebike made it to 9000 km, and late to share, but I made tenure 🎉 thanks to everyone that helped me along the way, especially the trainees that made the journey fun and my bike for getting me to the lab everyday 🚲 looking forward to all the great science that is yet to come 🔬👩🔬
September 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy to share that my ebike made it to 9000 km, and late to share, but I made tenure 🎉 thanks to everyone that helped me along the way, especially the trainees that made the journey fun and my bike for getting me to the lab everyday 🚲 looking forward to all the great science that is yet to come 🔬👩🔬
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Meet the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain: a center devoted to deconstructing the secrets of neurodevelopmental disorders and the developing brain. Read more: annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2024/scottis... #science #neuroscience
Scottish Neuroscience Initiative Takes Basic Science From Lab to Clinic
The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain aims to discover biological mechanisms underlying autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders and to use that information to deliver therapeutic…
annualreports.simonsfoundation.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Meet the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain: a center devoted to deconstructing the secrets of neurodevelopmental disorders and the developing brain. Read more: annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2024/scottis... #science #neuroscience
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Good news! Brian Knutson contributed a truly special article to our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents:
How we stumbled upon the rat play vocalizations: A recollection
A true tale of scientific serendipity!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
How we stumbled upon the rat play vocalizations: A recollection
A true tale of scientific serendipity!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
August 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Good news! Brian Knutson contributed a truly special article to our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents:
How we stumbled upon the rat play vocalizations: A recollection
A true tale of scientific serendipity!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
How we stumbled upon the rat play vocalizations: A recollection
A true tale of scientific serendipity!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social
settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social
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Advances in #MachineLearning, #Genetics and more can revolutionize neuroethology. Learn more at India | EMBO Lecture Course "Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours" in Pune, IN, 7–11 Dec
Deadline: 31 Jul
meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...
#EMBOneuroethology #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 31 Jul
meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...
#EMBOneuroethology #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours
Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrai…
meetings.embo.org
May 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Advances in #MachineLearning, #Genetics and more can revolutionize neuroethology. Learn more at India | EMBO Lecture Course "Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours" in Pune, IN, 7–11 Dec
Deadline: 31 Jul
meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...
#EMBOneuroethology #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Deadline: 31 Jul
meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...
#EMBOneuroethology #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪
Hello Eel Pond, looking forward to another great summer @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social 🐙🔬
July 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hello Eel Pond, looking forward to another great summer @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social 🐙🔬
congrats to our undergraduate, Isabel for winning outstanding poster prize at the @embo.org unconventional vertebrate models conference, debuting her 1st class thesis work on social behaviour of the Spiny mouse @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🤩👏
June 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
congrats to our undergraduate, Isabel for winning outstanding poster prize at the @embo.org unconventional vertebrate models conference, debuting her 1st class thesis work on social behaviour of the Spiny mouse @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🤩👏
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The Neural Systems & Behavior Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory is going to be looking for a co-director. If you're a faculty member who is interested in helping to organize and run this incredible course, submit a brief statement and your CV at this website. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Faculty Opportunities in MBL Courses | Marine Biological Laboratory
MBL courses bring experts in research and industry to offer lectures and serve as course faculty. To build on this incredible convening power and expand our footprint, we are posting this open call fo...
www.mbl.edu
June 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Neural Systems & Behavior Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory is going to be looking for a co-director. If you're a faculty member who is interested in helping to organize and run this incredible course, submit a brief statement and your CV at this website. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
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Congrats Neven and @jkohl.bsky.social !
Researchers at the Crick have shown that mice use chemical cues, such as smells, to detect the social rank of mice they’ve never met before.
The findings could help us better understand how other animals gauge the social status of strangers.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
The findings could help us better understand how other animals gauge the social status of strangers.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
Mice use chemical cues such as odours to sense social hierarchy
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that mice use chemical cues, including odours, to detect the social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare it to their own, using this informatio...
www.crick.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Congrats Neven and @jkohl.bsky.social !
just returned from a wonderful visit @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social hosted by the great @katejj.bsky.social very much enjoyed hearing about the growing psychology / neuro community and discussing our work w a diverse audience. forgot to take photos until the train home, but the weather was lovely ☀️
May 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
just returned from a wonderful visit @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social hosted by the great @katejj.bsky.social very much enjoyed hearing about the growing psychology / neuro community and discussing our work w a diverse audience. forgot to take photos until the train home, but the weather was lovely ☀️
I would be happy to host a HFSP fellowship @hfspo.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Write to me if you're interested 🧠🐀🔬
Got a radical idea that doesn’t fit the mold?
#HFSP supports bold, high-risk postdoctoral research in #LifeSciences 🧪
Challenge the norm. Go international. Think beyond disciplines 💪
Apply now!
💥 Deadline May 15 | Initiate LOI by May 7
🔗zurl.co/gtbWu
#sts
#HFSP supports bold, high-risk postdoctoral research in #LifeSciences 🧪
Challenge the norm. Go international. Think beyond disciplines 💪
Apply now!
💥 Deadline May 15 | Initiate LOI by May 7
🔗zurl.co/gtbWu
#sts
April 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I would be happy to host a HFSP fellowship @hfspo.bsky.social in Edinburgh. Write to me if you're interested 🧠🐀🔬
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An amazing line up of speakers will explore the bidirectional crosstalk between the central nervous system and the body.
April 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
An amazing line up of speakers will explore the bidirectional crosstalk between the central nervous system and the body.
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📣 Registrations and abstract submissions for our international conference BrainBody have just opened!
📅 1-3 October 2025
📍 Bordeaux, France
📝Abstract submission and early bird registration deadline: July 1st!
brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/en/
📅 1-3 October 2025
📍 Bordeaux, France
📝Abstract submission and early bird registration deadline: July 1st!
brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/en/
April 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📣 Registrations and abstract submissions for our international conference BrainBody have just opened!
📅 1-3 October 2025
📍 Bordeaux, France
📝Abstract submission and early bird registration deadline: July 1st!
brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/en/
📅 1-3 October 2025
📍 Bordeaux, France
📝Abstract submission and early bird registration deadline: July 1st!
brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/en/
My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date
Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour.
Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org
Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour.
Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org
April 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date
Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour.
Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org
Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour.
Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org
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I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
Natural Neuroscience
Natural neuroscience departs from the classical reductionist approach, which emphasizes control at the expense of natural behaviors, by proposing a shift tow...
mitpress.mit.edu
April 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...
Abstract submitted 👍 submit yours too! (abstract deadline tomorrow 11th April; general registration deadline 8th May) see you at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh- let's talk science alongside Dolly the Sheep 🐑
Interested in biological research beyond the standard?
Join us in Edinburgh for the EMBO Workshop exploring how unconventional vertebrate models are becoming engines for biomedical research! 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 🦍 🐹🧍♀️
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2025 🚨
meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...
Join us in Edinburgh for the EMBO Workshop exploring how unconventional vertebrate models are becoming engines for biomedical research! 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 🦍 🐹🧍♀️
🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2025 🚨
meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...
Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine
The use of a handful of model organisms has proven essential for scientific discovery and to unlock new therapeutics to combat human disease. As society looks to the future, the gateway to new scient…
meetings.embo.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Abstract submitted 👍 submit yours too! (abstract deadline tomorrow 11th April; general registration deadline 8th May) see you at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh- let's talk science alongside Dolly the Sheep 🐑
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love the technical term "aggregon" for a cuddle puddle
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
love the technical term "aggregon" for a cuddle puddle
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Fascinating! 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress
New preprint ✍️🚨
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fascinating! 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress