📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

Can't believe what's happening, the biggest and more powerful democracy is decaying at an unbelievable rate. Hope US people will stand up soon before it's too late, there is so much at stake! Be brave, be strong, the entire free world is backing you up!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reminder:
Please consider attending our annual basal ganglia meeting in Montpellier (Satellite event of Neurofrance 2025).
5 confirmed speakers (see program)
5 selected talks for young researchers
Plenty of basal ganglia colleagues to enjoy ;-)
basalgangliaclub.com/event/

If you don't know it yet, I strongly suggest you to have a look at peercommunityin.org. PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review and recommendation of your preprint articles. It is managed by scientists for scientists!
@peercommunityin.bsky.social

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

French academics march to show solidarity with American colleagues and fight obscurantism worldwide!

ON Y EST ! Rendez-vous tout à l'heure pour défendre les valeurs scientifiques : apportez pancartes, instruments, énergie, et fleurs pour la statue de la liberté en fin de parcours. Pensez à taguer ce compte pour qu'on partage vos photos 👍 1/ ⬇️ #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScienceFrance

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

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

(1/2)

And that first GIF was supposed to be animated! Here we go.

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Women in Neuroscience

Now a list!

add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄

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Ahah, it's a pretty funny illustration of our lab... If only we could train mice to run their own experiments...

Cool paper by an all star team exploring how striatal dopamine signaling mediates the effect of hunger on exploration in mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Systems Neuroscience Mailing List @systems-neuro.bsky.social is celebrating its 8th birthday by joining 🦋 Bluesky 🦋 and automating the reposting here.

Also check our website www.systemsneuroscience.eu to join our 2700+ member strong community and share or receive job ads, announcements, etc.

I will definitely try to become a bit more active over here....