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Jean Laurens
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Neuroscientist - Vestibular system, Spatial navigation - Group leader at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Very happy for this @ejneuroscience.bsky.social editorial on the importance of diverse research animals in neuroscience. We make the case that embracing a plurality of model organisms enriches the field and accelerates both basic and translational research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌
Projection-specific integration of convergent thalamic and retrosplenial signals in the presubicular head direction cortex
Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal com...
elifesciences.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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I definitely didn’t just scrape the web to get the h-index and total citation count as of 12/30/2025 for 319 living and dead nonhuman primate researchers to get a sense of publication metrics by rank on tenure-track.
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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One thing to add here is the immense impact this incredibly tiny fraction of PIs has had on our knowledge of the brain! To quote a great NHP neuroscientist that shall remain anonymous: this is real science!
December 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P!

⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026

Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd...

#neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!

healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...

1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher

Please share widely and reach out for questions!
Administrative Opportunities
healthsci.queensu.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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universityaffairs.ca
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Petition in Germany with 40,000 signatures calls for a phased EU-wide end to primate research. EARA stresses that #NHP studies remain vital for developing treatments and vaccines and warning against politically driven restrictions before alternatives are ready. www.eara.eu/post/petitio...
Petition to end primate research presented to German Parliament
Representatives from PETA and Doctors Against Animal Experiments presented to the petition committee of the German Parliament on 1 December, calling for a phased EU-wide end to primate research.
www.eara.eu
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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📢 We are organising the Senses in Motion conference for the third time, and we are now accepting abstracts for posters or talks.

Deadline for abstracts: 19 December
Conference dates: 18–21 May 2026
Location: Harnack House, Berlin

Register via this page👇
sensesinmotion.org

#neuroskyence #neurosky
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Unser Heft 11/2025 ist raus!
Titelthema: Kunst trifft Wissenschaft

Außerdem:
- Serien Premiere des Elfenbeinwurms❗
- Methoden Special #RNA-Sequenzierung
- #Tierversuchspolitik;
- Pathologie;
- Forschungsförderung;
- tRNA-#Chaperone;
- …
Das ganze Heft online: www.laborjournal.de/rubric/aktue...
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I entirely agree.

Research in rodents has enabled remarkable technical advances and deepened our understanding of brainstem circuits and general brain physiology.

However, only NHPs possess cognitive, visual, and motor faculties necessary to advance human-relevant systems neuroscience.
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.

#neuroskyence

bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Fear, monkeys, and institutional courage

When news broke of an explosion inside Harvard’s neurobiology building early Saturday morning, every scientist who works with monkeys felt it—an involuntary jolt, a spike of cortisol, the silent thought: what if it had been us? Neither animals nor people…
Fear, monkeys, and institutional courage
When news broke of an explosion inside Harvard’s neurobiology building early Saturday morning, every scientist who works with monkeys felt it—an involuntary jolt, a spike of cortisol, the silent thought: what if it had been us? Neither animals nor people were hurt, thankfully. It doesn’t appear to have been an attack. But it didn’t matter. For those of us who work with monkeys, the fear is always near the surface.
micheleabasso7.wordpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Why are primates essential for brain research?

🎧 Watch Episode #3 with Prof. Gail to uncover #Neuroscience, #DecisionMaking, and #Neuroprosthetics:
youtu.be/HN4YFhGU_6Y?...
November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A major blow to neuroscience and biomedical research.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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A sad day for Neuroscience in the Netherlands.
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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We’re having lots of fun designing tasks to study neural circuits of spatial orientation in mice, and we’re looking for PhD candidates to join the adventure!

Email me to learn more or apply for a PhD with us: www.keshavarzilab.com

🗓️ Deadline for expressions of interest: 30 October.
October 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Hintergründe zur deutschen Forschung an der #Xenotransplantation aus erster Hand gibt es u.a. im Podcast #FabelnFellFakten: www.tierversuche-verstehen.de/s3e5-xenotra...
Darin erklärt Eckhard Wolf @lmumuenchen.bsky.social die Gründe und verrät wann es mit dem #Schweineherz so weit sein könnte.
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Let's recap:

Everything* is everywhere**

* Except language, motor, memory, facial recognition, spatial perception, ...

** Except white matter, human brains, or anything else that is not a mouse brain
How do you deal with the confound of white matter damage when interpreting natural experiments?
September 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬
@tyrellturing.bsky.social
@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social
@pessoabrain.bsky.social
I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid
"x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system".
But this does not follow.
A thread...
September 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I think the church of everything is everywhere should check tumor removal surgeries. They all start by making sure they won't remove a specific function when removing a specific region. Can you guess how they do it?

@benhayden.bsky.social
@pessoabrain.bsky.social

hint: it is not with decoders
‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬
@tyrellturing.bsky.social
@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social
@pessoabrain.bsky.social
I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid
"x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system".
But this does not follow.
A thread...
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Of course. It’s extraordinarily that we even need to have this discussion - again - I despair.
September 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This graph, taken from an article @science.org by ‪@sarareardon.bsky.social is problematic. Actually, it's outright wrong. And that's probably due to ill definitions.
Short 🧵⬇️
August 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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This week's @thelancet.com cover and editorial
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM