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Laura Andreae
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Developmental neuroscientist
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landreae.bsky.social
Great opportunity for junior/mid career neuroscientists in Europe! Do apply!
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Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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sergiuppasca.bsky.social
By popular demand — the next edition of our hands-on @Stanford @BrOrganogenesis course is coming in 2026!

This year, the focus turns to neural #assembloids, reflecting the growing movement toward modeling circuit-level and complex cell-cell interactions in brain disease.

🧠 Deadline: mid-December
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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meera-sundaram.bsky.social
Basic, curiosity driven, sometimes very exploratory, research is the seed corn that leads to the biggest scientific advances
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
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October 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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kingsioppn.bsky.social
What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies.

🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds
What do we know about the causes of autism?
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September 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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franckp.bsky.social
Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images:
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A deep learning pipeline for accurate and automated restoration, segmentation, and quantification of dendritic spines
Garcia et al. present RESPAN, a pipeline that enables automated dendritic spine analysis through seamless integration of deep learning image restoration and segmentation capabilities with comprehensiv...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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pjsjostrom.bsky.social
🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Branch logic: Dendritic computations diversify inhibition
Long known for different circuit roles, parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons are shown by Morabito et al.,1 in this issue of Neuron, to differ in…
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September 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social, the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge as widely as possible. Read more about this exciting partnership: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/EXPedit... @annavignoles.bsky.social
Black background with gold swirls. Headshot of Professor Anna Vignoles: "Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the contributions of outstanding researchers. As part of our centenary celebrations, we are thrilled to collaborate with EXPeditions on the joint mission of sharing knowledge more widely by showcasing some of these extraordinary academics." Leverhulme Trust logo, EXPeditions logo, URL: leverhulme.ac.uk/news
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Chance, Choice, and Control: Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe (or: "Yes, you could have done otherwise" 😉) philarchive.org/rec/POTCCA-6 (with Henry Potter)
While the free will debate tends to focus primarily on the implications of determinism for freedom, a long line of philosophers have also argued that free will would not be compatible with indeterminism either. These arguments typically take the form of a so-called Luck Objection: a family of related arguments which all seek to show, roughly, that if an action is not causally pre-determined then it must be a sort of random happening, over which the agent lacks the control required for free will. If successful, these arguments are fatal for libertarian accounts of free will, which are committed to the view that free actions must be both undetermined and under the agent’s control. In this paper, we defend libertarian free will against this challenge from luck. We argue that most formulations of the Luck Objection presuppose a conceptual model of indeterministic decision-making that is not well aligned with recent advances in the natural sciences; specifically, we argue that they make assumptions about the nature of indeterminacy and about the causal structure of decision-making, which libertarians have good empirical reason (from both physics and neuroscience) to reject. We develop a more empirically plausible model of agential decision-making and apply this to the problem of luck. We argue that, under such a model, it is entirely natural to think of an agent’s actions as both ‘undetermined’ (in the sense of being under-determined) and under their own control. We conclude that indeterminism poses no threat to a more naturalistic version of libertarian free will.
September 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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markdhumphries.bsky.social
The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year.

Drop me a line if you want to know more

Deadline September 14th

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MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies
Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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sambooker.bsky.social
Hello world!
We just released a thing! In this preprint we provide evidence questioning the ability of the axon initial segment to undergo rapid structural plasticity in intact neurons from mouse, rat, and human cortex.
biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 2
Absence of short-term axon initial segment plasticity in human, mouse, and rat cortical circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.672986v1
September 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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fens.org
🌟 #FENS-#EJN Awards and Prizes: Last Chance! 🌟

TODAY is the last day to submit nominations for the two prestigious awards offered by #FENS in partnership with @ejneuroscience.bsky.social and @wiley.com!
September 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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mattiachini.bsky.social
Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email.

More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie...

RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏
Chini Lab
Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.
www.chinilab.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh

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Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production
Morphogen gradients provide the patterning cues that instruct cell fate decisions during development. Here, we establish an optogenetic system for the…
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August 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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mfeller.bsky.social
Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041
Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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karenjliu.bsky.social
Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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plosbiology.org
Developing motor networks rely on brief windows of plasticity. This study identifies mitochondrial #ROS & HIF-1α as instructive signals that drive lasting #neural & #behavioral changes during these critical periods, linking #metabolism to circuit development @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mHrWq4
Top: Confocal micrograph of a Drosophila melanogaster larval neuromuscular junction. Motoneurons are labeled in red, while postsynaptic glutamate receptors are visualized in blue (subunit B) and yellow (subunit A). Bottom: Schematic summarising the main findings of the paper. An early manipulation (32-degree heat stress) during the critical period in the embryo stage is then followed up by assessment of synapse size and composition, nerve cell properties, and behavior in the 5-day larva.
August 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Our current approach to defining neural populations is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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The challenge of defining a neural population
Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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neuroinformatics.dev
The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts.

Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap:
brainglobe.info/documentatio...

#niu_osw
August 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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clopathlab.bsky.social
We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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fens.org
🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨

First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️

Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA

🔔 Stay tuned!
August 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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flor-iacaruso.bsky.social
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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justuskebschull.bsky.social
Want to learn everything there is to know about barcoded connectomics, brain clearing, and modern neuroanatomy? There is still time to apply for the CSHL High Throughput Neuroanatomy course! Stipends are available. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
July 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM