Lauren Reynolds
@laurenmac.bsky.social
an american neuroscientist in paris • CNRS researcher in the Faure lab @ ESPCI Paris • PhD McGill • she/her/elle
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Lauren Reynolds
@laurenmac.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Thrilled to share that I have obtained a permanent position at CNRS 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much to everyone that supported me along the way, and especially @faurelab.bsky.social !
Thanks so much to everyone that supported me along the way, and especially @faurelab.bsky.social !
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I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪
Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Addiction Neuroscience | Dopamine circuitry and heterogeneity in addiction | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
The heterogeneity of midbrain dopamine neurons is coming into focus. Distinct subtypes of dopamine neurons can be identified across the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra pars compacta ...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪
Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
I'm very honored to be the recipient of the Prix Bernard Bioulac, closing out 2025 on a high note
#Distinction🏆 Hier, CNRS Biologie et la Fondation CNRS ont célébré l'excellence en biologie lors d'une cérémonie de remise de prix. Au programme de cette soirée, figurait l’attribution des prix Claude Paoletti, Georges Brahms, Jacqueline Godet et Bernard Bioulac.
Lire l'actualité ⤵️
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Lire l'actualité ⤵️
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January 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I'm very honored to be the recipient of the Prix Bernard Bioulac, closing out 2025 on a high note
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Possibility for a Eastbio funded PhD in my group at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social.
This is a highly competitive process: applicants should hold a 1st BSc Honours or 2:1 MSc degree in neuroscience.
A single applicant per project will be interviewed.
shorturl.at/rd669
This is a highly competitive process: applicants should hold a 1st BSc Honours or 2:1 MSc degree in neuroscience.
A single applicant per project will be interviewed.
shorturl.at/rd669
EastBio: Too sweet: how early life sugar consumption shapes brain and behaviour at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Too sweet: how early life sugar consumption shapes brain and behaviour at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Possibility for a Eastbio funded PhD in my group at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social.
This is a highly competitive process: applicants should hold a 1st BSc Honours or 2:1 MSc degree in neuroscience.
A single applicant per project will be interviewed.
shorturl.at/rd669
This is a highly competitive process: applicants should hold a 1st BSc Honours or 2:1 MSc degree in neuroscience.
A single applicant per project will be interviewed.
shorturl.at/rd669
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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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The Strasbourg (France) neuroscience community (NeuroStra) will offer 3 positions over the next 3 years for junior group leaders. Applicants should develop projects along 3 themes:
--> Mental health
--> Neuroepigenetics
--> Nociception and Pain
Spread the word!
neurostra.unistra.fr/actualites/a...
--> Mental health
--> Neuroepigenetics
--> Nociception and Pain
Spread the word!
neurostra.unistra.fr/actualites/a...
Junior group leader position in Strasbourg
NeuroStra aims to recruit outstanding junior scientists to develop projects aligned with the following themes: Mental health | Neuroepigenetics | Nociception and Pain
neurostra.unistra.fr
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Strasbourg (France) neuroscience community (NeuroStra) will offer 3 positions over the next 3 years for junior group leaders. Applicants should develop projects along 3 themes:
--> Mental health
--> Neuroepigenetics
--> Nociception and Pain
Spread the word!
neurostra.unistra.fr/actualites/a...
--> Mental health
--> Neuroepigenetics
--> Nociception and Pain
Spread the word!
neurostra.unistra.fr/actualites/a...
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Seminar announcement:
Dr P Faure will talk about" Dopaminergic Control of Social
Specialization in Mouse Microsocieties". November 14th 2025 @ noon @ipnp.bsky.social. All are welcome!
@inserm.fr #dopamine
Dr P Faure will talk about" Dopaminergic Control of Social
Specialization in Mouse Microsocieties". November 14th 2025 @ noon @ipnp.bsky.social. All are welcome!
@inserm.fr #dopamine
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Seminar announcement:
Dr P Faure will talk about" Dopaminergic Control of Social
Specialization in Mouse Microsocieties". November 14th 2025 @ noon @ipnp.bsky.social. All are welcome!
@inserm.fr #dopamine
Dr P Faure will talk about" Dopaminergic Control of Social
Specialization in Mouse Microsocieties". November 14th 2025 @ noon @ipnp.bsky.social. All are welcome!
@inserm.fr #dopamine
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If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...
The surprising science of adolescent brains
Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...
www.ted.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...
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🚨Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the Dopamine 2026 meeting!
Share your latest discoveries and join the global dopamine community in advancing the science of motivation, movement, and reward.
Submit here: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
#Dopamine2026
Share your latest discoveries and join the global dopamine community in advancing the science of motivation, movement, and reward.
Submit here: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
#Dopamine2026
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🚨Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the Dopamine 2026 meeting!
Share your latest discoveries and join the global dopamine community in advancing the science of motivation, movement, and reward.
Submit here: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
#Dopamine2026
Share your latest discoveries and join the global dopamine community in advancing the science of motivation, movement, and reward.
Submit here: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/
#Dopamine2026
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October 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Lauren Reynolds
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
Reposted by Lauren Reynolds
Reposted by Lauren Reynolds
Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience
The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …
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October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pour un dialogue éclairé et raisonné sur l’expérimentation en neurosciences, ses progrès, ses promesses !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
Rejoignez nous !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
Rejoignez nous !
Fête de la Science 🧠
Lundi 6 octobre 17h-19h Hôtel de ville de Paris
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux.
Avec @clairewyart.bsky.social , @bathellierlab.bsky.social ,...
Inscrivez-vous ici!
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Lundi 6 octobre 17h-19h Hôtel de ville de Paris
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux.
Avec @clairewyart.bsky.social , @bathellierlab.bsky.social ,...
Inscrivez-vous ici!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux - Formulaire d'inscription
Plongée au cœur des neurosciences : un débat inédit entre chercheurs et représentants de la société civile pour questionner l’avenir de la recherche.
Dates de l’événement : 6 octobre 2025, de 17h à 19...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Pour un dialogue éclairé et raisonné sur l’expérimentation en neurosciences, ses progrès, ses promesses !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
Rejoignez nous !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
Rejoignez nous !
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With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology
A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsay Schwarz in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Schwarz l...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k
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This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk
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🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟
Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.
🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams
📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.
🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams
📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟
Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.
🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams
📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.
🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams
📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
September 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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Imagine being the kind of person with the chutzpah to "explain" to Margaret Atwood what Margaret Atwood meant in The Handmaid's Tale
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Imagine being the kind of person with the chutzpah to "explain" to Margaret Atwood what Margaret Atwood meant in The Handmaid's Tale
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In September 1919, Escher moved to Haarlem to study architecture. His landlady in Haarlem gifted Escher a white cat, who stayed his pet and companion during his student years. Escher lovingly portrayed his cat in several wood cuts.
Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher
Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher
September 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
In September 1919, Escher moved to Haarlem to study architecture. His landlady in Haarlem gifted Escher a white cat, who stayed his pet and companion during his student years. Escher lovingly portrayed his cat in several wood cuts.
Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher
Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher
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📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025?
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025?
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social
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Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Pleased to share our lab's latest research article led by Melissa Salazar, a new PhD student in my lab🤓🐀.
We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV
t.co/biPSE9u9Le
We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV
t.co/biPSE9u9Le
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Pleased to share our lab's latest research article led by Melissa Salazar, a new PhD student in my lab🤓🐀.
We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV
t.co/biPSE9u9Le
We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV
t.co/biPSE9u9Le
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How do immune cells shape the adolescent brain?
#URochesteresearch found that microglia strengthen dopamine circuits in the frontal cortex, a region tied to decision-making and mental health @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#URochesteresearch found that microglia strengthen dopamine circuits in the frontal cortex, a region tied to decision-making and mental health @urochestersmd.bsky.social
Brain’s Immune Cells Key to Wiring the Adolescent Brain
Making a smoothie, going for an evening walk, or having empathy for a loved one are all examples of executive functions that are controlled by the brain’s frontal cortex. This area of the brain goes t...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How do immune cells shape the adolescent brain?
#URochesteresearch found that microglia strengthen dopamine circuits in the frontal cortex, a region tied to decision-making and mental health @urochestersmd.bsky.social
#URochesteresearch found that microglia strengthen dopamine circuits in the frontal cortex, a region tied to decision-making and mental health @urochestersmd.bsky.social
Delighted to be among the ERC Starting Grant awardees for 2025 !!! This grant will investigate how adolescent exploration or risk-taking shapes brain development and behavioral outcomes. More info coming soon ! #ERCStG 🇪🇺
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Delighted to be among the ERC Starting Grant awardees for 2025 !!! This grant will investigate how adolescent exploration or risk-taking shapes brain development and behavioral outcomes. More info coming soon ! #ERCStG 🇪🇺
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rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸
Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations
Molecular Psychiatry - Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations
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August 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸