NeuroecologyLab
@neuroecologylab.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroecology Lab at OxCIN/FMRIB (Oxford) and Donders Institute (Nijmegen) headed by Rogier Mars. Interested in what makes different brains tick. www.neuroecologylab.org
Yikes! Somebody in my lab pointed out I’m on amazon. Now available on pre-order: www.amazon.co.uk/Fox-Shrew-Yo...
The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved
The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved : Mars, Rogier: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yikes! Somebody in my lab pointed out I’m on amazon. Now available on pre-order: www.amazon.co.uk/Fox-Shrew-Yo...
Applications are open for the Oxford MSc Neuroscience: www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/MSc-Neurosci...! Deadline: Dec 2nd.
MSc Neuroscience
Our internationally acclaimed, interdisciplinary and interdepartmental MSc in Neuroscience
www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Applications are open for the Oxford MSc Neuroscience: www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/MSc-Neurosci...! Deadline: Dec 2nd.
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New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Palaeontologists and comparative neurobiologists share a common interest in the evolution of the mammalian brain, but often fail to realize the benefits of this shared interest. This Review draws thes...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167
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Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨🔬👩🔬
In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️
In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Happy #worlddogday! 🐶 👨🔬👩🔬
In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️
In this video, you will discover how dogs support us in our research at the University of Vienna and what we can learn from dogs about our own social behavior. 🧠 ⤵️
Ecology and neuroscience. Like the sound of that :-)
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 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Ecology and neuroscience. Like the sound of that :-)
Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience is go!
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience is go!
Great to see this article on Kamilla's amazing work!
'Give me the head!' Neuroscientist inspires whale and dolphin research in Brazil
www.npr.org/2025/02/15/n...
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'Give me the head!' Neuroscientist inspires whale and dolphin research in Brazil
Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great to see this article on Kamilla's amazing work!
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
July 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities.
Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.
quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...
Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.
quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...
How not to run a university | Quentin’s Substack | Quentin Atkinson | Substack
A case study of one university’s managerial misadventures, why it is happening and what we can do about it. Click to read Quentin’s Substack, by Quentin Atkinson, a Substack publication. Launched a mo...
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July 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities.
Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.
quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...
Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.
quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...
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I’d love to hear more ideas about this. I’ve been brainstorming for my own teaching. How to we stop teaching the brain as a domino chain (where disorders are broken dominos) but instead as a multi-level dynamical system? Starting at the earliest stages? Please chime in! A few thoughts …
Finished reading @nicolecrust.bsky.social’s Elusive Cures. Very interesting. I wonder, how do we change the way we train our students to help implement the new Grand Plan?
June 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’d love to hear more ideas about this. I’ve been brainstorming for my own teaching. How to we stop teaching the brain as a domino chain (where disorders are broken dominos) but instead as a multi-level dynamical system? Starting at the earliest stages? Please chime in! A few thoughts …
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Second, I understand there’s a movement in education to think about things like ecology and climate as big holistic dynamical systems (even in grade school). We can learn from that. Anyone w/ pointers, please chime in!
June 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Second, I understand there’s a movement in education to think about things like ecology and climate as big holistic dynamical systems (even in grade school). We can learn from that. Anyone w/ pointers, please chime in!
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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Finished reading @nicolecrust.bsky.social’s Elusive Cures. Very interesting. I wonder, how do we change the way we train our students to help implement the new Grand Plan?
June 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Finished reading @nicolecrust.bsky.social’s Elusive Cures. Very interesting. I wonder, how do we change the way we train our students to help implement the new Grand Plan?
Check out the latest great work by @francescopoli.bsky.social!
Tag @oxcin.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
Tag @oxcin.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Volatility-driven learning in human infants
Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Check out the latest great work by @francescopoli.bsky.social!
Tag @oxcin.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
Tag @oxcin.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social
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Time is ticking! Applications for the 🌍 OxCIN Global Scholars Programme 🌍close on June 30th.
Are you an early career researcher from the Global South, interested in online training in MRI physics & analysis using FSL?
Read more & apply here: tinyurl.com/255rxr5a
Please share with your network!
Are you an early career researcher from the Global South, interested in online training in MRI physics & analysis using FSL?
Read more & apply here: tinyurl.com/255rxr5a
Please share with your network!
June 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Time is ticking! Applications for the 🌍 OxCIN Global Scholars Programme 🌍close on June 30th.
Are you an early career researcher from the Global South, interested in online training in MRI physics & analysis using FSL?
Read more & apply here: tinyurl.com/255rxr5a
Please share with your network!
Are you an early career researcher from the Global South, interested in online training in MRI physics & analysis using FSL?
Read more & apply here: tinyurl.com/255rxr5a
Please share with your network!
A problem we needed solving for a long time got solved by Austin
Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10
June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A problem we needed solving for a long time got solved by Austin
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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
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URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
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June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
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"I've always aspired to be a catalyst for change in my research field in Brazil, and OxCIN Global Scholars has made this goal more attainable."
Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv
Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv
'A life-changing experience in my career' - reflections on OxCIN Global Scholars
We speak to OxCIN Global Scholars participant Kamilla Souza about her time on the scheme.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"I've always aspired to be a catalyst for change in my research field in Brazil, and OxCIN Global Scholars has made this goal more attainable."
Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv
Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv
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The OxCIN Global Scholars programme offers a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South. Apply by June 30th to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!
www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The OxCIN Global Scholars programme offers a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South. Apply by June 30th to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!
www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
Preprint alert! On the connectivity of the ventral visual stream and prefrontal cortex in primates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w @swarringtonmri.bsky.social @saadjbabdi.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social @mristam.bsky.social
An anthropoid/strepsirrhine divergence in ventral visual stream connectivity
The ventral visual stream has undergone extensive reorganisation within the primate lineage. While some work has examined restructuring of the ventral prefrontal cortical grey matter across primates, ...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Preprint alert! On the connectivity of the ventral visual stream and prefrontal cortex in primates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w @swarringtonmri.bsky.social @saadjbabdi.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social @mristam.bsky.social
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*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! ***
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
Barron Group | mrcbndu
Our group investigates how cells and circuits in the brain work together to perform computations that support memory. Using a wide range of technical approaches, we investigate how these computations ...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! ***
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis?
The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models
Come join us! The Global Scholars program gives you a chance to become a virtual member of our institute. One of our most exciting long-term collaborations started this way!
🌍 OxCIN Global Scholars: apply by June 30th! 🌎
Our Global Scholars programme provides a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South.
Apply now to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!
oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
Our Global Scholars programme provides a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South.
Apply now to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost!
oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Come join us! The Global Scholars program gives you a chance to become a virtual member of our institute. One of our most exciting long-term collaborations started this way!
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Building technological bridges... across species
The neuroecologylab.org led by Rogier Mars compares brains of different species (tinyurl.com/4v9svnt8) to understand brain evolution (tinyurl.com/5n74hka3) and translate preclinical results to humans.
@neuroecologylab.bsky.social
The neuroecologylab.org led by Rogier Mars compares brains of different species (tinyurl.com/4v9svnt8) to understand brain evolution (tinyurl.com/5n74hka3) and translate preclinical results to humans.
@neuroecologylab.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Building technological bridges... across species
The neuroecologylab.org led by Rogier Mars compares brains of different species (tinyurl.com/4v9svnt8) to understand brain evolution (tinyurl.com/5n74hka3) and translate preclinical results to humans.
@neuroecologylab.bsky.social
The neuroecologylab.org led by Rogier Mars compares brains of different species (tinyurl.com/4v9svnt8) to understand brain evolution (tinyurl.com/5n74hka3) and translate preclinical results to humans.
@neuroecologylab.bsky.social