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Nacho Sanguinetti
@neuroetho.bsky.social
Uruguayo 🇺🇾 Incoming Asst. Prof. UPenn. HSFP fellow at Harvard. PhD in HU Berlin. Systems Neuro, Neuroethologist of fun rodents, Natural Neuro! Painter, Improviser, Artist.
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I’m super excited to say that I will be starting my lab as Asst. Prof. at the University of Pennsylvania @PennSAS in the beautiful, vibrant, and sunny city of Philadelphia. My lab will lead an integrative approach to animal cognition in the lab and in the field!! #recruiting
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If you've ever asked me what my wife does and I tried to explain something about glaciers and forest mice and climbing...this is what I was talking about.

Go prairie mouse go!!! 🐭
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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This all started 10k years ago when glaciers receded from North America and left in their wake a natural neuroscience experiment! Some deer mice moved into newly available forest habitat, and today we have forest subspecies, which show dexterous climbing, and prairie subspecies that don't
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Very excited to share the amazing work of my friend and colleague @kelseytea.bsky.social !! Ecologically relevant behavior, crazy differences, connectivity, activity, genetics! A beautiful story of motor evolution. And she is on the #jobmarket!
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience
Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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#neuroskyence New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham

Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
authors.elsevier.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.

doi.org/10.1126/sci...

With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

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October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Fun
October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether
October 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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thank you to @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social for featuring me in #HumansofHBI and for doing a fun photo shoot with me at the Museum of Natural History!

go check out other members of the HBI community in the #HumansofHBI!
Meet @kelseytea.bsky.social on #HumansofHBI

How does genetic and molecular variation, either through evolution or within a species, result in neural and behavioral variation? How many different ways can you evolve a similar behavior?

brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/k...
October 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39049/as...
Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049
Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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September 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I am going to repost our job ad because we are not getting many applicants!
Like anywhere, there are pros and cons, so if you have questions just DM or email me.
#academicjobs #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicsky
October 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology
Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Mice do play with humans:
Our new study found that selective breeding makes mice more playful toward both humans and other mice.
We also found that both mice and hamsters produce distinct vocalizations depending on the species of their interaction partner.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsK5_3oCG...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🚨New paper🚨

Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.

Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
August 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Replication game- Never have I ever…. failed to record a “place cell” from the hippocampus*

*except all those times where I screwed up the experiment because I’m a human and my tetrodes got stuck, the ground was broken, the tetrodes snapped, I shorted the wires, I got my synchronization wrong, etc.
August 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics
Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM