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molcellcog.bsky.social
📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition.

More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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westernuwin.bsky.social
.@andpru.bsky.social CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and @schulichmeddent.bsky.social professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances.

Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
sjo09.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest from the lab on the molecular mechanisms of silencing and un-silencing a hippocampal engram ensemble. Was fun using a variant of the EPSILON technique developed by Adam Cohen's lab.
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Molecular mechanisms mediating engram ensemble retrievability state in mice
Engrams, ensembles of neurons that store memories, exist along a continuum of retrievability. Normally, sensory cues can reactivate a latent engram to…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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wbderry.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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scottishwaddell.bsky.social
@senapati.bsky.social latest and greatest! Charly Treiber on board too. Over and out.

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Visceral signaling of post-ingestive malaise directs memory updating in Drosophila
Consolidation is a time when labile memories transition to a stable form. Malaise learning in Drosophila reveals consolidation to also permit memory updating. Flies taught to associate one of two odor...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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franklandlab.bsky.social
New paper from the lab 🚨
Led by Ali Golbabaei, this study explores the how the composition of prefrontal cortical engrams changes with memory age:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3BtfH...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
sjo09.bsky.social
A great read!!!!
princetonaudio.bsky.social Princeton Audio @princetonaudio.bsky.social · 28d
@okaysteve.bsky.social's How to Change a Memory is a disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation.

The #audiobook, read by the author himself, arrives 4 November.

Preorder it today: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

#Neuroscience #Science #Memory
Audiobook cover of How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez, read by the author.
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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carmensandi10.bsky.social
Enormous thanks to the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation for this award!

I am thrilled and truly humbled, & I share it with my lab over the years and our wonderful collaborators!

A timely boost to keep our science moving!

Thanks to everyone for your kind messages!

Looking forward to #FENS2026!
fens.org Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 24d
The Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation and #FENS are thrilled to announce the winner of the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Award in Translational Neuroscience 2026: Prof. Carmen Sandi (@carmensandi10.bsky.social)! 🧠

👉 https://loom.ly/Uh0TghU
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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apeyrache.bsky.social
Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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okaysteve.bsky.social
Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
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September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social
After your SfN in San Diego, drift 130 km up the coast to Irvine for a bit more: cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2025-special... Go ahead and register now.
September 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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molcellcog.bsky.social
Check out the meeting lineup for #MCCS25! It's going to be an incredible day.

Don't miss out, register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
Lineup of speakers with headshots.
September 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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drlaschowski.bsky.social
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
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September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature
Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.
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August 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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pbump.com
News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.
August 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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murphyroyallab.org
🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808
Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors
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August 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
sjo09.bsky.social
Such a cool technique! Activity history tracing!
kitazawa-taro.bsky.social Taro Kitazawa @kitazawa-taro.bsky.social · Aug 16
Please RP.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out!
”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition”

We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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agilboa.bsky.social
Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and Intention Representation in Prospective Memory
Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, comprised of memory for intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, …
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July 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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hadleybergstrom.bsky.social
Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely!

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Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ
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July 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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timetit.bsky.social
Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉
Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.
nicolecrust.bsky.social Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 13
My favorite account of the early history is this one:

www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

ALSO: AWARD BRENDA MILNER THE NOBEL PRIZE (for work with H.M. and the discovery that the hippocampus the structure that stores memories) - SHE'S 106!)
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Heroes of the Engram In 1904, Richard Semon introduced the term “engram” to describe the neural substrate responsible for (or at least important in) storing and recalling memories (i.e., a memory trace). The recent introduction of a vast array of powerful new tools to probe and manipulate memory function at the cell and neuronal circuit level has spurred an explosion of interest in studying the engram. However, the present “engram renaissance” was not borne in isolation but rather builds on a long tradition of memory research. We believe it is important to acknowledge the debts our current generation of scientists owes to those scientists who have offered key ideas, persevered through failed experiments and made important discoveries before us. Examining the past can also offer a fresh perspective on the present state and future promise of the field. Given the large amount of empirical advances made in recent years, it seems particularly timely to look back and review the scientists who introduced the seminal terminology, concepts, methodological approaches, and initial data pertaining to engrams. Rather than simply list their many accomplishments, here we color in some details of the lives and milestone contributions of our seven personal heroes of the engram (Richard Semon, Karl Lashley, Donald Hebb, Wilder Penfield, Brenda Milner, James McConnell, and Richard Thompson). In reviewing their historic role, we also illustrate how their work remains relevant to today’s studies.
July 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
sjo09.bsky.social
Yeah Andrew!!!! Félicitations
canacn.bsky.social Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · Jul 2
Une étude d'Andrew Mocle permet de mieux comprendre comment les ensembles de neurones sont recrutés dans la formation de la mémoire can-acn.org/fr/andrew-mo...
July 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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drjkhokhar.bsky.social
If you missed out on a spot at the other neuroscience/psychoactive drug GRCs this summer, we still have spots open at the Cannabinoid GRC with an exciting program ranging from clinical to pre-clinical to big data to society! Register today! grc.org/cannabinoid-... RT please!
June 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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murphyroyallab.org
Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis !

www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...
Assistant or associate professor-researcher in Neuroscience related to neurological disorders and/or neural regeneration and precision health
Description  The Neuroscience Research Axis of the CRCHUM and the Department of Neuroscience of the UdeM are inviting applications for a position of assistant or associate professor-researcher in neur...
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June 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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salahpourali.bsky.social
We have a new faculty position in our Dept. Please kindly share and repost jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
June 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM