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Cambridge Neuroscience
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Interdisciplinary virtual network of ~850 neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge and affiliated Institutes.
www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk
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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE! Wed, 1st of April 2026 for the annual Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar #CNS2026 🧠
📍Queen's College, Cambridge, UK

An exciting programme is under way✍️🤩

🔔Stay tuned for further updates!

See the last year's event details here:
CNS2025 lnkd.in/eSKxr7Df
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📣 Don't miss out on this FREE, F2F, open event to learn more about paediatric research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease!
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
LEARN something you didn't know before in our FREE talk 20 Nov @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social from doctors & researchers about their paediatric translational research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease. ALL WELCOME! bit.ly/4nCoTjf @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Dr Luppi named a Rising Star in Neuroscience🌟Congratulations! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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📢 Calling @cpft-nhs.bsky.social psychologists to join our #Research team!
We're offering a 1 year, part-time internal secondment for a #psychologist to bring more research opportunities to people in our psychological services and help colleagues grow their skills:
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/latest-vacan...
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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We are proud to congratulate kbgenesbrains.bsky.social, Co-Editor-in-Chief of our society #Journal Brain and #Neuroscience Advances, who has been awarded the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social Leading Researcher of the Year Award for #Cognition and #Neurodevelopment.

www.bna.org.uk/resource/dr-...
Celebrating Excellence in Neuroscience Leadership: Dr Kate Baker Wins Leading Researcher of the Year
www.bna.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🚀 We're hiring !

🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.

🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling

Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e

🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
Postdoctoral Researcher (2288) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
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November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Submit your Painhack project for the 2026 World Congress on Pain in Bangkok, Thailand. During the Painhack, interdisciplinary teams will collaborate to develop new ideas and methods to address key challenges in pain research and management. Submission Deadline: 21 November. bit.ly/4nB9tM7
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Here's the lineup of #sfn25 artist exhibitors all on one page
SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
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November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE! Wed, 1st of April 2026 for the annual Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar #CNS2026 🧠
📍Queen's College, Cambridge, UK

An exciting programme is under way✍️🤩

🔔Stay tuned for further updates!

See the last year's event details here:
CNS2025 lnkd.in/eSKxr7Df
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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🚨Scientists have identified a rare brain cell that may drive inflammation in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS)
🔎This important discovery could pave the way for more effective therapies
🔗 For more info: bit.ly/48xJvW1
@cuh.nhs.uk @camneuro.bsky.social @camneurodept.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
‘Disease in a dish’ study of progressive MS finds critical role for unusual type of brain cell - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Scientists have identified an unusual type of brain cell that may play a vital role in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), likely contributing to the persistent inflammation characteristic of the dis...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Mapping Open Science in Neuroscience - A collaborative initiative with FORRT @forrt.bsky.social

ReproducibiliTea Bordeaux Team invites you to contribute to this project!

More details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please share.
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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A big thank you to Professor Carol Brayne for giving our A.V. Hill Lecture on 'Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies' on Monday. @camneuro.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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TWCF grantee @duncanastle.bsky.social at @camneuro.bsky.social has discovered a common neural signature in a large developmental sample drawn from the ABCD cohort that suggests a gene-environment correlation within the brain in the development of mental illness.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness
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October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉

Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6

Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Register now for next week's Cambridge NeuroWorks NeuroTech Unconference and contribute to shaping the future of neurotechnology 🧠🚀

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Cambridge NeuroWorks - NeuroTech Unconference · Luma
Join the unconference shaping the future of neurotech - no panels, no passive listening, just bold ideas, real conversations, and the people actually building…
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October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Join us for a Free, In-Person, Open Event highlighting Translational Research in infants, children and young people
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Interested in postgrad neuroscience opportunities?🧠

Join us next week 28th Oct for an evening of fun and networking, while you learn all about the postgraduate application and admissions process. Open to all - Cambridge and beyond!

Register for free now: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...
Postgraduate application information evening 2025
Join Cambridge Neuroscience and CamBRAIN for an evening of fun and networking, while you learn all about the Postgradyate Application and Admissions process…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🚨 Last week to apply for the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowships!
@cpft-nhs.bsky.social staff with great ideas for technology to transform brain & #MentalHealth care can bid for support to turn them into reality.
Check the guidance & apply here by Monday 13 October:
➡️ cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Can mood disorders be driven by inflammation?

Published today in @natcomms.nature.com, @staceykigar.bsky.social & colleagues found that chronic stress may release immune cells from bone marrow in the skull, potentially contributing to depression.

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@cam.ac.uk
Depression linked to presence of immune cells in the brain’s protective layer
Immune cells released from bone marrow in the skull in response to chronic stress and adversity could play a key role in symptoms of depression and anxiety,
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September 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025!

12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡

Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks
Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …
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September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Deadline THIS Wednesday 1st October for the expression of interest for the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme! This is a fantastic opportunity for innovators from UK and globally who aspire to revolutionise neurotechnology🧠🚀

Apply on the Connect: Health Tech platform: lnkd.in/efPc-cfj
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September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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📢 New hope for MS patients as Cambridge trial suggests drug combination may repair nerve damage
📢 Findings reveal diabetes drug and antihistamine can help repair myelin
To find out more >> bit.ly/4nR5b3E
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @camneuro.bsky.social
@cuhpartners.bsky.social @dphpc.bsky.social
Hope for MS patients as Cambridge trial suggests drug combination may repair nerve damage  - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Early findings from a clinical trial in Cambridge suggest a combination of metformin, a diabetes drug, and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin – the protective coating around nerves, ...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Session Six featured fantastic talks by Prof. Vendeuscolo from the Dept. of Chemistry @cam.ac.uk, Prof. Peruzzotti-Jametti from the Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences @cam.ac.uk, and the Andrew Huxley Plenary Lecture by our special guest Prof. Studer from the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY
#CNS2025
September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Session Five featured exciting talks on neurostimulation, neuromedical devices and Huntingdon's Disease from Prof. Voon from Dept. of Psychiatry, Prof. Malliaras from Dept. of Engineering @cam.ac.uk, Prof. Cattaneo visiting from the University of Milan, and Prof. Denison visiting from @ox.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM