Hüma Erbörü
@erboruhuma.bsky.social
PhD student with Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Schroeder lab, studying clinical neuromodulation of emotional states 🧠
Schroeder lab, studying clinical neuromodulation of emotional states 🧠
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An remarkable new undergraduate course conceived and taught by our amazing colleague and Dean of Science Jeff Lichtman: "Genuinely Hard Problems" I wish I was an undergrad again!... 🤣🧪🧬🧠
@harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
@harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
No one knows the answer, and that’s the point — Harvard Gazette
“Genuinely Hard Problems” pilots novel approach to scientific education.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
An remarkable new undergraduate course conceived and taught by our amazing colleague and Dean of Science Jeff Lichtman: "Genuinely Hard Problems" I wish I was an undergrad again!... 🤣🧪🧬🧠
@harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
@harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Preclinical science is changing- and about time 🧪
Our latest blog reviews “Navigating the Paradigm Shift of Sex-Inclusive Preclinical Research”, a crucial read on why accounting for sex in lab research isn’t optional- it’s essential.
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
#SABV #Science
Our latest blog reviews “Navigating the Paradigm Shift of Sex-Inclusive Preclinical Research”, a crucial read on why accounting for sex in lab research isn’t optional- it’s essential.
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
#SABV #Science
July 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Preclinical science is changing- and about time 🧪
Our latest blog reviews “Navigating the Paradigm Shift of Sex-Inclusive Preclinical Research”, a crucial read on why accounting for sex in lab research isn’t optional- it’s essential.
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
#SABV #Science
Our latest blog reviews “Navigating the Paradigm Shift of Sex-Inclusive Preclinical Research”, a crucial read on why accounting for sex in lab research isn’t optional- it’s essential.
www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/bridgin...
#SABV #Science
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Aeon: an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.664513v1
August 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Aeon: an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.664513v1
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Why are the majority of patients affected by Alzheimer’s Disease women? Recent work suggests that hormonal changes associated with menopause, in particular oestrogen levels, may be a key factor. 🧓📈Read about this in our latest blog by Emily!
🔗 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/alzheim...
🔗 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/alzheim...
June 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Why are the majority of patients affected by Alzheimer’s Disease women? Recent work suggests that hormonal changes associated with menopause, in particular oestrogen levels, may be a key factor. 🧓📈Read about this in our latest blog by Emily!
🔗 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/alzheim...
🔗 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/alzheim...
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Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the @ukdri.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk We’re investigating neuronal and circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's, and developing innovative new treatments.
Apply here👇
shorturl.at/LpCAq
Apply here👇
shorturl.at/LpCAq
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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May 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the @ukdri.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk We’re investigating neuronal and circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's, and developing innovative new treatments.
Apply here👇
shorturl.at/LpCAq
Apply here👇
shorturl.at/LpCAq
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Read the full paper ‘Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal’ in @natureportfolio.nature.com
@gatsbyucl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gatsbyucl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal - Nature
Dopaminergic action prediction error signals are used by mice as a value-free teaching signal to reinforce stable sound–action associations in the tail of the striatum.
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May 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Read the full paper ‘Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal’ in @natureportfolio.nature.com
@gatsbyucl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gatsbyucl.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SWC researchers reveal a new way that the brain learns.
The second learning system is frequency-based and may explain how the brain forms habits and why they are so hard to break.
Full story: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
The second learning system is frequency-based and may explain how the brain forms habits and why they are so hard to break.
Full story: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
May 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
SWC researchers reveal a new way that the brain learns.
The second learning system is frequency-based and may explain how the brain forms habits and why they are so hard to break.
Full story: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
The second learning system is frequency-based and may explain how the brain forms habits and why they are so hard to break.
Full story: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...
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Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Universities "may have to choose between losing their federal grants and losing their souls, and the choice, painful as it may be, is clear."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
Opinion | Harvard Has Taken an Important Step. Here Is What Must Follow.
The university’s willingness to stand up to the Trump administration can be a model.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Universities "may have to choose between losing their federal grants and losing their souls, and the choice, painful as it may be, is clear."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
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🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨
A few more days to apply for this PhD project in my lab - come to Edinburgh and study flexible decision-making with us!
Please share if you know someone who might be interested 🙂
A few more days to apply for this PhD project in my lab - come to Edinburgh and study flexible decision-making with us!
Please share if you know someone who might be interested 🙂
Deadline of this PhD application has been extended to 10 APRIL! Find out more and apply here
April 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨
A few more days to apply for this PhD project in my lab - come to Edinburgh and study flexible decision-making with us!
Please share if you know someone who might be interested 🙂
A few more days to apply for this PhD project in my lab - come to Edinburgh and study flexible decision-making with us!
Please share if you know someone who might be interested 🙂
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Deadline of this PhD application has been extended to 10 APRIL! Find out more and apply here
April 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Deadline of this PhD application has been extended to 10 APRIL! Find out more and apply here
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Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642197v1
March 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642197v1
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Science has identified more than two dozen halted grants amid Trump’s transgender crackdown, right as NIH suspends its own researchers who worked on topic. scim.ag/43ppHl2
New NIH grant terminations target transgender studies—even in mice
Science has identified more than two dozen halted grants amid Trump’s transgender crackdown, right as NIH suspends its own researchers who worked on topic
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March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Science has identified more than two dozen halted grants amid Trump’s transgender crackdown, right as NIH suspends its own researchers who worked on topic. scim.ag/43ppHl2
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Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature
Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...
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March 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What drives decision-making in competitive environments?
SWC research teams led by @jerlich.bsky.social and @annduan.bsky.social explore multi-agent strategies and dynamical models in a new study.
Read more: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wha...
SWC research teams led by @jerlich.bsky.social and @annduan.bsky.social explore multi-agent strategies and dynamical models in a new study.
Read more: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wha...
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
What drives decision-making in competitive environments?
SWC research teams led by @jerlich.bsky.social and @annduan.bsky.social explore multi-agent strategies and dynamical models in a new study.
Read more: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wha...
SWC research teams led by @jerlich.bsky.social and @annduan.bsky.social explore multi-agent strategies and dynamical models in a new study.
Read more: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wha...
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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
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First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mice dynamically adapt to opponents in competitive multi-player games
Competing for resources in dynamic social environments is fundamental for survival, and requires continuous monitoring of both 'self' and 'others' to guide effective choices. Yet our understanding of ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
First preprint from our lab! An @jerlich.bsky.social collaboration
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My wife is an NIH funded scientist primary investigator on the CRISPR For Cure HIV program. The goal is to use gene editing to inactivate HIV and produce a functional AIDS cure. She was ordered by an NIH program officer to take down the website last week. Their future funding is in dire straits.
February 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My wife is an NIH funded scientist primary investigator on the CRISPR For Cure HIV program. The goal is to use gene editing to inactivate HIV and produce a functional AIDS cure. She was ordered by an NIH program officer to take down the website last week. Their future funding is in dire straits.