Josien
LightNews LightNews
banner
joscience.bsky.social
Josien
@joscience.bsky.social
700 followers 760 following 100 posts
#astrocytes fanatic. Studying the stars of the brain in sensory processing. Also SciCom, books, music and running.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Josien
rhiggitt.bsky.social
Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT)

Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science'

Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience

www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...
Poster advertising the event
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Josien
vkellner.bsky.social
Check out our new review article from my lab:

doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
Crosstalk Between Astrocytes and Inhibitory Neurons During Maturation: Emerging Mechanisms and Functional Implications
In this review, we discuss the development and maturation of inhibitory neurons and astrocytes and how early developmental activity in the brain might promote the interactions between these cell type...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Josien
liddelowsa.bsky.social
@sfn.org #SfN25 #SanDiego starts this Saturday. The lab is going to be there in full force - see our presentations below.
Represented this year by @borderbiologist.bsky.social, Nick Kathman, @mrodea.bsky.social, @melcooperphd.bsky.social, @pryprk.bsky.social, @kerrylimberg.bsky.social.

(1/2)
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Josien
thetransmitter.bsky.social
Many of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs.

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

#neuroskyence
Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Josien
standehaene.bsky.social
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Josien
carmenfalcone.bsky.social
We are doing it again!!!!

Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)!

We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Josien
hetanshah.bsky.social
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Josien
gliameeting.bsky.social
💡 Research Spotlight: Primary cilia in astrocytes are key for their development, metabolism & synaptic regulation. Defects lead to neuronal and behavioral issues in mice, offering new insights into neurodevelopment & ciliopathies.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01726-z
Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification - Nature Neuroscience
Astrocyte diversity is greatly influenced by local environmental modulation. Wang et al. report a critical role for astrocytic primary cilia in transmitting local cues that drive the region-specific diversification of astrocytes within the developing mouse brain.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
joscience.bsky.social
The posters are on the wall. Ready for the festival della scienza 2025 starting tomorrow! Excited to see the kids amazed by the multisensory illusions! 🧠🤯🤩
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by Josien
dav1dcg.bsky.social
Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice

Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice - Nature Communications
The authors present the adaptive optics system MD-FSS, which allows high-resolution brain imaging in awake mice with rapid aberrations correction against motion. It reveals differences in brain functi...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
joscience.bsky.social
Learning some useful things on #duolingo! #science
October 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Josien
mbeisen.bsky.social
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Reposted by Josien
j-b-eppler.bsky.social
Loved working with our amazing outreach team on this short video about representational drift! @crmatematica.bsky.social

🧠🧪

In it, I explain the points we make in our recent review in CONEUR:

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Josien
stanvanpelt.bsky.social
Problemen rond wetenschappelijke integriteit halen zelden de media. Dinsdag vertel ik waarom dat problematisch is voor het publieke vertrouwen in de wetenschap en de media, bij een colloquium van @isis-radboud.bsky.social, @willemhalffman.bsky.social. Ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social is van de partij!
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Josien
oscarkocken.bsky.social
Als de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Josien
magdamarek.bsky.social
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...
Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.
www.reuters.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Reposted by Josien
natneuro.nature.com
A pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics:

Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing - Nature Neuroscience
The authors develop a new computational system for high-throughput mapping of synaptic connectivity using two-photon holographic optogenetics and intracellular recordings.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Josien
neuro-frontiers.bsky.social
We’ve known for some time that air #pollution is bad for human #health. But the focus was mostly on the lungs and heart. Yet somewhere along the way, it became more mainstream to consider how air pollution might affects brains too. What I found surprising was the recency of that.
#neuroskyence
How does air pollution impact your brain? - Neurofrontiers
Air pollution is increasingly recognized as having negative effects on brain health. Here we take a look at what those are.
neurofrontiers.blog
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Josien
mace-lab.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨

We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧵1/
September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Josien
georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Reposted by Josien
murphyroyallab.org
www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
Astrocyte networks span large swaths of brain
The networks are plastic, connect brain regions that aren’t connected by neurons and may enable long-distance communication between astrocytes, a new preprint shows.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Josien
fgusmao.bsky.social
There is no reasonable justification not to ban bottom trawling everywhere.
theecologist.org The Ecologist @theecologist.org · Aug 27
The fishing method can destroy the habitat on the seabed, and the nets “literally sweep up everything in their path”.
Ban bottom trawling in 'protected' zones
Public urged to back ban on destructive fishing in protected areas.
theecologist.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Josien
norabradford.bsky.social
Thanks so much @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, along with @mcxfrank.bsky.social, for your input on this! And ofc @sarahexplains.bsky.social and @parshallison.bsky.social for your editing!
August 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by Josien
brenttoderian.bsky.social
Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility.

Fewer cars.
Less driving.
More inviting mobility choices.
Better communities and cities.

These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.
November 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Josien
hiallen72.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments - Nature
Tracking of individual place cells in mouse CA1 shows that representational drift is not influenced by changes in environment or behaviour, and is lower for more excitable place cells.
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM