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Lisa Genzel (she/her)
@lgenzel.bsky.social
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in love with memory and sleep research, puts rats, mice and humans into complex, mulit-trial tasks
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nkonst4.bsky.social
Fellow neuroscientists, consider applying and reach out if you have any questions! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
lgenzel.bsky.social
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
Application procedure – FKNE
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November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
lgenzel.bsky.social
Cool merch by the sponsors at #EARA2025, cute Iglo by Labodia
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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mdc-berlin.bsky.social
The @eara.eu Conference 2025: “Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication” is underway at #mdcBerlin!

Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025
The image captures a speaker [Fiona Fox] behind the a lectern, presenting to attendees. A cup and glass of water rest on the lectern, and an audience member is visible blurred in the foreground. The image provides a wide view of a lecture hall filled with seated participants watching a presentation projected onto a large screen. The slide on the screen contains text related to animal research statistics and communication strategies. The room has wood-paneled walls, tiered seating, and a modern academic atmosphere. The image shows a speaker [Maike Sander] standing beside a lectern, holding a microphone and addressing an audience. The lectern features a screen with the conference branding and slogan: “EARA Conference 2025, 6–7 November 2025, Berlin, Germany – Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication."
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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mdc-berlin.bsky.social
Lively discussions at the @eara.eu conference 2025 continued with Session 1: "Effective Science Communication and Media."

Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025
Large group photo taken outdoors in front of a building. Several dozen of conference participants are gathered, many wearing name badges and lanyards, posing for the camera in daylight. The image shows a panel discussion on a stage with five seated speakers and a lectern displaying the session title “EARA Conference 2025 – Session 1: Effective Science Communication and Media.” One speaker is speaking into a microphone while the audience listens from tiered seating. The image is a wide view of the same auditorium showing a large screen with the conference branding: “EARA Conference 2025 – Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication, 6–7 November 2025, Berlin, Germany.” The panel is visible on stage, and the room is filled with attendees. The image shows a busy indoor exhibition and lunch area with people interacting at display booths and standing tables. The room is brightly lit with banners, promotional materials, and refreshments visible throughout the space.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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eara.eu
(1/2) Fiona Fox, from the Science Media Centre, talked about the risks of not talking about animal research, highlighting how #openness from UK researchers, supported by the SMC, changed the tone of media #press. #EARA2025 #keynote
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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tvvde.bsky.social
Die @eara.eu Konferenz startet! Die europäische Dachorganisation für Kommunikation zum Thema Tierversuche hat @mdc-berlin.bsky.social als Venue ausgesucht und bringt damit die internationale Community nach #Berlin. Spannender Austausch!
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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carandinilab.net
Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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matthiasnau.bsky.social
Kicked off my course "Programming for Psychologists" again, starting with a lecture on *Mindset*.

The first exercise is writing out a peanut butter jam sandwich recipe 🥜🥪. Fun way to learn about imperative vs. declarative instructions, top-down design etc.

Maybe useful for others too? 1/3
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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matthiasnau.bsky.social
Nice to see *non-neural* brain cells more in the spotlight! This new paper links astrocyte activity during memory recall to the long-term stability of the memory! By Deva et al. @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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fens.org
🚨Open position at #FENS!

💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience?
Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS!

🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October!
👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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apeyrache.bsky.social
🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇

kudos to @adrian-du.bsky.social for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩
adrian-du.bsky.social Adrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · Oct 15
Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)
The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex
The organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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guidomeijer.com
Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models

"Furthermore, when generating and evaluating resumes, ChatGPT assumes that women are younger and less experienced, rating older male applicants as of higher quality."

No surprise, but now documented:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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helencbarron.bsky.social
** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
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October 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
lgenzel.bsky.social
Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab
www.genzellab.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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franklandlab.bsky.social
New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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fens.org
🇬🇷 #FKNE News from Crete!

🧠 On 19 September, the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence held its 2025 Scientific Symposium with the theme “Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity: Levels, Methods, and Models.”

👉 https://loom.ly/DyVOs8I
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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rhythmicspikes.bsky.social
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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fbm-unil.bsky.social
Congratulations to @anitaluthi.bsky.social and @manumameli.bsky.social 🎓👏

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Two new full professorships strengthen neuroscience at UNIL! | Department of Fundamental Neurosciences - DNF, University of Lausanne
Two new full professorships strengthen neuroscience at UNIL! We are delighted to announce that two leading researchers from the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (DNF) of the FBM UNIL - Faculté...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
lgenzel.bsky.social
Apply! Great opportunity for young PIs.
fkne-scholars.bsky.social fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social · Sep 18
The #FKNE Leadership Training Course for the Starting PI is open! Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your abilities and learn to tackle challenging moments as an early group leader! Application deadline: 15 Oct. 2025
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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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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apeyrache.bsky.social
Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?
apeyrache.bsky.social Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Sep 5
It's 2025, and there's apparently no female mouse atlas.
Please, tell me I'm wrong.
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
lgenzel.bsky.social
Cool new findings on interneurons and spatial coding. Nice!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code
Identifying the computational roles of different neuron families is crucial for understanding neural networks. Most neural diversity is embodied in various types of γ-aminobutyric acid–mediated (GABAe...
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM