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Rochefort Lab
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Neuroscientist, Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Nathalie Rochefort
http://rochefortlab.co.uk, she/her
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edinunineuro.bsky.social
New @who.int Global Status Report on Neurology calls for urgent action to address the growing burden of neurological disorders & to promote brain health for ALL. @arinatam.bsky.social co-authored Ch4: Effective, timely & responsive diagnosis, treatment & care. Full report:
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October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social
SIDB recently featured in STV News. Using a GRIN2B rat model, Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser and Katerina Hristova showed an epilepsy drug can reduce seizures.

Check it out ⬇️
edin.ac/3Kz2Mw1

@edinburghmedschool.bsky.social @patrickwildcentre.bsky.social
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
Epilepsy medication could control seizures in children with rare brain disorder
Scientists have been studying GRIN2B-Related Disorder, a rare condition that affects the nervous system of young kids.
edin.ac
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
In August, U.K. software entrepreneur Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley died at age 91. The nation’s autism researchers and advocates remember the tech trailblazer for her philanthropic legacy.

By @lauren-schneider.com

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/in-...
Steve Shirley’s legacy of autism philanthropy
The late pioneer for remote work and women in tech is remembered by U.K. autism researchers and advocates for her support.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
rochefortlab.bsky.social
Well done Danai! Congratulations!
cmvm-res.bsky.social CMVM Postdocs and Early Career Researchers @cmvm-res.bsky.social · Sep 19
Well done to Danai for winning Contributions to Citizenship! Such an important part of working in academia - great work! @edinunineuro.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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bryanlimy.bsky.social
We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo.

With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social.

Paper and code at the end of the thread!

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September 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes

in @nature.com

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Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes - Nature
Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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magdalenaskipper.bsky.social
“We don’t see an epidemic of autism, but we see an ‘epidemic’ of diagnoses”

A fresh journalistic look at the rise in autism that brings together perspectives from the researchers & the autism community
🧪 #MedSky

@nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?
RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!

#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
August 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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jangrundemann.bsky.social
Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease.
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Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease
For each of the many sensory channels through which animals perceive the world, sensory thalamus is an important processing station whose role lies be…
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August 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
RatDISCO, a tissue clearing and immunolabelling protocol for large rat brains. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670723v1
August 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social
We are incredibly honored to receive continued support from the Simons Foundation in our mission to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders
August 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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flor-iacaruso.bsky.social
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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tpvogels.bsky.social
Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro
#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #Imbizo
Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa
Imbizo.Africa
June 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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cellpress.bsky.social
"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Bosiljka Tasic & @gordfishell.bsky.social ‬
@cp-neuron.bsky.social
Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time
This issue of Neuron, with accompanying papers in Cell, Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, and Cell Reports Methods, contains studies describing methods for access to neuronal and non-neuronal cell types wi...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid Trump’s crackdown
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May 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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marinlab.bsky.social
1/10 Our latest research, led by @martijnselten.bsky.social, identifies a mechanism through which Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate their activity in the #cortex. This is the story @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... ⬇︎ 🧵 @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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nramnani.bsky.social
Just 2 days to go before #BNA2025! **AMAZING** programme!
meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/prog...

Delighted to be speaking at a session on diversity and inclusion in British neuroscience (Mon, 9.30am, Room 4) with
@srikipedia.bsky.social (chair), @landreae.bsky.social & @diegobaptista.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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edinunineuro.bsky.social
And that’s a wrap! What an amazing #neuroday2025 we’ve had. Thank you to all participants inc speakers, posters & exhibitors for showcasing the fantastically broad range of research taking place across our vast @edinunineuro.bsky.social community. 🧠🧠🧠
April 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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philippedomenech.bsky.social
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EU to double funding to attract US scientists fleeing Trump
The European Commission acknowledges its interest in the ‘opportunity’ generated by the cuts and obstacles promoted by the Republican administration
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April 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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czimmerman.bsky.social
How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later?

Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala.

📄: nature.com/articles/s41...
A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback - Nature
Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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carandinilab.net
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D!

Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy
by @haydari.bsky.social & team.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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alexwitze.bsky.social
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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katejj.bsky.social
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
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March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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kishoreneuro.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the latest paper from the lab! Huge congrats to first author Dr. Celine Drieu and the amazing team of Ziyi Zhu, Sarah Elnozahy, Joy Wang, Aaron Wang, and Kylie Fuller! Lots of fun stuff in the paper so check it out - and let us know what you think :)
March 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
rochefortlab.bsky.social
I just received the price, thank you so much for all your work @womeninneurouk.bsky.social !!!
March 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM