Looking forward!

Looking forward to joining @uccresearch.bsky.social research and the @ucc.ie community for this Public Lecture & In Conversation with the brilliant @jfcryan.bsky.social & Deeply honored to be receiving an UCC Honorary Doctorate! See you very soon in Cork!

🎤 10 Keynote Speakers
🔔 40 accepted symposia 🧠 Submit your abstract by December 1st!
📍 See you in Seville! 🇪🇸 #Dopamine #Seville2025 ➕Info: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/

Plasticity—the capacity to change brain functioning and mental states—is an essential ingredient of recovery. Revealing its biological foundations and how it interacts with the environment is key to advancing precision psychiatry and promoting wellbeing. Join the @ecnp.eu New Forntiers Meeting! 👇

Here’s a quick guide to ongoing & upcoming IBRO #grants for your next #neuroscience training, #BrainAwarenessWeek event, or internship program organization Explore the calendar: https://ibro.org/grants/grants-calendar/#grants#neuroscience#BrainAwarenessWeek#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope

“I was advised that having multiple children would detract from my scientific career. But I actually think that it has greatly benefited it.” Prof. @michellemonje.bsky.social, Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, #BrainPrize2025. #Neuroscience youtu.be/f7sbSuWie5A?...

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

In Episode 5, four scientists from South Africa, the Czech Republic, the UK and the USA: 🌟 Challenge traditional success metrics ⚖️ Expose the toll of publish or perish and systemic inequality 👥 Share new ways to define success in academia

🎧 Tune into the season finale! Season 2, Episode 5 of the #ALBA-#IBRO Diversity Podcast is available! 🌟 👉 https://loom.ly/PvDlNOI#ALBA-#IBRO@network-alba.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social

🚨Don’t let the brain in Spain stay mainly in the plane! Today's the last day to apply for ALBA-CHS #TravelAwards that support early-career neuroscientists to attend #FENS2026 ✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 yrs post-degree (excl. parental/medical leave) 🌍 Open worldwide 👉🏾 loom.ly/7FOgCJc @fens.org

Enormous thanks to the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation for this award! I am thrilled and truly humbled, & I share it with my lab over the years and our wonderful collaborators! A timely boost to keep our science moving! Thanks to everyone for your kind messages! Looking forward to #FENS2026!

New study by the group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows that three mitochondrial associated metabolites in the dmPFC/dACC brain region can predict mental effort choices - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th! ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social

@gsrnet.bsky.social just launched Stress & Resilience Webinar Series with a great inaugural seminar by @kalischlab.bsky.social covering what stress resilience is, how to measure it & which processes help mitigate stress’s impact on mental health Missed it live? Recording soon available gsr-net.org

ALBA @ #ECNP2025 : ✨ Transdisciplinarity drives discovery — diversity drives progress. At our diversity & inclusion session yesterday, we were reminded how global and cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential to advance brain health. 🧵 @fens.org @ecnp.eu

🔎 Elsevier’s global #authorship metrics and #neuroscience #publishing market share, plus historical #representation at major #conferences, show some regions remain under-recognised globally. This #award highlights their excellence: winner delivers a Special Lecture at #FENS2026 🇪🇸 Apply by 15 October

What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025

🎉 #ECNP2025 starts today! We are thrilled to take part once again to promote diversity, inclusion & global collaboration in neuroscience. 👋 Come meet us at the ALBA booth and discover our initiatives for equity in brain science. 💡 Don’t miss our session on Mon 13 Oct 🔗 https://loom.ly/EFCdYOk

🚨 Closing in 5 days! If your application is still a draft, now’s the time to finalise it. Don’t miss your chance to be recognised through the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture, celebrating #neuroscientists advancing #brainresearch, #diversity, & regional #representation in science. 👉 loom.ly/FEG7E-w

Attending #ECNP2025? Add the ALBA Diversity & Inclusion Session to your programme. 📅 Mon 13 Oct | 13:55–14:40 🔗 loom.ly/EFCdYOk See 🧵 for details. 🎪 ALBA also has a booth, so come and meet the team in the exhibition area. We will be next to @fens.org See you in Amsterdam! @ecnp.eu

Excellent framework to understand the processes favoring health vs disease based on the Energy Resistance Principle. Makes me wonder whether the shape of this inverted-U curve, or linked parameters, are trait-like across individuals. Congrats @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social & @msahsorin.bsky.social

🏅 1️⃣ ALBA-Roche Research Prize Ceremony Celebrating Dr Binnaz Yalcin (FR), recognised for her outstanding contributions to neurodevelopmental biology and brain genetics. Chaired by Prof. Carmen Sandi (CH), ALBA Founder. @carmensandi10.bsky.social 🧵 loom.ly/EFCdYOk

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens. Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators! 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Dr. Jane Goodall, 1934-2025 An exceptional scientist, and a singular woman in science #WomeninScience 🐒 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

New paper from the lab on the predictive role of prefrontal cortex metabolites in motivated effortful behavior in humans. Congrats to Arthur Barakat and @nclairis.bsky.social who led the work & to all our collaborators!

The abstract submission deadline for our three-day conference on brain energy metabolism is Oct. 3! Join experts such as @rioslab.bsky.social and @carmensandi10.bsky.social to share findings and exchange ideas. Learn more: go.nature.com/4p4rqV9 #Neuroskyence #Academicsky #STEMconference

A brilliant keynote today by @jfcryan.bsky.social at the EBPS meeting on how the gut shapes behavior, including striking causal evidence for microbiome’s role in social behaviors. A masterclass of body-brain complexity! & with an impressive depth of data and the right dose of humor!

I just had the pleasure of chairing a symposium at the EBPS meeting in Almería on “Endocannabinoids and Sex-dependent Behavior: Insights from Development to Adulthood” Many thanks to @miriammelis.bsky.social, Olivier Manzoni, Arnau Busquets-Garcia & Silvie Ruigrok for outstanding contributions!

Wonderful to have had you with us for your sabbatical at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social, @argelaguilarvalles.bsky.social! Many thanks for all the exchanges, your input to our projects and your great talk! & Looking forward to continuing our collaboration!

Great Seminar today at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social with Mootaz Salman (Oxford, UK) @oxforddpag.bsky.social We learned how blood-brain barrier dysfunction drives neurodegenerative disease & how 3D BBB-on-a-chip models uncover new therapeutic targets Many thanks for the highly inspiring talk!

Excellent opportunity to get a grant to attend the FENS Forum in Barcelona! @fens.org - APPLY!

The group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows Corticotropin-releasing Hormone (CRH) modulates the thalamic reticular nucleus brain region to affect sleep, linking CRH with sleep impairment due to stress and anxiety- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroscientists - Nominate an outstanding colleague for this prize, with opportunity to give a special lecture at the FENS Forum #FENS2026!

Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social‬

The group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Prof. Michael Herzog (also + @carmensandi10.bsky.social) show that human social dominance, a key social interaction factor, is a stable personality trait, has reliable specific brain EEG markers which in females mirror those in males doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

New lab paper by @merridee.bsky.social identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility GABA, but not dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us this December at the Nature Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease, involving researchers from across various disciplines to discuss brain metabolic research and neurological function. go.nature.com/40jh3SM

Stress is wrecking your health: how can science help? Better stress assessment and tailored interventions could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage. I enjoyed talking with @lynnepeeps.bsky.social for this article in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing! 🔆🪭💪 #EBBS2025

🎧 Tune in today! Heard of a little thing called the #ALBA-#IBRO Diversity Podcast? If not, it's time you checked it out! 🌟 👉 https://loom.ly/PvDlNOI#ALBA-#IBRO @network-alba.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social

🧠💥 Our new preprint is out! We pooled 5 RCTs on intranasal esketamine for treatment-resistant depression—and found clear sex-specific patterns in how patients respond. Read it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #TRD #Esketamine #Neuropsychiatry #OpenScience #MentalHealth

Scientists must push back against Trump’s genetic exclusion campaigns Countering the US president’s divisive misuse of genetics starts with asking the right research questions, says Mareile Kaufmann @timeshighered.bsky.social · #highered · #academicsky · #trump

Enjoying the gala dinner and the beautiful city of Bordeaux last night, w/ @luisadema.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social #EBBS2025

#AltPride #AltGov To close out Pride Month, we are recognizing neuroscientist Ben Barres. Beyond making seminal discoveries related to glial cell function, he was also a staunch advocate for equality in science for both women and the LGBTQIA+ community. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Warmest congratulations to the @ebbsociety.bsky.social for a highly successful meeting in Bordeaux! Congrats to @eknapska.bsky.social for great leadership, EBBS committee for a great program and @murielkoehl.bsky.social & local organizing committee! & congrats to Alex Easton as incoming president!

This was a wonderful symposium at EBBS on fundamental processes in vulnerability to stress! Thanks to all the speakers for highly complementary and insightful talks! @kundakoviclab.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social & Dogukan Ulgen from @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

“Find something bigger than yourself that you care about, and Do Something.” Wise words paraphrased from @francescacirulli.bsky.social at #EBBS2025

Bonsoir from Bordeaux! Here for the @ebbsociety.bsky.social meeting. Great time catching up with @cate-cholamine.bsky.social and having a fantastic dinner w/ @carmensandi10.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @igorbranchi.bsky.social Ready for science! #EBBS2025

If you are at #EBBS2025, do not miss our symposium at 2:30 pm this afternoon: Sex-specific hormonal and genomic mechanisms in stress responses Chaired by @carmensandi10.bsky.social , w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social @francescacirulli.bsky.social and myself @ebbsociety.bsky.social