Deeply honoured to have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain. This builds on the discoveries of outstanding past/present lab members. Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support. We are recruiting postdocs/PhD students.

Our new preprint is out! A state-dependent neural circuit resolves approach–avoidance conflicts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work led by Devika Bodas, with key contributions from Marine Balcou, and a great collaboration with Lisa Scheunemann Lab, fearuting Şevval Demirci.

Send us nominations for the FKNE Mentoring Prize 2026!The award will be presented at FENS Forum 2026 in Barcelona to a scientist who has demontrated leadership in fostering the careers of neuroscientists. Deadline: 15 February 2026 2cm.es/1gh-m

Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

I am very happy (and a bit scared) to present to you what we have been working on over the last 4 years. This manuscript is exactly what I dreamt of when I started the lab and I could not be happier and prouder of the outcome!

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Excellent @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org FKNE scientific symposium 2025 in Crete! Great line up of speakers! fenskavlinetwork.org #Neuroscience

🔔 Applications are open for the #FKNE Online Training Series for New PIs in Europe! Launching 11 November 2025, this 6-week course helps new PIs in Europe strengthen leadership, communication and lab management skills. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 Apply now 👉 https://loom.ly/Ceus8Ys

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... @fens.org

Great @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org FKNE symposium at #FRM2025 at Oslo on protein landscapes in the development and aging of neural circuits. @mambrozkiewicz.bsky.social Urte Neniskyte, Georgia Rapti

🧠 Save the date(s)! From 16–19 June, #FENS is heading to Oslo for the 2025 FENS Regional Meeting (#FRM2025). 🇳🇴 🌟 If you'll be attending the meeting, don't miss our sessions! 🌟 🔗 Full overview here: https://loom.ly/DSvtDac#FENS#FRM2025).@network-alba.bsky.social #Neuroscience #BrainResearch

Interested in Long term potentiation? Come and join our symposium at @fens.org regional meeting at Oslo on 16 June. #FRM2025 #neuroscience www.frm2025oslo.no

Don't miss our scientific symposium in Oslo, Norway at #FRM2025 in less than 2 weeks! Already looking forward to all the fierce discussions!👩🏻‍🔬 @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org @berlinualliance.bsky.social @embl.org

More from #MNS2025 on intergenerational maternal stress, animals in research, psychedelics on anxiety, mitophagy in neural space and time and more to come! @fens.org @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @eubrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience

Having a wonderful first time participating at #MNS2025! The Cretan☀️sun is certainly shining the spotlight on #Neuroscience! @fens.org @network-alba.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social @christinadalla.bsky.social #MediterraneanNeuroscienceSociety

Exciting publication from @tjryan.bsky.social! "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"

OUT NOW! An #EJN virtual issue showcasing work published by African neuroscientists in honour of #SONA2025. bit.ly/3GbVzA3 🎉Congratulations to #SONA for launching its own society journal today, the Africa Brain Journal! #neuroscience @fens.org @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

🧠 Interested in episodic and spatial memory across species? Join us at the #BNA2025 EBBS symposium for the latest in animal and human research! @ebbsociety.bsky.social @britishneuro.bsky.social @durhameaston.bsky.social #Neuroscience #MemoryResearch #Liverpool

🚀 Episode 1 is out! Making the jump from postdoc to PI can feel overwhelming. In this episode of the ALBA-IBRO Diversity Podcast, we talk about fears, uncertainties, and the power of community in navigating this transition. 🎧 Listen now: www.alba.network/diversity-podcast2 youtu.be/O56ejPncoEU?...

📢 2025 ALBA Board of Directors nominations are NOW OPEN! Are you passionate about EDI in neuroscience? This is your chance to shape the future of ALBA! Self-nominations are welcome. We strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups. 🔗 alba.network/elections ⏳ Deadline: 22 April 2025

FENS-Kavli Scientific Exchange: our team joined Ali Jawaid's group at Łukasiewicz - PORT to explore how virtual reality could support cognitive function in healthy ageing & dementia. Exciting ideas emerging! @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social #HealthyAgeing #memory

🌟 Exciting news! The Call for Symposia and Technical Workshops for #FENS2026 in Barcelona is now open! 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 5 May 2025 🔗 Find out more and submit your proposal today: loom.ly/riIGtu0 #NeuroscienceConference #CallForProposals

#BrainAwarenessWeek is celebrating 30 years! 🥳 Shoutout to all the organizers over three decades for engaging communities of all ages around the world and creating inspiring experiences that foster enthusiasm and support for brain science. 🧠 #BrainWeek #neuroscience #stem #scienceoutreach

We are so excited to be taking the #BNA2025 International Festival of #Neuroscience to #Liverpool ! A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org #cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking

New paper: We show that especially female mice benefit from moderate early life adversity under stressful situations in adulthood. This pro-resilient effect requires the psychiatric risk factor FKBP51, which turns out to be also required for adaptive stress responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in Neuroethology? Then, join us at the 1-day Meeting of the French Club of Neuroethology, in the beautiful city of Montpellier, on May 13th. NO FEES REQUIRED. Just register and submit your abstract in: www.zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroetholog... . And enjoy our guest speakers!

Recruiting postdocs! Please get in touch if you wanna discuss projects on biologically plausible learning in RNNs through TUM's global postdoctoral fellowship. I'll be at Cosyne this year if you wanna talk more. www.tum.de/ueber-die-tu...

📣 Science matters! #FENS and its allies unite in solidarity with the U.S. scientific community facing challenges to research, collaboration, and academic freedom. 🔬 🔗 Read the full statement: loom.ly/cn7vJR4 #sciencematters #standupforscience #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall

2024 marked the 10-year anniversary of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence. We warmly invite you to explore the 10-Year Report, showcasing its impact on science, mentoring, outreach, advocacy, and personal achievements. @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-10-year...

Dopamine-serotonin push-pull balances reward seeking and caution. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Happy to comment on this cool study in mammals and the parallels with our own work in #Drosophila! www.thetransmitter.org/learning/dop...

🇱🇹 Greetings from Lithuania! Over the past 3 days, a talented group of early to mid-career #neuroscientists from across Europe came together for the 2025 #FKNE Spring Meeting. 🌱 Ideas were shared, bonds were forged, and Lithuanian delicacies were savoured. 😋 👋 See you again soon! #Neuroscience

🚨 One month left! Want to share your research with the international #neuroscience community at #FRM2025 in Oslo? 🧠 Submit your abstract and apply for a travel grant by 28 February! ✍️🌍 🔗 Call for Abstracts: loom.ly/-oN1jko 🔗 Travel Grants: loom.ly/7oTXrd0

Fabulous #FKNE meeting in Lithuania last week - shaping the future of #neuroscience with visionary, challenging and community building frontier researchers! @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social

🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org ! "Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning" Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

💫Supercharge your #neuroscience at #BNA2025. ⌛️Early bird discounted registration closes on 31st January. ➡️Register today meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/ @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @britpharmsoc.bsky.socialoc.bsky.social @mndassoc.bsky.social

Found some happy fellow @fkne-scholars.bsky.social travellers en route to Lithuania for the first #FKNE meeting of 2025. Excited for the kick off tomorrow!🧠💪 @fens.org @kavlifoundation.bsky.social #FENS #neuroscience

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

a few days to go, apply!

Announcing the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin.bsky.social Half of speakers will be selected from abstracts submitted by trainees. Registration is open below, with discounted rates available until January 31st. event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

With FKNE scholars & alumni who speak today on 'Discovery #neuroscience research as a foundation for #brainhealth' at 'Towards a Strengthened European Cooperation in Brain Health Research' organised by #HU24EU. @ec.europa.eu @tjryan.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social

Congratulations to our FKNE scholars @meital.bsky.social @gjorjulijana.bsky.social and Alex Galic for getting ERC consolidator grants.

Consolidator Grants: ERC awards €678m in grants to back excellent research across Europe | ERC erc.europa.eu/news-events/.... Congratulations to the awardees and our FKNE scholars!

Happy to see three computational neuroscience awards among the ERC Consolidator grants announced today, and even more impressively 3/3 are women: @clopathlab.bsky.social, @gjorjulijana.bsky.social and Alex Cayco-Gajic All top researchers, delighted for them. Congrats erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

Thank you to the #FENS Executive Committee, Governing Council & Chairs of standing & special committees & divisions for your leadership & vision! @eknapska.bsky.social @olekiehn.bsky.social @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social #neuroscience #brain

🌟 It’s time to nominate a scientist who made outstanding contributions to promoting #diversity, #equity and #inclusion in neuroscience. This year, ALBA and the FENS-Kavli Scholars are targeting Europe-based students & PIs. Winner announced @ #FRM2025 (Norway, 16-19 Jun) 👉🏾 loom.ly/elEwkCE 📅 19 Dec

How does the #brain orient itself in space, even without visual cues? Learn more in this #OpenAccess EJN editorial by Luigi Petrucco on investigating heading representation in #zebrafish! doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... 2024 #FKNE PhD thesis prize #FENS #EJN @vigji.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social

Registration & Abstract Submission is open for the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at Trinity College Dublin in May. Abstract deadline February 14. #EngramsandEnsembles2025 Preliminary Agenda at event website: event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social shows entorhinal grid cells adapt their representations to a new environment in one-shot and derives a model that fuses landmarks & motion to *predict* the detailed grid rep *before* the mouse enters the new environment! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations @andrewclin.bsky.social on winning the R Jean Bannister prize and giving a fantastic lecture here in Edinburgh