Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

First paper from the lab is now online @natneuro.nature.com ! We mapped injury induced enhancers in the mouse CNS and decoded their sequence architecture. Little 🧵 rdcu.be/eSQi1

Hello 🇫🇷 I’ll be doing a mini-sabbatical in the lab of the amazing @clairewyart.bsky.social at the ICM in Paris. If you study motor control, spinal cord biology, evo/devo of behavior, let me know if you’d like to connect!

Hello lab!! It’s been six weeks of shutdown, so much chaos and loss. But today, I am deeply happy to feel a slice of normal, to see my team and our community, and do some science

@runewberg.bsky.social congrats Rune and team! This looks really cool

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

The latest work from our PRECISION Human Pain Center project is now up on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by Katherin Gabriel and @oliviadavis.bsky.social with a huge contribution from @allanhpool.bsky.social's lab and, of course, the Southwest Transplant Alliance: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Our first preprint has been accepted for publication www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... !! tldr: @ezeyulu00.bsky.social , @amartyapradhan.bsky.social , @dkoveal.bsky.social and I developed a method using injectable nanoparticles to turn mice into…constellations in motion. 🧵⤵️

Sabbatical question - which activities do you keep up and which do you pause? Eg reviewing new papers and grants, non-mentorship related service committee meetings, normal schedule of lab meetings…

Does anyone have favorite colors for color blind friendly fluorescence images on a black background where the overlap combinations of 3 colors are important? Magenta/cyan/yellow overlaps are difficult to distinguish (lots of white) Thank you!

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

@petrznam.bsky.social this is so cool!

1/N How do neural dynamics in motor cortex interact with those in subcortical networks to flexibly control movement? I’m beyond thrilled to share our work on this problem, led by Eric Kirk @eric-kirk.bsky.social with help from Kangjia Cai! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿

Despite some ups and downs at NIH, we do have an open position for a postbac and are considering candidates. Our work is at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, and we aim to understand how the brain's densely connected recurrent networks operate. 🧪

Todd is a fantastic scientist, mentor, colleague and friend. Highly recommend!!

Our PhD student Louis Romette is optimizing long-term live-cell imaging. He just casually dropped this 65-hour movie of a growing neuron (div 3 to 6) with knocked-in actin 🔥🕶️ #realtimemicroscopy

REPOSTING this here just to officially leave "the other place" Our work on the role of endogenous electric fields in guiding collective cell migration during #morphogenesis is out @naturematerials.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new pre-print on bioRxiv, in which we reveal that feedback-driven motor corrections are encoded in small, previously missed neural signals.

What an elegant new assay for natural mouse behavior! Love this

Igor Siwanowicz of @hhmijanelia.bsky.social captured these photos of pollen grains on the sigma of a morning glory flower. This is part of the early stage in creating a seed, it might also be the reason why you can’t stop sneezing!

Please register for this amazing meeting! Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 8, 2025

Despite all of *waves around*, the Sheahan Lab is putting one foot in front of the other and is looking for a research technician. A great position for someone interested in gaining more neuroscience experience in itch & pain before applying for grad/med school: shorturl.at/DW3fU 🧠 #PainResearch

Gorgeous image and a wonderful thread from @rbrianroome.bsky.social on our new work 🥳

And science continues… check out our new work led by @rbrianroome.bsky.social

Registration started for the Janelia meeting on spinal cord and brainstem circuits for sensorimotor adaptation across species. Spinal cord is more than a hub, it does supercomputing! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

Come join our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow! The project will investigate the maturation of spinal circuits and their plasticity within chronic widespread pain states. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... until 11th April. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social @jobrxiv.bsky.social

What a treat to see this new paper from Anupama Sathyamurthy and her team! I couldn’t be more proud to have worked with her and see what she is up to now. Another important work in her efforts to understand how multiple motor control regions interact during reaching www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I was doing some research for a lecture I'm putting together and TIL that these may be the first ever drawings of #neurons by Otto Deiters published posthumously c1865. Anyone know of drawings that pre-date these? #neuroscience #history

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

We begin the New Year with two preprints on hypothalamic development. The first, part of a long-term collaboration with Marysia Placzek’s group, investigates the organization of the developing forebrain, and show that current models are (mostly) incorrect./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new preprint on how excitatory V2a and inhibitory V1 and V2b neurons cooperate to drive scratching rhythm, with a new neuromechanical model showing how CPG perturbations affect rhythm and phase of motoneuron firing and frequency of joint oscillations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A reminder: for genotypes to produce phenotypes, they have to go through development

And another 45 seconds

Big paper from @paigel.bsky.social in our lab: Sensory feedback is always crucial for proper development, right? Wrong! Crazier still, the motor system is the slowest part of a developing reflex circuit! Surprises abound in this bluetorial c’mon along…. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/19

Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

What’s the state of the art right now in robotic motor control? Eg. for overground locomotion w variable terrain, fine “dexterous” control. Boston Dynamics, da Vinci…?

It’s impressive and humbling to see the scales of inner and outer space that have emerged in science this year.

Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/

New version of our preprint available. The supplementary information is also available. "Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I love this idea as an analogy and think it may explain a lot! I second @neuralreckoning.bsky.social’s recommendation. Research -> knowledge foraging

SfN 2023 “are those the guys that think GABA is excitatory? Ahahha” YES WE ARE BABY Finally out after a long process, GABA facilitates sensory inputs in the cervical spinal cord of NHPs #GABA #spinalcord www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Have you had private doubts whether we'll ever understand the brain? Whether we'll be able explain psychological phenomena in an exhaustive way that ranges from molecules to membranes to synapses to cells to cell types to circuits to computation to perception and behavior?

Welcome Jeff Diamond @jsdiamond.bsky.social! Nice to finally see you on science social media 🥳 If anyone has the retina/vision science starter packs or feeds handy, please share!

We have an exciting postdoc opportunity to study the spinal circuits involved in spatial restriction of pain. Please spread the word and get in touch if you’re interested in joining our team. Application details to follow! @uclnpp.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #painscience #neuroskyence

The December issue of Nature Neuroscience is now live, featuring our Focus on Single-Cell Genomics! We hope that these consensus reviews from experts in the field will serve as a useful guide for neuroscientists regarding best practices for these approaches. www.nature.com/neuro/volume...