With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. go.nature.com/49fOOrP

Great roundup as always from @markdhumphries.bsky.social

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

❄️ A Year of #FENS: @fkne-scholars.bsky.social ❄️ 🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe 👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g

I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science. Take part or share: fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv... Deadline: 29 Dec 2025

lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

At #BNA2025 @britishneuro.bsky.social a number of symposia explored how molecular and behavioural neuroscience approaches to preclinical research are changing. Here 👇🏼 we summarise our symposium highlighting the role of the @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧠Nominations open for the 2026 ALBA-Roche Prize honouring mid-career #neuroscientists whose research achievements - relative to opportunity - advances understanding of causal mechanisms of #braindiseases. 🏆€15,000 + travel support for #FENS2026 ceremony 🤝Self-nominations welcome 👉🏾 loom.ly/_EvQvm4

Great opportunity for junior/mid career neuroscientists in Europe! Do apply!

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 🧪

By popular demand — the next edition of our hands-on @Stanford @BrOrganogenesis course is coming in 2026! This year, the focus turns to neural #assembloids, reflecting the growing movement toward modeling circuit-level and complex cell-cell interactions in brain disease. 🧠 Deadline: mid-December

Basic, curiosity driven, sometimes very exploratory, research is the seed corn that leads to the biggest scientific advances www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies. 🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social, the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge as widely as possible. Read more about this exciting partnership: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/EXPedit... @annavignoles.bsky.social

Chance, Choice, and Control: Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe (or: "Yes, you could have done otherwise" 😉) philarchive.org/rec/POTCCA-6 (with Henry Potter)

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

Hello world! We just released a thing! In this preprint we provide evidence questioning the ability of the axon initial segment to undergo rapid structural plasticity in intact neurons from mouse, rat, and human cortex.

🌟 #FENS-#EJN Awards and Prizes: Last Chance! 🌟 TODAY is the last day to submit nominations for the two prestigious awards offered by #FENS in partnership with @ejneuroscience.bsky.social and @wiley.com!

Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email. More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie... RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏

Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin @the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social

Developing motor networks rely on brief windows of plasticity. This study identifies mitochondrial #ROS & HIF-1α as instructive signals that drive lasting #neural & #behavioral changes during these critical periods, linking #metabolism to circuit development @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mHrWq4

Our current approach to defining neural populations is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts. Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap: brainglobe.info/documentatio... #niu_osw

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨 First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️ Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA#FENS2026#Barcelona. 🔔 Stay tuned!

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...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Want to learn everything there is to know about barcoded connectomics, brain clearing, and modern neuroanatomy? There is still time to apply for the CSHL High Throughput Neuroanatomy course! Stipends are available. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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This analysis of #DNAme follows on from @nicl2.bsky.social’s detailed study of the effects of Setd1a haploinsufficiency on the transcriptome and synaptosome in the frontal cortex 🧬🐭🧠 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 doi.org/10.1093/hmg/...

Very similar to the Second Law of the To Do list (except latter tends to much larger dimensions)….

New paper in @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Schizophrenia Bulletin exploring the effects of Setd1a happloinsufficiency on DNA methylation in the frontal cortex. Strong effects on the regulation of ribosomal genes with implications for understanding the genetics of schizophrenia. doi.org/10.1093/schb...

As an Editorial Board member of @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB I would highly recommend this opportunity! Please contact me if you would like to discuss any ideas for #neuroscience #genetics theme issues. Find out more at bit.ly/PTBproposa

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Very happy that this work is finally out in ‪@pnas.org‬! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From @newyorker.com

A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation https://go.nature.com/45bprqu

Matt will be speaking about data sharing and open science practices at this year’s @kingsioppn.bsky.social IoPPN Research Festival! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ioppn...

A British @ianduguid.bsky.social, a French @nwanaverbecq.bsky.social and an Italian @scimemia.bsky.social are stranded on a desert island...what do they do? They work on an ephys textbook! www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

Throwback to my very first confocal acquisition (circa 2018), taken during a training session at the Bordeaux Imaging Center. Here is a rat hippocampus labeled with DAPI (nuclei) and AnkG (AISs) 🟣🟢 #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🧪🔬

Fantastic interview by Dr Sally Horton for @focalplane.bsky.social ! It was a pleasure to reflect on my journey into super-resolution microscopy and my move from academia to @abbelight.bsky.social Hope you find it interesting! #superresolutionmicroscopy #Abbelight #careerjourney

Beautiful story on circuit #development, just out, from @bassemh.bsky.social and colleagues!

In her fantastic TEDx talk, Prof @tspiresjones.bsky.social describes how science has brought us the first treatments that can slow the cause of Alzheimer's - and where we go from here👏 Watch now ⬇️