Als de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” www.reuters.com/business/env...

A pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics: Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’ve known for some time that air #pollution is bad for human #health. But the focus was mostly on the lungs and heart. Yet somewhere along the way, it became more mainstream to consider how air pollution might affects brains too. What I found surprising was the recency of that. #neuroskyence

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is no reasonable justification not to ban bottom trawling everywhere.

Thanks so much @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, along with @mcxfrank.bsky.social, for your input on this! And ofc @sarahexplains.bsky.social and @parshallison.bsky.social for your editing!

Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility. Fewer cars. Less driving. More inviting mobility choices. Better communities and cities. These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.

Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!

Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kicking off the lab BlueSky with this picture of a happy hairy growing #axon! Looking forward to connecting with science chats and to growing research ideas 🧠🔬✨

Now on bioRxiv! Astrocytes in one brain region (cyan) communicate in expansive networks (magenta). Through tool development, tissue clearing, and many hours on our @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Z1, we now know these networks are repeatable across mice, plastic, and specific. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

My car got an Update #GLIA2025

I previously noticed that to decode body movements from V1 superficial layers required much more neurons (>600) than my recordings of deep layers (~200). It's great to see a head-to-head comparison

Check out this cool astrocyte multitasking in the brain! It manages a blood vessel on one side while supporting a neuron on the other. Everything in the brain, from blood vessels to neurons, is interconnected! 🔬 🧠 #microscopy #Neuroscience

What a week in Marseille! 🇫🇷 #GLIA2025 is done, but the buzz stays. We’re already gearing up for #GLIA2027! First step: forming the Programme Committee with a democratic vote by past delegates. Fun fact: GLIA’s even in MarsiGLIA (Italian for Marseille)! #GliologistsTogether

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope! Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals. Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/10)

Absolutely thrilled to share the first half of my PhD work! Super proud to see it finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread below for a quick (10 point) recap of what we found! 🧵🧪🧠

This Thursday at #GLIA2025 is packed with insights — outstanding presentations and rich scientific content throughout the day. #Marseille

Can your AI beat a mouse? Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing. 10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n

Thanks to all the people who came to my poster! Lots of nice discussions and suggestions! #GLIA2025

Heading to #glia2025 in Marseille — or as Italians call it, MarsiGLIA. Coincidence? I think not! 😎🧠

Excited to share our latest Review on three-photon microscopy in the neurosciences - out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com! Hopefully this will help spread this powerful deep-imaging technique even further. Access here: rdcu.be/er5SZ Thanks to all co-authors!

Our newest paper studying immunosuppressive astrocyte-GBM interactions using RABID-seq is out in ‪@nature.com today! Congrats to Brian Andersen and Camilo Faust Akl! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that I’m organizing a Special Trainee Symposium at Euroglia 2025 titled "Electrical dynamics in glia and their role in physiology and pathology" Proud to contribute to a platform that highlights trainee-led science. Looking forward to vibrant discussions in Marseille!

Why don't #saccades disrupt our continuous #visual experience? This study shows that neurons of the #SuperiorColliculus are sensitive to the pre-movement peripheral appearance of the eye movement targets, potentially explaining the experienced perceptual stability @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44cxQIe

‼️WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN ALL NIGHT >40 DEGREES IN OMAN & EMIRATES Dawn at 40C at Fujairah and Dhudna Min 35.8 Rustaq,35.5 Sohar Majis:Hottest night ever INSANITY IN PAKISTAN🇵🇰 MINIMUMS 34C 1200m and 30.6C at 1500m (Bunji) WORLD RECORD HOT NIGHT AT THAT ELEVATION

This is grim: 80% of participants that used LLM for writing struggled to "quote anything from their essays" I wonder if this would be similar for math

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

🚨 PhD position in astrocyte physiology! Join us in Amsterdam to explore how astrocytes dynamically regulate brain water flow! Apply using the link below: 🧠🔬🌍 🔗 werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicatie-1179368 #Neuroscience #PhD #Astrocytes #MLC #SUPERGLUE

Announcing two new lectures in our youtube neuroscience methods course: Lecture 12: experimental design (by Anita Autry) Lecture 13: neuronal population coding (in which I advocate a viewpoint that is... controversial) Please repost to help us spread the word! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The brain is so much more than just neurons and their connections. It is a complex balance between neurons, astrocytes, microglia, oligos and more... there are so many different cell types in the brain. All of them together make us who we are, our thoughts, beliefs, hopes and dreams...🧠🔬 #Microscopy

With a heavy heart, I share that my best friend and brilliant scientist Svetlana Jovanic, after a long fight with cancer, exhausted treatment options. Her family needs help covering bills and remains transport costs from NY to Serbia. Any support helps: gofund.me/09e47cb2

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

Het was een paar dagen geleden geloof ik al in het nieuws, maar was me ontgaan. Heel gaaf onderzoek van @amolf-nl.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I am thrilled to share that my poster presenting my PhD research has been awarded the Best Poster Prize, sponsored by #EMBO at #EMBOastrocytes Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by engaging discussions!

Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Going out with a boom! The passion of Prof.Dr. Khakh for astrocytes was inspiring. Can't wait to go back to the lab to study these stars in sensory circuits! #EMBO #neuroscience

Come see my poster #5 Expanding the view: two-photon mesoscopic imaging of astrocytes in awake mice. Excited to discuss this novel technique with the astrocyte community! #EMBO #neuroscience

Had an amazing time presenting our latest data from #FalconeLab (right before we move it to @TowsonU !) Also, it was amazing to connect with amazing young #astrocyte researchers right after it! #varicoseprojectionastrocytes #evolution #neuropathology #EMBOWorkshop

Let's get it started!💫🧠 #astrocytes #science

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

A living water filter! Eco-machines using plants, fungi & microbes to clean polluted water. Now the inventor wants to put them on sailboats to help heal our oceans. Super excited to see where this goes. Nature itself is the best engineer!🌲⛵ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊 ✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL #Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience

The Beef Industry Knew Its Climate Impact as Early as 1989 — and Worked to Obfuscate the Science Keep in mind that 74 percent of respondents to a WaPo poll believe — contrary to the evidence — that eating less meat has little or no effect on climate change. sentientmedia.org/beef-industr...

This is quite impressive! Single vesicle sensitivity in synaptic glutamate release…

Very elegant work, on a theme near and dear to me! Animals are individuals and their unique experiences matter for behavior and circuit recruitment/computation! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (these two links are old stuff from me, beautiful new work from @marinopagan.bsky.social below!)