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Studying how the brain develops
https://www.chinilab.com/
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🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/124003
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Jeff Johnston
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By the way, if you’re interested in working together on problems like this, I’m starting my lab at UCSF this summer. Get in touch if you’re interested in doing a postdoc! More info here:
wj2.github.io/postdoc_ad
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W. Jeffrey Johnston - Postdoctoral position ad
https://wj2.github.io/postdoc_ad
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📣 Pre-COSYNE Brainhack 2026 – Join Us in Lisbon! 🧠✨ March 10–11, 2026 • Lisbon, Portugal pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon2026 Kick off COSYNE week with two days of hands-on, team-based hacking around real electrophysiology data! ✅ Apply now via the event website (limited spots).
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We're excited for the Pre-COSYNE 2026 Brainhack! March 10–11 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 We'll be using CON²PHYS: same dataset, same questions, many truths? 🔹2 days 🔹team-based 🔹real ephys data 🔹open tools 🔹mini-presentations 🔹all skill levels Apply now! 👇👇👇
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Registration
Deadline: Sunday, January 18 at 5:00 PM (London time). Notification: We will notify applicants of the outcome by the end of January.
https://pre-cosyne-brainhack.github.io/hackathon2026/registration/
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Natalie Schaworonkow
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are you looking for someone with expertise in analysis of neuroimaging data (fMRI/DTI/EEG)? see ⬇️
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Anton Pashkov
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I’ve mostly kept this space professional, but today I need to share something and ask for your help 🙏🏻 I’ve dedicated my entire career to neuroscience research in Russia. Through challenging times, my colleagues and I have done our best to continue the work we love and believe in...(1/4)
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Liset M. de la Prida
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What is a 🧠 ripple? See our
@cellpress.bsky.social
perspective on ripple diversity and the grammar of memory replay: connecting key pieces from current work across the field. 👉🏼
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Very impressive work 🔥 Both technically (longitudinal 2p in neonatal mice requires a bit of insanity 😂) and computationally (the brain grows a lot in a week!). ❤️ the open access data too!
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Kayson Fakhar
28 days ago
🚨new work with the dream team
@danakarca.bsky.social
@loopyluppi.bsky.social
@fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
@duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Richard Gao
about 1 month ago
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
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The Transmitter
about 2 months ago
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
’s “New Lab Directory” features a list of new neuroscience labs that opened in 2024-2025, and some set to launch in 2026. Check out the list to learn about the work of more than 50 new neuroscience labs.
www.thetransmitter.org/community/th...
#StateOfNeuroscience
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The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Learn about neuroscience labs launched in the past two years, plus a few opening their doors in 2026.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/the-transmitters-new-lab-directory/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251126-state-of-neuro-new-lab-directory
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Super happy to see this one out! 🥳 Thank you to
@talsharf.bsky.social
, TJ, Alex and all the other co-authors, it was a super fun collaboration. Hopefully this is only my first dip into organoid ephys. I am super bullish on the technology! 🚀
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Natalie Schaworonkow
2 months ago
thank you for listening to my EEG TED talk! (the vibes from these chairs 😅). we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
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Mood after submitting two grants in the same week.
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Saikat Ray
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Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
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Bat Island: The New Era of Science
YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46svA-C939s
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5 years? WTF! That's called a kid, not a brain organoid 😂😂
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Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture
The human brain develops and matures over an exceptionally prolonged period of time that spans nearly two decades of life. Processes that govern species-specific aspects of human postnatal brain devel...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679721v1
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Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling
Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/07/JNEUROSCI.1041-25.2025
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This year's
#BernsteinConference
was a blast! So many cool discussions, so many faces I was happy to see again, so many interesting new people to meet etc. Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with
@irinapochinok.bsky.social
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Richard Gao
4 months ago
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real: I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job! I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
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Ann Kennedy
4 months ago
And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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Adrien Peyrache
4 months ago
🚨New preprint alert! The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex. But could it also generate its own structured activity? Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system. Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13
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Coherent dynamics of thalamic head-direction neurons irrespective of input
While the thalamus is known to relay and modulate sensory signals to the cortex, whether it also participates in active computation and intrinsic signal generation remains unresolved. The anterodorsal...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675474v1
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🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
https://www.fens.org/careers/job-market/job/124003
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Alessandro Gozzi
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🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in
#autism
and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of
#autism
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Yanliang Shi
4 months ago
Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/
@roxana-zeraati.bsky.social
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@intlbrainlab.bsky.social
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@engeltatiana.bsky.social
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Human ripples are... very slow? 🤔 Is this a well-known fact? Plot taken from the recent
@nature.com
paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am thrilled to share that this winter I will be starting my lab in the GIGA Institute of
@universitedeliege.bsky.social
! The lab will study early brain development at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience. 🌐 You can find out more on the lab website:
www.chinilab.com
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Chini Lab
Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.
https://www.chinilab.com/
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The state of pseudo data-sharing.
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Belgian Society for Neuroscience
5 months ago
📢 2 weeks left for Abstract submission ! Join us at the 16th BSN Meeting – Oct 20, 2025 at KU Leuven 🧠 🔗 Submit now:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025
#BSN2025
#Neuroscience
#CallForAbstracts
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Our first project on intrinsic neural timescales (ITs) is out! 😱🥳 We developed a new method to estimate ITs from single-unit data, which generalizes and improves the current state-of-the-art approaches. Plus, why estimating ITs on trial-based data is dangerous ☠️ Read it all here below 👇
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Irina Pochinok
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7/7 We implemented iSTTC to tackle challenges in our own sparse, developmental datasets, and it’s working beautifully. We hope it helps others working with tricky spiking data. Try it yourself
github.com/iinnpp/isttc
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GitHub - iinnpp/isttc: iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation
iSTTC: intrinsic neural timescales estimation. Contribute to iinnpp/isttc development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/iinnpp/isttc
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"people use it very differently".. this applies to so many concepts in neuroscience! We (
@irinapochinok.bsky.social
and Simon Musall) put together a
#BernsteinConference
Workshop on exactly this and
@juangallego.bsky.social
will be one of our speakers!
@bernsteinneuro.bsky.social
shorturl.at/4kV00
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Baptiste Libé-Philippot
6 months ago
🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the
@erc.europa.eu
! 🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you! 🔗Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7288-AUDBAR-058/Default.aspx?lang=EN
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Adema Ribic
6 months ago
Our lab is recruiting a postdoc to join a project that studies the activity in the neonate brain (mouse and human !)
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Charlotte Boccara
7 months ago
We have a 3-year postdoctoral position open in our lab in Oslo
@ncmbm.bsky.social
to work on Sleep and Development through the NORPOD program together with
@thomasdwkim.bsky.social
and supported by
@nordicembl.bsky.social
Check application here:
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Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral/Researcher position in Molecular and Systems Neuroscience through the NORPOD program (282173), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/282173/postdoctoral-researcher-position-in-molecular-and-systems-neuroscience-through-the-norpod-program
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Great tweetprint! 👇
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Friedemann Zenke
8 months ago
1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Daniele Marinazzo
8 months ago
PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data!
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Doctoral fellow
https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/doctoral-fellow-11
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Alessandro Gozzi
8 months ago
🎓 My lab has 2 PhD positions with
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) 2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging 🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome 👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2
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This survey asks very compelling questions on the state of basic neuroscience research. I very much recommend filling it out!
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One of the most interesting papers I've read in a while:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01894-6
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Alessandro Gozzi
10 months ago
Can we use brain scans to identify biologically distinct "autisms"? And If so, how? In our latest cross-species study 🐭👨 with
@iitalk.bsky.social
we dive into these questions! Find out more here 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jure Majnik
10 months ago
How does a neuron get its activity? 👀 Check out our latest preprint, where we tracked the activity of the same neurons throughout early postnatal development:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Matteo Carandini
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Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina,
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