Hi all, we're on the look out for a postdoctoral researcher with links to Denmark who would interested in applying for a Novo Nordisk Fellowship to join a collaborative endeavour between Oxford and Copenhagen (novonordiskfonden.dk/en/grant/pos...).

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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...

A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two faculty positions in my department this year. Please spread the word! And don't hesitate to reach out if you want to learn more.

Our study on the impact of altered serotonin (5-HT) signalling on the developing sensory cortex is now live at Nature Comms. We use longitudinal in vivo imaging of 5-HT and neural activity to show that this neuromodulator is buffered in early life to promote bottom-up instruction of sensory areas.

Save the date! We're organising a workshop on Data Sharing on the 10th of February at Guy's Campus (KCL)! All you need to know to make your datasets open to the public + engaging in open science practices. More details to come soon — stay tuned!

Congratulations to Gabriel! @interneuron.bsky.social

Well done Ivan! @interneuron.bsky.social

This sounds interesting... definitely one to check out.

Fast-spike interneurons in visual cortical layer 5: Heterogeneous response properties are related to thalamocortical connectivity Some L5 INT with strong input from LGN and visual responses more similar to L4 INT than those receiving little direct LGN input. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

We did this. Beautiful work from the 🦋less Gabriel Ocana-Santero & team. More to follow soon but state-dependent neuromodulation is coming to developmental neuroscience in a big way 🧠🧪

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

A toolbox for ablating excitatory and inhibitory synapses elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Our 2nd new Doctor in as many days! Many congratulations to Gabi on the successful defence of his thesis (in vivo 5-HT in neurodevelopment; preprint out soon!). Huge thanks to the 🦋less, elite examining team of Oscar Marin & Colin Akerman, also co-PI Trevor Sharp and Serotonin & Beyond @ec.europa.eu

NEW DOCTOR from the lab, Antara Majumdar🥳 🍾 thanks to @kerrywalker.bsky.social @jpassecker.bsky.social for examination & 2nd supervisor @interneuron.bsky.social. Here is Antara's preprint, came out right around the US election and X being deserted: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for an escape over the holiday? @meikeesther.bsky.social and I published a ViewPoint looking at the intersection of Developmental and Systems Neuroscience titled “More Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Development” www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

A huge pleasure to repost this announcement - over 40 students have graduated from our fantastic @sussexneuro.bsky.social PhD programme, and each year brings new perspectives and opportunities for both the new joiners and ourselves as their hosts. Do consider applying!

We are recruiting a PhD student at the Brain, Body, and Self Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. Learn more and apply here: kidoktorand.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025

Dive into our latest findings on this powerful structure here: “The claustrum is critical for maintaining working memory” biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

Fantastic work by @peruhlen.bsky.social and @kanashigeaki.bsky.social, with a beautiful cover in Science that tells it all! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This made for an interesting read over breakfast: science publishing and behaviour all crammed into 1 article. ‘Mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

@tonyzador.bsky.social on development: "it turns out to be pretty interesting!" shout out to Tony for highlighting what i believe will be an important partnership towards mutual progress developmental neuro 🤝 NeuroAI the future is NeuroDev 🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/3rZ5...

ok- sci bsky - trying this out. our latest paper with @arimolofskylab.bsky.social shows that "allergic" immune cells (ILC2s) have a healthy function in developing brain: formation of inhibitory synapses - key tuners of brain activity www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Deadline Monday…

Can I ask you to share a PhD advert at Bristol Uni please? Rhomboid proteases play a role in neurons that is essential for life- but it is not characterised. Got a student interested in cell biology, electrophysiology and neurobiology? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/56f24f7c

This paper from Claudia Clopath's lab is very exciting for me. I've been musing for a while now that the challenge of approximating gradient descent is probably made way easier in the brain by feedback signals for control. Here they show it!!! openreview.net/forum?id=xav... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

Fascinating study on V1 responses to predicted-but-occluded images, as measured with optical imaging in mice. Impressive consistency across species! Led by @kseignet.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

For all the Developmental Neuroscientists ... So excited to see our review out in NatRevNeursoci @natureportfolio.bsky.social (w/ Michelle Wu, lead by C. Portera-Cailliau) "Network state transitions during cortical development" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to share that Rice is hiring TWO new faculty members in Cognitive Neuroscience (1 Assistant level, 1 Associate/Full)! Asst ad: apply.interfolio.com/153086 Assoc/full ad: apply.interfolio.com/153384 Please share, and reach out if you have questions!

If you want to check the book's content, check it out in the open access version! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

The lab is SFN with 2 posters, Tues afternoon: (1) Gabriel Ocana-Santero presenting our 5-HT imaging story, showing a state-dependent role for this neuromodulator in circuit development. (2) Ivan Lazarte presenting our IN optotagging story across S1 & V1, revealing different circuits in these areas.

Inhibition - it's what makes us us.

Transthalamic input to higher-order cortex selectively conveys state information https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.08.561424v1

This is a cool result, and follows on from similar evidence for whale strandings that I wrote about in the Before Times. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...