Just a reminder! 🗓️ The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies @fens.org - #FENSForum2026 will take place on 6–10 July 2026 (instead of 4–8 July), due to the Tour de France Grand Départ. Mark your calendars for Europe’s largest neuroscience meeting! fensforum.org/scientific-p...

💡The NSI-Early Career Researchers Network @nsi-ecrn.bsky.social Annual General Meeting - Monday, September 29th! 🔗 Register for a Zoom meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣NSI is now on Facebook and Instagram!📣 New channels allow us to reach a wider audience, engage more people with Irish neuroscience. If you are on these platforms, we warmly invite you to follow: 🔗 Facebook - facebook.com/neuroscience... 🔗 Instagram - instagram.com/neuroscience...

“Male 1 year old Zebrafish coronal midbrain section, probed for GFAP and costained by DAPI” Congratulations to Fergus Woods from UCD on being selected for our next Image of the Month! 🎉👏🏅 Apply to have your own work showcased on our social media via the link in our bio!

Applications for the Seeding Neuroscience Grants are OPEN! This grant helps emerging #neuroscience organizations build strong structures for long-term impact in local neuroscience communities Apply by 15 Oct: buff.ly/hHLdEJ9 #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm

🎉Congratulations to Emmet Costello for being our next spotlight article of the month for his work “Neuropsychological assessment practices in PRECISION-ALS: challenges and opportunities for harmonization” Link to article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40689468/ Apply next linktr.ee/nsi.ecrn?fbc...

📣 Nominations are open for the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture!

Registration is now open for “Dementia and Brain Health in Women – Carriers and Opportunities”, co-hosted by @drni.bsky.social and Nina Carberry MEP. 📅Tuesday, October 14th 2025, 12:30-14:30pm at the European Parliament in Brussels - and will also be live-streamed ⏩ Register: tinyurl.com/2tm524ry

🌟 Grateful to all #NSI2025 sponsors — with special thanks to Platinum Sponsor Cumulus Neuroscience and Dr. Alison Buick, who also presented CNS-101 results validating the NeuLogiq® platform for at-home #dementia monitoring (59 pts, 60 controls). 🔗 cumulusneuro.com

✨ We’re on YouTube! ✨ Our first video is here: highlights from the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025 🎥🧠 youtu.be/9m1V_sSU7zw?... We’d be grateful for your subscriptions and shares to help us expand the neuroscience community across Ireland 🧠

Sujithra Srinivas, UCD Conway Institute, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science ucddublin.bsky.social, attended #IEC2025 in Lisbon with support from an NSI Travel Bursary, presenting research on m6A RNA methylation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. We are pleased to support early career researchers💫

Huge congratulations to all early career researchers who presented their work at the Neuroscience Ireland 2026 conference in Queens University Belfast last week! 🧑‍🔬🎤📊🧠

Great turnout at NSI-ECRN’s very own Big Brain Quiz at The Botanic Inn in Belfast during the NSI 2025 Conference in Queens University Belfast last week!😄🧠 So glad to see universities across the country represented here!🧑‍🔬🔬🍺

📷💫 NSI 2025 in Pictures! A huge thank you to 200+ attendees who made #NSI2025 unforgettable!✨See highlights & download 270+ photos: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-gal... Tagging NSI is much appreciated😊

Great opening address and introduction to Neuroscience Ireland meeting 2025 in Queens University Belfast 🧠 by Dara Cannon & Kathy Ruddy @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social

So pleased to see this special #EJN Virtual Issue highlighting #neuroscience research from Ireland, launched in celebration of the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025! 🇮🇪🧠 Many thanks to EJN for this initiative 🤗

🤝We’re delighted to acknowledge the support of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience for #NSI2025! 🔗 Learn more: www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience

#AICS2025 — Call for Papers! 📣 🚨 Submission Deadline: 15 Sept 2025! The 33rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2025) takes place at the Hyatt Centric Liberties Hotel, Dublin, on 1–2 December 2025. 👉 Learn more and submit your paper: aicsconf.org

📢Just 3 days to go! Meet the speakers of the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025 – “Connectivity for Brain Health” in Belfast. 🚨 Last chance to register! neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-con...

💡 Can TMS become a reliable clinical tool in stroke recovery? Dr Niamh Kennedy drniamh.bsky.social‬ (@ulsteruni.bsky.social) presents findings on the test–retest reliability of single-pulse TMS in healthy participants & stroke survivors: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dr-niamh-kennedy

💫🤝 Connecting Researchers and Industry! Alongside groundbreaking research presentations, attendees will also have the chance to meet our industry partners — exhibitors who will be on site with their equipment to demonstrate products and answer questions.

📢 Have some last-minute, cutting-edge science to present as a poster at NSI 2025? Submit it as a Late Breaking Abstract before midday, 20 August! 📩 Submit a Late Breaking Abstract: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi2025-post...

👟🧠Kick off the conference with a gentle ~5k jog through the local area, guided by QUB PhD student Daniel McCabe! 📅 Evening before the Сonference - 27th August 🕔 5 pm start – Elms Village, BT9 5BW Сontact: [email protected] Discover more: neuroscienceireland.com/ns2025-socia...

Prof Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social) reveals how visual representations appear as early as 2 months of age. Awake fMRI + deep neural networks are shedding light on infant brain development: 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-rho...

📢 Have some last-minute, cutting-edge science to present as a poster at NSI 2025? Submit it as a Late Breaking Abstract before midday, 20 August! 📩 Submit a Late Breaking Abstract: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi2025-post...

👏🏆 Dr. Dearbhaile Dooley dooleylab.bsky.social (ucddublin.bsky.social‬) is the 2025 winner of the NSI Early Career Investigator Award! Congratulations!🤝 About the award: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-awards#NSI202525 profile: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dearbhaile-dooley

🌟 #FENS @fens.org – #EJN Prizes: Last days to nominate! Nominate now for two prestigious awards with @ejneuroscience.bsky.social & #Wiley ahead of #FENSForum! 🏆 FENS-EJN Award – £10,000 👉 loom.ly/zEAUrdo 🏆 Early Career Investigator Prize – £7,000 👉 loom.ly/OsS0ezg

🤝Excited to welcome Brain Products UK as a #NSI2025 partner! They provide top-tier #neuroscience research equipment and expert support across the UK & Ireland — from setup to data analysis and publication: 🔗 brainproducts.uk

🧠🍺Brains, beers, and banter — all in one night! Join fellow early-career neuroscientists for a pre-Neuroscience Ireland Conference Pub Quiz! 📍 Botanic Inn, 23–27 Malone Rd, Belfast BT9 6RU 📅 Wednesday, August 27, 2025 ⏰ 7:00–9:00 PM Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @nsi-ecrn.bsky.social

At #NSI2025, Liam Gildea shares 25 years of lived experience with BD-II and insights from the AMBIENT-BD study using sleep and circadian rhythm data to better understand #bipolar disorder. More about the speaker ▶️ neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-lia...

🤝NeuroCONCISE joins #NSI2025 as a conference partner! Developers of the award-winning AI-driven FlexEEG™ system, engineered to deliver unparalleled EEG quality, API access, and cloud processing – for real-world BCI and neurofeedback applications. www.neuroconcise.co.uk #EEG #BCI #neurofeedback

🧠 What helps the brain tune out the noise and focus? At #NSI2025, Prof. John Foxe @johnfoxe.bsky.social will discuss how alpha-band oscillations aid attentional suppression — for example reduced in #autism but enhanced in deaf individuals. Read more: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-joh...

Registrations are now open for the #EBRAINSSummit2025! Join us for four days of insightful discussions, advanced neuroscience, and cross-disciplinary networking in the heart of Europe. Find out more: summit2025.ebrains.eu

📢 #INBBC2026 returns to Europe! Join the 17th International Newborn Brain Conference in Naples, Italy, on 8–10 February 2026 — where global experts in neonatal neurology come together to exchange, connect, and inspire. 🔗Register here: www.mcascientificevents.eu/inbc/registr...

🧠 Could digital biomarkers transform dementia clinical trials? Dr Alison Buick (Cumulus Neuroscience) will share results from a 1-year study of the NeuLogiq® platform for at-home monitoring in dementia: 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dr-...

Nxera Pharma joins #NSI2025 as a conference partner! Their world-leading NxWave structure-based drug design platform generates first- and best-in-class molecules targeting GPCRs in neurological disorders: 🔗 nxera.life Join the conference⏬ neuroscienceireland.com/nsi2025-prog...

🧬 How does #epigenetic regulation contribute to #neurodegeneration in #Parkinson’s disease? Prof. Gerard O’Keeffe @gerardokeeffe.bsky.social explores how HDAC inhibition may restore neuronal resilience and connectivity before irreversible cell loss: 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-ger...

🤝We’re honoured to announce Cumulus Neuroscience as a Platinum Partner of #NSI2025! A pioneer in remote neuro assessment, Cumulus Neuroscience delivers real-world, scalable data solutions to accelerate clinical trials for CNS diseases: ▶️ cumulusneuro.com #Neuroscience

🎓 We’re delighted to share that Prof. Áine Kelly, TCD, is the 2025 winner of the NSI Education in Neuroscience Award — recognising her outstanding impact on neuroscience training: 🔗 About the award: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-awa... 🔗 Speaker's profile: neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-ain...

🤔Where does #neuropsychology belong when symptoms don’t fit #neurology or #psychiatry? Dr. Nigel Lyttle explores this space through work with #FND and other complex cases. Hear him at NSI2025: 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-nig... @fndireland.bsky.social

🎉We’re excited to announce Prof. Mark Cunningham as the 2025 winner of the Tom Connor Distinguished Investigator Award! A leading figure in epilepsy research, his work on neuronal microcircuits has had global impact. Congratulations!👏🧪 @tcddublin.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social @fens.org

🧠 How can #neurofeedback reshape sensorimotor representations — even without overt movement? At #NSI2025, Dr. Ingrid Odermatt shares insights on #neuroplasticity, rehab & #BCI beyond traditional training. More about the speaker & talk: 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dr-...

⏰ The clock is ticking! IBRO supports its Scientific Members in organizing impactful events that advance #DEI & early-career development in #neuroscience - exclusively through the Society Meeting Support #grant. 🗓️ Apply by 31 Jul: buff.ly/l4891X3

🧠 Applications are open! Don’t miss the opportunity to advance your #NeuroscienceCareer – apply now for the #FENS/#IBRO-PERC #ExchangeFellowships Programme! 🌐 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2025 👉 https://loom.ly/DhYSWlQ#NeuroscienceCareer#FENS/#IBRO-PERC#ExchangeFellowshipsibroorg.bsky.social‬

🔬 Looking to launch your #NeuroscienceCareer at a lab in another European country? 🌍 🧠 Then don’t miss the brand-new #FENSVoices podcast episode all about the #FENS-#IBRO-PERC #ExchangeFellowships Programme! 👉 https://loom.ly/IB1i7Xk#NeuroscienceCareer#FENSVoices#FENS-#IBRO-PERC#ExchangeFellowshipsbroorg.bsky.social

Do you know that FND is very common? We estimate that over 9,000 people live with #FND in Ireland & the high respondent rates in the recent NAI My Neuro Patient Experience Survey validate this. With World Brain Day on July 22nd, it is time to shine a light on FND.💚🧡 @fndportal.bsky.social #WBD2025

🧠 Could zinc actively shape brain connectivity? At #NSI2025, Prof. Andreas Grabrucker (UL) reveals how #zinc signaling influences neurodevelopment & behaviour — with insights into #autism & novel interventions. 🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-amg...

“I was truly inspired by the outstanding work presented and gained insights". 🎉Congratulations to Anupa Sara Paulose, one of our NSI travel bursary awardees, who presented her poster at #GLIA2025, the XVII European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, in Marseille!

#FENS-#EJN Awards & Prizes: Nominations open! 🌟 In collaboration with EJN - The European Journal of #Neuroscience and @wiley.com, FENS is excited to offer two prestigious awards ahead of next year's #FENSForum. ⬇️

🔹 In Memoriam: Prof. Steven Rose 🔹 On 9 July 2025, the #neuroscience community lost a valued and pioneering member, Prof. Steven Rose. In honour of his life's work, we invite you to read Prof. Rose's obituary, prepared by Dr. Radmila Mileusnic and Dr. John Lagnado. 🔗 https://loom.ly/msS5aLM