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Neuroscience, bioscience techniques, electronics.
[email protected]
Based in Belgium.
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Christophe 🔬 L
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Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of
@wiesner-t.bsky.social
focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
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Christophe 🔬 L
7 days ago
Check the full preprint and its movies for more details:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats
@wiesner-t.bsky.social
and the whole team!
@inp-marseille.bsky.social
@ncis-marseille.bsky.social
@univ-amu.fr
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@agencerecherche.bsky.social
@neuromarseille.bsky.social
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Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton
Neuronal communication relies on signaling molecules transferred via exo- and endocytosis throughout the brain. Historically, studies have focused on vesicle exo- and endocytosis and their release mac...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676728v1
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Mattia Chini
7 days ago
🚨 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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Tobias Rose
15 days ago
BonnBrain 2026 is a go! March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany). Apply now:
www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts. Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
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Cell Physiology Workshop Liverpool
28 days ago
#CPW2025
is now over, but we're already planning for
#CPW2026
🦑🧠🫀🔬 To receive updates & find out when applications open for next year's Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool, go here:
forms.office.com/e/PTh5qMvmUM
Please share the link with your electrophysiology trainees. 🙂
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Mattia Chini
28 days ago
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! 🙏
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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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RainbowLabCVS-UoL
about 1 month ago
Cannot believe that week one of the
@cpw-liverpool.bsky.social
is nearly over! A brilliant week so far! Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, especially to the
@biologists.bsky.social
for their funding of our 40th workshop!
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Eelke Snoeren
about 1 month ago
Do you have experience turning amateur data analysis scripts into robust, scalable code? I’m hiring (hourly pay) to professionalize Python scripts for scientific data analysis, making them reusable across multiple datasets. Tromsø/Norway-based candidates preferred, but all are welcome! DM me!
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Laura Dugué
2 months ago
🚨PhD student position in
#cognitive_psychology
and
#neuroscience
, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab!
@upcite.bsky.social
|
@cnrs.fr
Funded by the
@agencerecherche.bsky.social
(Agence nationale de la recherche)
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Université Paris Cité hiring Doctoral Student in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn
Posted 1:38:05 PM. PhD Student Position at University Paris CitéIn the context of a collaborative project involving…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4270694290
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Matteo Carandini
2 months ago
The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes
@erc.europa.eu
and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!
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Athina Tzovara
2 months ago
We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG
#iEEG
#Neurojobs
Postdoc:
neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD:
neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
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https://neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announcement.html
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Daniela Barillà
2 months ago
Just few days left to register for this chromosome biology fête! 🧬🧬🧬 ⏳📆 16 July
www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...
@vslioy.bsky.social
@damelab.bsky.social
@graingerlab.bsky.social
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
@biophychrom.bsky.social
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Ricardo Henriques
3 months ago
Scientific coders 🧑🔬🧑💻
#RxivMaker
v1.2 now has a
#VSCode
extension to manage citations and for syntax highlighting of
#RxivMarkdown
💽:
github.com/HenriquesLab...
📰:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Laetitia Mony
3 months ago
I am happy to announce the publication of our latest work on
#photopharma
of GluN2B NMDA receptors:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
. I am very grateful to all the authors for their involvement in the work (
@cecilecharrier.bsky.social
,
@cecidoso.bsky.social
and all the blueskyless people).
#iGluRs
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Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites | The EMBO Journal
imageimageNMDA receptors (NMDARs) play key roles in brain development and plasticity, and exist as multiple subtypes, whose individual characterization remains challenging in native tissues. This stud...
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00498-x
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Konrad Kording
3 months ago
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post:
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
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Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
https://open.substack.com/pub/kording/p/attractors-are-usually-not-mechanisms?r=ao63f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Eelke Snoeren
3 months ago
🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨 Our latest research reveals how long-term consumption of a cafeteria (CAF) diet impacts the ventral tegmental area in rats. 🍔🍟🍩#Neuroskyence
@uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social
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Behavioral and neural alterations of the ventral tegmental area by exposure to junk food in rats
The brain reward system is essential for regulating appetitive and consummatory behaviors in response to various incentive stimuli. Junk food, charact…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666325002995?via%3Dihub
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Evelina Tutucci
3 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#spatialbiology
#imagingtools
#fluorescencemicroscopy
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Genetically encoded affinity reagents are a toolkit for visualizing and manipulating endogenous protein function in vivo - Nature Communications
Probing endogenous protein localization and function in vivo remains challenging due to laborious gene targeting and monofunctional alleles. Here, using a toolkit consisting of genetically-encoded epi...
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Cian O'Donnell
3 months ago
a 'provocative anecdotal data observation' paper type would be useful I think. 1-pagers.
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Andrew Plested
3 months ago
One last reminder, into the last couple of days! Not so many applications from ion channel people- what are you waiting for patch clampers? 😀
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Anne Urai 🟥
3 months ago
Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch)
@leidenpsychology.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
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Docent Psychologie
De Sectie Cognitieve Psychologie van het Instituut Psychologie van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen heeft een vacature voor Docent Psychologie Dit ga je doen Als docent psychologie ga je onderwijs v...
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/352958/docent-psychologie/
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Mark D Humphries
3 months ago
Now with fixed link!
neuralcomputation.uk/registration...
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Cian O'Donnell
4 months ago
if you are curious about - Computational neuroscience - Neurotechnology - Neuro-inspired AI consider attending our 7-day ISRC CN3 summer school
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
in the great city of Derry, Northern Ireland, UK from 25th Aug-1st Sep 2025. In-person or online.
www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/i...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Altered GluN2A levels reduce the emergence of seizure-like events in a rat model of GRIN2A haploinsufficiency
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658610v1
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Mark A. Hanson
4 months ago
New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking
#MDPI
journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity
#SciPub
#AcademicSky
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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/
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Dimitri Kullmann
4 months ago
Postdoc job opportunity to study cortical oscillations – spread the word –
url.td/k10p8
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Martin Weigert
4 months ago
Spotiflow allows training detection models that generalize across imaging conditions w/o manual parameter tuning. Since the preprint we added lots of things, fast inference for large volumes + many use cases. Check it out at
github.com/weigertlab/spotiflow
. We hope it will be useful for people!
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GitHub - weigertlab/spotiflow: Accurate and efficient spot detection for microscopy data
Accurate and efficient spot detection for microscopy data - weigertlab/spotiflow
https://github.com/weigertlab/spotiflow
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Highly recommend! Excellent PI and environment! A chance to work on a promising approach to treating epilepsy alongside experts in the field.
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Tim Vogels
4 months ago
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...
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Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning
Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656584v1
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The Journal of Physiology
4 months ago
Igor Delvendahl of uzh-ch.bsky.social & uni-freiburg.de et al. observed that MicroRNA-138-5p suppresses excitatory synaptic strength at the
#cerebellar
input layer 🧠 🧲 📜 Read the
#Research
here:
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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4 months ago
Wonderful thread by Wei Wen on her tour-de-force that just came out in PNAS. If you are curious about how different forms of homeostatic plasticity cooperate to control circuit features, this thread is for you!
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Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
4 months ago
Only 10 days left to apply for the postdoc position in our lab 👇
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Eve Seuntjens
4 months ago
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the
#evodevo
of
#cephalopod
brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU
#WEAVE
project with the Simakov and
@simon-sprecher.bsky.social
labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60479471
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PubPeer
4 months ago
Learn more about the PubPeer Monthly Prize—made possible by the Einstein Foundation (
@einsteinberlin.bsky.social
)—and explore past winning comments to see what makes a strong entry so that you can win the next one!
pubpeer.com/static/award
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Daniele Marinazzo
4 months ago
PhD fellowship to work with me and Benedetta Franceschiello on the analysis and modelling of fast sampled fMRI data!
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Doctoral fellow
https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/doctoral-fellow-11
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Miguel Maravall
4 months ago
Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton
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Earl K. Miller
4 months ago
Our new discovery reveals how anesthesia causes unconsciousness. This advances our understanding of consciousness and can help make anesthesia safer.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Convergent effects of different anesthetics on changes in phase alignment of cortical oscillations
Bardon et al. show that different anesthetic drugs have similar effects on the phase alignment of neural oscillations across cortical areas. Neighboring regions within a hemisphere become misaligned, ...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00456-5
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Earl K. Miller
4 months ago
New results! Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia
picower.mit.edu/news/differe...
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Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase
MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia
https://picower.mit.edu/news/different-anesthetics-same-result-unconsciousness-shifting-brainwave-phase
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Benjamin Judkewitz
4 months ago
Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with
@mh123.bsky.social
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github.com/danionella/w...
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Open Neuroscience
5 months ago
🔊New resource: Bombcell, automated quality control for extracellular electrophysiology 💡This is an
#opensource
, user-friendly toolbox that streamlines quality control for spike sorting outputs. 👩🔬Develop by Julie M. J. Fabre 🔗Link:
open-neuroscience.com/en/post/bomb...
#OpenScience
#Neuroscience
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Pedro J. Goncalves
5 months ago
Fantastic PhD opportunities at the intersection of machine learning and biology. Come join us at
@vibai.bsky.social
! More details at:
vib.ai/en/vibai-int...
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VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025
The VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025 is now open. We invite applicants from around the world to join an interdisciplinary research environment at the interface of AI, computational biology, and life...
https://vib.ai/en/vibai-international-phd-call-2025
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Benedikt Ehinger
5 months ago
🥳 New Unfold-Family documentation page!
unfoldtoolbox.github.io/UnfoldDocs/m...
A unified look, comparison to others, and some global perspective - check it out for
#rERP
&
#EEG
analyses! --- A good time to learn Unfold is this Friday: Free online Unfold workshop -
www.s-ccs.de/workshop_unf...
🧠🧪
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RainbowLabCVS-UoL
5 months ago
We’ve had a few requests to extend the deadline for applications for the CPW 2025 workshop
@cpw-liverpool.bsky.social
due to the Easter break. The deadline is now midday on 28th April! Application form is available from the webpage
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social
www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-...
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Cell Physiology Workshop | Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences | University of Liverpool linkedinblueskyThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUn...
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-and-medical-sciences/research/cell-physiology-workshop/#:~:text=The%2040th%20edition%20of%20the,researchers%20from%20around%20the%20globe
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Cell Physiology Workshop Liverpool
5 months ago
Applications for the 2025 Cell Physiology Workshop are due tomorrow at midday, Liverpool UK time. 🙂🦑🔬
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Dan Jagger
5 months ago
Last call for applications to attend the 2025 Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool. Deadline 28/04/25, 12pm UK time. 🧪🦑🔬🧠🫀
www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-...
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Eelke Snoeren
5 months ago
What about visiting a neuroscience conference in Europe this year? There is still time to register for IBNS in Tromsø (June 24th-29th 2025)! Please like and share! For more information:
www.ibnsconnect.org/annual-meeting
@ibnsconnect.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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Tomás Ryan
5 months ago
Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by
@andreamunozz.bsky.social
,
@aaron-douglas.bsky.social
& team at
@tcddublin.bsky.social
, in collaboration with
@lydialynch.bsky.social
&
@drchristineannd.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08902-6
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Cole Hurwitz
5 months ago
Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
! We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠
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PessoaBrain
5 months ago
We had a great discussion about this a while back:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=myx9...
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Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials: Epiphenomenon or Causally Efficacious?
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myx914hfcic
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Neil Cohn
6 months ago
I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested!
tiu.nu/22739
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Job opening: Two PhD positions for the neurocognition of the grammar of visual narratives (22739)
https://tiu.nu/22739
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Dan Jagger
6 months ago
1 week until applications for
#CPW2025
are due. 🧪🧠❤️🧬🔬
#ionchannels
#neuroskyence
www.liverpool.ac.uk/life-course-...
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