Fellow neuroscientists, consider applying and reach out if you have any questions! fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

Cool merch by the sponsors at #EARA2025, cute Iglo by Labodia

The @eara.eu Conference 2025: “Shaping the Future of Animal Research Communication” is underway at #mdcBerlin! Our Scientific Director, Maike Sander, welcomed participants to #CampusBuch, and Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the UK Science Media Centre, just finished today's first keynote. #EARA2025

Lively discussions at the @eara.eu conference 2025 continued with Session 1: "Effective Science Communication and Media." Great energy inside and outside #mdcBerlin's conference center on #CampusBuch – from engaging panels and flash talks to exhibition and lunch break moments. 👇👇 #EARA2025

(1/2) Fiona Fox, from the Science Media Centre, talked about the risks of not talking about animal research, highlighting how #openness from UK researchers, supported by the SMC, changed the tone of media #press. #EARA2025 #keynote

Die @eara.eu Konferenz startet! Die europäische Dachorganisation für Kommunikation zum Thema Tierversuche hat @mdc-berlin.bsky.social als Venue ausgesucht und bringt damit die internationale Community nach #Berlin. Spannender Austausch!

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Kicked off my course "Programming for Psychologists" again, starting with a lecture on *Mindset*. The first exercise is writing out a peanut butter jam sandwich recipe 🥜🥪. Fun way to learn about imperative vs. declarative instructions, top-down design etc. Maybe useful for others too? 1/3

Nice to see *non-neural* brain cells more in the spotlight! This new paper links astrocyte activity during memory recall to the long-term stability of the memory! By Deva et al. @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨Open position at #FENS! 💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience? Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS! 🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October! 👉 https://loom.ly/2Qy18y8

🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇 kudos to @adrian-du.bsky.social for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models "Furthermore, when generating and evaluating resumes, ChatGPT assumes that women are younger and less experienced, rating older male applicants as of higher quality." No surprise, but now documented: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

🇬🇷 #FKNE News from Crete! 🧠 On 19 September, the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence held its 2025 Scientific Symposium with the theme “Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity: Levels, Methods, and Models.” 👉 https://loom.ly/DyVOs8I

1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

Congratulations to @anitaluthi.bsky.social and @manumameli.bsky.social 🎓👏 www.linkedin.com/posts/depart...

Apply! Great opportunity for young PIs.

Stoked to see this paper finally out! It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks. Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Following up: searching for the distribution of estrogen receptors in the brain, I realized the Allen Brain Atlas is male only. How is it possible that something this fundamental is still missing?

Cool new findings on interneurons and spatial coding. Nice! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finding correlates of the same signal in different brain areas is not evidence against specialisation, it is evidence for interconnection. When I flush my toilet, the level in the tank and the flow rate in the supply pipe become perfectly correlated. Yet these toilet areas have distinct functions.

*in overtrained mice

New opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠 More details 👇 Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq ⏬

#sleeppeeps:

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The lab may be suffering form a slight hexagon and rat obsession.....

Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social‬

💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni

Disentangling the influences of pre- and postnatal periods on human cortical microstructure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669812v1

Sleep deprivation selectively reactivates hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.665413v1

Inhibition seems so important for SWRs. One question I find myself asking lately is if this is just a matter of the SWR generating mechanism, or if inhibitory networks are a critical part of replay’s function.

Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!

🗣️ Opening Plenary Lecture | Guillermina López-Bendito Join us on 4 July 2026 as Prof. Guillermina López-Bendito opens next year's #FENSForum! 🧠 🔗 Meet all the #FENS2026 speakers: https://loom.ly/Q_m95o8#FENSForum!#FENS2026#FENS #NeuroscienceConference

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! See my article in Gen News. www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...

New work! Learning is assumed to involve synaptic plasticity, but which specific synapses change to enable higher order cognitive functions? We actually find that cognitive flexibility involves potentiation of long-range GABAergic synapses from prefrontal PV neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super cool results, and another evidence that theta sweeps are more about (sequential 😉) prediction following behavior, which happens to be rhythmic in the rodent.

Different #memory domains can recruit similar brain areas, but is the role of these overlapping regions shared or domain-specific? This study shows that the function of the #hippocampus to preserve the order of sequential behaviors is shared across memory domains @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GzcM6Q

REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Intrinsic Path Planning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662824v1

Domestication of dogs induced the expansion of the neocortex and reduction in size of subcortical structures: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... Reminds me of a theory I once heard that humans basically self-domesticated themselves.

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

🧠🔬 This important study demonstrates that slow fluctuations in serotonin release during wakefulness and non-REM sleep correspond to periods of heightened arousal or enhanced offline information processing, especially in the hippocampus. Congrats to the authors! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...