Oh crud, just realized emails from @skypeascientist.bsky.social were going to my spam folder. Thanks a lot, Microslop.

Can't visit Sweden without bringing back some proper chocolate for the lab 😋

Today has been a good day to ride. Happy national day, Sweden! #nationaldag #motosky

The proposed rule raises significant concerns about the introduction of broad political and ideological considerations into federal funding decisions. Read SfN’s full statement on proposed OMB rule: vist.ly/56rqw #neurosky #scisky #medsky #neuroskyence

I find AI incredibly useful in the scientific hiring process. For example, if I see an obviously LLM-written application, it saves me a ton of time to just immediately reject that candidate.

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Very happy to announce @livija-sarauskyte.bsky.social has joined my group as a PhD student! And has been immediately coerced into joining BlueSky! She will try to figure out what all those mysterious striatal interneurons are doing during behavior; great things to come!

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Quick PSA: while they taste the same, a 147Ω and a 10MΩ resistor are not, in fact, interchangeable. You know, if like me, you were wondering why your circuit wasn't working.

The Lin Lab is hiring! We're seeking motivated postdocs for projects on voltage imaging and optogenetics in the brain. If you're excited to develop new methods to undersatand and correct brain diseases, working together with other neuroscience labs at Stanford, drop us a line!

You ever get the feeling you may have slightly, massively overengineered something? Still need to add the electronics, but these should turn into some handy little Arduino-powered training rigs.

Biblically accurate cochlea

Just verifying our voltage imaging data agrees with patch-clamp ephys; that's a check! 🧠

Huh. Spot the odd character out...

I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! [email protected]

Fund NASA science or we’re demoting it again to comet.

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

For some time, I have been unhappy with Microsofts' ownership of github. I do not trust them, and it is all but guaranteed that they will train their slop machines on code and documents uploaded to it. With that in mind, I started to look into self-hosting a github alternative. 1/

Two days left, better hurry! (Pretty sure they're braking) #FENS2026 #FENS #FENSambassador

There is an odd, unassuming beauty in freshly machined parts, made to incredible precision. Very lucky we have a team of excellent machinists available at @uio.no!

Finally online @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a fun collaboration with @finkryan.bsky.social @massecklab.bsky.social @tpatriarchi.bsky.social @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social @campbell-lab.bsky.social @jangrundemann.bsky.social 🧪🧠🔬🧬

🧪 1/ New preprint from the lab: L5 pyramidal cell tLTD requires astrocyte Ca2+ and CB1 signaling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We revisit a classic STDP result in visual cortex

About nine years ago, I bought a Gear Fit 2. And it's been awesome: light, small, and just smart enough to be helpful, but not too smart to be distracting. Over the years, battery life dwindled from a good three days to maybe half a day. But to my delight, you can still find replacement batteries:

Want to pursue a 4-year #PhD a University College London? Are you interested in the structure & function of brain circuits? Want to learn molecular & system neuroscience approaches? Want to learn to teach as well? Then check this out! Application deadline is April 23rd. #ucl

Ever wished you could answer your students' questions with a T-shirt? I reckon this should cover 90% of my bases!

And some love for the human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I like these zoom outs where you can see a whole structure - here, striatum. Green is MBP and outlining the white matter tracts, 🟣 is DRD1 and if you zoom in (see zooms in following posts) there is 🔴 for RXFP1 marking clusters of island cells.

I'm looking for #NewPIs (<3 years as lab heads) in the gene regulation/functional genomics space. If you are one or know one, please comment below! 🧪

You guys want to see something cool?! This is the business end of a cheap dual-mode webcam. It can record using both normal light, as well as infrared. I assumed that meant it had two sensors. There is an audible clicking noise when it switches modes, which I assumed to be a relay. But watch this:

🎨 Art and Science submissions are NOW OPEN! 🧠 Are you using art to communicate neuroscience? Share your project and take part in an initiative that connects science and society. 🇪🇸 Selected projects will be featured in a poster at #FENS2026. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 May 2026 👉 buff.ly/dFLBv4g

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Heading to #FENS2026? FENS is launching a Legacy Program - a series of neuroscience-related activities across Spain 🇪🇸 Read more about it here: fensforum.org/fens-forum-l... The programme will feature: 🌟 Festivals 💡 Exhibitions 🌐 Cultural initiatives 💬 Public engagement events and much more!

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Someone order a cholinergic interneuron? Look at that beauty! Sure, in vivo voltage imaging is a bugger, but when it works... 😍

Attending the #FENS2026 🧠 forum in Barcelona this year? #FENS has you covered with getting to know the city! ... I still say my method works fine, too. #FENSambassador #FENSCommunity

Depluralize a movie: The Vector

🌟 FENS Open calls! 🌟 👉️ Start swiping to learn about the latest opportunities in neuroscience! To learn more about our open calls, visit buff.ly/zhfGGXx

Can you believe these dorks at @fens.org let me be a social media ambassador?! Anyway, go check out the FENS forum legacy programme: fensforum.org/fens-forum-l...

Go home April, you're drunk

Once more for the "No but some guy on the internet said you just put a PDF online" crowd

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

Happy to share my first postdoc paper, now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🧠 We show how two distinct neurogenic pathways direct and indirect neurogenesis, differentially shape the cortical efferent projectome, linking evo-devo to adult connectivity and function. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Since I got to do some rare patching this week, enjoy this sagittal brain slice with ChAT+ interneurons in the Striatum, labelled in pAce-mNeonGreen.

For #FluorescenceFriday: an image that didn’t make the final paper. A dopaminergic, anaxonic OB neuron with dendritic release sites in magenta. Gephyrin in orange; TH in cyan confirms the GFP-labelled cell’s identity.

The first two years of that cool exciting science project

Nikki Tjahjono’s PhD work is out as a @cellpress.bsky.social preview in @ssrn.bsky.social! With @isacofflab.bsky.social, we introduce iHaloGluSnFR, the first red-shifted chemigenetic glutamate sensors, optimized for simultaneous imaging with neuromodulators. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just got an invitation to speak at the "International Conference on Recycling and Waste Management". TFW even the scammers think your work is trash...

Well that's not good

"Write a horror story in five words" (My ephys friends will get it 🧠)

Spring has arrived in #Norway, and y'all know what that means: time to take the bike out of its winter slumber! #motosky