My lab is looking for an intern interested in the molecular basis of cognitive decline. Work includes deep phenotyping of animal behavior and downstream analysis, including DLC tracking, motif mining (e.g. with Keypoint-MoSeq), and -omics. On-site at EMBL Rome, paid, 1-year commitment. DMs open.

We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴 1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction 2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion. Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring Please RT! 🔄 @UiO_LifeSci #Neuroscience #PhD #SystemsNeuro #Glioblastoma

You know what? For €25, this is not a bad way to add a digital read-out to a stereotaxic frame. I'm measuring about a 20 micron discrepancy per millimeter between the DRO and the stereotax; not terrible. #neuroSkyence 🧠

Please share: I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab in Oslo! For this project, we will investigate the role of striatal interneurons during action selection, using a combination of behavior, in vivo voltage imaging, and slice ephys. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #NeuroJobs #NeuroSkyence

It took some doing, but I finally finished it: the coolest mirror on the planet! (Sorry @esawebb.org.web.brid.gy, hanging out at a Lagrange point is a disqualifier, I don't make the rules)

Made it all the way to work before realising I'd put my shirt on inside out, in case anyone's wondering how my day is going.

Don't you love it when Matlab and Illustrator have different ideas about what a colour is? (Yeah I know, switching my document to RGB will fix this, just let me be annoyed here for a moment)

As a former editor: PLEASE do this! A quick e-mail saying: "I don't have time, but try [A] or [B]" can speed up the review process by *weeks*. And it also helps the many junior scientists who need reviewing experience on their CVs, but struggle to get invited.

Well there's a first for me: a meeting scheduled to take 45 minutes was over in twenty. I feel weirdly cheated, somehow.

In not-science-related news: I'll be playing medic for team Snowy Stompers this weekend! We are raising money for Child's Play, a charity aimed at helping sick children through games. www.childsplaycharity.org

Wondered why I kept getting spam for cardiology papers and conferences... until I realized my patch-clamp paper has the word "perfusion" in the title.

So, the free version of Slack is going to start deleting messages older than one year. Rather than getting locked into paying them forever, I am wondering about alternatives to preserve lab knowledge? Maybe a wiki? Source: slack.com/intl/en-gb/h... News (in Dutch): tweakers.net/nieuws/24410...

Let's form a movement. We need a motto... "Garnish or vanish", "Publish, more Cherries" sth like that.

In case you've ever wondered how much light you can throw at a 3D printed part before it goes a bit melty: about 100mW, apparently.

Excited to share our new preprint! We explore the link between the locus coeruleus (LC) and arousal for astrocytes, pyramidal cells, interneurons in the hippocampus. A fantastic collaboration with @sianduss.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social, and many others: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5

On a positive note: I have been invited to join a videogame charity event in a few weeks. Now, gamers are not exactly known for being inclusive. So imagine my surprise when the organisers just explicitly asked everyone to list their pronouns! Some of the kids are alright.

If you are a neuroscience PhD student outside of Europe, and want to spend some time here, this is a fantastic opportunity!

That sinking feeling when you realize that you have, once again, soldered up a BNC connector before putting on the ground and locknut.

Immune cell response to spinal cord injury in a zebrafish larva. Credit to @beckergroup.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Turns out you can just *buy* magnetic connectors. Game-changer for our modular behavior setup!

I flew home today, which meant talking to quite a few people through a mask. This has further strengthened my suspicion that a sizeable number of people have a minor hearing deficit, which they make up for with unconscious lip-reading.

It's been a year, eh? Just one more sunglasses emoji, for good luck: 😎 www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Weather update: a smidge misty in the Netherlands.

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

"It's my turn to use the microscope"

Unsure whether we should be optimistic about the enduring strength of the corvid/feline alliance, or worried about the implication.

Happy holidays, all you silly gooses!

Eerie sights in the Netherlands, as greenhouses light up the murky sky .

Your annual reminder that: - when submissions peak, editors may become more selective in what they send out for peer review, and - submissions peak right before Christmas Make of that what you will.

It's uncanny: someone* guessed exactly what I wanted to get for Christmas! Of course, by the time you have the darn thing all set up and dialled in, it is way too late for coffee... but soon! (* it was me)

The Return of the Grinch

Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses. buff.ly/Jr3RdzA

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Presenting to a zoom audience

Anyone have recommendations on generic -cre genotyping? The Jax protocol looks good, but I'd love to hear if anyone has any experience with it? #neuroskyence www.jax.org/Protocol?sto...

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

The department is getting proper festive!

What do you do when you need to mount a webcam to an optical rail, but you don't want to wait for Thorlabs to ship you a rail plate? Why, you print your own, of course! Files on: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7228888

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Remember: only YOU can prevent the zombie apocalypse

@massecklab.bsky.social @finkryan.bsky.social 🥳👏🧠🐭🔬🧪🩷

Attempting to declutter a microscope, @thorlabs.bsky.social are once again legends for providing the schematics to all of their products! All I had to do was line up the schematic for their shutter controller with the one for their XT95 optical rail, add a few holes for screws, et voila!

When you join a lab to do some voltage imaging

The hardest part about writing a review article, is composing emails to your colleagues that don't immediately get flagged as spam

Macrobild av några små murgröneblad med kanterna klädda i taggiga frostkristaller.

If you think you're having a bad day: I just emailed someone to congratulate them with publishing a cool paper on a niche topic they've been working on for years, only to realize moments later that the paper was actually by someone with the same first name but different last name.

Me, a cool neuroscientist, wondering what the two smelly nerds are fighting over

For those of you keeping score at home: that is now 3 times Helthjem as attempted to deliver the same package to me, forgetting to actually bring it along each time. Mail delivery in Norway and Sweden is truly comically bad.

Past me: "I am going to cable-manage this setup properly, not let it devolve into a tangled mess of cable-spaghetti!" Current me: *quiet sobbing*

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪