up to 5 fully funded PhD positions in Neurobiology at SISSA! Application through the portal until March 25th, start in November. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... Join 1 of our 6 labs studying sensory and motor systems of the peripheral and central nervous system and/or get involved in tool development.

Studying vision across light levels? Interested in rod photoreceptors and related (patho)physiology? Matteo Rizzi, Kate Powell and I wrote a review on rod photoreceptor activity at daylight doi.org/10.1016/j.vi... . Free access link here kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

One week left to apply for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research international PhD Call 2026! Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...

It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!

Very proud of Po-Yu Liao and Cinar Ilhan who beautifully presented their PhD progress reports today! I'm very happy to have you in the lab and about your exciting research!

Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess @chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social

mouse neuro people who use or consider using neuropixels and/or miniscopes: if there was an implant light enough to do both at the same time (+ maybe optic fiber) in a freely moving mouse, would it advance your research? would you use it? please comment or send me a message!

Excellent end to the Italian Congress for Neuroscience (SINS) - our postdoc Lucia Zanetti chairing a fascinating session on the retina & beyond together with @serenariccitelli.bsky.social! Well done & thanks to the speakers Stefano Di Marco, @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Norma Kühn & Max Joesch

who came up with the Europass format? it's one of the worst types of CV to read - feels crowded but at the same time it takes a lot of space. the sections make sense (mostly) but the formatting, fonts, uppercase, bold etc. is terrible. and that's what we suggest/force people to use...

Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

Beyond the Lab Workshop - Naturalistic Approaches in Neuroscience! join us in Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-25 October sites.google.com/view/beyondt...

Karl @farrowlab.bsky.social and I wrote a little opinion piece on the importance of comparative neuroscience

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Now with correct link: Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...

Preprint on how to create an equitable and healthy lab environment doi.org/10.1101/2025...! During the SAFE Labs workshop 2024 we came up with concrete action points, summarised in these guidelines for Lab Handbooks github.com/SAFE-Labs-Do...

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...

Still openings, check it out!

New paper on bioRxiv: "Ambient Light Impacts Innate Behaviors of New-World and Old-World Mice" - together with @farrowlab.bsky.social, with data from NERF master students and two of my lab members! A study across 3 species: Mus musculus, Peromyscus maniculatus & P. polionotus doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social 🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025 🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec #neuroscience #cognitivescience

University of Trieste has its first female rector - Donata Vianelli 👏

🎓 My lab has 2 PhD positions with @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) 2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging 🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome 👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2

Lab outing with n=9 (-2 absentees). What an amazing group of people!

Hi, We have new open positions – PhD student and postdocs– experimental or computational– in our research groups at @nerflabs.bsky.social in Leuven Belgium on neural circuit basis of visual behavior/developmental disorders. I am at Cosyne Workshops and happy to discuss opportunities.

📢 🚨 Postdoc Opportunity 📢 🚨 Join us at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to study how neural circuits 🧠 drive adaptive behavior. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroscience technologies and offers a supportive environment 🤗! ⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025 Learn more and apply: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Do a PhD in Neurobiology at SISSA! 4years paid scholarship in a beautiful place, from molecular, cellular to behaviour and systems neuro. Applications until March 13 through the portal - open to all nationalities www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss.... Check here too: www.sissa.it/research/neu... #neurojobs

🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏 More details below... check it out! 🧵 1/3

We had an excellent week at the EMBO Subcortical Circuits Meeting in Assisi. First posters with lab-own data only, presented by the amazing Po-yu Liao and Lucia Zanetti! Great organising by @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Hiroki Asari, Tomomi Shimogori and Judith Hirsch

Excited to be on the way to #EMBOcircuits in Assisi! With two posters and a talk, Lucia Zanetti, Po-yu Liao and I will present what the lab has been doing in the past two years with the help of @erc.europa.eu

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

behaviour & neuro friends, do I know anybody who will attend the IBNS meeting in Tromso in June and would be interested in sharing a room? It's not the cheapest of meetings...

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

Technical assistant position in my lab is open now: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi... Making viruses, helping with rodents, possibility to do some experiments (behavior, surgery, immunohistochemistry...). Please contact me for a chat before applying! Deadline February 6th our lab: www.reinhardlab.org

Happy holidays and an amazing 2025 from the Flexibility Lab!

First competitive travel grant in the lab has been obtained by our postdoc Lucia Zanetti - congratulations! (and thank you to The Company of Biologists!). This grant will enable her to go to the 2nd Subcoritcal Circuits Meeting meetings.embo.org/event/25-subco #proudPI #EMBOcircuits

Chronic Neuropixels friends - what's your trick to prevent tissue (re)growth which can make it difficult to retrieve the probe? Agarose? Mineral oil? Special craniotomy techniques? Any tip is welcome (NP1 and NP2 in mice with the NERF casing; van Daal et al. 2021)! #neuropixels

Please get in touch with me if you're interested in making viruses and participating in other lab tasks and experiments! Let's chat to see if we fit before the official ad goes out next month. We're a friendly, young neuroscience lab at SISSA in Italy www.reinhardlab.org

We're extending the deadline to apply to the 2nd Subcortical Sensory Circuits meeting to the 30th! We have amazing speakers, including keynotes Sonja Hofer and Ole Kiehn Subcortical Sensory Circuits: From Perception to Behavior Feb 11-14, 2025 Assisi, Italy meetings.embo.org/event/25-sub...

Interested in making viral vectors, participating in rodent husbandry and maybe other techniques (behaviour assays, stereotaxic surgeries, immunohistochemistry) in a neuroscience lab? Get in touch to check if this would be something for you! Details in the picture below.

Applications for our Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain are due February 1st! Spread the word! This is an exciting project-based computational neuroscience course that is fun and intense and super rewarding. Please reach out with any questions!

Science friends who do optogenetics in rodents, what's your favorite laser or LED system and why? Importantly, which one would you never buy / use again?

The lab had a great time at the #EMBOSensoryCircuits meeting! So many great talks, posters and discussions! Our Lorenza had a poster about the impact of ambient light on behavior and I talked about postdoc work on circuit evolution. Thanks to the organisers! Hoping for a 2025 repetition!

The lab is growing :) We welcomed our 2 new PhD students, Po-Yu Liao and Camilla Lodetti, with a pizza dinner

Spent 3 days on reddit and playing with drivers and BIOS settings trying to get our thunderbolt card to work - turns out the company installed it in the wrong slot. Is that #PILife...?

Lorenza Tortella gave today her progress report about what she did during her 1st year as a PhD student in our lab at SISSA and her future plans. Very happy to see her progress in knowledge, skills and presenting, and looking forward to the next steps! #proudPI www.reinhardlab.org

SISSA is giving insights into the world of science to the public during TRIESTE NEXT. At the neuro booth we make a journey from the DNA via neurons to a sensory experiment asking how and if our brains know the borders of our bodies. Check it out 22-24 of September!