Join the summer course on open science run by @cam-openlab.bsky.social - learn how to adopt transparent, reproducible, and collaborative research practices during conceptual discussions and practical workshops! More info here - cambridgeopenlab.org!

📢 Applications are open for the “Open Science in Practice” Summer School! A week of talks + hands-on workshops on open science, electronics, 3D printing, and DeepLabCut for students & early-career researchers. 📍Homerton College, Cambridge (UK) 📅 Apply by 9 June 2026 🔗https://cambridgeopenlab.org/

Pablo's @neuropablo.bsky.social data blitz talk was worth delaying lunch for at the Cambridge Neuroscience Annual Meeting! Chapeau to him and his lab supervisor Chloe 🎩🔥 @camneuro.bsky.social @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social

Finally got around to updating the website with some rather important news: @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social passed her PhD viva with flying colours, and @annelisepaupiah.bsky.social has joined as a postdoc ✨ Not used to such speedy changes, things in Cambridge normally require a few centuries to move 😁

Had a lot of fun presenting at @peterhousecam.bsky.social with the Theory Group, alongside the brilliant @drallylouks.bsky.social ✨ Always a pleasure to talk about olfaction👃 especially in such a beautiful room with such an engaged audience 🌟 Thanks to the organizers and everyone who came along!

Competition-funded PhD studentships are available in our group. If you would like to join us, please get in touch by email to discuss potential projects. phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/209-...

🙌 Hello, beautiful community! 😍 It is our pleasure to present our team members in this new series of posts. 🖇️ Stay tuned and don't hesitate to connect with us! #OpenCode #OpenNeuroscience #Neuroscience #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenSoftware #OpenHardware

Do you use Bonsai and Harp for behaviour acquisition? How easy has it been to interface the outputs with your analysis pipeline? We’re building a high-level Python interface to streamline Bonsai/Harp integration and align data streams. Nearly there, we’d love your input! See thread ⬇️ #neuroskyence

New @pnas.org paper led by my brilliant colleague & mentor Sue Jones 🎉 Estrogen drives plasticity in kisspeptin neurons during a developmental critical window, shaping how the female brain regulates fertility. Congrats to Yuanxin + Leonie & Lauren, happy to have played a tiny part shorturl.at/bItti

Posters printed (5x), talks made (2x), symposia chairing ironed out (2x), preprint posted (1x), whole lab on board (7x): 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐨, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞! #ECRO2025 🇪🇸🧠👃 ecro2025.com @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @harinw.bsky.social @connordoyle.bsky.social @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social @neurosana.bsky.social

✨Excited to join @homertoncollege.bsky.social as a Junior Research Fellow from Oct 2025! Grateful for this fellowship supporting 4 years of research 🔬🚀. Looking forward to being part of this vibrant community and continuing work in @elisagalliano.bsky.social lab with my awesome colleagues! 🧠👃

The workshop will take place on Oct 14-17th in Cantanhede, Portugal. Please find more info here - nenckiopenlab.org/keypoints/. TAs are: Konrad Danielewski (Nencki) and @flaviaricciardi.bsky.social (CNC UC).

We are pleased to announce our first workshop in Portugal, which will guide you step by step through the process of pose estimation and unsupervised behavior analysis, focusing on two powerful tools: DeepLabCut and Keypoint-MoSeq! @deeplabcut.bsky.social

New publication out Led by Enrica Montalban, who did a fantastic work, our new paper demonstrate a role for striatal astrocytes in the context of diet-induced obesity in both metabolic and cognitive processes. Thanks to all the collaborators for their work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The paper is out in journal format at EJN! We thank the reviewers for their insightful comments, and how they shaped the final form of this story. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... As usual, it's open access! We're getting the data ready for sharing very soon 👀🧠🧪

In this lab, we dress like our slides: bright, sharp, slightly animated, and with a dash of surrealism 🟡🎨 Well done to @harinw.bsky.social for smashing his talk at the 30th UK Semiochemistry Workshop, and to all the PhD speakers in his session for a stellar set of presentations 👏

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

🚨 New opinion piece written with Tara Keck 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘈 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 rb.gy/m862ik It's part of a special issue born from an unforgettable science extravaganza hosted by @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in Santa Barbara🌴🧠 1/🧵

The Smell Studies Group now has new ways to stay in touch! You can find us on Bluesky, LI or IG @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social We post on smell and the senses in all disciplines; feel free to tag or DM us with upcoming events, CFPs and publications. #smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies

Earlier this month, I co-organized Scents and Imagination at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, a fantastic, immersive day full of talks, discussions, and plenty to smell! Huge thanks to Giorgia & Sofia my brilliant co-organizers, and everyone who made it such a success. #ScentsAndImagination

If you're at #FRM2025 @fens.org in Oslo, go talk to my brilliant student @neurosana.bsky.social She's presenting a poster this afternoon on the 2nd half Iceland/Cambridge PhD thesis, very cool results 🧠 PS She's on the postdoc job market. Need an electrophysiologist? Snap her up!!

If you fancy interdisciplinary discussion about scent, smell, olfactory system and cie, I bet you will enjoy the following...👃🔬📚 Also July is the ideal month to be in Cambridge 🇬🇧

🚨 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! DL TOMORROW! 🚨 Four good reasons to join the Scent and Imagination Symposium: 📜 Experience an 11th-century incense recipe 👃 Glass Tasting by artist Lena Trost 🎤 Keynotes by @willtullett.bsky.social & Sussan Babaie 🎟️ Register here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

It happen next week!! 🎉 Check the program on the CRASSH website and don't hesitate to join us!

📢 Registration is now open for Scents and Imagination, a one-day symposium at CRASSH (University of Cambridge) exploring the cultural and sensory world of smell 👃🏻 With @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie ➡️ Info and Registration: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

Come to Cambridge on the 4th of June for an excellent line-up of speakers (and also me). It promises to be a really fab day with a lot of a great discussions!

📢 Registration is now open for Scents and Imagination, a one-day symposium at CRASSH (University of Cambridge) exploring the cultural and sensory world of smell 👃🏻 With @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie ➡️ Info and Registration: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

Celebrating the end of our 3 days of workshop in the local pub for a proper UK experience!

And the day two - Arduino, finally.

The Day One of @cam-openlab.bsky.social Electronics for Neuroscience workshop - we have built first circuits and are ready for more!

We're on for the second day! This amazing chapel-classroom gives off immaculate vibes to learn everything about Arduinos 😎🧠🧪

Ren joined the lab as a master’s intern in 2023, tackled key questions for a now-published project, switched fields, and is about to start her PhD in systems neuro. Now she’s teaching her first workshop in electronics. Seeing the students you supervise thrive is one of the best parts of this job!

It's all set up and ready in sunny Sheringham for our next Electronics for Neuroscience workshop! 🧠🧪

Starting 3 days of wiring and hacking with @cam-openlab.bsky.social in a (almost) sunny Sheringham 💡☀️

We are happy to announce a series of Online Bonsai Workshops! You will have a great opportunity to learn Bonsai: from the basics to its more advanced applications in three parts of our course! More info on the webpage - nenckiopenlab.org/bonsai-online/

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

@neuroversepod.bsky.social is one of my fav podcasts. It's super exciting to have been at the other side in this episode! I talk about how I'm navigating my postdoc and academic life, and some tips for PhDs who are planning their next steps. Link below 👇🏼 🧠🔬🧪 open.spotify.com/episode/1677...

Need a good night's sleep after an intense day at #CamNeuro2025 🧠. Interesting discussions 🗨, fascinating speakers 💡, and always a lot of fun within the community @camneuro.bsky.social 💫 Pic: @elisagalliano.bsky.social

We have a fresh new paper! The PhD project of the talented Mark Conway. A learning-induced change in the sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurons enables consistent perception of an odor. #olfaction #neuroscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share a new preprint! This is part of my postdoctoral work with bskyless @RamonReig and my first modelling paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Remember that registration for our next Electronics for Neuroscience workshop is live! See below for more details: www.fens.org/news-activit...

Applications are now open for our next workshop on Electronics for Neuroscience! This workshop is intended to provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge of electronics, from basics to setting up your own experiments! More information here 👇🏻 nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

Procrastinating from doomscrolling? Listen to me ramble about finding a PI job & starting a lab on the amazing @neuroversepod.bsky.social, available in the usual places. Basically an act of service. You’re welcome! 🎙️"𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧: 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙋𝙄 𝙟𝙤𝙗, 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩?" www.neuroversepod.com

We are happy to announce a next workshop by @cam-openlab.bsky.social! This time you can learn everything you need to know about electronics to know your equipment better, improve your setup and get a deeper understanding of the processes you are studying! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

🚨 New Publication 🚨 So excited to announce the release of this article!! Dive into our findings as we explore mitral and tufted cells physiology 🧠👃 I am thrilled to have work with @neurosana.bsky.social as she drove this project 🔬 www.eneuro.org/content/12/3...

📣 My first first author paper is out! Here is our contribution to the mitral vs. tufted cell debate in the olfactory bulb. tinyurl.com/5n6p5y2u This was a truly collaborative paper between my Reykjavík & Cambridge labs that was made all the better with @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @lihuang.bsky.social

Our first “Icelandic” paper is out 🥳🌋 Led by our country-hopping, cold-adapted patcher extraordinaire @neurosana.bsky.social and done between Cambridge & the Petersen lab in Reykjavík, here’s our offering on the mitral vs tufted cell debate in the olfactory bulb www.eneuro.org/content/12/3... 1/🧵

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

Maternal low protein diet alters the development of reward circuits from childhood to adulthood by reshaping its function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.639479v1

📣 Last Call 📣 Join us for the symposium Scent and Imagination 👃🏻🌸🏺 Happening the 4th of June in Cambridge, we have amazing speakers @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie already planned! Last chance to be one of the speaker at this event too! Apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/