I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread! 👇🏻

Goodbye my friend

#NeuroJobs Oferta de contrato #Predoctoral 👇👇👇

A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Are you interested in the neuroscience of social and sexual behavior in health and disease? 🧠 We’re offering a fully funded PhD position at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸 (open to non-EU citizens). 📩 Apply now!

lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1

We used rabies virus 👾 to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits 🧠, revealing network-specific reorganization that we didn’t expect. The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social Paper 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thread for a synopsis 👉 bsky.app/profile/alex...

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to announce our latest paper uncovering circuit, cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of social hierarchy, another terrific collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social, Vic Kapoor and Adam Nelson (not on bsky) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to announce that my proposal to further investigate the neural basis of sexual rejection has been funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through the Projects for Knowledge Generation call! Exciting times ahead! @ageinves.bsky.social

Excellent EBBS 2025 plenary by Inbal Goshen @inbalgoshen.bsky.social “Astrocytes are beautiful and smart, too” - convinced ✅ @ebbsociety.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest review on the neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior—co-authored with the brilliant PhD student Ines Dias, Constanze Lenschow and Susana Lima. Check it out!

I'm thrilled to be part of this incredible symposium. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Bordeaux soon!

🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @natneuro.nature.com Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…

After an incredible postdoc journey at Champalimaud Research, full of great science and inspiring mentors and colleagues, this week it is officially time to say goodbye to this amazing place

As the Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting approaches, we are still offering subsidies for Childcare, Dependent, or Disability Care. Please apply or share with others who may benefit: can-acn.org/meeting-2025...

Stochastic activity in low-rank recurrent neural networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.22.649933v1

Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), June 24-29, in Tromso, Norway. @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

Registration open for UK Neural Computation 2025 @Imperial neuralcomputation.uk/registration... ECR day: 9 July, ~30 free places Main meeting: 10-11 July Pls share! Sponsors @aria-research.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk Organisers: @danakarca.bsky.social @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & me

🚨new paper alert Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass. Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy? 🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🚨 JOB OFFER in our lab at Institut Pasteur 🚨 We are looking for a postdoc! Please repost 🙏

Kicking off Bluesky with BlueBerry, our open-access, multichannel wireless optogenetic device for freely moving rodents. Visit www.OptoBlueBerry.org for documentation and see its neuroscience applications from large-scale to social settings in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ​

(1/n) Why is it so hard to stop eating when something tastes amazing? Our new @ science.org paper reveals that dopamine helps sustain our drive for tasty treats—and may explain how anti-obesity Ozempic tames those urges. doi.org/10.1126/science.adt0773

Long thought to have little relevance to ovarian physiology, the rete ovarii may have a role in follicular dynamics and reproductive health. buff.ly/JhwpURU

The latest work from the Lammel lab is out today! Discover how changes in neurotensin signaling from the NAc Lat to the VTA lead to food devaluation in a mouse model of obesity 🧀🐭 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first paper from the lab is out on biorxiv - enjoy reading! Social context and interactions influence our behavioral decisions - the same is true for the little fly larva!

I am hiring a PhD student in my lab in beautiful Edinburgh to keep investigating the neural mechanisms underlying flexible decision-making and individual variability. Email or DM me with any questions, or let's chat at the CoSyNe Main Meeting next week! Apply here: tinyurl.com/2cxr6nbg

GLP-2 is anabolic and promotes nutrient absorption & weight gain in PPL with intestinal failure. Here teduglutide prevents olanzapine-induced hypothermia and weight gain, and restores glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in mice. @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New work from the @inhcirlab.bsky.social sky.social showing activational and organizational effect of sex hormones on hippocampal inhibitory neurons. A short thread below 👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... @institutocajal.bsky.social

🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share! sites.google.com/view/molaslab #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience

Not to toot my own horn, but Neuromatch's NeuroAI course is one of the best places to learn about this exciting area of neuroscience. Students and postdocs, apply!

✅Save your spot at our next hybrid workshop and learn how to dig into open-source tools for data acquisition and analysis, including the Miniscope! 🗓️Thu, March 20 at noon (ET) via Zoom 🧑‍🔬Join our expert Ceci Herbert @chucklescience.bsky.social from @open-ephys.org 👇Link & details #openscience

🧪🧠2 weeks left for EARLY bird registration! Neurobiology of social behaviors meeting- ESC Coimbra 2025! Join us in Coimbra (Portugal) for intense discussions and exciting science on Social Neuroscience. esc-coimbra2025.cnc.uc.pt

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone interested in working with me at Institute of Metabolic Science - Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, on how AMGEN's new obesity drug MariTide works? I have a 3 year postdoc position available! Deadline March 31st! please share www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50529/

Question to the #neurobiology #evolution community: Can anyone point me to literature on the divergence in excitatory #neurotransmitter use between invertebrates and vertebrates? Specifically how insects got to mainly use acetylcholine and vertebrates glutamate? Thanks!

New preprint from our team. We generated Sf-1-Flp mice, and performed careful validation, and showed the value of the mice for biological research, in particular who love the VMH (like me). Happy to share the mice. Shoot email. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking.

Here, malnutrition in female mice reduces the synchronous activity episodes of arcuate kisspeptin neurons, which are critical regulators of the gonadotropin axis findings reversible with food restoration #puberty @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Come join us at KI and help understanding the role of the PFC-Striatum pathway in cognitive flexibility 🧠 Great science, amazing team and in a beautiful city!

We are hiring a research assistant! Come join our ongoing project investigating the PFC-striatum pathway in cognitive flexibility. Head-fixed behavior, Neuropixels, optogenetics, and viral circuit tracing etc ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... Please spread.

New preprint from the lab!