Spontaneous and stimulus-driven arousal produce distinct acetylcholine dynamics across sensory and prefrontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729441v1

latest from the lab!

Input-dependent directionality of interactions between cortical areas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725829v1

latest from the lab!

Day 3 of the ROE meeting starts with Isabel Fariñas speaking about quiescence and neurogenesis. And also with words remembering José Manuel García Delgado, very present among all of us today. @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @carmenagustin.bsky.social

Talk by Pablo Ruiz Campillos at the X ROE Meeting, on distinct afferent signatures onto anterior and posterior VMHvl subdomains and their progesterone receptor-expressing neurons. Great science celebrating the XX anniversary of the ROE l. @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @carmenagustin.bsky.social

Very proud of these guys!

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Fully funded PhD at the University of Bristol (UK) on how ant colonies remodel their nests to optimise performance under pressure, combining experimental work, quantitative analysis, and field work. Detail/how to apply: stroeymeyt-lab.co.uk/open-positio... Deadline: 5 June 2026

Happy Birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal - the "father of modern neuroscience."

Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

⏳ Reminder: EBBS Elections are still open! There’s still time to vote for the next President and Ordinary Committee Member — voting closes on May 7. Make sure your voice is heard. 👉 www.ebbs-science.org/elections

Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Two weeks until the Registration closes for the 1st German Fish Meeting! 🐟🧪 Reminder I will be chairing a session for Postdocs in the Job Market. If that's you, apply and tell everyone why fishes are the best and why they should be shoveling $ at you www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-...

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Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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!

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!