Blog from SWC alumni Andy Murray and Miranda Mathews, Co-Founders of Antelope Health, on the peripheral nervous system ⤵️

SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers seeking to establish an independent research group in mechanistic theories of neural computation or learning via external fellowship. Please share with your networks and colleagues! Apply by 16 July.

There’s just over a week left for postdocs to apply for the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026. Applicants are judged solely on the quality of their scientific ideas. Find out more and apply by 30 June ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

How do brains plan actions towards goals? To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵 Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to Joschua Geuter, SWC Lead Student Rep, on being named UCL Student Rep of the Year! A well-deserved recognition 🎉 www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-lea...

How do you reconcile dopamine's role in learning and movement? And how are complex signals in the frontal cortex read out by downstream circuits? SWC Seminar speaker Dr Christine Constantinople @nyu.edu discusses her research in our latest Q&A ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/qa/two-signa...

v0.17.0 of movement released! 🧠🧪 This version includes new path analysis functions along with a number of bug fixes. Importantly there are some small breaking changes, so please read the release notes to see how your code may be affected. More details: github.com/neuroinforma...

SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are looking to sponsor early career researchers in mechanistic theories of neural computation for external fellowships. Join a collaborative, world-class community at the interface of theory and experiment. Apply by 16 July www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/fell...

Know a brilliant postdoc in neuroscience? Encourage them to apply for the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series - a chance to present to the London neuroscience community. Travel and accommodation covered, no CV’s or references needed. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

📢 The deadline to apply for Neuronauts Summer Camp, a two-week programme for London-based secondary students, has been extended! Please share with teachers and students who may like to apply! 👉 Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ℹ️ Information: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

As part of this effort, we've just released three new atlases from v2 of the Allen mouse CCF - the brain atlas, fiber tract atlas and developmental brain atlas. Most pipelines have moved to CCFv3, but adding v2 allows atlas comparison and reproducing old analyses. brainglobe.info/blog/ccfv2-a...

Congratulations to Professor Tom Mrsic-Flogel, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society @royalsociety.org for his pioneering work in neuroscience! 🎉 www.sainsburywellcome.org/research-new... @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Don’t miss the chance to share your research with the London neuroscience community! Apply for the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026. Open to postdocs around the world. Deadline 30 June. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

It's not the wiring that matters. It's the rhythm. Blog post about our recent preprint from @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/its-not...

A new preprint from Yu Lin Tan et. al. shows how the timing of inputs to the brain's escape centre determines their influence. Blog 🔽 www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/its-not... Preprint 🔽

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

Applications are now open for Neuronauts Summer Camp 2026. Neuronauts is a free programme for secondary school students in London, offering hands-on learning in neuroscience, computer science, machine learning, and AI. Please share with educators and students who may like to apply!

Check out the latest ‘Map of the Month’ podcast, featuring Dr Peter Gordon, Senior Microscopy Specialist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. He discusses whole brain tissue-clearing immunolabelling and imaging of tyrosine hydroxylase ⤵️ open.spotify.com/episode/7i69...

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Join us on 13 June for our Science Fair! We’re bringing together innovators, hands‑on experiments, and a community passionate about learning. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or simply someone who loves seeing creativity in action, this event is for you. 🎟️ Register here: https://bit.ly/4nb5erL

Calling all neuroscience postdocs! Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed. Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 30 June: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

We're very excited about this new collaboration with the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social to build general-purpose systems neuroscience software infrastructure for the community.

🌟 Curious about life sciences? Join our Science Fair on 13 June 2026 at UCL! Hands‑on experiments, interactive demos, short talks and more — free and open to all. Register: https://bit.ly/4darPQT #FLSScienceFair #LifeSciences #STEM #UCL

We’re delighted to announce the official launch of the Pan-London Named Training and Competency Officer (NTCO) Forum 🎉 #NTCO #Collaboration #ProfessionalDevelopment

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We're hiring! We're looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic decision-making in mice. Working with @annduan.bsky.social Find out more & apply ⤵️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #Job #Neuroskyence #Hiring #Vacancy

We’re opening our doors on Saturday 13 June for a Science Fair full of fun, discovery, and interactive activities for all ages. Bring the whole family and dive into a world of experiments, demonstrations, and surprising scientific wonders. Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

This is the first of many collaborations to build novel anatomical atlases. We want to expand advanced computational anatomy to new fields. If this sounds interesting, get in touch!

What can the classic arcade game, Pac-Man, tell us about the brain? SWC Seminar Speaker @tianmingyang.bsky.social, Chinese Academy of Sciences, showed that humans and macaques share a common 'language of problem-solving'. www.sainsburywellcome.org/qa/using-pac...

Mapping brains never gets old, especially when the territory is new 🐦🧠🗺️. Loved being drawn into this collaboration by @neuroweiler.bsky.social and learning about birds and their magnetic senses. Stay tuned for more new atlases coming to @brainglobe.info

A migratory bird brain, the Eurasian blackcap, has been mapped for the first time using high-resolution light microscopy. The open-source software tools developed form a foundation for new brain atlases to be built for any species, providing a valuable resource.

Applications are now open for Neuronauts Summer Camp 2026! Neuronauts is a free programme for secondary school students offering hands-on learning in electrical engineering, computer science, computational neuroscience, machine learning, and AI.

Managing neuroscience data just got easier! Datashuttle keeps your research data organised, generating standardised folders and seamlessly transferring data. v0.8.0 is out now and supports Google Drive and AWS storage. Check it out at datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev

New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Don't miss NIU Senior Research Software Engineer @nikosirmpilatze.com talking about our Python package for behavioural quantification, movement. April 2nd, 12h30-14h00 CET. Online on Zoom, registration needed: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th. Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!

Motor deficits in Huntington's disease mice were rescued by targeted activation of cortical inhibitory neurons. As a winner of the Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series, Dr Sonja Blumenstock, UCSD, explains her findings: www.sainsburywellcome.org/qa/targeting... #BrainAwarenessWeek

Meet Laura Porta, a Senior Research Software Engineer based in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. She is responsible for the software that helps our neuroscientists with their research, amongst other things. Find out more about her day to day by visiting: www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/day-lif...

From pushing objects as babies to chatting with friends, we learn through living in a body. AI has no such experience. This #BrainAwarenessWeek, we explore AI, embodiment and neuroscience in our latest blog. www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/ai-embo...

Why do we sleep? We asked leading neuroscientists for their thoughts on what happens in the brain as we snooze. ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/6-r... #WorldSleepDay #Neuroscience #WorldSleepDay2026

We have three neuroscience research software engineering jobs available at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, two joint with the Advanced Microscopy Facility. All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved

Thanks @natmesanash.bsky.social for covering our new work, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social!

Heading for #Cosyne2026? Check out SWC researchers’ posters and talks! www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/swc-... Thursday's posters ⤵️

New review maps the convergence and divergence of statistical and reinforcement learning, from origins to neural implementation. @athenaakrami.bsky.social, @ambrafer.bsky.social & Floris de Lange Blog: www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/two-eng... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed videos purely from the brain activity of mice, showing what the mice were seeing, in a new study led by @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social researchers

Short films made from brain activity of mice aim to show how they see world

New research has reconstructed movies from the activity of neurons in the mouse visual cortex 🎥 Out now in @elife.bsky.social, from Joel Bauer, Troy Margrie and @clopathlab.bsky.social Paper: elifesciences.org/articles/105... Blog: www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/lights-...

This British Science Week, check out our free neuroscience teaching resources, including lesson plans, videos, career profiles and activities! www.sainsburywellcome.org/resources-te... #BritishScienceWeek #STEM #Education #Teaching

Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain? We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals. More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a

Delighted to share that part of my PhD work is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR Forelimb-hindlimb coordination is up to a quarter-phase more synced when hindlimbs are relatively more loaded, regardless of speed & phases of other limbs. 🧵1/11