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

🚀 HACK THE SENSES: FREE AI & ROBOTICS HACKATHONS 🤖 Year 11–13 students 🏆 AI tool prizes from ElevenLabs Join 2 hands-on hackathons in London (EPSRC-UCL funded, with ElevenLabs and No Black Boxes) 🎙 SOUND – 14 March 👁 VISION – 21 March 👉 Apply now: https://www.noblackboxes.org/ai_hackathon

📢 Job alert - Deep Learning Theory & AI Safety Applications open for a postdoc fellow (@saxelab.bsky.social lab) to study artificial deep networks using techniques from applied maths & stat physics. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Mar 2026 🤝 In collaboration with @stefsm.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Dr Saurabh Vyas, Carnegie Mellon University, is advancing methods to interpret neural dynamics underlying unique, first-ever cognitive events. As a 2025 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series winner, he recently spoke at SWC. Q&A: www.sainsburywellcome.org/qa/solving-n...

Great to see work published in @elife.bsky.social by SWC Senior Research Fellow @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social Completed at @college-de-france.fr & NeuroSpin (CEA) with @standehaene.bsky.social, the study explores how we perceive shapes. Blog: www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/languag... Paper ⤵️

Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

The CArea mouse brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This atlas has regions which are automatically clustered based on three dimensional maps of gene expression. Read more in the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/carea-a...

New preprint from @athenaakrami.bsky.social Lab at SWC shows how mice can learn abstract rules and statistical structure without reward or instruction. 📢 The hippocampus plays a key mechanistic role. Blog: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/fin... Preprint ⤵️

We’re hiring a Group Leader! Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience. Find out more and apply ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...

Congratulations to @olechsylte.bsky.social on receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉 Ole will investigate how the brain transforms spatial knowledge into goal-directed actions.

Studies using fruit flies by @ox.ac.uk researchers @rafsarnataro.bsky.social & Dr Peter Hasenhuetl, are providing new insights into how sleep is controlled 💤 As two winners of the Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series 2025, they recently spoke at SWC ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/what-fr...

📢 We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Scientific Instrument Maker to join our expert team carrying out highly skilled precision work in the design, development, construction, and validation of scientific instruments. ⏰ Apply by 22 Feb: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

New blogpost outlining our work with @athenaakrami.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social to build light-microscopy based atlases of the rat brain. brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...

Applications to our summer school have been extended for two weeks! If you want to learn about open-source tools for neuroscience, please join us in London this August. Deadline Feb 15th. Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Learning to read is a key stage in education that deeply changes the brain. @standehaene.bsky.social, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the @college-de-france.fr, discusses the neuroscience of reading at our Annual Lecture. ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqHU...

Read the story behind the first @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week, in a series of blogposts for @softwaresaved.bsky.social The second edition will be even more awesome. Remember to apply by the end of January: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

New protocol from SWC reduces off-target effects in optogenetics 🚥 Light can unintentionally activate retinal cells, complicating results. The protocol minimises light leakage and verifies off-target activity is reduced. ➡️Read the paper in STAR Protocols: star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4708

Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/106... We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.

New work from @jerlich.com & Evgeniya Lukinova, links cortisol measures to reduced willingness to wait for larger rewards, but only when participants actually experienced the delay. Paper ⬇️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... Blog ⬇️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/und...