Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).

In the mood for something sciency and spooky? How about the Halloween special of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social - where me and @caswell.bsky.social talk to @drjlange.bsky.social on some of the gothic stories in neuroscience! 👻 🧠 🎃 💀🧟‍♂️ spotify.link/2lHT9pLQRXb

New episode of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social is out! Me & @smfleming.bsky.social chat to our cohost @caswell.bsky.social & Lucy Unwin about their new book “Inside your Brain”. Have a listen & buy the book for any budding young neuroscientists in your life! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Bit of present shopping for my friends kids today by my talented friend and podcast cohost @caswell.bsky.social ! Reading myself before it goes in the post….!

🎧 @selinawray.bsky.social & @caswell.bsky.social are back with a new Brain Stories episode; this time with Prof @adrianisaacs.bsky.social from @ukdri.ac.uk. They dive into Frontotemporal Dementia & the surprising role fruit flies play in research. Listen: soundcloud.com/uclsound/bra... #UCLDementia

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience? Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

Thrilled to be featured in @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social's wonderful Reading Realm today! I share the 🧠 5 mind-blowing things I learnt writing about brains🧠 ...covering memories, survival, identity & more. All thanks to my co-author and neuroscience professor @caswell.bsky.social of course!

Well done Janis! Really cool work.

After years of absence, the UK is back and going strong

Inside Your Brain lands tomorrow! 🧠 A comedic journey through science history, exploring 10 mind-bending accidents and experiments that reveal how the brain really works. @caswell.bsky.social @lucyannunwin.bsky.social Published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social 📖 Get your copy: uk.bookshop.org

@lucyannunwin.bsky.social beat me to the post with her top quality social media skills! Nearly as good as her authorship skills. I’m incredibly excited and proud to see this out. BUY IT NOW.

My copies of #InsideYourBrain have arrived & they're SO gorgeous I gave in and did a video 🙈🙈🙈 It's out THIS THURSDAY and is a lighthearted (or light-brained? 🤔) gallop through the history of neuroscience co-authored with Professor @caswell.bsky.social & illustrated by María Jesús Contreras 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠

This is great to see - thanks for the positive reviews!

Two weeks today! #InsideYourBrain is a comedic romp through brain science history: lighthearted & a bit gross but properly in-depth! Please consider pre-ordering as it makes a massive difference to a book’s chances! Links> linktr.ee/lucyannunwin @caswell.bsky.social @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

The fire spreads! It's nearly here ....

Awesome Lucy - it’s so good to see this is about to come out. Who’d have thought it when we started brainstorming during Covid?

I’m so excited to share the cover of 🧠 #InsideYourBrain 🧠 - a lighthearted gallop through the history of neuroscience co-written with @caswell.bsky.social, stunningly illustrated by María Jesús Contreras and published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social Pre-order links here >> linktr.ee/lucyannunwin

I think it’s official - this is our first review! Hope it inspires the next generation of neuroscientists.

Just finished reading "Inside Your Brain" by the brilliant @lucyannunwin.bsky.social - that rare sort of children's book that manages to be informative and *fun* to read. A great introduction to the history of brain science for children.

Brilliant place to work

Starting to get pretty excited by mine and @caswell.bsky.social's NF #InsideYourBrain!! It's not out until June 12th, but already a No1 Hot New Release on Am*zon! 😱😱😱 Really REALLY can't wait to share it with everyone! (pre-order! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/insi...) @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

Ha ha. That’s awesome - would make a great present for budding neuroscientists in the 7ish to 11ish (or there about) category.

This will be brilliant!

For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are exciting to welcome Dr Kim Stachenfeld @neurokim.bsky.social (Google DeepMind, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social) 🗓️Wed 14 May 2025 (Next week!) ⏰2-3pm BST Talk title: 'Understanding reward-guided learning using large-scale datasets'

Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏 www.nature.com/naturecareer... More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc... #neuroskyence #neurojobs

At last some good news!

My colleague Dan Bush (not on BSky) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e

Reminder that deadline for applying for our Encode: AI for (neuro)Science fellowship is coming up (30th!) encode.pillar.vc/apply

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Well this is a new thing! @lucyannunwin.bsky.social and me at the Caterham Science festival. Touring the new book! #InsideYourBrain

‼️Due to unforeseen circumstances, the seminar scheduled for today has been postponed by one week. It will now take place on: 🗓️Wed 23 April 2025 ⏰4-5pm BST

1. Project on Computational Neuroscience / NeuroAI PhD, supervised jointly with Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social Here we want to build NeuroAI models that transform visual information to spatial navigation information. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!

Congratulations to our Roberto Mayor and Saverio Tedesco, who attended UCL's annual celebration of honours. Robert was awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Saverio gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

‘Exodus’ of clinical researchers sparks concern over future of UK healthcare in @financialtimes.com today. Lots of change needed.

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Applications open until April 1st for this course - please share far & wide!

Just boosting this again because after a bit of bureaucratic wrangling we are now almost ready to launch! Adverts should be out next week - will keep you posted

So many amazing summer schools this year. Here is a new one (Neuroscience Unleashed, AI, Consciousness, LLMs) which promises to be pretty great: iias.huji.ac.il/29LifeSci

We're hiring! Exciting Wellcome Trust-funded postdoc position at UCL. Come join us to study how visual cortex interacts with superior colliculus & basal ganglia to guide behavior. We use Neuropixels, 2-photon imaging & more in freely moving & head-fixed mice. Get in touch! #Neuroscience #Postdoc #UK

Thursday 20th March, 3.00pm Radio 4 - This Natural Life.... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you want to move to Europe for no particular reason...

What an amazing idea - feels like a good thing in a world gone mad!

Ozymandias

For #BrainAwarenessWeek I’m sharing my brainiest #SciArt #embroidery pieces. Here’s woman in skull (2016), not a brain per se, but the part of the skull where the brain sits, imagined as an architectural space. #MedSky 🧪🧶🐡

pediatric brain cancer research being shut down:

Come join our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow! The project will investigate the maturation of spinal circuits and their plasticity within chronic widespread pain states. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... until 11th April. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social @jobrxiv.bsky.social

Nice work @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social this is a super useful tool that should find a home in many ephys data processing pipelines!

How does the brain represent imagined locations? Researchers at SWC, @gatsbyucl.bsky.social and @ucl.ac.uk developed SIMPL, a method to refine neural tuning curves by correcting distortions from imagined locations. Read more: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/fin...