Massive FOMo seeing the posts of people heading to #SfN2025, all that beach...ehm.. science I’m missing 😭 If you’re there, go say hi to the brilliant Bruno Pilcher and the INSS crew, who just built my lab a custom multiphoton microscope with a spatial light modulator that is pure chef’s kiss 👨‍🍳💋✨

New @pnas.org paper led by my brilliant colleague & mentor Sue Jones 🎉 Estrogen drives plasticity in kisspeptin neurons during a developmental critical window, shaping how the female brain regulates fertility. Congrats to Yuanxin + Leonie & Lauren, happy to have played a tiny part shorturl.at/bItti

Hello Bilbao

Posters printed (5x), talks made (2x), symposia chairing ironed out (2x), preprint posted (1x), whole lab on board (7x): 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐨, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞! #ECRO2025 🇪🇸🧠👃 ecro2025.com @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @harinw.bsky.social @connordoyle.bsky.social @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social @neurosana.bsky.social

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Cambridge Junior Research Fellowship = centuries-old academic golden ticket of 4 years’ ££ + total scientific freedom 🎟️✨ JRFs are among the oldest, most competitive, and prestigious postdoctoral fellowships -and often a stepping stone to a PI gig. @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social, I couldn't be prouder 🥲👏

Straight out of a black-and-white Hollywood classic 🖤🤍🐾 #caturday

I'm more than psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in Neuron! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me! Thank my partner Chi-Chieh for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

I mean, what better way to cherish your friend than dragging them to Cambridge to gift them a printed copy of your PhD thesis?! Slightly megalomaniac, but also kinda cute 🫠 @lihuang.bsky.social @adorrego.bsky.social

The coolest gift, a book-like printed version of @lihuang.bsky.social’s thesis! We’ll keep it in the thesis hall of fame of the lab 😁

The Latin has been spoken, hands held, gown hooded with new colours 🔴 Congratulations to 𝗗𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗴 @lihuang.bsky.social on finally escaping postgraduate prison 🎓🎉

The paper is out in journal format at EJN! We thank the reviewers for their insightful comments, and how they shaped the final form of this story. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... As usual, it's open access! We're getting the data ready for sharing very soon 👀🧠🧪

Me (July 2024): yay, one year of sabbatical leave!! I will emerge rested, renewed, caught up with the literature, 3 papers deep ✨💪📚 Me (July 2025):

Shreya @shreyac.bsky.social gave an excellent talk at this week's UKSN conference in beautiful Cambridge. bsky.app/profile/elis...

It was incredible to get the opportunity to talk at UKSN XXX, about some of my PhD work so far AND some surrealism as well! I had a great time 🐭👃🔬🎨

In this lab, we dress like our slides: bright, sharp, slightly animated, and with a dash of surrealism 🟡🎨 Well done to @harinw.bsky.social for smashing his talk at the 30th UK Semiochemistry Workshop, and to all the PhD speakers in his session for a stellar set of presentations 👏

🚨 New opinion piece written with Tara Keck 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘈 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 rb.gy/m862ik It's part of a special issue born from an unforgettable science extravaganza hosted by @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in Santa Barbara🌴🧠 1/🧵

Happy solstice from Dick Grayson, the robin who spends every sunny lunch hour at the picnic table outside the department lobbying hard for food & co-authorship 🌞🪶🎓 #birdwatching #SummerSolstice

Blink and you miss them, 15 years gone in a flash 🙀🎂

If you're at #FRM2025 @fens.org in Oslo, go talk to my brilliant student @neurosana.bsky.social She's presenting a poster this afternoon on the 2nd half Iceland/Cambridge PhD thesis, very cool results 🧠 PS She's on the postdoc job market. Need an electrophysiologist? Snap her up!!

If you fancy interdisciplinary discussion about scent, smell, olfactory system and cie, I bet you will enjoy the following...👃🔬📚 Also July is the ideal month to be in Cambridge 🇬🇧

Olfaction geeks, come to Cambridge next month for a 30yrs old cross-disciplinary smell chat from philosophy to clinics to circuits 🧠👃 Headliner @dattalab.bsky.social on his lab's brand new olfactory maps study Networking lunches, fancy College dinner, student discount, plenty of coffee. Go register!

Very happy that this work is finally out in ‪@pnas.org‬! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Absolutely superb episode with Eve Marder ✨ I just wish it were three times as long... Thanks @nightsciencepod.bsky.social! Everyone should give it a listen (and then go read some books 📚)

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Can mice estimate the distance to an odour source? New work led by Cristina Marin and colleagues, jointly supervised by @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social at the @crick.ac.uk and myself. Spoiler alert: Yes, they can! Read the paper here: bit.ly/43A9tF9 Short 🧵 below

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

2021–2025, Cromer’s Banksy residency 🦀 Turns out sea salt and the occasional sun don’t care who painted it...

#preprint: We mapped the structure and function of olfactory bulb circuits with in vivo 2-photon microscopy and synchrotron #Xray holographic nanotomography. doi.org/10.1101/2025... @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social @apacureanu.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @esrf.fr

My lab has several postdoctoral fellow and software engineering positions available. Please email me if you’re interested.

#LightBlue 🩵👏🏆

Recovering with lots of ☕ from a packed @camneuro.bsky.social meeting, which saw data blitz talk, poster presentations, a best poster prize! (more of that later), guests, superb talks, and so much chatting with our amazing colleagues

Ah, to be a puff of fluff, blissfully unaware of the news... #Caturday

We are in full swing @cambridgefestival.bsky.social with @cambraincns.bsky.social 🧠🧠🧠🧠

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Finally updated the lab website: lots of news, including new postdoc Sonu joining us 👋 But let’s be real, I was procrastinating because I had to move my nemesis, 1st PhD student, and codependent other half @lihuang.bsky.social to the alumni section. Not crying, just... allergies 😭🍃 gallianolab.org

Remember that registration for our next Electronics for Neuroscience workshop is live! See below for more details: www.fens.org/news-activit...

Looking up in Seattle one more time ☝️🏙️

A few more because Seattle's walls are very cool 🏙️

Escaped the relentless British weather for the... Pacific Northwest 😓🌲🌫️ Basically upgraded from 'grey and soggy’ to ‘grey majestically soggy.’ At least the architecture and street art lean into the vibe

Procrastinating from doomscrolling? Listen to me ramble about finding a PI job & starting a lab on the amazing @neuroversepod.bsky.social, available in the usual places. Basically an act of service. You’re welcome! 🎙️"𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧: 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙋𝙄 𝙟𝙤𝙗, 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩?" www.neuroversepod.com

Applications are now open for our next workshop on Electronics for Neuroscience! This workshop is intended to provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge of electronics, from basics to setting up your own experiments! More information here 👇🏻 nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

Registration open for 'CNS2025: Expanding the Horizons of Brain Research' neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve... All welcome -registration is heavily subsidised! Abstract submission closes on Monday 17th March Excellent interdisciplinary programme🧠 Please share and see you in Cambridge on April 8th!

Glad to share this review of odor concentrations in nature versus experiments, just out in J Neurosci. Spoiler: they are far apart. We discuss implications for olfactory neuroscience and welcome debate. With @neuroboz.bsky.social @dewanlab.bsky.social, Betty Hong. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Wake up, March 8, do science, repeat 🔁 Just like Groundhog Day, but with microscopes, electrodes, and lots of brains: in our lab, every day is #InternationalWomenDay 🔬🌍💜🤍💚 #EveryDayIsMarch8

Was at the NYC @standupforscience.bsky.social in Washington Square Park (here on sabbatical leave) and delighted to see superstar theoretical physicist and Harvard colleague Prof. Lisa Randall address the crowd! (she's in a hat holding a mic, halfway up vertically and in the left 3rd)

📣 My first first author paper is out! Here is our contribution to the mitral vs. tufted cell debate in the olfactory bulb. tinyurl.com/5n6p5y2u This was a truly collaborative paper between my Reykjavík & Cambridge labs that was made all the better with @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @lihuang.bsky.social

🚨 New Publication 🚨 So excited to announce the release of this article!! Dive into our findings as we explore mitral and tufted cells physiology 🧠👃 I am thrilled to have work with @neurosana.bsky.social as she drove this project 🔬 www.eneuro.org/content/12/3...

Check out our review comparing typical experimental to naturally-occurring odor concentrations. You might be surprised. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... Thanks to Matt and Betty for asking me to take part!

Our first “Icelandic” paper is out 🥳🌋 Led by our country-hopping, cold-adapted patcher extraordinaire @neurosana.bsky.social and done between Cambridge & the Petersen lab in Reykjavík, here’s our offering on the mitral vs tufted cell debate in the olfactory bulb www.eneuro.org/content/12/3... 1/🧵

Bronzed olfactory sensory neuron axons make a dramatic entrance from the 👃 into the 🧠, rolling up into perfect scent spheres in the olfactory bulb. During development & regeneration, neurons with the same receptor find their way to the same glomerulus, creating a smelly map 🗺️ #FluorescenceFriday