Actually the view from my office just got more interesting, as the official celebrations of the 200th anniversary now include a pirate projection saying "Free Palestine". Regardless of opinions, may UCL enjoy 200 more years of freedom of speech.

Exactly 0 (zero) positions for group leaders or professors on the FENS job market board. It is looking grim out there

Check out the latest from Mike and I on how to be a scientist in a post-journal world 9/9 thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

Planning your first scientific project as the term is about to start? Teaching a project based course? I am working on an app that should help. planyourscience.com Still looking for feedback. Much simpler than any previous version. Works on mobile. Good science, much AI.

This principle of play and inquiry is something that truly motivates me in what I do 🔬 Science is a method, a way of scrutinizing the world. We shouldn’t take it too seriously; it is a discipline, but it is also playful. 🍄✨

New blog post, where I review some recent interesting papers on the role of cell organelles for neuronal calcium signaling: gcamp6f.com/2025/08/11/i... Featuring work by @lorenabenedetti.bsky.social, O'Hare et al. and Lin et al.!

The lab's first paper is out! We find that pupil constriction in mice drives strong retinal activity in vivo, and that humans can also perceive pupil-shaped stimulus. This has repercussions for anybody using pupillometry. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuro

How much analgesia is needed to manage pain levels in mice after brain surgeries? A single dose of meloxicam seems to be enough. Even the addition of opioids cannot provide a clear benefit. (in line with recent work from others, see cites in our preprint): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work from our colleagues at ETH/UZH answering many unknowns about arousal during sleep. And congrats to their participants for being able to sleep with their eyes taped open! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The arguments for scientific funding in a time of crisis are only weakened by research like this. I understand this was probably very fun for the authors, but was it really necessary? #neuroskyence pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Sci-hub has been officially promoting a crypto shitcoin on their Facebook and official page sci-hub.se. It looks like it is going to zero. Did sci-hub just do a cheeky rugpull?? What a timeline #academia #openaccess #neuroskyence

Love me a good inbuilt forced pdf reader where no shortcuts I am used to work and it covers only a third of the screen. Thanks for nothing I will download it now pls

I'm in contact with DOGE to see if they can get SFN to refund my abstract submission fees from the cancelled SFN meeting in 2021. Stay tuned

Tired of not being eligible for postdoc funding schemes because I don't want to move to another country to start the project. The system where scientists are required to upend their life for vague reasons of changing scientific environments is shite. Just another pointless sacrifice #neuroskyence

Wanted just to follow and post science but you are relentless with political outrage posts. If whats happening now is what outrages you, you haven't been cynical enough

Whens easter im tired

Amazing work from the team of Anita Lüthi! Infraslow noradrenergic locus coeruleus activity fluctuations are gatekeepers of the NREM–REM sleep cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💤🧪🧠

too late to start a new analysis, yet too early to start predrinking the institute christmas party

What happens if some journal company dies do the papers go down with them

Need a journal where you can publish just one figure. Don't need to make up useless experiments / visualizations for another 4 figs

You can just find pics from the concert you went to online afterwards and pretend you took them

🧵 1/10 How does the eLife Model work? After 10,000 submissions since launch, we highlighted some of the research published with us so far to demonstrate how our model works and how we’re changing research communication #eLife10k

Is it mathematically possible that every one of my masters students is in the top 5% of all the master students i supervised

I strongly suggest that academic publishers cease to exist.

🔵 blue spot alert: Anita Luethi's team reports a dual role of #locuscoeruleus in #sleep in Nature Neuroscience @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1) high LC activity facilitates cortical microarousals 2) low LC activity is required for NREMS-to-REMS transitions doi.org/10.1038/s415...

do you make a starter pack and share it to suck up to people on the said starter pack so that they will follow you or how does this thing work I wanna be popular

Behold, our first #Neuroskyence thread! :) About one of our favourite questions: As a neuroscientist, should you average across trials to get pretty things like receptive fields and population vectors? Or should you resist the urge?

🧠🔬Using long GRIN lenses and notice that cells look good in the middle, but vague on the sides? My lab developed corrected lenses, which increases the FOV and thus number of neurons recorded! Check out this new publication: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #microscopy #inscopix

I generate ~60gb a day in videos, yes I am keeping them all, but the stack of 20tb hard drives gets hard to manage

Interesting discussion on whether or not keeping raw data (seems like we all agree we should!)