From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains

Reminder that you can still apply for this PI position until the end of this week. A great chance to establish your own research line at the University of Amsterdam!

We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Healthy Longevity and Epilepsy to join the Cellular and Circuit Neuroscience team at the University of Amsterdam! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... @sfn.org @fens.org @uva.nl @swammerdamuva.bsky.social @amsneuroscience.bsky.social

Wij zijn op zoek naar een neurobiologisch analist(e) die ons team in Amsterdam komt versterken met zowel organisatorische als praktische taken. Bij interesse kan je direct solliciteren, of neem gerust contact op als je nog vragen hebt!

Last Friday, the Systems & Network Neuroscience program kicked off the new academic year with an inspiring meeting. Three great speakers from the SNN community presented their research: Daniele Avitabile (VU), Arjan Hillebrand (Amsterdam UMC), and Marlies Oostland (UvA).

'(...) there is no established resource for group leaders to improve their lab culture with concrete action points for implementation. Here, we introduce the SAFE Labs Handbook: a collection of thirty “commitments” which can be verifiably actioned without requiring institutional support.' #Preprint

I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵

Indeed, we learned some valuable lessons throughout this project. This is a great summary by David of those lessons. One cannot underestimate the importance of incredibly careful data curation!

Our paper from the Cerebellum Cell-types Classification Collaboration (C4) is now out in Cell! All data and software to run the classifier are available at www.c4-database.com. Open-access link to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1khABL7PXu...

My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

New paper from our team on LRP1 expression in epilepsy and Alzheimer's Disease: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulations Annemieke and co-authors!

Hello everyone! 👋 The Kesselslab (PIs: Helmut Kessels, Jan Gorter, Erwin van Vliet, Pascal Chameau, Natalie Cappaert, Marlies Oostland & Bart Jongbloets) from SILS at the University of Amsterdam has made the move from Twitter. We are looking forward to continuing the scientific conversation here.