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You know it's time to pack your things and go for a break when you stimulate the CA1 and record the CA3 (instead of the other way around) and wonder why you're not getting any response...

And also in Daily Neuron! We're chuffed to see the media coverage of the paper 💥🎉

Last day of work before xmas: priorities sorted

Our paper is featured in Neuroscience News @neurosciencenews.bsky.social ! neurosciencenews.com/olfaction-do...

Nothing like a deadline just before the Christmas break

Adaptations of the axon initial segment in fast-spiking interneurons of the human neocortex support low action potential thresholds journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Fully-funded International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme🧠 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud... Research program spans systems/computational/theoretical/clinical/sensory/motor neuroscience, neuroethology, intelligence, and more!!

Here's the news piece from the IoPPN about our paper today! A wonderful way to end the year. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/structu...

Thanks @elife.bsky.social for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!

Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses. buff.ly/Jr3RdzA

The Christmas party was very…Mah na Mah na 🕺🏻

And another year of my students smashing the poster presentation - they are the reason I keep up to date with the AIS literature!

Prickle-2 and actin! Cool! www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

It's this Thursday! Register below 👇🏻

From the Cajal exhibit at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Straight to the bulb!

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

How does a couple of cells become a brain? Join us on 12/9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail. 🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com

Sometimes one simply needs to succumb to the demands of their reward system

Paper celebrations memorabilia 🍾🥂

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

A found a nice antibody - it needs antigen retrieval

'Impaired AIS plasticity in ankyrin-G mutant mice alters cortical excitability and behavior' www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Is this a rage bait?

Just finished 'This house of grief' from Helen Garner. Tough read but, 100% worth it #Booksky

Looking to improve your PeerReview skills? The Reviewer Mentor Program pairs trainees with #JNeurosci & #eNeuro editors & top reviewers to conduct strong manuscript reviews. Open to SfN members at any career stage: http://www.jneurosci.org/rmp

I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition. Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉 ncytoskeleton.wixsite.com/webinars/eve...

eLife is hands down the best. The new system let us run revision experiments on our own timeline (crucial when working with mice), and the reviewers made the paper better. Highly recommend.

In her new 📃, Marina DiMarco analyzes the NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy in the context of exploratory inquiry & confirmatory experimentation, arguing that it offers important reflections on pursuitworthiness judgments 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPbio #HPS

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Today we have @inchinn.bsky.social in the department! The room is packed for what we’re sure it’ll be an inspiring seminar.

Now what were the chances of finding a picture of my hometown in Spain on the London tube??!!!

Matt’s speaking today at the Crick about human olfactory sensory neurons and showing some nice staining our student Ziyi did in human samples @grubblabneuro.bsky.social Of course, a fully packed day with experiments made it impossible for me to cross the river and be there in person. Classic.

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Oh wow! For a split moment I thought that finally Wordle had chosen my starter word... Wordle 1,620 2/6 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The highly localized interaction between Neurofascin-186 and Gliomedin promotes subcellular innervation by the chandelier cell www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Tis the season 🎄

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

A mouse brain atlas based on dendritic microenvironments www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Victorian novels are hilarious (from Jane Eyre) #Booksky

Sculpting neural circuits by axon and dendrite pruning pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I breeze through Wordle and Connections thinking I’m unstoppable… then soon enough the Guardian crosswords arrive for its daily humbling. Right back on my toes.

GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research, by Vince Bielski 'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.' www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...

How are universities going to catch up with Chat GPT and other chatbots? I am currently going through written assignments and the AI-generated content is everywhere, including made up references. A waste of time for everyone involved.

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it? #LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM