Post-pub Friday night science 🧠🔬

We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.

tinyurl.com/2jxezabw

Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro

#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Activation of GluN2D-containing NMDA receptors promotes development of axons and axon-carrying dendrites of cortical interneurons

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We are recruiting PhD students! If you are interested in evolutionary neuroscience, consider applying: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

"Reproducibility isn’t glamorous, but it’s essential."

@annechurchland.bsky.social speaks candidly in @thetransmitter.bsky.social about the obstacles to reproducibility and shares practical advice for other neuroscience labs.

🧠📈 www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

Thought-provoking discussion about how Brexit affects Spanish scientists in the UK, organised by the SRUK at the Embassy of Spain in London. The food was over the top! Tortilla, croquetas, empanada…

Truly the best way to host an event 😎

Ah! Such a shame. I've been dropping memes in my lab meetings since my first year of PhD...I have a full collection by now 😆

Always!

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Presenting lab meeting tomorrow

I was interviewed for a Spanish newspaper for the first time! 🗞️
TL;DR (for non-Spanish speakers): we discussed building a research career abroad, sensory neuroscience, and the vital role of basic science in applied discoveries.

Higher-order interactions in neuronal function: From genes to ionic currents in biophysical models

Models in this study show that "a small subset of ion channel genes captures essential variability across neuronal subtypes".

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Narrator: “No they don’t. They do not even extend it to women.”

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Autumn is here 🍂

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

I find this really insightful (and scary). Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

They have main character syndrome

Dendritic nanotubes! What’s next?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

As promised, and committing to the core open science values of our lab, here's the updated preprint. More data, more supplementary figures, stronger conclusions.

'Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses'

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Done 😎 (updated preprint also coming soon!)