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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 4d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 16d

The effect of time of day on exam pass rate in this study is quite dramatic. Consider that Edexcel runs some UK international exams as early as 7:30 a.m., which is even outside the range plotted in this study!

Tessmar-Raible Labs @tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social · 16d

Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams.
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Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Innere Uhr zählt: Chronobiologin über Prüfungsleistung - Aktuell nach eins vom 24.09.2025

Eine italienische Studie mit über 100.000 mündlichen Prüfungen zeigt: Zwischen 11 und 13 Uhr sind Studierende am leistungsfähigsten. Chronobiologin Kristin Teßmar-Raible erläuterte im Studio, wie die ...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.youtube.com/shorts/NGJu6... Something like this?

Don't spend time with your kids??

YouTube video by Business Without Bullsh-t

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Aug 8

Does anyone have recommendations for neuroscience books or other non-fiction available on Audible? I enjoyed listening to Elusive Cures (read by the author @nicolecrust.bsky.social) and Innate (from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social), and I was wondering what other good audiobooks are out there?

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm enjoying revisiting Marina Herlop's 2022 Pripyat LP. Here is the gorgeous opening track Abans Abans with a video featuring snails, stalactites and alpacas and her unique approach to vocals and piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_t...

Marina Herlop - abans abans

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Jun 11

RIP Brian Wilson (1942-2025), one of the greatest innovators who helped build popular music into an enduring art form, and a kind and humble person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S22a...

Surf's Up

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic

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Gonzalo de Polavieja @polavieja.bsky.social · Jun 3

It took us many years to improve idtracker.ai in both accuracy and tracking time. Here it is.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · May 23

I don't really understand why a table of contributions is bad. It seems like a straightforward way to give credit to people whose work contributed to the paper in different ways.

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · May 21

If you're planning a course with mathematical methods content, or use such methods in your own work, please take a look at "Mathematics in Biology", by Meister, Lee, and Portugues, published at MIT Press. 1/2 @portugueslab.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204940...

Mathematics in Biology

Biology has turned into a quantitative science. The core problems in the life sciences today involve complex systems that require mathematical expression, ye...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · May 21

Greatly deserved! Congratulations!

Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · May 20

🏆We are delighted to congratulate Dr Greg Jefferis who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society!

Read our news item: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

@mrclmb.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · May 21

Unforgettable trip to Lisbon! Packed with amazing food, wine, science, art, sightseeing, and a healthy dose of exercise! Huge thanks to my hosts @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social at Champalimaud and Razmik Panossian at the Gulbenkian Foundation for the warm welcome.

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · May 15

A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental rigor and reproducibility. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Zebrafishology, study design guidelines for rigorous and reproducible data using zebrafish - Communications Biology

A review emphasizes the advantages of using zebrafish in research, outlines key differences in experimental approaches, and offers guidelines for designing studies in a way that enhances experimental ...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · May 16

Any album in particular?

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · May 15

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Negativland - This Is Not Normal

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · May 12

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 1

High-resolution phenotypic screen in zebrafish identifies novel regulators of CNS axon diameter growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.29.651302v1

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Corinna Gebehart @corinnagebehart.bsky.social · May 1

The latest paper from the Chiappe lab is out!! Congrats @merterginkaya.bsky.social and everyone involved - now you definitely have to come visit Lisbon so we can celebrate!🥳 @champalimaudr.bsky.social

Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · May 1

A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila 🧠🧪

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A competitive disinhibitory network for robust optic flow processing in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience

Navigation relies on detecting left versus right body asymmetries for gaze and course stability. A central three-layer optic flow-sensitive network with competitive lateral disinhibition extracts asym...

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Apr 28

🐠 New pre-print from the lab! 🐠

Neural microexons fine-tune protein function - but how do they impact arousal states and underlying neuronal signaling pathways?

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

Check out our latest pre-print by @tahneema.bsky.social et al, @upf.edu @crg.eu. 🧵👇 1/9

Neural microexons modulate arousal states via cAMP signalling in zebrafish

Arousal states, often dysregulated in neurodevelopmental disorders, shape how organisms perceive and respond to their environment. Here, we show that srrm3, a master regulator of neural microexons, is...

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Apr 11

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamI... This Kobaryo DJ set is all you need this weekend.

MEGATON KICK '25 Clip【Kobaryo】

YouTube video by HARDCORE TANO*C

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Apr 10

Am I the only person who keeps getting caught out by journals putting a 'download whole issue' button exactly where I expect 'download paper' to be

Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Apr 9

It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Apr 8

I think the more rewarding goal would be to get closer to @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social 's judgements than to the average.

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · Apr 3

A beautifully curated resource for zebrafish research enabled by NIH funding.

Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is an awesome new site for a terrific resource that's taken years to make! Congrats to the great @mauramcgrail.bsky.social for getting this launched.

Maura McGrail @mcgraillab.bsky.social · Apr 1

#zebrafish Our Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource is online!! zebrafishccr.org

Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request.

We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work!

Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!

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