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Nature Nanotechnology @natnano.nature.com · Jul 30

News article @nature.com covering a recent study published
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Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution.

"Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes."

#Glycotime

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution

Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.

www.nature.com

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · Jul 15

Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀

Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

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Cristina Marquez @crismarquez.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt

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Universitat Jaume I @uji.es · Feb 25

¿Sabías que el estrés sufrido durante la infancia y la adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social para siempre? Personal investigador #CienciaUJI estudia las bases neuronales de esta asociación y analiza por qué algunas personas son más resilientes que otras.
youtu.be/BUY_41WgRvk

¿El estrés sufrido durante la infancia y adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social?

YouTube video by Universitat Jaume I

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Andrea Martínez-Verdú @andreamarverdu.bsky.social · Feb 25

Echadle un vistazo 👇🏻👁️ a este video tan interesante 🧠🐭 de la mano de los investigadores @paco-olucha.bsky.social y @neuroesther.bsky.social. Fent #CiènciaUJI 👩🏼‍🔬

Universitat Jaume I @uji.es · Feb 25

¿Sabías que el estrés sufrido durante la infancia y la adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social para siempre? Personal investigador #CienciaUJI estudia las bases neuronales de esta asociación y analiza por qué algunas personas son más resilientes que otras.
youtu.be/BUY_41WgRvk

¿El estrés sufrido durante la infancia y adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social?

YouTube video by Universitat Jaume I

youtu.be

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images
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Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images

Although many methods for automated fluorescent-labeled cell detection have been proposed, not all of them assume a highly inhomogeneous background ar…

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · Feb 21

A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals

Humans often take actions to assist others experiencing unresponsiveness, such as transient loss of consciousness. How other animals react to unresponsive conspecifics—and the neural mechanisms drivin...

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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · Feb 21

So, stress amplifies our coping strategies: Colocalization of the 2 stress-sensitive peptides, CRH (green) and vasopressin (red), is augmented in adult hypothalamus after early-life stress #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress

a part of the brain charged with responding to stress contains 2 mediators, red and green, typically in separate cells. early-life stress leads to their presence in a single cell, perhaps amplifying responses to stress later in life

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Feb 21

Very interesting! Congratulations!

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TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social · Jan 31

5. Mostly what I take away from this (likely apocryphal) story about Barbara McClintock is that science isn't a race, it's a process. Some of us value a rapid process while some of us value a slower paced process. It is important that we don't treat science as a race towards some invisible goal.

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Feb 1

More pics!!

Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Feb 1

Enjoying science at the I Meeting of @reistress.bsky.social! Thanks to @luriguen.bsky.social and the team for such great organization!! Some pics from our groups👇 @paco-olucha.bsky.social @neuroesther.bsky.social

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Neuropsychopharmacology (UPV/EHU) @neuropsychopharm.bsky.social · Jan 31

Our group has hosted the I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research. Three days full of science and amazing friends and colleagues #REIStress #Bilbao @cibersam.bsky.social

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Red Española de Investigación en Estrés @reistress.bsky.social · Jan 31

What a great ending for an amazing meeting! Family picture! I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research, Bilbao 2025 @ageinves.bsky.social @saludisciii.bsky.social

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · Dec 12

"We report that numerous “miRNAs” previously reported in EMT and cancer contexts are not incorporated into RISC and are not capable of endogenously silencing target genes, despite the fact that hundreds of publications in the cancer field describe their roles"

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

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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · Dec 17

New open access paper out in Neuropharmacology!
@alicesanson.bsky.social shares another piece of the puzzle about the role of the #CRF and #oxytocin systems in the nucleus accumbens shell (NacSh) in the postpartum period. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Redirecting

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Leyre Urigüen @luriguen.bsky.social · Dec 10

El consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo. Carta a Mayor Oreja de la Sociedad Española de Biologia Evolutiva sesbe.org/la-evolucion...

La evolución biológica es un hecho probado: el consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo

En respuesta a las recientes declaraciones antievolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja, desde la Junta Directiva de la Sociedad Española de Biología hemos escrito esta carta abierta: La evolución biológ...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Dec 2

A study in Nature Medicine finds that deep brain stimulation of a region called the lateral hypothalamus improves walking and promotes recovery in humans and rodents with spinal cord injury. https://go.nature.com/3Vlosyl 🧪

This is figure 6, which shows that DBSLH mediates long-term improvements in walking in humans with SCI.

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Juan Lerma @jlerma1.bsky.social · Dec 2

Nueva versión del primo de Rajoy…

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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · Nov 25

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Nov 27

#ProudPI 😍

Aroa Mañas-Ojeda @aroamanasojeda.bsky.social · Nov 27

Very excited to share my first PhD work from @NESTLab_UJI !🥳We find sex-specific differences in response to early-life stress regarding social and aggressive behaviors and a key role of SST+ neurons in the amygdala👇Thanks to all the team but especially to my PhD supervisor @neuroesther.bsky.social

Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨Exciting news from our lab! Our latest study is published in @molpsychiatry! rdcu.be/d1dZW 🎉Big kudos to the team, specially to @aroamanasojeda.bsky.social , who worked very hard to get this paper out! #NESTLab_UJI #REISestres #fcs_UJI #Stress #MentalHealth #SocialBehavior 👇🧵

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Nov 26

Pharmacogenetic activation of these neurons in stressed males restored social interest and reduced aggression. @deeplabcut.bsky.social

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Nov 26

The long-term consequences of #EarlyLifeStress include a reduction in SST+ neuron activity in the MeA of males, linked to altered #SocialBehavior

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · Nov 26

How does #EarlyLifeStress shape #SocialBehavior? What are the underlying #Neurobiological mechanisms? 🧠

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