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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2h

👁️ Close your eyes. Can you picture an apple? Maybe red + shiny 🍎, maybe green + crisp 🍏. Now imagine if you couldn’t picture it at all.
Discover the new science of imagination on the #LeafingThroughScience #podcast

🎧 shorturl.at/j6kPh
📺 youtu.be/aUdcFguAEXQ

@exeter.ac.uk
@champalimaudf.bsky.social

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 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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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🗓️15-17 October
📍Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon

Supported by @Protocol Labs, @Portuguese Society for Neuroscience and @Delta Cafés.

#CRSy25 #NeuroCyberneticsAtScale #ExperimentalNeuroscience #Robotics #MachineLearning #ControlTheory #TheoreticalNeuroscience

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🌍 Over 300 participants from around the globe are joining us in Lisbon for the #CRSy25. ⚪ Can't join in person? Get your virtual ticket to follow the talks on “Neuro-Cybernetics at Scale” 🔎➰ 🤖 through the Live Streaming of the event.

🎟️ symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 5d

The ERN is the perfect stage to spark curiosity, bring science to life, and remind us all why it matters. 💡⚡🔬

Until next year, keep asking, keep exploring, keep sharing science! 🙌

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 5d

From hands-on experiments and interactive games to speed dating, our scientists, students, and support teams came together to connect with an amazing, curious crowd.

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 5d

Science Needs Us and We Need Science! 🤝

Just one week ago, our scientific community was out in full force at the 🌕🌗 European Researchers’ Night (ERN), taking over the 📍Pavilhão do Conhecimento and the 📍Marina Oeiras with a whirlwind of activities, experiments, and conversations.

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 Congratulations to Christian Machens + Caroline Haimerl for being awarded a #ShenoyUndergraduateResearchFellowship in #Neuroscience by the @simonsfoundation.org! It will provide funding to host an undergraduate student in the #TheoreticalNeuroscience lab at @champalimaudf.bsky.social 👏

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 6d

🔺〰️ ️The 2024 Champalimaud Research Annual Report is fresh off the press! ➖🔶 Each copy comes wrapped in a unique cover, created from a collective artwork 🎨👀!

📨 Want a copy? (limited availability): [email protected]

Digital version here 🔗:
www.fchampalimaud.org/sites/defaul...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 7d

Missed the latest #LeafingThroughScience? 🎙️
In Ep. 6 Part 2 @nicolecrust.bsky.social @upenn.edu, author of “Elusive Cures”, takes us on a remarkable journey into the future of #neuroscience and treatment of #braindisorders 🧠🚀👇
🎧 rss.com/podcasts/lea...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIO3...

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 8d

Can you read a mouse’s mind just by looking at its face?
A new study shows that subtle facial movements reveal hidden thoughts 👇
📺 Video explainer: youtu.be/eNjkmeJ-lvE
👀 Summary: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/scienti...
📄 Original paper 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science Snapshot: Reflections of Thought / Reflexos do Pensamento

YouTube video by Champalimaud Foundation

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 8d

The Champalimaud Research Colloquia Series is a weekly seminar programme open to everyone, where a speaker is invited to give a talk at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔎 Check our October calendar and join a discussion on 🧠 neuroscience or 🦠 physiology & cancer research.

🔗 forms.gle/21J3GfPFMwm9...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 9d

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 9d

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 9d

🎟️ Registration: symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1
🗓️15-17 October
📍Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Only 2 weeks left to the #CRSy25 ⚪! If you haven’t registered yet, this is your last chance⌛

Get to know our keynote speakers in the comments and check the detailed programme of the symposium via the link 👉 symposium.fchampalimaud.science/programme

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 13d

🚀Molecular Tools Workshop 2025
🧬For the 4th year, our Molecular and Transgenic Tools Platform hosted a workshop blending lectures with guided lab sessions, continuing to build confidence, competence and curiosity in molecular biology
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/molecul...
@champalimaudf.bsky.social

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 14d

A New Plan for Neuroscience 🧠 In Part 2 of Ep 6 of #LeafingThroughScience #podcast🎙️, @nicolecrust.bsky.social talks about the future of treating #braindisorders, touching on salmon 🐟, sleep 😴, Nobel Prizes 🏆, and cat quips along the way 🐱
🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea...
📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIO3...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 15d

👉 Learn more about this study: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/more-re...

More than a reflex: how the spine shapes sex | Champalimaud Foundation

For decades, it was thought that while the brain orchestrated male sexual behaviour – arousal, courtship, and copulation – the spinal cord merely executed the final act: ejaculation. But a study from ...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 15d

🧠 Beyond the #Brain: How the #Spine Shapes #Sex
New @natureportfolio.nature.com study from @champalimaudf.bsky.social shows that the spinal cord is far more than a passive relay during male #sexualbehaviour
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@incia-neurocampus.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 16d

📣 You can now check the #CRSy25 ⚪ programme! Explore the main themes:
🔎 Scaling up
➰ Cybernetic Loops
🤖Models and Robots

🎟️ symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1
👉 symposium.fchampalimaud.science/programme
🗓️15-17 October
📍Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon
@protocollabs.bsky.social

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 19d

For this #PostdocAppreciationWeek, step into our labs, say “Hi” to our postdocs and find out what they have been up to! 🫰🧬🔬 They are key members in the labs, playing an important role in mentoring, communicating research findings + securing funding. Join us in celebrating them 🙌 #PAW2025

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 21d

Catch up on the latest #LeafingThroughScience #podcast 🎙️ where neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social @upenn.edu joins Hedi to explore how we think about the #brain that could transform how we understand and treat its #disorders 🧠💭👇

🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea...

📺: youtu.be/vlW6i-A_Awc

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 21d

🔵 Join us for the upcoming COpS!
📣 Effective Neural Dynamical System
Memming Park, Neural Dynamics Lab
💬Moderator: Klaas van Gisbergen
🗓️ 29 Sept, 12:00
📍 CF Auditorium
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/events/champ...

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 26d

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