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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · May 20

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 20

Can't believe what's happening, the biggest and more powerful democracy is decaying at an unbelievable rate. Hope US people will stand up soon before it's too late, there is so much at stake! Be brave, be strong, the entire free world is backing you up!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 18

Reminder:
Please consider attending our annual basal ganglia meeting in Montpellier (Satellite event of Neurofrance 2025).
5 confirmed speakers (see program)
5 selected talks for young researchers
Plenty of basal ganglia colleagues to enjoy ;-)
basalgangliaclub.com/event/

EVENTS

Program Register SATELLITE EVENT – NEUROFRANCE 2025 Save the Date!After the success of the 2024 Satellite Event organized during the FENS Forum in Vienna, the Basal Ganglia Club is thrilled t…

basalgangliaclub.com

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 12

youtu.be/4PZhpnc8wwo

Peer Community In. What is it?

YouTube video by Peer Community In

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 12

And, of course, there is one dedicated to neuroscience: neuro.peercommunityin.org

PCI Neuroscience

Peer Community in Neuroscience

neuro.peercommunityin.org

Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 12

If you don't know it yet, I strongly suggest you to have a look at peercommunityin.org. PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review and recommendation of your preprint articles. It is managed by scientists for scientists!
@peercommunityin.bsky.social

peercommunityin.org

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

openrxiv.org

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 7

Indeed ;-)
(Follow-up of the conference)

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Mar 7

French academics march to show solidarity with American colleagues and fight obscurantism worldwide!

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Stand Up for Science Paris et région parisienne @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social · Mar 7

ON Y EST ! Rendez-vous tout à l'heure pour défendre les valeurs scientifiques : apportez pancartes, instruments, énergie, et fleurs pour la statue de la liberté en fin de parcours. Pensez à taguer ce compte pour qu'on partage vos photos 👍 1/ ⬇️ #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScienceFrance

Visuel avec itinéraire de la marche (Place Jussieu, Collège de France, Place de la Sorbonne, Port-Royal) et horaires : 9h30-11h conférence de presse au Collège de France, amphithéâtre Halbwachs - 11h30-13h conférence grand public à Jussieu (amphithéâtre 45B) - 13h30 Marche pour les sciences avec rassemblement place Jussieu

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · Feb 15

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Feb 7

Definitely ;-)

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Feb 7

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of

Neuropixels Opto

Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Today in bioRxiv

960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors

By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al

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

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A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Feb 7

And that first GIF was supposed to be animated! Here we go.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jan 2

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans

Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.

www.science.org

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jan 4

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

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

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · Nov 26

Women in Neuroscience

Now a list!

add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Nov 24

Ahah, it's a pretty funny illustration of our lab... If only we could train mice to run their own experiments...

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · Nov 23

Cool paper by an all star team exploring how striatal dopamine signaling mediates the effect of hunger on exploration in mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hunger modulates exploration through suppression of dopamine signaling in the tail of striatum

Caloric depletion leads to behavioral changes that help an animal find food and restore its homeostatic balance. Hunger increases exploration and risk-taking behavior, allowing an animal to forage for...

www.biorxiv.org

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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · Nov 19

The Systems Neuroscience Mailing List @systems-neuro.bsky.social is celebrating its 8th birthday by joining 🦋 Bluesky 🦋 and automating the reposting here.

Also check our website www.systemsneuroscience.eu to join our 2700+ member strong community and share or receive job ads, announcements, etc.

Systems Neuroscience

Welcome to the Systems Neuroscience mailing list. This is a moderated list aiming to bring together researchers from the broader field of systems neuroscience, including behavioral, cellular and compu...

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Eric Burguière @eburguiere.bsky.social · Nov 11

I will definitely try to become a bit more active over here....

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