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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 15d

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 21d

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 21d

Check the full preprint and its movies for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats @wiesner-t.bsky.social and the whole team!
@inp-marseille.bsky.social @ncis-marseille.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @neuromarseille.bsky.social 11/11

Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton

Neuronal communication relies on signaling molecules transferred via exo- and endocytosis throughout the brain. Historically, studies have focused on vesicle exo- and endocytosis and their release mac...

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
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2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

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Tobias Rose @trose-neuro.bsky.social · Sep 9

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

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Vincenzo Marra @enzomarra.bsky.social · Sep 7

Enjoy Brussels! Pretty warm day here.

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Cell Physiology Workshop Liverpool @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social · Aug 27

#CPW2025 is now over, but we're already planning for #CPW2026 🦑🧠🫀🔬

To receive updates & find out when applications open for next year's Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool, go here:
forms.office.com/e/PTh5qMvmUM

Please share the link with your electrophysiology trainees. 🙂

Group photo from CPW2025 in the teaching lab

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email.

More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie...

RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏

Chini Lab

Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.

www.chinilab.com

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RainbowLabCVS-UoL @rainbowlabuol.bsky.social · Aug 15

Cannot believe that week one of the @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social is nearly over! A brilliant week so far! Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, especially to the @biologists.bsky.social for their funding of our 40th workshop!

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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · Aug 15

Do you have experience turning amateur data analysis scripts into robust, scalable code? I’m hiring (hourly pay) to professionalize Python scripts for scientific data analysis, making them reusable across multiple datasets.
Tromsø/Norway-based candidates preferred, but all are welcome! DM me!

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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab!

@upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr

Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche)

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Université Paris Cité hiring Doctoral Student in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn

Posted 1:38:05 PM. PhD Student Position at University Paris CitéIn the context of a collaborative project involving…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Jul 23

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC.

We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail.

@Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU

research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Horizon Europe 2028 - 2034: twice bigger, simpler, faster and more impactful

Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175 billi...

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Athina Tzovara @athinatzovara.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Open positions

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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just few days left to register for this chromosome biology fête! 🧬🧬🧬

⏳📆 16 July

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

@vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

Poster advertising the Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes conference that will be held in York, 16-19 September 2025.

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · Jul 9

Scientific coders 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻
#RxivMaker v1.2 now has a #VSCode extension to manage citations and for syntax highlighting of #RxivMarkdown

💽: github.com/HenriquesLab...
📰: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Laetitia Mony @laetitiamony.bsky.social · Jul 8

I am happy to announce the publication of our latest work on #photopharma of GluN2B NMDA receptors: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10..... I am very grateful to all the authors for their involvement in the work (@cecilecharrier.bsky.social, @cecidoso.bsky.social and all the blueskyless people). #iGluRs

Optochemical profiling of NMDAR molecular diversity at synaptic and extrasynaptic sites | The EMBO Journal

imageimageNMDA receptors (NMDARs) play key roles in brain development and plasticity, and exist as multiple subtypes, whose individual characterization remains challenging in native tissues. This stud...

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Jul 8

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

Attractors are usually not mechanisms

The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals

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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨
Our latest research reveals how long-term consumption of a cafeteria (CAF) diet impacts the ventral tegmental area in rats. 🍔🍟🍩#Neuroskyence @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Behavioral and neural alterations of the ventral tegmental area by exposure to junk food in rats

The brain reward system is essential for regulating appetitive and consummatory behaviors in response to various incentive stimuli. Junk food, charact…

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Evelina Tutucci @anilevetu.bsky.social · Jul 6

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#spatialbiology #imagingtools #fluorescencemicroscopy

Genetically encoded affinity reagents are a toolkit for visualizing and manipulating endogenous protein function in vivo - Nature Communications

Probing endogenous protein localization and function in vivo remains challenging due to laborious gene targeting and monofunctional alleles. Here, using a toolkit consisting of genetically-encoded epi...

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Jul 5

a 'provocative anecdotal data observation' paper type would be useful I think. 1-pagers.

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · Jul 3

One last reminder, into the last couple of days!

Not so many applications from ion channel people- what are you waiting for patch clampers?

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · Jun 5

The 3rd Berlin Single Molecule Biophysics Course will run from 8th to 12th September at the HU-Berlin, Institute of Biology.
Learn about single channels, single molecule TIRF, theory and analysis. Apply by 7th July at [email protected]. Fee waivers and bursaries available.

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