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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 12d

What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies.

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BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds

What do we know about the causes of autism?

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Franck Polleux @franckp.bsky.social · 17d

Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

A deep learning pipeline for accurate and automated restoration, segmentation, and quantification of dendritic spines

Garcia et al. present RESPAN, a pipeline that enables automated dendritic spine analysis through seamless integration of deep learning image restoration and segmentation capabilities with comprehensiv...

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Jesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social · 17d

🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Branch logic: Dendritic computations diversify inhibition

Long known for different circuit roles, parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons are shown by Morabito et al.,1 in this issue of Neuron, to differ in…

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 24d

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social, the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge as widely as possible. Read more about this exciting partnership: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/EXPedit... @annavignoles.bsky.social

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 26d

Chance, Choice, and Control: Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe (or: "Yes, you could have done otherwise" 😉) philarchive.org/rec/POTCCA-6 (with Henry Potter)

While the free will debate tends to focus primarily on the implications of determinism for freedom, a long line of philosophers have also argued that free will would not be compatible with indeterminism either. These arguments typically take the form of a so-called Luck Objection: a family of related arguments which all seek to show, roughly, that if an action is not causally pre-determined then it must be a sort of random happening, over which the agent lacks the control required for free will. If successful, these arguments are fatal for libertarian accounts of free will, which are committed to the view that free actions must be both undetermined and under the agent’s control. In this paper, we defend libertarian free will against this challenge from luck. We argue that most formulations of the Luck Objection presuppose a conceptual model of indeterministic decision-making that is not well aligned with recent advances in the natural sciences; specifically, we argue that they make assumptions about the nature of indeterminacy and about the causal structure of decision-making, which libertarians have good empirical reason (from both physics and neuroscience) to reject. We develop a more empirically plausible model of agential decision-making and apply this to the problem of luck. We argue that, under such a model, it is entirely natural to think of an agent’s actions as both ‘undetermined’ (in the sense of being under-determined) and under their own control. We conclude that indeterminism poses no threat to a more naturalistic version of libertarian free will.

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 28d

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year.

Drop me a line if you want to know more

Deadline September 14th

www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies

Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...

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sambooker.bsky.social @sambooker.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello world!
We just released a thing! In this preprint we provide evidence questioning the ability of the axon initial segment to undergo rapid structural plasticity in intact neurons from mouse, rat, and human cortex.

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 2

Absence of short-term axon initial segment plasticity in human, mouse, and rat cortical circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.672986v1

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · Sep 1

🌟 #FENS-#EJN Awards and Prizes: Last Chance! 🌟

TODAY is the last day to submit nominations for the two prestigious awards offered by #FENS in partnership with @ejneuroscience.bsky.social and @wiley.com!

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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.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh

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Investigating morphogen and patterning dynamics with optogenetic control of morphogen production

Morphogen gradients provide the patterning cues that instruct cell fate decisions during development. Here, we establish an optogenetic system for the…

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social

Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node

The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 14

Developing motor networks rely on brief windows of plasticity. This study identifies mitochondrial #ROS & HIF-1α as instructive signals that drive lasting #neural & #behavioral changes during these critical periods, linking #metabolism to circuit development @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mHrWq4

Top: Confocal micrograph of a Drosophila melanogaster larval neuromuscular junction. Motoneurons are labeled in red, while postsynaptic glutamate receptors are visualized in blue (subunit B) and yellow (subunit A). Bottom: Schematic summarising the main findings of the paper. An early manipulation (32-degree heat stress) during the critical period in the embryo stage is then followed up by assessment of synapse size and composition, nerve cell properties, and behavior in the 5-day larva.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our current approach to defining neural populations is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

The challenge of defining a neural population

Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.

www.thetransmitter.org

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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · Aug 13

The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts.

Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap:
brainglobe.info/documentatio...

#niu_osw

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Claudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · Aug 1

🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨

First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️

Find out more 👉: https://loom.ly/zMkMKcA

🔔 Stay tuned!

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Flor Iacaruso @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social · Aug 1

1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Laura Andreae @landreae.bsky.social · Jul 31

We could review letters of non-support for roles, narrative explanations of how they have managed to say no in the past, with specific plans for future declining.

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Laura Andreae @landreae.bsky.social · Jul 31

Maybe there should be a support group. ‘Just SAY NO to the external examiner role, you can do it!’ I’m in…

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · Jul 19

Want to learn everything there is to know about barcoded connectomics, brain clearing, and modern neuroanatomy? There is still time to apply for the CSHL High Throughput Neuroanatomy course! Stipends are available. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Jul 5

Graph of British Rivers

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Laura Andreae @landreae.bsky.social · Jun 28

Congratulations Bita! Great news for ALBA!

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