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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Jean Christophe Poncer @poncerlab.bsky.social · 7d

Pour un dialogue éclairé et raisonné sur l’expérimentation en neurosciences, ses progrès, ses promesses !
Ça se passe à l’Hotel de Ville de Paris ce lundi 6 octobre à 17 h !
Ouvert à tous publics, sur inscription gratuite.
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DIM C-BRAINS @c-brains.bsky.social · 9d

Fête de la Science 🧠

Lundi 6 octobre 17h-19h Hôtel de ville de Paris

Comprendre le cerveau et ses maladies : dialogue sur les enjeux éthiques, scientifiques et médicaux.

Avec @clairewyart.bsky.social , @bathellierlab.bsky.social ,...

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Plongée au cœur des neurosciences : un débat inédit entre chercheurs et représentants de la société civile pour questionner l’avenir de la recherche. Dates de l’événement : 6 octobre 2025, de 17h à 19...

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Lindsay Schwarz @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social · 13d

With 2 postdocs moving on to faculty positions🥳, we're looking to hire someone new. If you're interested in norepinephrine and neural circuits, please apply! tinyurl.com/42bfe24k

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Developmental Neurobiology

A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Lindsay Schwarz in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Schwarz l...

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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 18d

This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 20d

🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟

Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹 No teaching requirements
🔹 100% internally funded
🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams

📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 23d

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 23d

Imagine being the kind of person with the chutzpah to "explain" to Margaret Atwood what Margaret Atwood meant in The Handmaid's Tale

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catistory @catistory.bsky.social · Sep 7

In September 1919, Escher moved to Haarlem to study architecture. His landlady in Haarlem gifted Escher a white cat, who stayed his pet and companion during his student years. Escher lovingly portrayed his cat in several wood cuts.

Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher

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Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD @neuroangelica-atb.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Are you a Colombian Neuroscientist attending #SfN2025?
"Tomémonos un tinto, seamos amigos".
Let's celebrate the achievements of our community at the "Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting" in San Diego!
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for further details 🗓️
@joeycheers.bsky.social

Event Title: Colombian Neuroscientist Networking Meeting
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Venue: Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
Meeting Room Assignment: Marriott Grand Ballroom: Salon 3

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Herbert Wu @herbertwu.bsky.social · Sep 4

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés @madrelabutd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Pleased to share our lab's latest research article led by Melissa Salazar, a new PhD student in my lab🤓🐀.

We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do immune cells shape the adolescent brain?

#URochesteresearch found that microglia strengthen dopamine circuits in the frontal cortex, a region tied to decision-making and mental health @urochestersmd.bsky.social

Brain’s Immune Cells Key to Wiring the Adolescent Brain

Making a smoothie, going for an evening walk, or having empathy for a loved one are all examples of executive functions that are controlled by the brain’s frontal cortex. This area of the brain goes t...

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Lauren Reynolds @laurenmac.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted to be among the ERC Starting Grant awardees for 2025 !!! This grant will investigate how adolescent exploration or risk-taking shapes brain development and behavioral outcomes. More info coming soon ! #ERCStG 🇪🇺

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 28

rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸

Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations

Molecular Psychiatry - Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · Aug 27

Adolescence is a critical window for brain development

#URochesterResearch by Stowell & Wang shows how microglia help wire frontal circuits—and the implications this could have for disorders like schizophrenia and ADHD @urochestersmd.bsky.social

via @natureportfolio.nature.com
👉 rdcu.be/eCzAv

Oil painting on canvas by Rianne Stowell, PhD. It depicts microglial processes (green) responding and interacting with dopaminergic axons (magenta).

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Aug 21

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

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Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors

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Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey there! Just a quick reminder — tomorrow's the deadline! Submit your abstract and get ready to dazzle our students and scholars in biological psychology with your talk on Zoom :)

Ali Mohebi @mohebial.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
(Ping me for Qs)
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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Aug 18

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 29th August!

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · Jun 30

Super excited to announce a follow-up to the Janelia 'mechanistic basis of foraging' conference - this time held in Birmingham, UK! Join us from the 3rd - 5th November to discuss all things foraging: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Homepage - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging

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Lauren Reynolds @laurenmac.bsky.social · Aug 6

it’s august and in better news, my cat just celebrated her 4th birthday

Beautiful cat laying on bed but standing with her front paws, like a cat mullet. Business in front, lounging in back.

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Lauren Reynolds @laurenmac.bsky.social · Aug 5

say hi to seasonal summer polar from me

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Louis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · Aug 4

A very good read if you want to learn everything there is to know about dopamine. Take a look at chapter 4!
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience | Volume 32: The Handbook of Dopamine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés @madrelabutd.bsky.social · Jul 28

📣 Thrilled to announce I'll be guest editing my 1st special issue! 🧠🎉 "Early Life Influences on Addiction"

Seeking original research, reviews & perspectives. Spread the word 🗣️

📅 October 1, 2025
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/yc23kere
💬 DM me/reply to learn more- I'd love to hear from you! #Neuroskyence

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IBENS @ibensens.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢Call for Junior Professor Chair in Neuroscience (tenure track position)

@psl-univ.bsky.social is launching a call for applications for a Junior Professor Chair in Life Sciences entitled “Neurosciences”, to be based at #IBENS

Deadline: September 30th, 2025 4pm

www.bio.ens.psl.eu/depbio/spip....

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Jul 29

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

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NIH spending battle’s ripple effect

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