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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 39m

The award recognises BrainGlobe’s contribution to the advancement of open, accessible, and collaborative neuroscience.

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 39m

Huge congratulations to the @BrainGlobe.info team for winning the 2025 International Prize awarded by the @theneuro.bsky.social and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes Selection Committee 🎉

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 1d

We're delighted to host the travelling exhibition: ‘The art and legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’ at SWC next month.

📅 7–30 November
🕒 Fri: 2–5 PM | Sat–Sun: 10 AM–3 PM

🎟️ Register for the launch event on 7 November, 16:30 🔽

sruk.org.uk/ceru-events/...

Photo of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, courtesy of The Cajal Legacy, Spain.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 2d

What makes our PhD programme unique?

🤖 Boot Camp
🔬 Access to advanced facilities
🤝 Interdisciplinary collaboration with global experts
💰 £28.4k tax-free stipend

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 6d

A new case study from the Neurobiological Research Facility at SWC outlines a centralised framework for training and competence in animal research, built on collaboration.

Out now in Animal Technology and Welfare.

📃 www.atwjournal.com/_files/ugd/a...

🔗 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/cen...

Centralised training and competency framework at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

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Andreas Schaefer @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social · 8d

Lots of exciting clinical PhD projects at Crick - including the opportunity for neurosurgeons to work with us and record electrical activity in patients with neuropixels probes. Please share widely!

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 8d

We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join our 3-year fully funded clinical PhD programme. 🔬🩺

Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Doctoral clinical fellows

The Crick's clinical PhD programme.

www.crick.ac.uk

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 7d

Are you a researcher at @ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, or @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social looking to keep up with the Crick?

Sign up to our monthly newsletter for researchers at our partner universities to hear about events, opportunities and news ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/res...

Four scientists in lab coats in a laboratory space, talking and listening.

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 24d

DeMBA (Developmental Mouse Brain Atlas) has now been added to BrainGlobe!

This includes every developmental stage from P4 to P56. Each of these 53 atlases includes MRI, LSFM and STPT templates.

For more details, see the blog:
brainglobe.info/blog/DeMBA

Paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Coronal sections of the DeMBA from anterior to posterior at five ages. Each section shows the STPT template on the left side and the transformed Allen Mouse Brain CCFv3 segmentations on the right side.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to all the new SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social PhD students for successfully completing Boot Camp!

We are delighted to welcome you to the community.

Students showcased their robots in our hotly anticipated annual @noblackboxes.bsky.social Robot Competition 🦾⚽💻

Photo of staff and students at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, with robots competing in a football match.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 10d

At SWC, we’re not afraid to ask bold questions. We’re striving to understand how the brain gives rise to behaviour.

Join us for your PhD!

🧠 World-class training in systems neuroscience
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme

Apply by 3 Nov ⬇️

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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noblackboxes.bsky.social @noblackboxes.bsky.social · 13d

Final day of our 3-week @noblackboxes.bsky.social course with the PhD students of @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social!

Today is showcase of final projects 🤖! So much learned, so much fun!

👉 This could be you or your students!

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 14d

In a recent SWC seminar, Dr Nuo Li (Duke University) shared his work on context-specific preparatory states in motor circuits — stable patterns that shape voluntary movement.

Read more in our Q&A ⤵️
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/ready...

Photo of children riding bikes, overlaid with ‘SWC Speaker Series’

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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 14d

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments?

Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme.

Join us and be part of a vibrant research community!

💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

@sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 15d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 15d

From a fascination with moral philosophy to building “Rat City,” SWC Seminar speaker Gowan Tervo (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social) discusses his work on the neural basis of social decision-making in our latest Q&A.

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/weigh...

Three illustrations of rats in a zoo-like environment with a wall separating two groups in the first image, the rats from different groups mixing in the second image and the rats being removed in the third illustration

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 16d

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.

Join us in London!

🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social

Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 17d

ICYMI, our director Professor Tom Mrsic-Flogel was on BBC 5 Live, discussing the new brain activity map from the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social⤵️

🎧2:12:32
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Naga Munchetty - With Marianna Spring - BBC Sounds

Marianna Spring features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sandra Reinert @sandra-neuro.bsky.social · 17d

Come join us for great science in a beautiful venue next April!
Submit your abstract to be a part of our early career symposium until Oct 15th!

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 23d

Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and @sandra-neuro.bsky.social) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026.

Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 20d

Well done to all the students and instructors, including SWC PhD student @tomnotgeorge.bsky.social who helped organise the course, and fellow instructors & SWC affiliates @neurokim.bsky.social & @skuechenhoff.bsky.social !

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 20d

We were proud to support the 2025 @trendcamina.bsky.social course at the University of Zambia!

Students and faculty across Africa joined 20+ international researchers for training in computational neuroscience & machine learning.

Photo collage of students at the 2025 TreND CaMinA course.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 22d

Stick or twist?

During his PhD at Harvard, SWC’s Dr Michael Bukwich developed a virtual foraging task for mice to uncover how the brain decides when to move on ⤵️

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/gra...

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 23d

Conference Information:
www.swc.ucl.ac.uk/winterneuros...

Abstract submission:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Home - IWNC2026

Home page for the International Winter Neuroscience Conference

www.swc.ucl.ac.uk

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 23d

Join the symposium for senior trainees & junior group leaders (organised by SWC's Sara Mederos and @sandra-neuro.bsky.social) at the International Winter Neuroscience Conference, Austria, April 2026.

Abstract submission to present your work at the Early Career Symposium closes on 15 Oct

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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 24d

In our next guest blog, GSoC participant Saarah Hussain talks about her summer working on @brainglobe.info.

neuroinformatics.dev/blog/gsoc_20...

Screenshot of the brainglobe-registration tool Saarah worked on during Google Summer of Code

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 24d

Professor Peyman Golshani, UCLA, discusses his research on working memory in our latest SWC Seminar Speaker Q&A:

www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wor...

Image of a smartphone screen, overlaid with ‘SWC Speaker Series’.