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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting how companies and the financial world is racing to spend mindboggling amounts of money to build the infrastructure to train computers. But we are leaving the infrastructure to train and educate humans crumbling. The question is who will train who?

a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 2d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Baptiste Libé-Philippot @blibep.bsky.social · 24d

Choose Europe for Science needs also strong postdoc fellowship funding.

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 24d

This is a disaster if the EU doesn't follow up by doubling the budget 😬🧪

Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 25d

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 28d

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030

abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

University Researcher in Bioimaging / Universitetsforskare med inriktning bioimaging, 1.11.2025-31.12.2030

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · Sep 4

There's a very cool Buzsaki #neuroskyence paper out in Science this week, looking at hippocampal spatial information encoding by multiple interneuron subtypes in parallel. The brilliant @agonru.bsky.social and I wrote a wee perspective to go alongside it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do inhibitory interneurons encode information or just keep the rhythm?

Inhibitory interneurons may help encode the brain’s internal representation of space

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Lisa Traunmüller @lisatraunmueller.bsky.social · Aug 22

Extremely excited to share the outcome of a fantastic collaboration with @erinduffyphd.bsky.social revealing how experiences reshape hippocamapl chromatin and gene expression.
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬

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

Novel environment exposure drives temporally defined and region-specific chromatin accessibility and gene expression changes in the hippocampus - Nature Communications

Hippocampal neurons adapt to experience through changes in gene expression and chromatin accessibility. Here, authors show that novel environment exposure induces region- and cell-type specific transc...

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Aug 18

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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Taro Kitazawa @kitazawa-taro.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please RP.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out!
”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition”

We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Zeynep Okur @zeynepokur.bsky.social · Jun 11

@scheiffelelab.bsky.social and I discussed the unique properties of synapses onto parvalbumin interneurons, the current knowledge & future aspects of the molecular mechanisms regulating these synaptic inputs: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Molecular programs specifying properties and plasticity of parvalbumin interneuron innervation

Parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons, a class of fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons, govern gain-control and the timing of neuronal signal propagat…

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Eran Mukamel @neurome.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

The engram is still out there, waiting to be rigorously discovered!

False positives in study of memory-related gene expression - Nature

Nature - False positives in study of memory-related gene expression

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Jens Hjerling Leffler @hjerling-leffler.bsky.social · Jun 2

Postdoc positions available in my lab @ki.se Sweden - exciting science, fantastic environment and great quality of life. I take mentoring seriously - 7/7 postdocs that left my lab has faculty positions today. Existing datasets and funds to build new ones available. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoc in Single Cell Genomics, Jens Hjerling-Leffler group, Karolinska Institutet

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The position is located within The Division of Molecular Neurobiology in the lab of Professor Jens Hjerling-Leffler at the Department of Medi

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @cshlnews.bsky.social · May 5

For the 200 million women worldwide with endometriosis—a disease often misunderstood and underdiagnosed—this dedication to scientific discovery is a huge step in the right direction. #Endendo #EndoFound #Endometriosis
www.cshl.edu/endometriosi...

Endometriosis Foundation of America commits $10 million to CSHL | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

From being told that their pain is not real to facing the heartbreak of infertility and even the threat of death, women dealing with endometriosis face incredible, sometimes lifelong journeys that can...

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Don Arnold @don-b-arnold.bsky.social · May 1

ATLAS, a rationally designed transsynaptic tracer is out today! Plasmids will soon be available on
@addgene.bsky.social
addgene nature.com/articles/s41...

Many thanks to first authors Jackie Rivera and Haoyang Huang, and to collaborators @blsabatini.bsky.social @beherring.bsky.social

ATLAS: a rationally designed anterograde transsynaptic tracer - Nature Methods

ATLAS is a tool for circuit tracing, demonstrated here in rodents. It allows anterograde transsynaptic tracing, starting from genetically defined neurons.

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Oscar Marín Lab @marinlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

1/10 Our latest research, led by @martijnselten.bsky.social, identifies a mechanism through which Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate their activity in the #cortex. This is the story @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... ⬇︎ 🧵 @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · Apr 11

❗Serious consequences for the Swiss economy and society – the SNSF urges the abandonment of the proposed cuts to research funding in "Relief Package 27," as they threaten the country's innovative capacity and competitiveness.

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The SNSF urges against cuts

In its statement on "Relief Package 27", the SNSF speaks out against the proposed annual cuts of 10 percent.

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Ahilya Sawh @hilsawh.bsky.social · Apr 10

🍁🚨 WE'RE HIRING!🚨🍁 Our baby lab at the University of Toronto is expanding, many many thanks to funding from #CIHR and @hfspo.bsky.social. We are in search of a technician, postdoc, and PhD students! Further details on our website (sawhlab.netlify.app/people/), please share!

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by Adam Ramsaran:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kva73QW8S...

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Jens Hjerling Leffler @hjerling-leffler.bsky.social · Apr 8

Alert! Postdoc positions available - at least two. Interested in coming to Karolinska and work on adolescent development/schizophrenia? Have a background in neuroscience, functional genomics, computational analysis or spatial transcriptomics? Large data sets available for analysis. Get in touch!

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Joris de Wit @synapse-lab.bsky.social · Apr 8

Postdoc opportunity in the heart of Europe! Check out the flyer below.
Join our team on an international project with Anthony Holtmaat exploring synaptic plasticity and specificity in cortical and thalamocortical circuits.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Mar 21

"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub

Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus

Memory engrams are formed through experience-dependent plasticity of neural circuits, but their detailed architectures remain unresolved. Using three-dimensional electron microscopy, we performed nano...

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Esther Klingler @estherkli.bsky.social · Mar 10

📣 Postdoc opportunity !
Our lab is hiring a funded postdoc to explore the development of fear circuits using slice electrophysiology. If you have expertise in this area and are interested about cutting-edge neuroscience, reach out ! 🤗
klinglerlab.org
Please share with your network 🙏

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · Mar 4

Congratulations to Nesibe Temiz on successfully defending her PhD thesis last week! During her PhD, she explored how the brain's ability to process sensory information changes during development and learning 🧠✨

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Mar 3

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until May 18, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibasel.ch
#fellowship #PhD #Switzerland #lifesciences

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Clem Bernard @clembrnrd.bsky.social · Feb 26

Our little update on the latest knowledge on interneuron wiring! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic regulation of cortical interneuron wiring

Inhibitory interneurons play crucial roles in modulating the circuits and activity patterns of the cerebral cortex. In particular, interneurons must a…

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Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social · Feb 20

"My mom will always be a role model for me. She always instilled this sense into me that everything is possible," says @hannahornberg.bsky.social, head of the "Molecular and Cellular Basis of Behavior" lab at #mdcBerlin.

Tell us who has inspired you! 👇 #mdcDiversity #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

Celebrating our #WomenInSTEM: Hanna Hörnberg

YouTube video by Max Delbrück Center

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