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Abi pienaar

@abipienaar.bsky.social
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Manchester based neuroscientist. Researching circadian rhythms and vision but with other interests too!

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Avinash Shenoy @avishenoy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📢New Community Page describing #grafifyonline a browser-app that provides publication-quality graphs and statistical analysis. I hope you the community finds it useful! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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grafify online: A web app for graphing and statistical analysis
Creating accurate graphs and performing statistical analyses can be challenging for those who lack coding experience. This Community Page introduces grafify online, a free, browser-based app for gener...
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Oxford Sleep Medicine @oxsleepmed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📢NEW masterclass on Circadian Rhythm Disorders! 🥼Bookings are now open for our two-day online masterclass developed for clinical professionals & researchers. 💡LIMITED half-funded training scholarships are available. Eligibility criteria apply. 🔗More info & bookings: www.scni.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 05/08/2026
Graphing and statistically analyzing data is challenging without coding expertise. This Community Page by @avishenoy.bsky.social introduces grafify online, a free, browser app for generating publication-quality graphs and performing statistical tests and comparisons. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/3RpUg6E
Types of graphs and color schemes available in grafify online.
A. Examples of graphs that can be plotted with grafify online. Box and whiskers and violin plots show a line at the median with a box representing the interquartile range (IQR) and whiskers that show 1.5× IQR. Bar graphs and point and error-bar plots show the mean, and the dispersion can be shown as standard deviation (default), standard error of mean, or 95% confidence intervals. Before–after plots show matched data. Numeric XY graphs have numeric variables on both and X- and Y-axes and require a grouping variable that is either categorical (Numeric XY 1) or numeric (Numeric XY 2). B. Categorical (left) and numeric (right) color palettes that are accessible to colorblind individuals
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Abi pienaar @abipienaar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excited to finally share our latest preprint! 🎉 Its been a long time in the making so it's great to finally have it out in the world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Neuroscience #CircadianRhythms #Preprint
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Circadian phase reconfigures information transmission in the mouse visual thalamus
Circadian clocks are a ubiquitous feature of the mammalian brain, yet whether they regulate how neural circuits encode and transmit information remains largely unknown. Here, we address this question ...
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Ali Twelvetrees @dozenoaks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 Early bird registration deadline for NeuroBioUK26 is fast approaching! Register by July 17th to secure your discounted rate (£35) AND remember to submit your abstract to be in the running for a talk slot. You're faithful organising committee have some hard deadlines this year, so please submit!
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NeuroBioUK - Registration
Step 1: Register through our event page. All attendees should register to attend through our event page. Early bird registration deadline is the 17th of July (£35) and late registration deadline is th...
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
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18 teams analyzed a neuro dataset and got different answers
Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
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Eddy Rhodes @eddycurrents.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The deadline for this opportunity has been extended! Can still apply up to the 22nd June. #phd #phdposition #sciencejobs #neuroskyence #neurojobs
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Abi pienaar @abipienaar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks to everyone who came to visit my poster yesterday! #SRBR2026
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Abi pienaar @abipienaar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How do circadian clocks shape how we see? I'll be presenting at this online event on Thursday, so come along if want to find out! Free for BNA members@dns-uom.bsky.social @biologicaltimemcr.bsky.social
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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The BNA Members’ Meeting programme is now live! Join us online 22–23 April for Rapid-fire talks, research communications, posters and more. Free for BNA members - join instantly from £11/year. Explore the full programme and register via bna.org.uk
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 20/04/2026
Closing today - please repost!
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Naomi Mittet @naolimit.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Submission deadline: December 13th, 2026. "We are especially interested in work that moves beyond descriptive chronobiology toward mechanistic and predictive frameworks that integrate data with mathematics, physics or systems theory." www.nature.com/collections/...
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About the Editor | Biological Oscillators Across Scales: Mathematical and Mechanistic Principles
This collection invites research on biological oscillators with an emphasis on combining mechanistic and theoretical approaches to explain data.
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Abi pienaar @abipienaar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This world sleep day, here are chronobiologists top tips for better sleep! www.instagram.com/reel/DLXKIlj...
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
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DendroTweaks @dendrotweaks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us for a free online workshop on neuronal modeling with #DendroTweaks and #Dendrify! 📅 When: Late April 2026 (exact schedule TBA) 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/txUzajvPBzDc... #neuroskyence #compneurosky
Online workshop: Practical introduction to neuronal modeling with DendroTweaks and Dendrify
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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab @sleep-rhul.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/denm... “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight”… and now red skies at night, bats’ delight! 🦇 Great to see Denmark considering how light affects our whole ecosystem 💙 🇩🇰 🌙
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Denmark Is Switching to Red Streetlights, and It Could Revolutionize Urban Lighting Around the World
A quiet suburb near Copenhagen is changing how cities light the night, replacing familiar white streetlights with a color few expect.
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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Designing an effective poster webinar, free for all. www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-web... Thank-you to @addgene.bsky.social for sponsorship! #AcademicSky #EduSky #neuroskyence
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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles “ 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
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BioClocks UK @bioclocksuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Find out what the UK #chronobiology community has been up to and how we're working to bring science out of the lab in our newsletter: heyzine.com/flip-book/a3...
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Online Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Animal Biology in Health & Disease - Mick Craig
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is not on Bsky yet, but they have a new website. If you are interested in vision research, RPB is a source of funding for your work. I owe my career to RPB in many ways. www.rpbusa.org
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Home - Research to Prevent Blindness
At Research to Prevent Blindness, we enable the creation of treatments, preventives and cures for all eye diseases that threaten vision through scientific research.
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
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Abi pienaar @abipienaar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My tips as a chronobiologist for better sleep! www.instagram.com/p/DLXKIljspaw/ @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network. 📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here! ➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!
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Federico D’Agostino @fededagos.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)
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