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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Fun day building a ´basic’ fiber photometry setup for green fluorescent biosensors with rotating student Lauryn! (🥹 Please excuse the lack of mounted equipment happening, this was a rough-in). As you can see by the number of LED drivers, the end result of this build will be less ‘basic’.

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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 05/01/2026

🚨 PI position in dept. of Neuroscience with lab located the @crchum.bsky.social Hiring at assistant/associate prof level in the fields of neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies can-acn.org/professor-re...

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Professor-researcher (assistant or associate) in Neuroscience related to neural regeneration, stem cells and spinal-associated pathologies – Université de Montréal – Canadian Association for Neuroscie...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Very much enjoyed my visit to Bonn & Michael Wenzel’s group for a chance to share some new data and discuss together future directions in hippocampal SD research. Excited to work together! (Also great to catch up over lunch with Martin Fuhrmann!)

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Dream come true last night - Rachelle surprised me on our flight over to ICSD with tickets for Radiohead in Berlin!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Is this the perfect grant writing album?

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Extremely New Mexico view from my front porch this morning:

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

(Clearly I need to get a little more creative because when I posted my Nat Comms paper earlier this year, I also wrote “Excited to share..”!) 🥹

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Congrats to my tech Briana on her first pub! 🍻

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Step-by-step protocol and common troubleshooting steps are all there! Stay tuned for the accompanying video!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Excited to share the first publication out of my lab! www.jove.com/t/69418/simu... We describe the approach that I developed during my postdoc in the Thompson Lab for inducing stroke in behaving mice while recording neuronal activity in the emerging core.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Matt, you know I’ll always be a 🇨🇦⛄️ at heart.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Still highs of 20 down here 🥹🌵

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So great to have you for a visit! Looking forward to staying in touch.

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FPbase @fpbase.org · 04/11/2025

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/

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FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer

An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Congrats to you and your team! Go Jays is right! 🇨🇦!

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David @dav1dcg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice - Nature Communications

The authors present the adaptive optics system MD-FSS, which allows high-resolution brain imaging in awake mice with rapid aberrations correction against motion. It reveals differences in brain functi...

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Wendy Xin @droligo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Huge congrats @amygleichman.bsky.social on this phenomenal study, demonstrating regional differences in astrocyte responses to stroke and a key role for astrocytes in post-stroke angiogenesis and repair! (see also - gorgeous astrocytes for fluorescence Friday) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fluorescently labeled astrocytes at varying distances from cortical or white matter stroke infarct border

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Experienced Albuquerque’s balloon fiesta for the first time today! Very cool.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Wow - congratulations! Cool project.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Really fun weekend exploring Southern NM - stopped in at a roastery in Hatch (home of the chile) & camped near White Sands National Park - this state is so cool!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hippocampal SD on the cover of STM! 😍

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m in the market for a fanless solid state (DPSS) 561 nm laser & both companies I’ve purchased from in the past seem to have either vanished or aren’t replying to my inquiries & quote requests 👻 anyone have a good source?

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Cool! What a creative, yet simple, approach. Love this kind of science!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Sounds very interesting! Looking forward to giving it a read today. Congrats to you and your team!

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Craig Brown @craigedbrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Retrograde and anterograde trans-synaptic viral tracing of neuronal connections reveals local and distant effects of ischemic stroke on dendritic spines - Myrthe Van Sprengel, Jenna Butterworth, Patri...

Focal stroke leads to complex neurological disturbances with variable recovery. One explanation for this variability is that stroke disrupts local and remote ne...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So excited to see this out! Congrats Zach!

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hot off the press! We found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induces a previously undescribed, second brain event after seizure, called cortical spreading depolarization (CSD), using optical neuroimaging in both a mouse model to human patients. 🧵 below! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans - Nature Communications

The underlying mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy remains not fully understood. Here, the authors use optical neuroimaging in mice and humans to show that electroconvulsive therapy elicits a secon...

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Beautiful work! Congrats to you, Sangyoon, and the rest of the team.

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

As I transition over to Bluesky I have to plug our new #book. If you haven't already, check out the 2nd edition of The #Hippocampus Book! academic.oup.com/book/59509?s...

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The Hippocampus Book

Abstract. The Hippocampus Book investigates the structure, function and pathology of the hippocampus and related cortical areas. It highlights the importan

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Louis-Eric Trudeau @louistrudeau.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I have an opening in my lab for a postdoctoral fellow to work on projects that relate to the mechanisms of neurotransmitter release by dopamine neurons and/or on how inflammatory signals infuence the functionning of these neurons. Please share.

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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We are very proud to announce the winner of the 2025 CAN New Investigator Award: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia - Read his profile here: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Thanks buddy! Looking forward to connecting in Montreal!

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thanks to wonderful collaborators & support from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta Innovates, CIHR, & Krembil Foundation.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Here, we demonstrate that regionally-isolated deleterious peri-infarct and remote seizure-associated beneficial spreading depolarizations can co-occur in the brain during acute ischemic stroke. Each driving a similar acute wandering behavior, but with distinct impacts on stroke recovery.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Please share! 👀 Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of New Mexico. Spreading depolarization & memory interactions.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Website for the Boyce Lab is live! I couldn't help it and included a bit of a New Mexico colour scheme. www.boyceneurolab.com

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The Boyce Lab

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Andrew Boyce @andrewboyce.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fun day combining work & a hike in San Lorenzo Canyon with colleagues Sam, David, & visiting speaker @olsenlab-vt.bsky.social

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