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Ann Clemens

@annmclemens.bsky.social
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neuroscientist, principal investigator, interested in natural behaviour & social brain ontogeny. kinshiplab.org

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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 16h
congrats to Hegemann, Deisseroth, and Nagel for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Remarkably, I still have the photo of this amazing poster hanging outside the Hegemann lab in Berlin from 2016 @humboldtuni.bsky.social @nobelprize.org @jwietek.bsky.social "a new force awakened" ⚡🧠🧪
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy to share that the first African spiny mouse has landed at Little France - Edinburgh Bioquarter 🧪🔬🎉 Bienvenue petite souris 🐭
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thoughts for times when academia feels tough 💡 Hodgkin and Huxley co-discovered the ionic basis of the action potential which underlies how electrical signals are propagated in neurons 🧠
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if you're in Edinburgh and looking for research experience 👩‍🔬 🧑‍🔬 we're offering opportunities to join our work on **the sticky sense** in humans and rodents with potential for field research 🫎 🔭 get in touch 💻 📫 📞 @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Merci beaucoup @inmed.bsky.social for the hospitality. Great science, lovely people, epic landscape. @davidrobbe.bsky.social @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social 🙏⛰️🐙
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Jan Gründemann @jangrundemann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow! 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Brainwide representation of navigation
Tracking your position in the environment during navigation requires integrating multiple signals into a spatial representation. This process is thought to occur primarily in the hippocampal formation...
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Enny van Beest @ennyvb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net
Brainwide representations of a virtual corridor
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this jellyfish may revert to its wounded inner child when stressed 🪼 🧐
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Prime cat content brought to you by Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Signatures of branched-chain fatty acids derived from a kidney reservoir confer stable chemical individuality on domestic cats
Ichizawa et al. show that cats maintain durable chemical individuality in urine through donor-specific branched-chain fatty acid (BFA) profiles stabilized by renal cortical lipid droplets. This kidney...
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
grateful for the invitation to visit the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology 🙏 @inmed.bsky.social looking forward to many scientific discussions and a swim or two à la Méditerranée 🪸🏊‍♀️ @davidrobbe.bsky.social @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what i refer to as a full-spectrum 🏳️‍🌈 espresso-code-writing-kind-of-day(s) ☕ working on some cool new things, coming soon 💻
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Duncan Leitch @polyodon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check out our newest research paper! We looked at touch in Surinam toads (Pipa pipa), showing huge neural representation of and reliance upon their unusual fingertips. rdcu.be/fy3SE
Illustration of brown frog with large, elaborate branching fingertips
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 12/08/2026
What are the neuronal correlates of stickiness? Check out this amazing work done at @mblscience.bsky.social as part of the amazing @nsb-mbl.bsky.social course! 🤩 congrats to everyone involved!
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Prof Anthony Isles @profantisles.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mochi vs Mallows in rats 🤯🤯
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Jasmine Stone @jasmine-stone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thank you to @annmclemens.bsky.social and Michael Brecht for their support and mentorship as we brought this project that started @mblscience.bsky.social @nsb-mbl.bsky.social this summer from idea to paper form, it was so much fun to work with Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social, Adam, Tom and Pam.
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Simone (she/her) @simonerencken.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out this fun project we started at @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social this summer 🤩
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's out 🎊 Species-specific housing and routine procedures for spiny mice (Acomys) maintained in large individually ventilated cages tinyurl.com/6k7t796u thx Kerstin Bartscherer for leading the way, Edinburgh Spiny Mouse Core @aidarodrigo.bsky.social Sofia Ferreira Gonzalez We hope it is useful.
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Constanze Lenschow @constanze-lenschow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you would like to support my journey, whether through a donation or simply by sharing my GoFundMe page, it would mean more than words can say. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Constanze ❤️ gofund.me/6c3dbadf2
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Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam, organized by Banas Araujo
It’s incredibly hard to watch someone you love fight the batt… Banas Araujo braucht deine Unterstützung für Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam
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Simone (she/her) @simonerencken.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Had so much fun doing science with this dream team at the Neural Systems and Behavior course @nsb-mbl.bsky.social at @mblscience.bsky.social! 🐀✨
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Simone (she/her) @simonerencken.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I’m happy to share that our paper about the Sepia officinalis genome is out in eLife!🧬 We compared the assemblies of two individuals that had a different predicted number of chromosomes, and found highly repetitive regions that likely prevented a complete assembly. elifesciences.org/articles/107...
Image of a European common cuttlefish
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Jasmine Stone @jasmine-stone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thank you @annmclemens.bsky.social and all involved for an awesome experience learning to patch, do behavioral experiments, and even get results along the way in a creative and fun project!
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Congrats to the 2026 rat somatosensory team 🐀🧠 Adam, Jasmine, Pam, Sandra, Simone and Tom on their groundbreaking teamwork @nsb-mbl.bsky.social Thx to 🪰🐟 modules, staff, directors for amazing support in making this year another fun-filled, enriching scientific experience 💫 @mblscience.bsky.social
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Good evening from a windy Eel pond bridge 🛶🇺🇸 Thrilled to have arrived for the Neural Systems & Behavior course 🔬somatosensory module 🧠 🐀 @mblscience.bsky.social Super excited to drive forward the frontiers of science with the '26 NS&B students & dive into the magic that is Woods Hole 🪄 🐙
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
my morning has been enriched : the Organism-Environment Pairing by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com 🙏
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This must be one of the most delicious figures we have ever published. In this primer Guoan Zhou, Zhixi Tian and colleagues introduce the domestication history and biology odyssey soybean and its many uses. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Science of Love meeting ❤️ @royalsociety.org with familiar and new faces, stimulating 🍷conversations + castle views 🏰 @neurozoe.bsky.social
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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who: - Is UK based - Looking for flexible, part time work - Has an academic/research background - Wants to build a research grants program - Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔
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Research Manager | British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) | Ecology Jobs
Location: Hybrid – Shropshire office, mostly remoteSalary: £30,000 – £40,000 pro rata (depending on experience)Contract: Permanent, 2–3 days per weekClosing date: 13 July 2026 Make a difference for one of the UK’s most loved species The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) is a UK charity dedicated to protecting and conserving native hedgehogs. Through research, advocacy,
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
kinda like doing the Sunday crossword 🐭🔬
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Enjoyed a great day of science and speaking at the U van Amsterdam neuro research day, lovely hospitality and sweet gifts from the PhD students 🎨🧠🥰
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
c u soon Amsterdam 🚴 @swammerdamuva.bsky.social looking forward to this and flattered for the invitation, in great company 🧑‍🔬 now to finish my talk ✈️ 💻
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
is #Leith aspiring to be the next Copenhagen 🚲🚲 love the new cycleways 🚲 at the Shore & just noticed these amazing cycle footstops ❤️🚲 @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social #LeithConnections
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
kudos to the Teviot cafe baristas for my amazing double cat doodle flat white today 😸☕🐈 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
excited to have made a small contribution to this amazing work on spiny mouse skin autotomy and regeneration 🐭 stay tuned for more developments 🔬🧪 A novel fracture lattice in spiny mouse skin facilitates tissue autotomy and regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We have an exciting PhD student opening for a collaboration between @Ernesto Ciabatti combining next-gen viral tracing tools & in vivo systems methods to decipher the structure & function of locus coeruleus arousal circuits 🐭🧠 UK home students only. Interested? Please get in touch! bit.ly/4bSXeXv
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Bonny spring lunch vibes 🌷😎 #leith
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
stoked to have arrived at the beautiful @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for a few days of intense discussion on the neuroscience 🧠 of animal societies 🐘🐀🦇 with some of my favourite colleagues. very much looking forward to this
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Sanja Mikulovic @smikulovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In line with many good news these days 🌟 I’m happy to share that I’ve accepted the professorship in Neuronal Circuits for Social Behaviour and Learning at @meduniwien.ac.at! 🎉
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
So great! Mechanical engineers study the physics of elephant whiskers. Unlike mice, elephants don’t whisk. The physics of their whiskers suggests they amplify touch. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Functional gradients facilitate tactile sensing in elephant whiskers
Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the animal’...
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We’re hiring a Group Leader! Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience. Find out more and apply ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...
We're hiring! This is a unique opportunity to translate our understanding of neural computation - from circuit-level mechanisms to computational principles -  into the human brain, through the establishment of cutting-edge human neural recording capabilities with collaborators in London and abroad.
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
3 days left to apply! ✍️
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@annmclemens.bsky.social (and her artwork) is about as far you can get from AI slop.
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
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Mario Carta @mariocarta.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
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The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
excited to embark on a new era @nsb-mbl.bsky.social w directors Lauren O'Connell (Stanford) + Bruce Carlson (WashU), new 6-week format for graduate students, postdocs & investigators. learn state-of-the-art methods & approach towards neural systems of behavior. deadline Feb 2. tinyurl.com/57476k4v
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Carla Golden @goldenneurons.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7
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Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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