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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join us in Lausanne, 3–5 Feb 2027, for the Global Stress & Resilience Meeting! 8 plenary panels + symposia, posters, Datablitz & awards, spanning mechanisms to applications. Early registration & abstracts: 10 Oct 2026 stress-and-resilience-meeting27.epfl.ch #GSRNet2027 @gsrnet.bsky.social

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us - Registration and abstracts submission EXTENDED till September 17th! & a few places available...

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Join us in Lausanne on 7 Oct for a 1-day Symposium We will bridge the field of stress & resilience with cognitive ageing and brain rejuvenation Outstanding keynotes, talks, posters & discussion Places first come first served Poster abstracts + registration by 7 Sept: www.epfl.ch/research/dom...

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Join us in Lausanne on 7 October for a 1-day symposium on “Building Brain Resilience: From Stress Adaptation to Cognitive Aging”. Outstanding programme! Registration: first-come, first-served basis, with very low fees. Abstracts welcome! We hope to see many of you! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

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Nirosha J. Murugan @niroshajmurugan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you @carmensandi10.bsky.social & Aurelie Lattion for this kind invitation and opportunity to share an energy-centric view on stress!

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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why are some of us more willing to put in more effort & what changes when that fades? The Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social lab links effort-based motivation to mitochondrial health in D1 ventral striatum neurons. Males & females have the same deficit but via distinct routes: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Outstanding sessions upcoming at the FENS Forum! Join us!

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Join us for what promises to be a great social at @fens.org Forum!

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Shape the Global Stress and Resilience Meeting taking place in Lausanne, Feb 3-5 2026, submitting a proposal for a symposium or panel! Outstanding plenary speakers and discussants already confirmed and soon to be announced! stress-and-resilience-meeting27.epfl.ch

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Global Stress and Resilience Meeting: From Mechanisms to Applications

! Call for proposals deadline extended -> May 15, 2026 (5:00 pm CEST) ! Registration is now open! We encourage you to register early and submit your abstract to take advantage of reduced rates and con...

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Global Stress and Resilience Network (GSRNet) @gsrnet.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📅 Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 Details: stress-and-resilience-meeting27.epfl.ch/call-for-pro... Looking forward to the community’s contributions and to shaping the program together with @carmensandi10.bsky.social and @dequervain.bsky.social .

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I am looking forward to Elisabeth Binder's talk on stress mechanisms and the discussion that will follow. Join us tomorrow, March 4 (registration is still open)

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Global Stress and Resilience Network (GSRNet) @gsrnet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📅 3 weeks to go! Join us on March 4 for the next GSRNet Flagship Webinar with Elisabeth Binder, chaired by @carmensandi10.bsky.social Looking forward to a stimulating discussion on the moderators of the stress response! Registration 👉 forms.gle/FkGnJ71Uh7gr... #Stress #Resilience #WebinarSeries

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join us for the next GSRNet Flagship Webinar — I’ll be chairing a session with Elisabeth Binder. A great opportunity to hear how molecular discoveries in stress biology translate into meaningful clinical impact. Hope to see many of you on March 4!

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Deadline extended to 29 Jan 2026! Nominate!!!!! One of the most prestigious mid-career recognitions in neuroscience. A great chance to spotlight outstanding mid-career researchers whose achievements shine relative to opportunity. Self-nominations welcome!

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Join us in Fribourg (CH) for the Swiss Stress Network annual meeting on April 30th!

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Join us online on Dec 10! Looking forward to GSRNet flagship webinar with Scott Russo on brain–body circuits in stress and depression, which I’ll have the pleasure of chairing Great opportunity to connect from anywhere in the world and hear one of the leading experts in this rapidly evolving area!

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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

📢To all scientists working on STRESS and/or RESILIENCE: Save the date: 2027 GSRNet Conference, February 3–5, 2027 in Lausanne Cutting-edge science, discussion sessions & great networking across our global community to connect, exchange, and advance our field together Check for updates gsr-net.org

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GSRNet - Empowering collaboration and knowledge sharing

The Global Stress & Resilience Network (GSRNet) is a global community connecting stress and resilience researchers and national networks.

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Global Stress and Resilience Network (GSRNet) @gsrnet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🚨 Less than 1 month to go: second session of the GSRNet Flagship Webinar Series 🎙️ Scott Russo (USA) @scottrussophd.bsky.social 📆 December 10 — 3 PM CET | 2 PM GMT | 9 AM EST | 7:30 PM IST) 📼 Recording available on demand 👉 Registration: gsr-net.org/workshops-we...

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Global Stress and Resilience Network (GSRNet) @gsrnet.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🚨 Save the Date 🚨 The GSRNet Conference on Stress & Resilience 2027 will take place Feb 3–5, 2027 in Lausanne, Switzerland. This 3-day hybrid event will gather the global #stress and #resilience community, and the program promises to be exciting! More information coming soon! #GSRNet2027

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UCC Research @uccresearch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Professor @carmensandi10.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading stress neurobiologists, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science by @ucc.ie Professor Sandi leads the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics at EPFL in Switzerland. Read More 👇 www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Honorary conferring at UCC of Professor Carmen Sandi

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Looking forward to joining @uccresearch.bsky.social research and the @ucc.ie community for this Public Lecture & In Conversation with the brilliant @jfcryan.bsky.social & Deeply honored to be receiving an UCC Honorary Doctorate! See you very soon in Cork!

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Patricia González-Rodríguez #NoScienceNoFuture👩🏻‍🔬 @pgonzalezrodriguez.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🎤 10 Keynote Speakers 🔔 40 accepted symposia 🧠 Submit your abstract by December 1st! 📍 See you in Seville! 🇪🇸 #Dopamine #Seville2025 ➕Info: dopaminesociety.org/abstracts/

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Igor Branchi @igorbranchi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Plasticity—the capacity to change brain functioning and mental states—is an essential ingredient of recovery. Revealing its biological foundations and how it interacts with the environment is key to advancing precision psychiatry and promoting wellbeing. Join the @ecnp.eu New Forntiers Meeting! 👇

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International Brain Research Organization @ibroorg.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here’s a quick guide to ongoing & upcoming IBRO #grants for your next #neuroscience training, #BrainAwarenessWeek event, or internship program organization Explore the calendar: ibro.org/grants/grants-calendar #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope

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The Brain Prize @brainprize.org · 21/10/2025

“I was advised that having multiple children would detract from my scientific career. But I actually think that it has greatly benefited it.” Prof. @michellemonje.bsky.social, Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, #BrainPrize2025. #Neuroscience youtu.be/f7sbSuWie5A?...

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Balancing a career in science and personal life

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Carlos Ribeiro @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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From cognition in the body to the body in cognition

Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model systems.

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 21/10/2025

In Episode 5, four scientists from South Africa, the Czech Republic, the UK and the USA: 🌟 Challenge traditional success metrics ⚖️ Expose the toll of publish or perish and systemic inequality 👥 Share new ways to define success in academia

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 21/10/2025

🎧 Tune into the season finale! Season 2, Episode 5 of the #ALBA-#IBRO Diversity Podcast is available! 🌟 👉 loom.ly/PvDlNOI @network-alba.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🚨Don’t let the brain in Spain stay mainly in the plane! Today's the last day to apply for ALBA-CHS #TravelAwards that support early-career neuroscientists to attend #FENS2026 ✅ Final-year PhD/MD or ≤10 yrs post-degree (excl. parental/medical leave) 🌍 Open worldwide 👉🏾 loom.ly/7FOgCJc @fens.org

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Enormous thanks to the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation for this award! I am thrilled and truly humbled, & I share it with my lab over the years and our wonderful collaborators! A timely boost to keep our science moving! Thanks to everyone for your kind messages! Looking forward to #FENS2026!

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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New study by the group of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social shows that three mitochondrial associated metabolites in the dmPFC/dACC brain region can predict mental effort choices - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Neuroscientists! This is a great opportunity to recognize excellent colleagues for a prize and linked to give a talk at the FENS Forum in 2026! Nominate or apply directly! Deadline: Oct 29th! ALBA-Elsevier Award for Neuroscience - @network-alba.bsky.social

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

@gsrnet.bsky.social just launched Stress & Resilience Webinar Series with a great inaugural seminar by @kalischlab.bsky.social covering what stress resilience is, how to measure it & which processes help mitigate stress’s impact on mental health Missed it live? Recording soon available gsr-net.org

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ALBA @ #ECNP2025 : ✨ Transdisciplinarity drives discovery — diversity drives progress. At our diversity & inclusion session yesterday, we were reminded how global and cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential to advance brain health. 🧵 @fens.org @ecnp.eu

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🔎 Elsevier’s global #authorship metrics and #neuroscience #publishing market share, plus historical #representation at major #conferences, show some regions remain under-recognised globally. This #award highlights their excellence: winner delivers a Special Lecture at #FENS2026 🇪🇸 Apply by 15 October

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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

What is the best brain to study disorders of behavior? Great discussion at @ecnp.eu moderated by @jatinnagpal.bsky.social with inputs from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social @emreyaksi.bsky.social @eknapska.bsky.social & Hannah Clarke #ecnp2025

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

🎉 #ECNP2025 starts today! We are thrilled to take part once again to promote diversity, inclusion & global collaboration in neuroscience. 👋 Come meet us at the ALBA booth and discover our initiatives for equity in brain science. 💡 Don’t miss our session on Mon 13 Oct 🔗 loom.ly/EFCdYOk

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🚨 Closing in 5 days! If your application is still a draft, now’s the time to finalise it. Don’t miss your chance to be recognised through the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture, celebrating #neuroscientists advancing #brainresearch, #diversity, & regional #representation in science. 👉 loom.ly/FEG7E-w

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Attending #ECNP2025? Add the ALBA Diversity & Inclusion Session to your programme. 📅 Mon 13 Oct | 13:55–14:40 🔗 loom.ly/EFCdYOk See 🧵 for details. 🎪 ALBA also has a booth, so come and meet the team in the exhibition area. We will be next to @fens.org See you in Amsterdam! @ecnp.eu

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Excellent framework to understand the processes favoring health vs disease based on the Energy Resistance Principle. Makes me wonder whether the shape of this inverted-U curve, or linked parameters, are trait-like across individuals. Congrats @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social & @msahsorin.bsky.social

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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🏅 1️⃣ ALBA-Roche Research Prize Ceremony Celebrating Dr Binnaz Yalcin (FR), recognised for her outstanding contributions to neurodevelopmental biology and brain genetics. Chaired by Prof. Carmen Sandi (CH), ALBA Founder. @carmensandi10.bsky.social 🧵 loom.ly/EFCdYOk

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ALBA session & award ceremony @ECNP 2025

This keynote by Dr. Agustin Ibáñez explores how transnational collaboration and data diversity can drive a more equitable and precise understanding of mental and brain health that could benefit underf...

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens. Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators! 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall, 1934-2025 An exceptional scientist, and a singular woman in science #WomeninScience 🐒 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

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