Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 25/05/2025New preprint out! A FAIR-compliant, federated repository for HomeCage Monitoring data—work by the @cost-teatime.bsky.social network. Big (first) step for behavioral science. Read here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... #FAIRdata #OpenSciencedoi.orgOSF 020
Reposted by Damien HuzardCOST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Another successful TEATIME webinar led by Masa Cater drew 280 attendees to explore #AI tools in #AnimalResearch #communication! Inspiring talks by @stefanogaburro.bsky.social @dhuzard.bsky.social, @eara.eu members & more. Recordings now live on YouTube! Check in comments below.youtube.comHOW TO DEAL WITH MISINFORMATION AND NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON ANIMAL RESEARCH?YouTube video by COST_TEATIME 152
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I'm looking for a technical co-founder! You have backend expertise and you're interested in developing a tool for better metadata management in preclinical research? Contact me ! #sciencejobs 010
Reposted by Damien HuzardFrance Centre 3R @francecentre3r.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🐭🔬 Aujourd’hui, Journée mondiale des animaux de laboratoire, le FC3R ouvre les candidatures aux Prix 3R 2025 ➡ Chercheurs : valorisez vos publications pour la progression des 3R en #Recherche 🧫 ➡ Zootechniciens, soigneurs : partagez vos initiatives pour implémenter la #CultureDuSoin au quotidien 💙fc3r.comPrix 3R - FC3RLe FC3R décerne chaque année ses prix 3R à des chercheurs et personnes travaillant au contact des animaux de laboratoire qui s’engagent de façon exemplaire pour le développement et l’implémentation de... 011
Reposted by Damien HuzardAlexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 22/04/2025My lab has several postdoctoral fellow and software engineering positions available. Please email me if you’re interested. 13022
Reposted by Damien HuzardAnn Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org 15143
Reposted by Damien HuzardpyOpenSci @pyopensci.org · 17/03/2025🚀 You can now explore an analysis inside of a scientific paper! @row1.ca shows you how to connect data, software, and story into interactive, dynamic publications using @mystmd.org 📺 Watch now -> youtu.be/zrwt0PX5mdM?... #OpenScience #Reproducibility #science #opensource 0115
Reposted by Damien HuzardThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Read Luiz Pessoa's @pessoabrain.bsky.social thoughts here: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce... 2164
Reposted by Damien HuzardJ. David Jentsch 🏳️🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025More deeply unscientific and regressive actions by NIH "leadership" www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...thetransmitter.orgActing NIH director dismisses four neuroscientists from advisory boardsThe letters they received this week did not include a reason for their termination. 0147
Reposted by Damien HuzardNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Video now posted. If you're curious to watch the bit about why @marinopagan.bsky.social's Nature paper is such a big deal, that starts at 42:00. (If you're curious to learn about the "Grand Plan", I recommend starting from the beginning 😊) weillcornell.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...weillcornell.hosted.panopto.comNicole Rust, Ph.D., "On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health" 2103
Reposted by Damien HuzardjobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 24/03/2025Never miss another job! Sign up for a weekly jobs digest email of all the new jobs in academia and industry around the world. jobrxiv.org/job-aler... 011
Reposted by Damien HuzardCiaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 23/03/2025Really nice review by @cate-cholamine.bsky.social on early-life stress! Definitely worth your time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comEarly-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanismsEarly-life stress sensitizes individuals to additional stressors and increases lifetime risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Research in both human po… 3247
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025ERRATUM : "not in the homecage, we still use an external setup. It's built to prioritize animal welfare and standardization, featuring a dark and safe environment, video recordings through infrared-permeable walls, built-in infrared light-source, slide-and-lock system, software..." + Nice setup pic! 000
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Wow ! Fully automated pain assessment system in home cage of mice !! Beautiful 🤩 120
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"juvenile mice have a robust social preference for their mother that is resilient to early-life immune activation" 030
Reposted by Damien HuzardChristophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025 6853160
Reposted by Damien HuzardSenscience @senscience.bsky.social · 04/03/2025🚀 Game changer for science: AI curates & structures research data, making it AI-ready & reusable. #FAIR² Data Management by @frontiersin.bsky.social, and powered by @senscience.bsky.social fuels faster discoveries. Join the pilot now! frontiersin.org/news/2025/03... #AI #OpenDataDay2025frontiersin.orgReimagining FAIR for an AI World: Frontiers introduces FAIR² Data ManagementOn Open Data Day 2025, Frontiers is launching the FAIR² (FAIR Squared™) Data Management Pilot, a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed service that helps researchers 034
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Replay online !👇👇 Discover the affective bias testing for depression related aspects in rodents. Great first Virtual Workshop series with @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Damien HuzardDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking. 58325
Reposted by Damien HuzardVootele Voikar @vvoikar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025On March 6 @cost-teatime.bsky.social will host a special webinar to celebrate #WomenInScience #GenderEquality #SABV together with @liisagalea.bsky.social - tireless advocate for women’s health research and for sex and gender-based analyses to improve mental health for all. mailchi.mp/6440d20f8d4a...mailchi.mpTEATIME Special Webinar - March 6th, 3 PM CET 052
Reposted by Damien HuzardSociety for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 11/02/2025The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure. Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCLbit.lyStatement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate 114971
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Do not miss this 👇👇👇 It's still time to register! @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social virtual workshop! #animalresearch #neuroscience 010
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025You're incredible!! 2000 followers for The Behaviour Forum! Best behavioral science community!! And I'm not only saying this because I'm curating the page 😌 000
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🎥 Webinar Alert! On Feb 5th (13:00 CET) for @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social Webinar Series with Prof. Emma Robinson (Univ. of Bristol). 🧠 "Modelling depression-like behaviours in rodents" : limitations of current assays and innovative approaches. MORE DETAILS 👇 #Neuroskyence #BehavioralResearch 040
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025What a pleasure to be live with @cost-teatime.bsky.social and great speakers to talk about Animal Research Communication! #scicomm #scienceoutreach #academocchatter 020
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Join the first "UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR" webinar from @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 👇👇 020
Reposted by Damien HuzardAna Dorrego Rivas @adorrego.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Interested in learning how to share your research datasets? Book your spot at our data sharing workshop! Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-is...eventbrite.co.ukSharing is caring: open data, better scienceJoin us for a workshop on discussing and learning about all things data sharing! 043
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Help us find the 'best' Electronic notebook solutions ⤵️ 010
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025@elabftw.bsky.social One of the ELN solutions cited in the recent @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social topic is Live today 👇👇 don't miss this! 110
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025A behavioral protocol ontology?! Does anyone know if something similar already exists?? #openscience 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾 051
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Heart and self-social touch " • heartbeats in shaping our perceptual awareness. • social touch led to an increase in the coupling between frontoparietal networks and parasympathetic/vagal activity" www.nature.com/articles/s42... #neuroscience #socialtouch #heartbrainnature.comLinking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction - Communications BiologyThe study found that social touch boosts covarying patterns of the heart’s parasympathetic activity and the connection between the brain’s frontoparietal regions, showing how attached are the brain an... 071
Reposted by Damien HuzardRan Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful 14744167
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025A really nice TEDx on Heart rate and time perception! 👇 000
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025On social competition: " Male resource competition results in a feedback loop that magnifies the importance of early contingency and pushes individuals onto divergent, self-reinforcing life trajectories, while the same process appears absent in females. " 000
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Results preview from our recent Preprint available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/dhuzar... #neuroskyence #autism #preclinical #research #itch #pain #shank3 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾linkedin.comDamien Huzard, PhD on LinkedIn: #autismresearch #wholeorganism #sensoryprocessing #neuroscience #innovation🚨 Preprint Alert🚨 Excited to Share Our Latest Research on Autism, Sensory Deficits, and Non-invasive Therapeutic Insights! What started as a side… 031
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 06/01/2025As a Moderator of @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social, I’d like to thank everyone involved and contributing to this journey! We have many exciting projects in the works: stay tuned for our upcoming Webinar Series featuring leading Behavioral experts! 🧪 🧠📈 🐭 🐾 #neuroscience #animalbehavior #openscience 060
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 02/01/2025So pleased to be invited to talk about Science Communication at this @cost-teatime.bsky.social webinar! Join us, it's gonna be really nice! 🧪 #neuroscience 040
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024🎉 Ending 2024 with an exciting project! We explored the link between ASD and mechanical itch hypersensitivity 🪶 in Shank3 KO mice. #AutismResearch 🧪 #neuroscience #pain #itch #preclinical 1165
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 30/12/2024🥳 It is finally out 👇 We showed that Shank3 KO mice have hypersensitivity to itch and specific somatosensory alterations: C-LTMRs response decreased and reduced TAFA4 expression level ! 🧪 #neuroscience 171
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024👇We need your opinion 📝 🧪🐁🧠🐾🐭 #datamagement #metadata #behavioralresearch @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 🙏 forms.gle/DydPH8sNKQLs...forms.gleShaping the Future of Metadata Management in Preclinical Animal ResearchWelcome, and thank you for participating in this questionnaire! We are conducting a survey to better understand the needs, preferences, and challenges faced by scientists and professionals in behavior... 030
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024TrkB and nociception : "TrkBT1 as a functional modulator of nociceptor activity rather than a passive regulator of full-length TrkB. By uncovering its dual roles in nociceptor sensitization and survival, this study provides new insights into the molecular mechanisms of BDNF/TrkB signaling in pain" 020
Reposted by Damien HuzardKim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 26/09/2023🧪📢💥We're hiring, Assistant Prof in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!! 🐦🕷️🐸🐝🦋🐟🐁🐕🐌 This is a joint appointment in Biology (Evolution, Ecology & Behavior) and the Program in Animal Behavior. 🧪 #job #academia Apply by 11/15/23 indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413 05982
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Quick reminder to fill this 5-minute survey: improving metadata management in behavioral and preclinical research. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #neuroskyence #BehavioralResearch #PreclinicalResearch #OpenScience #MetadataManagement #Neuroscience #ResearchTools #ScientificInnovation 143
Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 23/12/2024"Females exposed to LBN display heightened active fear responses, contrasting with males. [...] Sex-specific and stress-dependent alterations were observed in purine, pyrimidine, and glutamate metabolism within the BLA, the dHipp and vHipp" www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comSex-specific fear acquisition following early life stress is linked to amygdala and hippocampal purine and glutamate metabolism - Communications BiologyThis study models early life stress (ELS) to observe sex-specific effects on fear memory formation using innovative unsupervised classification together with cellular metabolism alterations in key str... 0114