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Damien Huzard

@dhuzard.bsky.social
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| neuronautix.com | Neuro-physio-behaviorist | preclinical Research | Behavioral Neurosciences | Stress & Coping | ASD | Sociability | Affective touch | Itch | Python | Homecage monitoring | www.TheBehaviourForum.org |

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
New 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 #OpenScience
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COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another 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.
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HOW TO DEAL WITH MISINFORMATION AND NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON ANIMAL RESEARCH?
YouTube video by COST_TEATIME
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'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
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France 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 💙
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Prix 3R - FC3R
Le 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...
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A new webinar to improve science communication:
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Do not miss this webinar!
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My lab has several postdoctoral fellow and software engineering positions available. Please email me if you’re interested.
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Great line up!!
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My 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
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pyOpenSci @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
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Read Luiz Pessoa's @pessoabrain.bsky.social thoughts here: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
More deeply unscientific and regressive actions by NIH "leadership" www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
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Acting NIH director dismisses four neuroscientists from advisory boards
The letters they received this week did not include a reason for their termination.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Video 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...
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Nicole Rust, Ph.D., "On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health"
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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 24/03/2025
Never 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...
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 23/03/2025
Really nice review by @cate-cholamine.bsky.social on early-life stress! Definitely worth your time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms
Early-life stress sensitizes individuals to additional stressors and increases lifetime risk for mood and anxiety disorders. Research in both human po…
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Scientists will not be silenced
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
ERRATUM : "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!
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wow ! Fully automated pain assessment system in home cage of mice !! Beautiful 🤩
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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"
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025
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Senscience @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 #OpenDataDay2025
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Reimagining FAIR for an AI World: Frontiers introduces FAIR² Data Management
On 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
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Replay online !👇👇 Discover the affective bias testing for depression related aspects in rodents. Great first Virtual Workshop series with @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
As 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.
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Vootele Voikar @vvoikar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On 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...
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TEATIME Special Webinar - March 6th, 3 PM CET
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 11/02/2025
The 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/4jVJnCL
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Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Do not miss this 👇👇👇 It's still time to register! @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social virtual workshop! #animalresearch #neuroscience
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reminder for Wednesday 👇👇
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You'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 😌
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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
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What a pleasure to be live with @cost-teatime.bsky.social and great speakers to talk about Animal Research Communication! #scicomm #scienceoutreach #academocchatter
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Join the first "UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR" webinar from @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 👇👇
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Ana Dorrego Rivas @adorrego.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Interested 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...
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Sharing is caring: open data, better science
Join us for a workshop on discussing and learning about all things data sharing!
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Help us find the 'best' Electronic notebook solutions ⤵️
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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!
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A behavioral protocol ontology?! Does anyone know if something similar already exists?? #openscience 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Heart 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 #heartbrain
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Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction - Communications Biology
The 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...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Yes, 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
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A really nice TEDx on Heart rate and time perception! 👇
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
On 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. "
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Results preview from our recent Preprint available here: www.linkedin.com/posts/dhuzar... #neuroskyence #autism #preclinical #research #itch #pain #shank3 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾
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Damien 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…
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
As 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
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
So 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
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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
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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
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
👇We need your opinion 📝 🧪🐁🧠🐾🐭 #datamagement #metadata #behavioralresearch @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 🙏 forms.gle/DydPH8sNKQLs...
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Shaping the Future of Metadata Management in Preclinical Animal Research
Welcome, 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...
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
TrkB 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"
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Kim 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
TT job in Animal Behavior, Indiana University. Apply by Nov 15. https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Quick 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
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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...
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Sex-specific fear acquisition following early life stress is linked to amygdala and hippocampal purine and glutamate metabolism - Communications Biology
This 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...
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