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Peter Rupprecht @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Excited to share our work now in Nature Methods! We wrote this manuscript to help others better analyze and interpret calcium imaging data. As a central aspect, we show why nonlinear behavior of calcium indicators matters in practice. Very happy about this work!

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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

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Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interesting read in the New Yorker (and shameless self-promotion:)

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Alana Darcher @alanadarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our new paper on how mice become experts in a visual spatial attention task - after just 18 days of training! 🐭👁️🧠🔦 Lots of new findings made possible by standardized behavioral procedures and a fantastic team of 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬. Open access, all data + code posted. Check it out 👇

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In case you missed it... here's how we train mice to become experts in a visual spatial attention task (in 17 days!) PLUS new findings: contrast sensitivity improves at relevant spatial locations 👁️🧠 Tons of work from the team (700+ days of data from 36 🐭and 11 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬) led by Kayla Peelman 💪

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and @gtresearch.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social for connecting us w @us.theconversation.com

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

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Jesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🧪 The Sjöström Lab in Montreal is looking for a postdoc! We study cortical circuits, synaptic plasticity, and NMDAR signalling using custom 2-photon microscopy and optogenetics. We seek candidates with strong patch-clamp and/or 2-photon imaging expertise, and a relevant publication track record.

We are looking for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher to join our team at McGill University. The Sjöström lab studies neocortical circuits, with a focus on synaptic plasticity, NMDA receptor signaling, 2-photon optogenetics, and advanced 2-photon imaging. We are particularly interested in candidates with strong expertise in whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology and/or 2-photon imaging, and a solid track record of relevant publications.
Applicants should be experienced with whole-cell recordings and/or cutting-edge imaging approaches. Responsibilities will include performing experiments, analyzing and presenting data locally and internationally, writing manuscripts, and occasionally mentoring junior lab members.
Our lab is based at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, in vibrant, multicultural Montreal—a city that offers exceptional quality of life. McGill and its neighbouring universities form one of the most dynamic neuroscience communities in the world.
For examples of our current directions, see:
• Chou et al The Innovation 2025, www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(24)00173-5
• Wong et al Neuron 2024, www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00767-5
The position is fully funded with a competitive salary. Candidates are also expected to apply for external funding, for which we provide strong support. Opportunities are available for both Canadian and international applicants.
To apply, please send a Letter of Intent, CV, brief research statement, and contact information for three referees to Dr. Jesper Sjöström (jesper.sjostrom@mcgill.ca). In the subject line, include "Postdoc" followed by your name.
Application deadline: July 31, 2025.
Website: http://plasticity.muhc.mcgill.ca
McGill University is committed to diversity and equity in employment.

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Aman Saleem @amansaleem.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

2. Systems Neuroscience PhD position, supervised jointly with Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social This is to investigate the differential circuits involved in habitual and goal-directed behaviours. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Systems Neuroscience PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Systems Neuroscience PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!

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Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...

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FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs

FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement

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Annabelle Singer @drannabellesinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Check out our latest paper today in Nature: “Goal specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning” www.nature.com/articles/s41... By Nuri Jeong, Xiao Zheng, Abby Paulson, Steph Prince and colleagues.

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/04/2025

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Brain gain? Toronto's @UHN hospital system will announce a strategy to attract U.S. health scientists - plan to be unveiled Monday. Website isn't up yet, but U.S scientists interested check here Monday. Hopefully other hospitals & universities follow UHNCanadaleads.ca

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This was a difficult thread to write.. Our research on antidepressants has been supported by NIMH for 10 years. Until the last moment, their comms team was still trying to put out a press piece about this work for us. I’m so sorry.

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Guy Bouvier @gbouvier.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Interesting work by Tony Lien & @haiderlab.bsky.social. They reveal how some frontal cortex neurons mirrors V1 neurons. Responses lag visual cortex (VC) by ~25ms, with strikingly similar receptive fields—yet lacking a topographic map. Crucially, silencing VC abolishes these responses. Congrats

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Exciting new results from the lab -- *visual* receptive fields in motor and cingulate cortex! Great work from Tony Lien 🧠🧪

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Congrats to Kayla Peelman on publishing her paper AND defending her thesis in the same week ✨🎉 Click 👇 to see how the environment shapes the timing and selectivity of vision 👁️🧠🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Environmental context influences visual processing in thalamus

Peelman and Haider show that environmental context shapes visual processing in the thalamus. In a context that enables locomotion—versus one that does not—visual responses are faster but less selectiv...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Congratulations to these two outstanding physician-neuroscientists! Many people now are familiar with the fascinating fundamental research of @michellemonje.bsky.social but most people probably don't know she is a truly great physician. I'm fortunate to be inspired by her every day, in every way.

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Super interesting... phenotyping social behavior + touch in 7 monogenic rat models of autism

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

just noticed @jdelrosario.bsky.social has joined us here - welcome and congrats on a great study 👇

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Bilal Haider @haiderlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

(1/10) Happy to share a science update! 🧠🧪 Our @natureneuro.bsky.social article shows how inhibitory neurons calculate “subtraction” or “division” to adjust visual sensitivity! This one has it all – behavior, optogenetics, modeling, cell types, subthreshold mechanisms. Quick thread 🧵below

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Lateral inhibition in V1 controls neural and perceptual contrast sensitivity - Nature Neuroscience

The role of lateral inhibition for perception and neural computation remains unsolved. Del Rosario et al. show that distinct types of cortical interneurons in V1 drive lateral inhibition that causes s...

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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵

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Ding Liu @dingliu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register. As usual, MANY more questions than answers... 1/2

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Amazing opportunity for a UCL faculty position:

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Santiago Rompani @santiagorompani.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Lab manager position open in my lab at EMBL Rome--particularly looking for people with experience in 2-photon microscopy in mice in vivo. DMs open if you have questions--reposts welcome! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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Research Technician - Neuroscience

EMBL is Europe’s life sciences laboratory – an intergovernmental organization with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the spectrum of molecular biology. It operates a...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The Judge said NIH grants for medical research had to be unfrozen; the White House found a way to refreeze it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

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White House Finds Workaround to Shut Down NIH-Backed Medical Research

From the beginning of this drama going on a month ago, the...

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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New paper alert! Have you ever looked at single-trial fMRI activation maps? If so, you know that they are super variable. Here we show that the variability is not just noise. In fact, the same task can consistently elicit different activation patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Great explainer on the Federal Register block and how it affects all NIH grant-related activities 👇

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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Science Homecoming

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

'The appropriations committees in both houses rejected Mr. Trump’s proposal to slash payments to universities for overhead — the “indirect costs” of research financed by the health institutes.' Had forgotten about this. Let's see how much has really changed in the past 8 years. (Yes, hopes not up)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 07/02/2025

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

A Neuropixels Opto probe with 3 blue emitters and 3 red emitters lighting up in succession, with corresponding neural activity in different layers of the cortex.

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Sonja Hofer @sonjahofer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So excited to see this out, heroic effort by the brilliant Sara Mederos, uncovering the detailed brain mechanisms of how animals learn to overcome their instinctive fear responses, from neural circuits & cell types down to synaptic plasticity mechanism! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses

Fast instinctive responses to environmental stimuli can be crucial for survival but are not always optimal. Animals can adapt their behavior and suppress instinctive reactions, but the neural pathways...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Goes without saying for scientists: This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas? #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Let’s try something. We here at @altnih4science.bsky.social want to boost descriptions of NIH-funded science. If you’re a scientist with a post or thread that describes your work, please tag us or DM us, and we’ll repost. We’ll use the #NIHFundsGreatScience hashtag so people can read in future. 🧪

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you have an NIH award pending, I'd encourage you to check the ERA commons portal. For our pending award, *all* of the relevant information is now missing (the reviews are not accessible, the dates have all been changed, all of the history of the process isn't accessible)!

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

Picture of neural manifolds for the two choices in a decision-making task, depicted in 3D and in 2D

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

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