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PhD candidate Neuroscience 🧠 at @pasteur.fr and @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social| Researching Memory | Sharing science and ideas

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neurologicpodcast.bsky.social @neurologicpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of our past conversations remain just as relevant today. Dr. Buckley discusses women's brain health and Alzheimer's disease, exploring how menopause, hormones, and genetics may influence risk and resilience. 🎧 youtu.be/ydJ91i_7XY4?... #BrainHealth #AlzheimersResearch #Podcast #Neuroscience
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Why Women's Brain Health Deserves a Closer Look in Alzheimer's Research with Dr. Rachel Buckley
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Memory-based and surround-based pattern completion show distinct laminar profiles in human V1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hypoxia Disrupts Multiple Processes Supporting Spatial Navigation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Desdemona Fricker @desdemonafricker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Memories are dynamic across time! 🧠 Dr. Gisella Vetere kicked off the 2026/27 Saints-Pères Paris Neuroscience Seminar Series with an outstanding talk on Engram Dynamics: from Encoding to Generalization. @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Memory
Dr Gisella Vetere presenting her work on engrams at the Saints-Pères Neuroscience Seminar Series
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Takuya Sasatani @takuyasasatani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Miniscope Zero, the first fully wireless Miniscope, is on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Wireless power + data enable neural recordings in enclosed mazes, 3D environments & from two animals at once! @miniscope.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... Wiki: miniscope.org/wiki/Minisco...
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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end
Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A fundamental study of individual variation and contribution of learning to behavioural individuality. Conclusions are supported by compelling, rigorous analysis across a number of experiments in thousands of individuals across genotypes and conditions.
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Learning is a fundamental source of individuality
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Simon Wiegert @simwieg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two-author papers are always special. Using optogenetic stimulation of hippocampal synapses in awake mice and tracking them over approx. 2 weeks, we link synaptic strength, spine volume and their stability. It's confirmed: bigger spines are stronger and more stable 😅
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Functional synaptic connectivity shapes spine stability in the hippocampus - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors find that synaptic strength predicts spine size and long-term stability via in vivo imaging together with optogenetic stimulation in awake mice. While individual synapses sh...
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Juan Facundo Morici @facuumm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thrilled to see our paper published! I’m deeply grateful to the amazing @ggirardeau.bsky.social for trusting me to develop and carry it out. Many thanks as well to @azulsilva.bsky.social , @belalima-paiva.bsky.social and Eleonore for driving this work forward together. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience
Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.
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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A population approach to cortical GABAergic interneuron function: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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A population approach to cortical GABAergic interneuron function
Inhibitory interneuron diversity is a central feature of cortical circuits. The IN-CODE consortium seeks to combine large-scale recordings of interneuron types with machine-learning tools to identify ...
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Nature @nature.com · 13/03/2026
The shortage of random access memory chips, which has caused prices to soar, has pushed some scientists to revisit how they do their work. go.nature.com/4rtUkhm
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‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science
The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is an awesome discovery: A single-celled organism with no brain called Stentor seems capable of Pavlovian learning. Yes, it can actually learn to associate two things despite having no neurons. My latest for @newscientist.com. 🧪 #science #memory #learning www.newscientist.com/article/2519...
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Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems
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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How birds detect Earth’s magnetic field This study suggest a model whereby electromagnetic input from the semicircular canals activates a vestibular-mesopallial circuit in the pigeon brain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Gisella Vetere @gisellavetere.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deconstruction of a memory engram reveals distinct ensembles recruited at learning - Nature Neuroscience
Pouget et al. identified distinct CA1 neuron ensembles active during specific moments of fear learning and uncovered the core engram essential for memory formation.
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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Improved spatial memory in a modular network mimicking the prefrontal-thalamo-hippocampal triangular circuit www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
La @semaineducerveau.bsky.social arrive bientôt au SPPIN ! Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir une conférence suivie d’une visite du laboratoire par @uligraupner.bsky.social dédié aux approches optogénétiques pour comprendre les circuits neuronaux et le comportement.
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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
'Developmental perspectives on spatial navigation: sensory development, experience, and neuronal heterogeneity' by Xiaojing Chen, Liming Tan & Cheng Wang www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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ivanmontiel.bsky.social @ivanmontiel.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎉 PhD defended on Dec 5! Feeling so happy. Many thanks to my supervisors @schlab.bsky.social and @desdemonafricker.bsky.social as well as my jury members and colleagues. I studied how novelty shapes hippocampal computations using Neuropixels. Now looking for a postdoc. Excited for what's next! 🚀
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Collège des Sociétés savantes académiques de France @societes-savantes.fr · 03/11/2025
Communiqué de 30 associations du Collège des sociétés savantes, relatif à la situation à Gaza societes-savantes.fr/communique-de-…
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Paris Neuro Calendar @neurocalendar.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Christian Mayer - Origins of Inhibitory Neuron Identity in the Deve Monday, December 15, 2025 - Paris Brain Institute (Auditorium)
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Christian Mayer - Origins of Inhibitory Neuron Identity in the Deve
Monday, December 15, 2025 - Paris Brain Institute (Auditorium)
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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Episode #34 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On balanced neural networks – with Nicolas Brunel theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn34 Cortical neurons seem to receive about the same amount of excitation and inhibition. One of the founders of this key idea in 1990s explains.
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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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PV-dependent reorganization of prelimbic cortex sub-engrams during systems consolidation
Golbabaei et al. explore how the contributions of projection-defined prelimbic cortex “sub-engrams” to contextual fear memory recall change with time. Sub-engrams projecting to the basal amygdala and lateral entorhinal cortex support recent memory recall, whereas sub-engrams projecting to the nucleus reuniens and nucleus accumbens are additionally recruited at remote delays.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Naturalistic approaches such as Ulanovsky’s open up “potential opportunities to really reveal why the brain is structured in the way it’s structured,” says Iain Couzin. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...
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Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist, who has a new study about bats out today, creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior.
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Desdemona Fricker @desdemonafricker.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Thanks to the Capitainerie de l’Isle and to Nathalie for hosting our exhibit ✨
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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +
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Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🎨🔬 Quand l’art rencontre la science ! Le SPPIN est heureux de vous annoncer l'Expo #SciArt “Regards Croisés” avec l’artiste Sophie Sainte-Marie-Heim et notre collègue @desdemonafricker.bsky.social 🗓 22–28 sept. 2025 📍 Capitainerie de l’Isle, 26 rue Chanoinesse, Paris 4e Venez nombreux !
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁? Don't miss the Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon. Earl Miller and team will discuss recent paper and we'll have plenty of discussion. Open to all. Sept 12, noon EST-US umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #neuroskyence @earlkmiller.bsky.social
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Successful wayfinding requires an "internal compass" – a representation of the direction we're facing. Where is this internal compass in the brain? When humans navigate a virtual city, the retrosplenial complex & superior parietal lobe keep track of facing direction across distinct environments.
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A Neural Compass in the Human Brain during Naturalistic Virtual Navigation
A central component of wayfinding is the ability to maintain a consistent representation of one's facing direction (FD) when moving about the world. In rodents, head direction cells are believed to su...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The new issue is out👉https://www.cell.com/cell/current ⁠ On the cover, Eliav et al. reveal that hippocampal replays in bats flying in very large, naturalistic environments were highly fragmented and short, depicting trajectories covering only a small portion of the environment size.
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Cantin Ortiz @cantinortiz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The main project from my PhD, in collaboration with Manuela Allegra and @schlab.bsky.social is now available as a preprint! We wondered how the hippocampus and the visual cortex may differ in the way they refine sensory inputs into internal representations
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Task engagement differentially drives hippocampal and neocortical neural codes
Sensory inputs are progressively transformed into internal representations of the environment along the cortical hierarchy. How does the behavioral relevance of these inputs affect this encoding? Usin...
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it. In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2) 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex
Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...
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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Can your AI beat a mouse? Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing. 10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n
An illustration of a mouse on a ball looking at a field of grass displayed on monitors.
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 24/06/2025
Neuropixels 1.0 NHP: a 45 mm, high-density silicon probe capable of recording large numbers of neurons with single-neuron resolution from most areas in a macaque’s brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates - Nature Neuroscience
Neuropixels 1.0 NHP is a 45-mm, high-density silicon probe capable of recording large numbers of neurons with single-neuron resolution from most areas in a macaque’s brain.
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Tamir Eliav @tamir-eliav.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🚨New in @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 👇🧵
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Julie Fabre @juliefabre.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚀 We are excited to share that bombcell is now available in Python! 🐍 Automatically sort your units into good/MUA/noise/non-somatic using quality metrics and interpretable & adjustable classification thresholds. pip install and play around with our toy dataset: 🔗 github.com/Julie-Fabre/...
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GitHub - Julie-Fabre/bombcell: Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data
Automated quality control, curation and neuron classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data - Julie-Fabre/bombcell
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 10/06/2025
Multiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases, and suggests novel mechanisms of hippocampal memory formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Multiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases and suggests novel me...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Keeping up with the literature is essential. But so is devoting time to developing your own scientific ideas, writes Sheena Josselyn. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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On the importance of reading (just not too much)
The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.
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Nature @nature.com · 16/05/2025
The most popular use of AI was to edit papers, and here, career stage mattered. Early career academics were far more likely to have used, or think it was acceptable to use, AI in editing their work.
A bar graph showing that the earlier career stage a researcher was, the more likely they were to think that it was appropriate to use AI in editing research papers. It was also more likely that earlier career researchers have themselves used AI to edit their own papers.
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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Join us this Monday and Tuesday 28 - 29 April 2025 for the 1st Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference on Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits at the @institutducerveau.bsky.social Limited spots available, so please register (it's free)! 14 invited speakers 8 contributed talks 32 posters www.paris-circuits.eu
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Rubén González @rubengonzalez.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In my first Drosophila study at @salehlabparis.bsky.social, we found that: 1. Enteric viral infections accelerate aging. 2. Even if the infection is cleared, aging process remains triggered. 3. Accelerated aging correlates with reduced lifespan. 📑Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cute aged fly, despite my mom thinking it’s a bee.
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🧬A new imaging technique developed by the Liu Lab uses a novel DNA barcode system to track hundreds of RNA & protein molecules in single cells within thick biological samples, providing a full picture of how these structures are organized inside tissues. 🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-met...
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Amaia Dominguez Belloso @amaia-db.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Very honoured to have written this with my super talented colleagues, I learned so much!! Don't miss it, we have put a lot of dedication and care 🤓 #teamwork
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Nature @nature.com · 07/03/2025
Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 24/02/2025
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning — a Perspective by Dániel L. Barabási, André Ferreira Castro & Florian Engert @bdanubius.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Perspective, Barabási, Ferreira Castro and Engert challenge the notion that learning and plasticity primarily drive the assembly of neural circuits. They present a tripartite framework for how...
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