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Jerome Epsztein

@jeromeepsztein.bsky.social
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Neurobiologist interested in spatial cognition and navigation Research director at INSERM Team leader "Neuronal mechanisms of spatial cognition" at INMED in Marseille

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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if you're in Edinburgh and looking for research experience 👩‍🔬 🧑‍🔬 we're offering opportunities to join our work on **the sticky sense** in humans and rodents with potential for field research 🫎 🔭 get in touch 💻 📫 📞 @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ESR #VeilleESR Pour refinancer l'Université et la Recherche, il faut revenir sur la loi Pénicaud (23 milliards dont 16 qui partent dans un secteur privé médiocre et frauduleux). Et pour financer une R&D permettant de répondre aux besoins, il faut récupérer le CIR. www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...
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Budget : le crédit d’impôt recherche enfin remis en question - L'Humanité
L’une des plus coûteuses et fraudogènes niches fiscales à destination des entreprises pourrait être revue par le gouvernement, suscitant des cris d’orfraie du patronat. ...
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
new week new boost for myself lol
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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now accepted and published --- with many thanks to the referees for helping sharpen the manuscript. Long time since the first notes. Good to see it officially out. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A vector navigation and inference architecture can construct universal cognitive maps for abstract reasoning
Bicanski proposes an algorithm and neural mechanisms for the iterative construction of abstract cognitive maps via non-local inference. Map positions are triangulated and memorized by a set of extant ...
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Chunyu Ann Duan @annduan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come join us!
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our new team studying human circuit function @researchmar.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student! If you or anyone you know would be interested to learn more about this, our plans, previous work, or other positions, visit humancircuits.net or get in touch! #humancircuits
Advert for a 4-year funded PhD position at Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona. Text reads: "How do human cells and synapses give rise to computations? Can we understand how they change in patient epilepsy?" Background shows a photo of the institute and a human hippocampal slice image
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/
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Ching-Lung Hsu @hiallen72.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
doi.org/10.1038/s415... doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Correlated Neural Activity across the Brains of Socially Interacting Bats doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Correlated Neural Activity and Encoding of Behavior across Brains of Socially Interacting Animals
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Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences @sppin-cnrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@sppin-cnrs.bsky.social @cnrs.fr is organizing #NeuralNet2026 in Paris on Nov. 25–27 ! Join the 15th annual meeting of GDR NeuralNet @upcite.bsky.social , bringing together researchers working across systems neuroscience, neural data, computational modeling, NeuroAI & data science.
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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Voltage imaging: A practical guide
Cohen and Gong provide a practical guide to voltage imaging, covering voltage indicators, gene expression strategies, instrumentation, instrument control software, data analysis algorithms, and experimental protocols. Signal-to-noise ratios and sources of artifacts are discussed in detail.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hearing hippocampal ripples: Event-faithful, reproducible sonification of multineuronal spiking with hierarchy-guided orchestration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Prestigious, fully funded, 3 yearlong postdoctoral fellowship ($90,000/year salary plus benefits) in neural computation and NeuroAI is available starting October 2027. The Candidate must have a very strong CV, including empirical publications. See our lab's page for our research directions.
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Romain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ma contribution aux assises pour l'Université et pour la Recherche (3-4/9/2026), concernant le financement de la recherche. romainbrette.fr/pour-un-fina...
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Pour un financement collégial, non bureaucratique de la recherche
Ce texte est ma courte contribution aux assises pour l’Université et pour la Recherche (3-4/9/2026), concernant le financement de la recherche. La recherche repose sur deux principes indissoc…
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Jim Heys @jim-heys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m very excited to share our new paper, led by the very talented Jack Bowler, a postdoc in the lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know that the way we learn something matters. But how does a training curriculum actually shape how the brain learns to solve a problem? a 🧵 1/N
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Structured experience shapes strategy learning and neural dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
The authors use recurrent neural networks to predict how structured prior experience shapes neural dynamics as mice learn flexible timing strategies during complex context-dependent behavior.
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Very excited to see this out — real teamwork, led by @laurenb29.bsky.social & Will de Cothi with @lgiocomo.bsky.social, @colinlever.bsky.social, Laurenz Muessig, Fábio Rodrigues, Francesca Cacucci, Tom Wills, Yanjun Sun & Steven Poulter. In Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76686-y
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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New paper from the lab! In this project we identified different ripple types and link them to behavior and other sleep oscillations doi.org/10.1093/slee...
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 01/09/2026
Our September issue is now live! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...
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INMED @inmed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
With profound sadness we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Antoine de Chevigny, an expert in cortical development respected for his creativity and curiosity and cherished for his kindness and joie de vivre. He leaves an immense void. Support for his partner: tinyurl.com/2yrh7huc
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏
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Chunyu Ann Duan @annduan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New preprint from the lab! Behavioral and neural mechanisms for stochastic choices in mixed-strategy games: doi.org/10.64898/202... We use game theoretic tasks, cross species comparisons, modelling strategies, and mesoscale imaging to reveal a cortical mechanism for unpredictable choices.
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Christine Grienberger @cgrienberger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🎉 this paper is now out - we show how subicular plateaus are linked to reward locations. Congratulations to the whole team! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Subicular plateaus signal reward locations during goal-directed behavior
Using in vivo whole-cell recordings during goal-directed navigation, Bhatia, Adel, and Grienberger identify plateaus as a prominent feature of subiculum activity. These events preferentially occur nea...
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Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This was a super team project with Rebecca Morse-Mora, the Peter Jonas lab and scientific services at @istaresearch.bsky.social, enabled by our fantastic collaboration with Prof. Karl Rössler at the @meduniwien.ac.at. We still have a lot to learn about hippocampal function and #humancircuits!! 🔎
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Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans
Associational memory is critically dependent on the CA3 recurrent circuit, at the centre of the hippocampal system. While diversity amongst CA3 pyramidal neurons (PNs) has been long reported, the prin...
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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
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Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits
To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...
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Jerome Epsztein @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Prior experience dynamically determines differential cue weighting in the medial entorhinal cortex
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Pierre Le Merre @pierrelemerre.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We wrote a French digest for médecine/sciences about our recent work in Nat. Neuro with @nicolasguyon.bsky.social Original work: www.nature.com/articles/s41... French piece: www.medecinesciences.org/fr/articles/...
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Comment redessiner la carte du cerveau en écoutant les neurones un par un ? | médecine/sciences
médecine/sciences (M/S), revue internationale dans le domaine de la recherche biologique, médicale et en santé
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Help needed! I'm part of a team tasked with creating a 2nd year undergraduate module/course "Computational Skills for Psychologists" Its remit is the fundamentals of coding and good practice. Any advice from others who've done similar courses? (Assume no programming knowledge. Assume Python)
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 20/07/2026
A neat description of @agnesland.bsky.social 's discovery. (I wish I could write as clearly as @ericaklarreich.bsky.social)
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is space & time coding in entorhinal cortex interchangeable? Cells switching between space & time as needed by task? For some cells yes, and other no: Spatial and temporal representations are organized along a stable coding gradient in the medial entorhinal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The latest result from a fun ongoing collaboration! @mbeyeler.bsky.social @michaelgoard.bsky.social @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social
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Yvette Fisher @yvetteefisher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thank you Natalia Mesa at the @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting our labs preprint on synaptic mechanisms of head direction learning!! 🪰🧭 Work from @markplitt.bsky.social in my lab in collaboration with the Jayaraman lab! www.thetransmitter.org/learning-and...
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Unique learning mechanism drives navigation in fruit flies
The neuromodulator octopamine, the insect counterpart to norepinephrine, helps flies get their bearings in an unfamiliar environment.
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AntonioFR @antferrui.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Our work on goal-directed theta sweeps is out! We found two different types of theta sweeps in the rat hippocampus. During random foraging, left-right alternating sweeps dominated (Vollan, 25). However, during memory-guided navigation sweeps pointing to hidden goal locations emerged with learning.
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Aquineuro SAS @aquineuro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We'll be showing off our new Modular Operant Chamber on the RWD table (#132) at FENS - come check it out! aquineuro.eu/produits/mod... Key details - Behavior chamber for operant conditioning and more - Supported by custom, easy-to-use software - Modular design with customization possible
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Modular Operant Chamber – Aquineuro
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David Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice
Biological sciences; Behavioral neuroscience; Laboratory animal science
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Neil Burgess @neilburgess10.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ever wondered how the hippocampal cognitive map is read-out? @changmin-yu.bsky.social @zilong-ji.bsky.social with Jake & John, show that, during navigation, theta sweeps indicate remembered goal-directions (cf. current/next movements or perceptual targets) 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Decoded locations from place cell firing sweep towards a remembered goal location during each theta cycle irrespective of the current movement or head direction
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 30/06/2026
🐜 only follow nest plumes when their nest is in close vicinity according to their path integrator. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Context-dependent influence of path integration on nest plume following in desert ants
Entomology; Biophysics; Complex systems
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Melike Eren @neurowithmelike.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Arc mediates intercellular tau transmission via extracellular vesicles
Tau pathology spreads cell to cell in Alzheimer’s disease, but the molecular mechanisms are unclear. This study found that the capsid-forming protein Arc binds and packages tau into extracellular vesi...
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Mélanie BROSSET-HECKEL @melaniebh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A little late to announce it, but I'm very happy to have contributed to this article ! If you LOVE electrophysiology, this is for you ! www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
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Frontiers | Early and transient increase in cortical pyramidal cell excitability and delayed alteration of evoked synaptic transmission and t-SNARE proteins content in the hippocampus and neocortex of...
De novo mutations in the Stxbp1 gene lead to Munc18.1 haploinsufficiency and are a major cause of neurodevelopmental disorders. Because Munc18.1 is essential...
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 25/05/2026
🧠 Sarah Mondoloni | FENS-EJN Awards Lecture 🌟 At #FENS2026, join Sarah Mondoloni on 6 July! 🔬 Sarah Mondoloni is a neuroscientist at the Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED) in Marseille, France. Meet all the speakers 👉 buff.ly/wQ8V4Ha @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
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Marc Slutzky @marcslutzky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our paper is now in print in Nature @nature.com. If you're interested in local field potentials, especially #high-gamma activity, and/or #spikes, check it out! TL;DR: High gamma is not mainly filtered spikes, but mainly summed nearby PSPs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity - Nature
A brain–machine interface is used in monkeys to investigate the biophysical underpinnings of cortical high gamma-band activity, a signal that is often studied in the context of many brain functions.
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Laetitia Mony @laetitiamony.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Less than two weeks to register for the ion channel meeting. Please RT!
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Really excited about this work with the awesome Will de Cothi & @shipleysj.bsky.social, out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. We propose acetylcholine is an analogue of dopamine — tracking not reward prediction errors but state-transition prediction errors. doi.org/10.1038/s41583-026-01058-w
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Jerome Epsztein @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s Moussaka for dinner tonight !
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12/06/2026
A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that core benefits of sleep—reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation—can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like on/off activity patterns in cortex. #Neuroskyence 🧪
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Induction of cortical on/off periods in awake mice fulfills sleep functions - Nature Neuroscience
Driessen et al. show that core benefits of sleep—reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation—can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like on/off activity patterns in cortex.
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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Deadline day! We are almost full... www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/en/groupsite...
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Jerome Epsztein @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Always nice to receive a hard copy of a textbook you contributed to and not always the case I find the cover’s illustration beautiful thanks Nicolas Wanaverbecq, @ianduguid.bsky.social and Annalisa Scimemi for huge editorial work
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Be still my beating heart! Super interesting and important. The Mosers show that when rats switch between familiar rooms, each grid module shifts phase independently — and that differential shift across modules drives global remapping in hippocampal place cells. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.677985
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Jerome Epsztein @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Beautiful view from the beach in Cassis this morning
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