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Manuel San Silvestre, MD @manuelricofss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First post, two updates 🧠 -MSc at @ox.ac.uk done! Great to share my research at #MEGUKI2026 with my new academic family, as @matsvanes.bsky.social put it -I'm staying in Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar for a PhD in Systems Neuro with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social, @carobellum.bsky.social & Mark Woolrich

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Travis Goode @travisgoode.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🧪🧪🧪 (1/5) Beyond thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting my own lab as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (@uthsc.bsky.social) in Jan 2027! #NewPI My lab will study the neurobiology of learning, memory, and motivation! 🧠🐭⚡️🔬

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Zoltan Molnar @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

HISTORY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR: NEELY SWANSON - Literal or Sense for Sense: Problems with translating Cajal & LARRY SWANSON - A short history of connectomics from Willis to Cajal and beyond events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event... Monday, 22 June, 4-5.30pm DPAG; Sherrington Library, Univ of Oxford

DPAG History of Medical Sciences Seminar: 'Literal or Sense for Sense: Problems with translating Cajal' and 'A short history of connectomics from Willis to Cajal and beyond'
https://events.ox.ac.uk/.../54418190-1064-f111-ab0d...
Monday, 22 June 2026, 4pm to 5.30pm
NEELY SWANSON
Title: Literal or Sense for Sense: Problems with translating Cajal
Abstract: The shorter works of Ramón y Cajal had been translated in the past, but it was the advent of the personal computer that facilitated the translation of his major work. Previous works had been translated literally, making them accurate but sterile. This was not what Cajal himself intended and Swanson and Swanson took a different approach in their three translations: “New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates,” “Histology of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates” and finally, “Advice for a Young Investigator.”
LARRY SWANSON
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Title: A short history of connectomics from Willis to Cajal and beyond
Abstract: Attempts to provide a global model of brain structure-function organization date back over 1500 years. Major conceptual advances by Vesalius, Willis, Cajal and others will be reviewed, and the latest approach based on connectomics will be introduced. This systematic strategy is based on adjacency matrices (connectomes), graph theory, and cluster analysis.
Speaker(s): Professor Larry Swanson (University of Southern California), Neely Swanson
Venue: Sherrington Building - Sherrington Library - Sherrington Library Sherrington Building off Parks Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3PT United Kingdom
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Zoltán Molnár, Professor Randy Bruno, Associate Professor Kerry Walker and Professor David Paterson See less

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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Postdoctoral openings to investigate how (i) experience-dependent actuators of inhibitory circuit plasticity mechanisms & neurogenesis contribute to memory operations (ii) how a novel lipid signaling mechanism mediates cognitive resilience and regulates healthspan. www.sahaylab.com/publications

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Julián Macías @julianmacias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

El científico español Mariano Barbacid ha encontrado la cura del cáncer de páncreas. "Si no se investiga no se avanza". El Premio Nóbel ya tiene dueño.

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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🔊NEW RESEARCH: Shame plays a major role in hairpulling, a type of body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB), among young people, according to a study by @ox.ac.uk Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/ajjxz7rz @claremackay.bsky.social @pollywaite.bsky.social #BFRBs @acamh.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social

An image of Professor Clare Mackay, Professor of Neuroscience, with a quote from her saying:

"Many of us with BFRBs know that shame plays a huge role, so it is no surprise that it shows up strongly in this group. What is important is that we have demonstrated that shame is already prevalent in young people aged 13-18, and that it strongly relates to depression and anxiety.”

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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The ApoE2, longevity & cognitive resilience triad raises the tantalizing (& least understood relationship) possibility that cognitive resilience may promote lifespan, as suggested by cognitively resilient centenarians (100-plus study). Identities of mechanisms remain elusive. 1/2

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

would result in a DG optimized to flexibly recruit new neurons to generate distinct representations. GABAergic inhibition-dep. reduction of interference btw memory indexes preserved their integrity. This study explains how this obviates need for pattern separation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

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