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Neurobiologist studying the prefrontal cortex ⚾🏀🍺🧠🎶

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Nicola Grissom @nicolagrissom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Perhaps you're having FOMO over missing GRC Frontal Cortex this year. Understandable, regrettable BUT BE NOT AFRAID because you're going to GRC Frontal Cortex 2028!! with your chairs @drbediya.bsky.social and @kacummings.bsky.social and your new vice chairs @markgbaxter.bsky.social and...MOI 🧠💅💖
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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how enkephalins affect cognitive processing in the rodent frontal cortex. The project uses pharmacology, multi-electrode recordings, and fiber photometry, and is funded by NIDA. Please share with trainees applying this cycle. Thanks!
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
DeepOF (Deep Open Field) processes DeepLabCut/SLEAP data using supervised and unsupervised annotation pipelines and using SHAP for interpretability. Read about it in this month's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior... #OpenSource #Neuroscience #DeepLearning
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Any thoughts on journals that publish reviews in neuroscience that don't cost 4K?
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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thrilled to finally share good news on a new grant for my lab! It has been a long wait after the grant received an outstanding score back in March from the NMB study section and was approved by council in early May. Anyway... time to get on it! :-)
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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry
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Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Stefanie Robel @stefanierobel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
So we’re doing something about it. I’m hosting a special edition of the New PI Success Workshop w/ @glia-leadership.bsky.social—specifically for folks who are starting their labs in the middle of all this uncertainty. And others who also need support. You deserve support. Not just pressure.
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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Jensen Palmer, who successfully defended her dissertation today! She will be first-author on four papers on the computational and neural basis of decision making. We'll miss her and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our latest post highlights a simple, open-source #Arduino device developed by Jason Blackmer from the Laubach Lab that displays trial numbers in your video recordings. It makes finding trials a breeze! edspace.american.edu/openbehavior... #OpenScience #Neuroscience #LabHacks
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My brilliant collaborator @marieeikemo.bsky.social is hiring! Do your PhD in an excellent interdisciplinary group & be my colleague in lovely Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD Position: Interdisciplinary Study of Endocannabinoid Stress Buffering in Humans (282518), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This week's post on OpenBehavior reviews our posts over the years on #opensource tools for neural recordings & analysis, including a motorized swivel, Pynapple, & Open Ephys. #Neuroscience #Electrophysiology #OpenScience edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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NBA @nba.com · 17/05/2025
The New York Knicks advance to the Eastern Conference Finals! #NBAPlayoffs presented by Google
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This summer, we're working on documenting setups and protocols for using popular tools such as SLEAP, Bonsai, & ArUco marker tracking. You can read about our plans in this week's post and stay tuned for updates over the summer! #OpenScience #Neuroscience edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Bell Jar is a desktop application for semi-automated histology analysis that includes routines for serial alignment, marker detection, and integration with the Allen reference atlas. Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior. #opensource #neuroscience edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Still looking to fill this position. Do any of my moots have any suggestions for someone nice & smart who can combine opto, ephys, & signal processing? t.co/VgWUwcGelJ
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social
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Canada Excellence Research Chair Positions
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Mark Laubach @marklaubach.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's that time of the year again. #stem #finals #AI h/t Blue Laubach
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
STPoseNet combines YOLOv8 with innovative timing & Kalman filtering for real-time, accurate mouse pose estimation with minimal labeling. Check it out: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This week on OpenBehavior! 📢 A review of impactful open-source devices for measuring behavior in the homecage. Learn about FED, PiDose, LIQ HD, & more! edspace.american.edu/openbehavior... #OpenScience #Neuroscience
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Jerome Sallet @jsallet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Cool new study from Pierre Pouget's lab : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Distributed Activity in the Medial Frontal Cortex Predicts Self-Initiated Action
Research indicates that significant damage to primates’ medial frontal cortex (MFC) can impede action initiation when anticipating rewards. However, the specific roles within the MFC related to self-g...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Want to measure behavior in freely moving animals? We've rounded up some of the most interesting and impactful open-source devices available. Check out this week's post on OpenBehavior for details and links! #OpenSource #Neuroscience edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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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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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Open-source tools are changing the way we measure behavior in neuroscience. We explore some of the most impactful projects, from fluid consumption to vaporized drug delivery, in this week's post on OpenBehavior. #OpenHardware #DIYResearch edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
ArUco markers help automate animal behavior scoring. They are open-source and 3D printable. Read about them in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior... #neuroscience #openscience #behavior
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In leu of NIH cuts at Columbia, many folks are asking why aren't universities using endowment funds to support the research mission of their faculty scientists? Inspired by @jeremymberg.bsky.social bluetorials here are a few of the reasons that is not a sustainable option 1/n
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Interested in the neural mechanisms of social behavior? Check out Meso-Py! This Raspberry Pi based platform allows for simultaneous calcium imaging in two mice during social interactions. #neuroscience #opensource #socialbehavior edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Camillo Padoa-Schioppa @camillopadoasch.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New ms! We’ve long hypothesized that different groups of neurons in OFC are the building blocks of a decision circuit. We now show that this circuit has a laminar architecture. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Society for Neuroscience selected the paper on this tool for an upcoming webinar on FlexRig and open-source tools in general. The webinar will be on March 25 from 11:45 am – 1 pm ET. Here is the registration page for this webinar: neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-r....
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An Open-Source 3D Printable Platform for Testing Head-Fixed Cognitive Flexibility in Rodents
<p>Join this interactive session as Tim Spellman discusses his paper, “An Open-Source 3D-Printable Platform for Testing Head-Fixed Cognitive Flexibility in Rodents”, with eNeuro Reviewing Editor Mark ...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Check out FlexRig, an open-source platform for decision-making & cognitive flexibility studies. 🐁🧠 Olfactory, auditory, somatosensory cues, & more! Low-cost, fully customizable. #OpenSource #Neuroscience #ResearchTools @tspell.bsky.social edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Folks interested in the future of NIH, if you have not read this white paper, please do so. It was published last fall by Senator Cassidy, now the chair of HELP Committee www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Angie Voyles Askham @avaskham.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Updated our story @thetransmitter.bsky.social to reflect what some other outlets (STAT/Science) have also reported: Notices of study sections/scientific review meetings can now be added to the Federal Register, meaning that they can be held next month. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NC4gate is an #opensource tool for the automatic control of gates in rodent maze experiments. Total cost is $50 and the system controls 500 gates. It was developed by Adam Lester and colleagues. Read about it in this week's post on OB: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Shared some of my recent experiences and thoughts with @callimcflurry.bsky.social of @thetransmitter.bsky.social. In these chaotic times, it’s important that there’s an ability for voices to be heard. I’m very thankful to Calli and The Transmitter for the opportunity.
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Collaborative efforts are the driving force behind innovation in neuroscience. In an era of funding constraints, open-source tools are more critical than ever. We review community-developed tools for data analysis this week on OB. #openscience 🧵 edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Open-Source Tools for Data Analysis
This year, we’re focusing on the impact of open-source tools on research productivity, which seems especially relevant given current funding challenges for science. Our findings aim to demons…
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ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our new work is out. This was a two lab effort, coordinated by @cconstan.bsky.social and I. The long and short of it is that we tested a device strategy to remediate executive function in dementia in aged nonhuman primates, and it worked really well. 1/ www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
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Basal forebrain activation improves working memory in senescent monkeys
Purpose of research: Brain aging contributes to cognitive decline and risk of dementia. Degeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system occurs in aging and multiple dementias, and its status is...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation have shared an open-source lickometer that uses optical fibers for precise lick detection and includes an integrated nosepoke detector and LEDs for visual cue. Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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High-Precision Optical Fiber-Based Lickometer
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A new Python toolbox called HSSM simplifies working with Hierarchical Sequential Sampling Models (HSSMs) to understand how we accumulate evidence and make choices. Built on PyMC, Bambi, & ArviZ. Check it out! #cognitivescience #python #decisionmaking edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Did you know that the entire NIH budget for all the disease study is less than 5% of what we spend on defense? That amounts to one penny per tax dollar.
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looking forward to the @winter_brain meeting this weekend! We are presenting a poster on OpenBehavior on Saturday and Jensen Palmer is speaking in a workshop on Monday on RL and DDMs. Files and data for her talk are available here: github.com/LaubachLab/W...
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GitHub - LaubachLab/WCBR25
Contribute to LaubachLab/WCBR25 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Dan John is my favorite, and this is part of why. (The other part is that he seems super nice, like if Tim Walz were giving you lifting advice. Yes I am still annoyed that Tim Walz never gave us lifting advice.) But honestly carrying around heavy things is great.
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The exercises missing from your workouts that will change your life
Coach Dan John says this type of exercise offers “the most bang for your buck of any exercise”
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The DREAM implant is a novel design for chronic electrophysiology in mice that is lightweight, adaptable, and cost-effective. @ZeroNoiseLab @3DNeuro @DondersInstitute Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New paper out in @pnas.org today with lovely colleagues including Hailey Trier, Nima Khalighinejad, @caro-harbison.bsky.social, @marklaubach.bsky.social, Jacquie Scholl & Matthew Rushworth (most not on BlueSky yet!) 

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A distributed subcortical circuit linked to instrumental information-seeking about threat
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It's a wrap! 🎬 Our 2024 Year in Review highlights the top #opensource #neuroscience tools, including our video repository, brain atlas tools (FASTMAP, WholeBrain), and video analysis methods (MoSeq/Keypoint MoSeq). edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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2024 Year in Review
The past year was a good one for open-source tools. Based on the use of our website, sixty projects were accessed more than 100 times over the year. Four projects stood out with the most page hits.…
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Emily Singer @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
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The Transmitter books
The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
SaLSa is a #MATLAB package for classifying animal behavior. It combines semi-automatic labeling with LSTM neural networks to analyze data from pose estimation to identify behavioral syllables. Read about SaLSa in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How to rebuild your network on @bsky.app and improve your experience here? I made a short starter guide with resources. www.neuronaldynamics.eu/resources/bl... Also, a thread 🧵 below.
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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
hello neuroscientists! I am working on a story for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about the X to Bluesky migration and I would love to hear why you switched platforms (and what you make of bluesky so far). DM me or email me calli@thetransmitter.org if you'd like to comment for the piece. Thank you!
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