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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 7h

Just saw an academic unironically post the most ridiculous AI slop image, and it's taking every ounce of willpower I possess to not point out everything that's wrong with it. Luckily our mice are smaller than our microscopes, 's all I'll say.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 29/09/2026

I realise this is a long shot, but do I know anyone in Europe working with inducible mouse models of Parkinson (e.g. 6OHDA lesions)? Who, crucially, is willing to host and train a PhD student, sometime next year? 🧠 #neuroscience

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 24/09/2026

A bit of history of particle physics that takes an unexpected turn today. In 2003 the BaBar experiment at SLAC reported a particle decaying to a Ds meson and a neutral pion, with a mass of 2317 MeV. arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0...

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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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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 13/09/2026

Days are getting shorter and colder in Norway, so with the sun out, I figured today was a good day for a ride! #motosky

A motorcyclist smiling at the camera, a motorbike behind him, and a fjord with the setting sun as scenery.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 13/09/2026

Preparing for a twenty-minute talk, I'm at 24 slides for the introduction / background. Going to have to talk *unreasonably* fast to get through this one.

static.klipy.com

Barney Stinson: Challenge Accepted (HIMYM)

ALT: Barney Stinson: Challenge Accepted (HIMYM)

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 08/09/2026

Not the prettiest cell, but I'll take it: a voltage imaging recording of a striatal SST interneuron in vivo! 🧠 Now if we can pull this off with PV interneurons too, we'll really be cooking.

A red line on a graph shows intermittent spikes rising up from the baseline. The visible trace spans aapproximately five seconds.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 08/09/2026

I'm sorry, is this a personal attack or something?! #snooze4life

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 05/09/2026

LAUNCH! Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum on its second flight from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway. youtube.com/live/uUc2d_N...

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 03/09/2026

Ooh, shiny new dichroic from Chroma already arrived! I bet the optics tweeps here can figure out what it is 😎

A shiny piece of glass, held in a gloved hand. It appears to be half orange, half blue.

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Susan Snow @susansnowy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can't believe I was moaning about the clouds at the time 😁 #eclipse

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 26/08/2026

📢 Applications are open for the #FKNE Leadership Training Series for Starting PIs! From 4 November - 9 December 2026, six weekly online sessions will support early-career neuroscience PIs in developing practical leadership and mentoring skills. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 13 October 2026 🔗 buff.ly/SGVl8b4

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 22/08/2026

Look I'm not weird, that's just a _really_ satisfying switch okay. Just hear that thunk!

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨🔬 A peek inside a developing quail embryo, where the brain and heart are already taking shape. A tiny embryo doing some seriously impressive developmental heavy lifting. 💪❤️ 📷 @vanderspuy.bsky.social

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 20/08/2026

How do you do, fellow science nerds 🥸

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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student in sensorimotor neuroscience to join my lab, with a start date of January 2027. This position is fully funded. If you are interested, please send your CV and a brief letter of interest by email. Reposts appreciated.

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Looking for a postdoc in motor control / systems neuroscience? I'm seeking candidates to develop a Connected Minds Fellowship proposal with me at York University: $70K/yr for 2 years + benefits, plus an $8.5K/yr research allowance. Deadline: Sept 27, 2026. 🧵

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 13/08/2026

"Describe your research with a youtube thumbnail"

A thumbnail of a video by James Hoffmann, posted today on youtube. The thumbnail proclaims: "technically flawed but still compelling".

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 12/08/2026

I'll have you know I was actually only 38 when I first joined this place.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 11/08/2026

Someone from @mathworks.bsky.social once contacted me after I ranted about Matlab, and I strongly feel that if you don't want me to get mad about Matlab, perhaps don't throw errors like "you don't have a license for the version of Matlab you're not using" at me.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 09/08/2026

Whenever I travel, I like to bring back some local chocolate for the lab. May have overdone it a bit on my recent roadtrip 🫣

Six bars of chocolate, bearing the flag emojis for Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 05/08/2026

Made it to Klaipéda and the baltic sea. Tomorrow, I'll take the ferry back to Sweden. But today, I got to enjoy Curonian Spit National Park (Kuršių nerijos nacionalinis parkas), where I snapped this photo in the absolutely sweltering heat. Too bad I didn't bring my own swimming trunks!

A somewhat ethereal shot of the baltic sea blending into the sky above. In the lower-right, two swimmers can seen protruding from the sea.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 04/08/2026

Just walked into an old soviet nuclear missile silo, and immediately lost all cell reception. Absolutely dream location for some patch-clamp electrophysiology! 🧠

The top of a nuclear missile silo. Silo doors are overhead, and a large hole would have housed a nuclear missile, but currently primarily houses spiders.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 04/08/2026

Twenty kilometers of Latvian dirt roads were a bit much, but we've made it back onto pavement and to Lithuania! #motosky

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 03/08/2026

Anyone else's Google Scholar gone entirely bonkers? It's started adding random acknowledgements and copyright statements ("Copyright© 2021 by the author (s). Published here under license by the...") as my research articles. And deleted my most cited article. Maybe not great to rely on Google here.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 02/08/2026

The local gulls in #Tallinn have apparently learned to beg tourists for food. I am sure this will end well.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 02/08/2026

Made it to Helsinki! Apparently I am not the only motorcyclist taking the ferry to Tallinn today. So many cool bikes!

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Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 30/07/2026

Yes!!! Human or mouse…take your pick!

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 30/07/2026

"I'm going to ask Santa for a research grant!" "Huh? You still believe in research grants?"

The author of this post standing in front of Santa's home in Rovaniemi.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 28/07/2026

Good evening from Arvidsjaur, Sweden!

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 27/07/2026

DEFINITELY in moose country! #Sweden #motosky (I think technically they're elk, but I never figured out the difference)

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 27/07/2026

First stop on my roadtrip; I think I may be in moose country... #Sweden #motosky

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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 20/07/2026

I feel this is not widely known, but if you are reviewing, you can generally include others in the process. But always check with the editor first to avoid conflicts of interest, or accidentally asking an excluded reviewer. This includes PhD students and postdocs, as well as relevant colleagues.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 20/07/2026

I don't know man; one day you're hip and young, the next you have a drawer where you keep various lengths of wire.

A very organized cabinet where I keep various lengths of wire.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 20/07/2026

Write an (academic) horror story in six words: "The coffee machine has been removed"

An empty wall where a kitchen used to be.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 19/07/2026

What? What are you doing there? You're not a train!

Heavy machinery equipped with an extra set of train wheels, riding on a train track

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When the editor of Science writes soemthing you agree with ±90%, for which he'll surely face stiff headwinds from the AI bros you dispise, but you pile on of because "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" (which OBV funny), you have to ask yourself whether you're trying to affect change or in a culture war.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 14/07/2026

While we do most of our recordings with a 1P system, we decided to check what these dopamine axons looked like under @koenvervaeke.bsky.social's 2P microscope. Makes for a darn pretty picture!

A tangled mess of axons expressing GCaMP8s can be seen wrapping around invisible neurons in the dorsomedial striatum.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 10/07/2026

Scenes like these feel like they belong in some cute Japanese anime; but it's right here in Oslo! The lab decided to hike up Vettakollen for lunch today; it was lovely, if not a smidge warm.

View of a sunny open-air train station, with a train pulling up in the distance. There is a blue sky with a single cloud visible in the distance, and plenty of green everywhere.

A traintrack with a train on it, viewed from an elevated position. There are trees on both sides of the track, and a red house to the left of it. In the far distance, hills and a fjord can just be seen over the trees.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 10/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! When investigating striatal cholinergic neurons, it's a good idea to check what dopamine is doing. So, @livija-sarauskyte.bsky.social put an axon-expressing GCaMP8s in midbrain dopamine neurons, and imaged dorsal striatum during a simple task. So much going on! 🧠

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 07/07/2026

Added some lighting to the behaviour rig; may have overdone it a smidge? #cyberpunk #mousepunk 🧠

A large running wheel bathed in red light, under an objective emitting a pale blue glow.

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Matthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 01/07/2026

Very cool to see this work by Maxime! I knew he was also investigating ChIN recurrent inhibition, and while we originally found some local feedback from TH interneurons, that never captured the full circuit. Awesome to see they found an extrastriatal source! 🧠

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