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David Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Zelda and Maud are 3rd and 4th year PhD students. Passionate, hardworking, and fun, they have developed skills in rodent behavior (freely moving foraging), data analysis, and perturbation experiments. They are looking for postdocs. Contact them if interested!

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David Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Zelda Timmel and Maud Schaffhauser @maudschaffh.bsky.social, 2 outstanding PhD students I am lucky to work with, had a blast yesterday at #FENS presenting their poster on the role of the striatum in decision making and motor control during foraging.

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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check this exciting new foraging paper. Very excited that we are currently collaborating with @davidrobbe.bsky.social group to model behavioral mechanisms underlying foraging startegies in the The Tower Foraging Park.

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David Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

by the way @maudschaffh.bsky.social will present another story on the role of dorsal striatum using this task at FENS. She is looking for postdoc and will have a poster Thursday afternoon (PS06-09PM-627)

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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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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ever wonder how your brain navigates the real world? 🧠 Most spatial navigation studies use flat, 2D mazes. But the real world is hilly, irregular, and bumpy! ⛰️ Our new paper in #ScienceAdvances asked a simple question: How does the brain map uneven terrain? 📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵👇️️️ 1/

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JB Manent @jbmanent.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Apply for a PhD position with us at @inmed.bsky.social and join @neuromarseille.bsky.social PhD program! Our proposed PhD project is about excitability change and #epilepsy in cortical malformations 🧠🔥🧪🎓 More details below 👇🏻 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

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PhD position - Investigating the molecular bases of pathogenic excitability changes in cortical malformations - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

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Jaime de la Rocha @jrochav.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A few years ago we dreamed about having an automated system in which our animals could live in and train on any behavioral task 24/7 w/o any human intervention. Today, we are very happy to share the Training Village (TV), an open system that can be used to train mice/rats in almost any task (1/4).

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JB Manent @jbmanent.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Very happy to have contributed to this wonderful/tentacular work alongside so many amazing colleagues and friends! It opens up new ways of understanding grey matter heterotopia associated with altered cortical function and #epilepsy in humans. 🧠🧪🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function - Nature Neuroscience

Even when neocortical neurons form in abnormal locations, they retain their identity and function, revealing that brain circuit formation can be guided by intrinsic developmental programs rather than ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Lateralized foraging induces asymmetric corticostriatal plasticity in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Perran Ross @perran.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite may not be true after all. Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jure Majnik @juremaj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My first paper just got published last week! *Longitudinal tracking of neuronal activity from the same cells in the developing brain using Track2p* elifesciences.org/articles/107...

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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Towers Foraging Park: A Flexible Naturalistic Framework to Study Learning, Decision-Making, and Motor Control in Freely Moving Mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Elodie Fino @elofino.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

☀️ We really had a great scientific day for basal ganglia club satellite in Montpellier yesterday, before #Neurofrance2025!! Lots of great presentations and interactions within the community! Big thank you to all participants !!

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Jure Majnik @juremaj.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

How does a neuron get its activity? 👀 Check out our latest preprint, where we tracked the activity of the same neurons throughout early postnatal development: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... see 🧵 (1/?)

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INMED @inmed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Nice discussion with @davidrobbe.bsky.social in the Brain Inspired podcast about "Why our brain doesn't measure time ?" youtu.be/vvmPE4r1GlM

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BI 204 David Robbe: Your Brain Doesn't Measure Time

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