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Michael Beierlein @mbeierlein.bsky.social · 2h

Sad day today—Nayeli Rivera-Ramirez and Guillermo Aquino-Miranda, two world-class scientists and ephys aficionados, are moving on. Muchas gracias for all of your scientific contributions, your teaching&mentoring, and, most importantly, for the wonderful times we’ve shared. You will be truly missed.

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592

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Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 15/09/2026

Tempted to use AI to write your cover letter or email to a potential employer? RESIST! It is simultaneously obvious, insulting, and renders you totally undifferentiated from the other 80 people being considered t the same time. There has never been a better time to write concisely in your own voice!

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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Open-rank tenure-track faculty position

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Mark Wagner @mark-j-wagner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How the cerebellum separates related contexts—now out in Nature! Martha Garcia-Garcia led this tour de force, with theory from @somnirons.bsky.social & Michał Wójcik. Martha is on the faculty market, and I could not recommend her more highly. My lab is also recruiting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yale Neuroscience 🧠 @yaleneuro.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have 2 searches, one cell/molecular/systems neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190736) and one computational neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190740). Got questions about the searches, the department, or the process? Please ask, happy to chat!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Love seeing entirely novel findings about dopamine Move over G proteins! Dopamine can regulate glutamate/NMDA directly and without second messenger systems: D2R physically couples GluN2B to suppress NMDA current directly 🤯 (congrats to team from Javitch & Ford labs) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dopamine D2 receptors bypass canonical signaling to directly tune NMDA receptor function and aversive learning

Dopamine acts at D2-NMDA receptor heteromers to control glutamatergic transmission and aversive learning.

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hi Folks, with @lisataxier.bsky.social moving on to open her own lab at Stony Brook, I am in the market for a new postdoctoral fellow who wants to do slice electrophysiology. We have a number of really exciting projects, translational to basic science, that are ephys focused.

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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Our lab is re-opening the search for a postdoc! The candidate we chose this round unfortunately had to withdraw (2-body problem). If you or someone you know is looking for a postdoc in ephys + spatial navigation + neurodegeneration, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io

aeryjoneslab.github.io

Welcome to the Aery Jones Lab!

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MarinaP63 @marinap63.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Are you a senior postdoc with a complete scientific story to tell? Apply for our Yale Molecular Psychiatry MAPS program and tell us about your work at our weekly neuroscience seminar series. PLEASE REPOST!

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Sonja Blumenstock @sblumenstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What if part of Huntington's disease wasn't just damage, but a circuit stuck in the wrong pattern? Our new paper, out today in Nature, tests that idea.

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Jan Gründemann @jangrundemann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Latest from the lab: @paricio-montesinos.bsky.social & team identified a circuit mechanism for sensory thalamus plasticity. TRN inhibition reshapes auditory thalamus activity to align sensory responses with learned value and action, enabling adaptive behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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A thalamic inhibitory circuit aligns sensory coding with learned value

Adaptive behavior requires sensory systems to prioritize cues that predict meaningful outcomes while suppressing irrelevant stimuli, but how relevance-based filtering is implemented along early sensor...

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For many bilingual people, switching between languages feels effortless. Now, scientists have figured out how bilingual brains accomplish this feat at the single neuron level. spkl.io/633297EUXJ Xinyuan Yan, Benjamin, Y. Hayden, @sameershethmd.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social

first page of Cell paper: “Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons"

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Fiona Müllner @fionamuellner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🧠We offer 1-2 Postdoc positions in Circuit Neuroscience!🧠 Join us at @dandrite.bsky.social to study thalamic circuits for visual processing, funded by an ERC starting grant and the Lundbeck foundation. Deadline: 14. Juni 2026 Apply here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Do brain circuits really sit in a 'soup' of neuromodulators? Are neurons like soggy bits of bread soaked in signaling factors? Is the whole brain just squelching around in one big pool of warm modulators?

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...

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Postdoctoral Associate

The George Washington University Department of Pharmacology & Physiology is an active research department with federally funded programs in neuroscience and development, cardiovascular pharmacology an...

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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In this review, Bruce P. Bean of @harvardmed.bsky.social examines the mechanisms of #pacemaking in mammalian #neurons, highlighting that few spontaneously active neurons rely on #HCN ‘pacemaker’ channels for their activity 🧠 ⚙️ 📜 🔗 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is beautiful data. 2p optical reporting of subthreshold voltage, validated with simultaneous patch clamp. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... FORCE1s by François St-Pierre's group, with a bunch of great people joining in.

Figure 2. FORCE1s reports in vivo neuronal activity with high fidelity under resonance
scanning 2-photon microscopy
(A-I) 2P-guided whole-cell patching and resonant-scan imaging in anesthetized mice.
(A) Experimental schematic.
(B) 2P images of a representative FORCE1s-Kv-expressing neuron are shown at high resolution (i) and the size and
resolution used during voltage imaging (ii). The patching pipette is outlined.
(C) Simultaneous electrophysiological recording (top, 10 kHz) and FORCE1s-Kv fluorescence imaging (bottom, 440
Hz). The fluorescence trace was low-pass filtered at 150 Hz to enhance the visualization of the spikes. Dashed
boxes: epochs shown in panels D-E. Vertical lines: detected spikes. Gray triangle (left, and in panels D-E): -70 mV.
(D-E) Zoomed-in subthreshold (D) and bursting (E) epochs. Panel D’s optical trace was low-pass filtered at 50 Hz to
enhance the visualization of subthreshold fluctuations.

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

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Adam Carter @carterlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Excited to share our new J Neurosci paper showing how subcortical inputs are routed through ventromedial (VM) thalamus to layer 1 interneurons in the medial PFC, all done by my graduate student Sanne Casello: sannemcasello.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What are the systems in neuroscience that we really have something that we can call “explanation” at all relevant levels, other than reflexive feed-forward like circuits. Here are a few that I would argue are getting there. Obviously not complete explanations but genuinely satisfying.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Postdoc @ Emory Univ. The Deans lab is recruiting postdocs to work on inner ear development, hair cells and innervation. We use mouse genetics, imaging, and dev bio to understand how the machinery for hearing + balance is built. Email a CV and brief statement of interests. 🔁 Boosts appreciated

Fluorescent image of a mouse organ of Corti. Teal and pink labeling shows N-cadherin and E-cadherin in the inner and outer compartments respectively. Yellow labels the hair cells and their stereociliary bundles.

Contact me about postdoc opportunities related to this work!

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 13/03/2026

The medial geniculate body #MGB in the #auditory #thalamus is a key early node in sound processing. @geffenlab.bsky.social &co show in mice that two inhibitory neuron types have distinct connectivity & effects on sound processing. @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47twOtM

Inhibitory neurons differentially control sound-evoked responses in the MGB. Left: diagram of the proposed circuit underlying our results. Boxes: summary of effects of optogenetic manipulation of SSTTRN (top) or PVTRN (bottom) inactivation on MGB firing and the circuitry and results of computational models that support a similar distribution of effects.

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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Ein historischer Moment: 65 Jahre nachdem der erste türkische Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland kam, wird mit @oezdemir.de erstmals ein türkeistämmiger Deutscher Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg. Das erfüllt mich mit Stolz auf dieses Land. Glückwunsch an Ba-Wü und Cem!

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Adam Carter @carterlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Happy to share our new study about how cortical and thalamic inputs engage cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core, all done by my graduate student Emily Jang: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

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Lars-Anders Carlson @lacarlson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Train booking in Germany!

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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I think this is a *super* important paper - if this result can be replicated with other regions or tasks then this may come to form our core understanding of credit assignment signals in the neocortex! #neuroscience 🧪

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MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School @mda-uthgrad.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As new Kopchick Fellows are named, we are sharing a brief series highlighting the leadership and impact of the fellowship. Our first features the Kopchicks, Huda Zoghbi, MD, and Fellow, Stephen Farmer, whose neurodegenerative disease research continues this fall in the Huda Zoghbi Lab. More to come.

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Lyon fans held up this banner during a poignant minute's silence before their game vs. PAOK 🖤 Seven fans of the Greek club were killed in a minibus crash en route to the Europa League tie.

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Gord Fishell @gordfishell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Excited to be on the organization meeting for the 6th annual NCM conference on Neural Circuits in Health & Disease. Terrific line up of speakers!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

1. If the goal is to stop us from doing science, then doing science is more important than ever now. 2. We have radical uncertainty about the future. There is no sense in giving up in advance. 3. We have agency over the future. If you don't like what's happening, work to change what is happening.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Tracking the details of an experiment in successively cited Methods sections

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Adam Carter @carterlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Excited to share our new study showing how subcortical inputs are routed through ventromedial (VM) thalamus to layer 1 interneurons in the medial PFC, all done by my graduate student Sanne Casello: sannemcasello.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Meredith McCarty @meredithmccarty.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Went on a short backpacking trip as I was finishing up my thesis last December. Compiled some of the footage into a YouTube video :) We were at the great sand dunes in Colorado- so much snow! and sand! and wind! ❄️⏳⌛️

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Hiking and Camping in Great Sand Dunes National Park | sand & snow

YouTube video by Meredith

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

when doing neuroscience projects I often advocate for computational modelling, followed by data analysis to test model's predictions. however a few times now I have had pushback from collaborators/reivewers suggesting it would be better to do the data analysis first, then the modelling. thoughts?

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Apply to the Neurobiology course at MBL! It is supercool. Apps due Feb 4.

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Tatjana Tchumatchenko @tatjanat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

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