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Megan Carey

@megancarey.bsky.social
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Neuroscience Group Leader at Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. Formerly known as @meganinlisbon

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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to Tatiana Silva @ntatianasilva.bsky.social on winning this award for her 2024 paper, and thank you @spneurociencias.bsky.social for the recognition! 🎉
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Is there someone you think is great? Your mentor 👩🏼‍🏫, your hero 🦸🏻‍♀️ , your star trainee 🌟 ? There’s an award for that! Please, nominate now 🎉 @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @champalimaudr.bsky.social
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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...
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Scientists Unveil ‘Long Lost’ Map for Smell
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence www.fens.org/news-activit...
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The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece Early registration and stipend applications deadline: 7 April 2026 Regular registration and abstract submission deadline (no further stipend applications accepted)…
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fkne-scholars.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
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Champalimaud Foundation @champalimaudf.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#20Years20Stories Collection 1️⃣9️⃣ Defining moments with @megancarey.bsky.social Megan Carey’s story tells us about big dreams and big ideas that came true. 📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/intangi... 🔗Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
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20 Years, 20 Stories | Champalimaud Foundation
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Krzysztof Potempa @braincures.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🧵 Working together to build strong scientific communities by @megancarey.bsky.social. It takes a lot of energy to engage with charged topics. Moreover, not only is this work often not rewarded, but it can also bring risk to one's reputation @network-alba.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...
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Working together to build strong scientific communities by Megan Carey. Paywall access at https://lnkd.in/ekdVzdZ9. Highlights: 1) It takes a lot of time and energy to engage with highly charged… | Kr...
Working together to build strong scientific communities by Megan Carey. Paywall access at https://lnkd.in/ekdVzdZ9. Highlights: 1) It takes a lot of time and energy to engage with highly charged topic...
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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#20Years20Stories Collection 1️⃣9️⃣ Defining moments with @megancarey.bsky.social Megan Carey’s story tells us about big dreams and big ideas that came true. 📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/intangi... 🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’m honored to be named a 2025 @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellow! This support will allow me to build expertise in dynamical systems and control theory with mentorship from Guillaume Hennequin (@GJEHennequin on X). www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...
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Simons Foundation Announces Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the fourth class of its Pivot Fellowship.
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happening now! Come see Jorge Ramirez present our recent work showing that Purkinje cell nonlinear mixed selectivity facilitates flexible readouts of locomotor coordination 🐭 🧠🚶‍♂️ #SfN25 Board W6
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Pilot just came on and said that in addition to turbulence, “We are flying today with an unusually large number of tubes. Please make sure you exit the plane with the correct tube.” Non #SFN25 passengers very confused 😂
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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📖 DAY 2 related read: Working together to build strong scientific communities by @megancarey.bsky.social - Discover how ALBA’s Declaration and initiatives help create equitable, collaborative, and inclusive scientific communities. 🔗 Read here: loom.ly/RtQITXA
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨ #DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 27/08/2025
Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey @megancarey.bsky.social ‪ #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We are super excited about this news!!! 🤩 #ERCAdG
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I like how the ambiguity of which side the labels refer to perfectly mirrors each viewpoint
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barccsyn.bsky.social @barccsyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🎉 Excited to announce #BARCCSYN2025 – May 22–23 in Barcelona! Keynotes by: 🧠 Matteo Carandini ( @carandinilab.net ) 🧠 Megan Carey ( @megancarey.bsky.social ) 🧠 Chris Summerfield ( @summerfieldlab.bsky.social ) Submit your talk/poster by April 21 & register by May 11! 🔗 crm.cat/barccsyn-2025
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BARCCSYN 2025 - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
DEADLINE FOR TALKS OR POSTER PRESENTATIONS April 21st, 2025 REGISTRATION FEE 130 € (100 € for Members of the Catalan Society of Mathematics or Members of the Catalan Society of Biology) Barcelona Comp...
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
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Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
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Society for the Neural Control of Movement @ncmsociety.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thinking of attending #NCMPan25 but not sure you have the funds? There are meeting support awards available! Learn more on the website and share with your network as we try to ensure all members of the community can attend. ncm-society.org/dive...
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
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Caroline Nettekoven @carobellum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Made a starter pack for researchers who are actively working on or have an interest in the cerebellum. DM me to be added or reply to this thread! 🧠🤏🏻 go.bsky.app/7X4ekSH #neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations' A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences! It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is relevant! bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Don't miss @NTatianaSilva talking about her exciting recent work on cerebellar memory consolidation. 🧠 Today @ 16h Lisbon / 11am Baltimore. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
I thought we all agreed the first name-only badges were evil? 😈 #SfN2024
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
New lab preprint! Tatiana Silva & Inês Ribeiro found that in 🐭, locomotor activity 🏃‍♀️ shifts the critical temporal window for memory consolidation (from after to WITHIN training sessions) & accelerates memory transfer from 🧠 cerebellar cortex ➡️ nucleus doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Behavioral state regulates the dynamics of memory consolidation
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Bom dia #cosyne24 Please remember to nominate your colleagues for @SfNtweets Swartz Prize in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience 🏆 Nomination window is open - this is a great time to chat with others & coordinate nomination letters! www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
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Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I wrote a few thousand words about the cerebellum… check it out if you’d like to learn more about “the little brain” authors.elsevier.com/a/1iOZX3QW8S... #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Happy to share our new paper, in which Catarina Albergaria, Daniela Carulli, & Robin Broersen present convergent optogenetic, anatomical & physiological evidence for 'Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei,' now in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellar nuclei - Nature Communications
The role of the cerebellar nuclei (CN) during associative learning remains debated. Here, the authors show that well-timed conditioned responses can result from stimulating CN inputs, and that learnin...
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Depressing, yes. Surprising? Not so much. This is precisely why the #ALBADeclaration focused so heavily on workplace culture:
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Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
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Megan Carey @megancarey.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
It was fun chatting with @carlzimmer.bsky.social about the new papers out today in Science journals - a success story for large scale, international collaborative science!
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