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Mathew Piasecki

@mpneurophys.bsky.social
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Neuromuscular physiology. Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
POST-DOC POSITION in multi-channel near-fibre EMG. Based at University of Waterloo, Canada, with a research visit to University of Nottingham, UK. Please get in touch if interested.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yesterday we held the first Nottingham Neuromuscular Research Meeting (NRRM). Great talks, great Meal Deals. This may become an annual event
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Richard G. Carson from @tcddublin.bsky.social presents a method of compensating for the #excitability of spinal #motoneurones when estimating the magnitude of potentials evoked in skeletal muscles ⚡️ 🧠 Read it here👇️ physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Assistant Professor (lecturer in old money) job! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Full time, permanent positions available in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Deadline Tuesday 18 August 2026 Please share!
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor
We’re looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology who can demonstrate an emerging international research profile which complements and expands upon our existing research stre...
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.
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Marcus Kaiser @connectomelab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Do you have 3+ years of postdoctoral experience and want to develop noninvasive interventions for schizophrenia? Contact me if you want to look into transcranial focused ultrasound or ultrasound vagus nerve stimulation at our N3 Neurotechnology Centre. www.mqmentalhealth.org/schizophreni...
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Don’t submit to (or review for) Frontiers 👇🏻
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François Hug @francoishug.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🆕 🚩Brain oscillations may shape the functional state of the motor system, beyond the muscles directly involved in the task New #Preprint with EEG and large-scale motor neuron recordings 🔗 shorturl.at/p2jjI @clementnaveilhan.bsky.social FDernoncourt WvandenHoorn #Neuroscience #MotorControl #EEG #EMG
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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
2700 academic staff at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social received formal notice today that their job is at risk. Approximately 1-in-5 (22%) will lose their job. In an interview in today’s @timeshighered.bsky.social the university’s VC responded “it’s an exciting time for higher education”.
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hey All: our colleagues need our help. Please repost, share, and contact Vibhu if you can help!
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New postdoc opportunity here in The Centre of Metabolism, Ageing and Physiology (CoMAP), Royal Derby Hospital. Focus is on stable-isotope tracer-based mass-spectrometry to assess changes in muscle protein metabolism Closing date 18th March jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed Term)
The purpose of this role will be to undertake laboratory research and disseminate findings from a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded project entitled “Exercise prehabilitation in colorectal cancer: establishing mechanisms of adaptation to...
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 01/02/2026
Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
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Eduardo Martinez-Valdes @dredumartinez.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Reduced knee extensor torque steadiness and increased motor unit discharge rate variability in young people with patellofemoral pain: a pilot study - our latest study led by the great @Michalis_Arv is published in @EJAP_official open access below link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Reduced knee extensor torque steadiness and increased motor unit discharge rate variability in young people with patellofemoral pain: a pilot study - European Journal of Applied Physiology
Purpose The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate differences in vasti muscle motor unit (MU) firing between individuals with current patellofemoral pain (PFP) and asymptomatic controls during subma...
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🎓 2026 Editorial Board Fellowship🎓 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN 📣 Our #EditorialBoardFellowship is a great opportunity for ECRs to be directly involved in the editorial process under the guidance of a Senior Editor! ⏰ Apply by 15th March 👇 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Simon Avrillon @simonavrillon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My university is offering scholarships for PhD students to visit Nantes (France) for 3 to 6 months. If you are interested in joining my lab to work on the neural control of the hand during artistic activities and translating these insights into robotic control please do not hesitate to get in touch!
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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Reminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.
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Jen Davies @jendavies.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!! Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... @ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social
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Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
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François Hug @francoishug.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🆕 🚩 New preprint on #bioRxiv by F. Dernoncourt . We introduce a conceptually new framework that combines large-scale human motor unit recordings with simulation-based inference to estimate recurrent inhibition during voluntary contractions in humans. 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jen Davies @jendavies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years) This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications. Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
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Michelle Marneweck @mmarneweck.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Simon A. Sharples, PhD 🇨🇦 @neurosharps.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm particularly proud to have one of my images selected and featured on the cover of the latest issue of @jphysiol.bsky.social In this issue, you can also read about my latest work on gamma motoneurons! Check it out!! physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New 3-year PostDoc opportunity in CoMAP, funded by UKRI-BBSRC — developing innovative methods to study motor unit adaptation to ageing and its functional consequences in humans. Please pass on to any who may be interested. @ukri.org jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Paul Greenhaff @pgreenhaff.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Hopefully of interest to scientists and exercise practitioners with and interest in muscle mass and functional gains in human volunteers. doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @jphysiol.bsky.social
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NSAID ingestion augments training‐induced muscle hypertrophy and differentially affects muscle mRNA expression, but not strength gains, in trained men
Abstract figure legend Schematic outlining the impact of NSAID ingestion on resistance exercise training-induced changes in muscle morphology, function and gene networks relative to placebo ingestion...
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Jen Davies @jendavies.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!
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Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
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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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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New 3-year PostDoc opportunity in CoMAP, funded by UKRI-BBSRC — developing innovative methods to study motor unit adaptation to ageing and its functional consequences in humans. Please pass on to any who may be interested. @ukri.org jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122
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Robert Seaborne @robertseaborne.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚨Hiring a 2yr postdoc in the lab work on muscle biology, genomics & ALS. Expertise in the above advantageous, but work ethic, desire to learn/develop and being a good scientist/person more important Good collab with @droch.bsky.social so travel to CPH involved as well www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126245-...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Muscle Biology and Genomics | King's College London
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Mathew Piasecki @mpneurophys.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We had a little appearance on Channel4 last night; Michael Mosley: Secrets of the Superagers Michael came to our lab and tried a few of our methods, including needle EMG See 36 mins in for some pretty good spikes 😎 www.channel4.com/programmes/m...
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Mathew Piasecki of uniofnottingham.bsky.social discusses motor unit adaptation to disuse: crossing the threshold from firing rate suppression to #neuromuscular junction transmission ⚙️ 🔎 📖 Read the #TopicalReview here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Northumbria University Neuromuscular Function @nuneurofunc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Penultimate presentation from our group at @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @elisanedelec.bsky.social presenting her work on knee extensior neuromuscular function across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
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Northumbria University Neuromuscular Function @nuneurofunc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Second up from our group from @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @padraig-spillane.bsky.social presenting his work titled Contraction intensity-specific fluctuations in motor unit behaviour across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
francoishug.bsky.social‬ et al. investigated non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among #motor units in response to #nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity ⚙️ ✍️ 📜 Read the #Research here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Greg Pearcey @gregorypearcey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Chronic resistance and endurance training alters the way in which motor unit discharge rates are modulated across contraction intensities, suggesting alterations in net excitatory synaptic input - another fun collaboration with @jskarabot.bsky.social and colleagues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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François Hug @francoishug.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🆕📝 New publication in @jphysiol.bsky.social “Non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among motor units in response to nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity” 🔗 doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @univcotedazur.bsky.social @simonavrillon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
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Non‐homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among motor units in response to nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity
Abstract figure legend We combined experimental data and in silico models to investigate the contribution of inhibitory and neuromodulatory inputs to motor unit behaviour in response to nociceptive s....
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Senior Editors Paul. L. Greenhaff & Harold D. Schultz examine the central role of human and clinical physiology in the era of multi-omics and inter-organ crosstalk ✍️ 🔗 Read the #Editorial here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Eduardo Martinez-Valdes @dredumartinez.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
‘Load and muscle-dependent changes in triceps surae motor unit firing properties in individuals with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy’ Our latest study has just been published in @jphysiol.bsky.social - open access below
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Load and muscle‐dependent changes in triceps surae motor unit firing properties in individuals with non‐insertional Achilles tendinopathy
Abstract figure legend Motor unit firing properties of the medial gastrocnemius (MG), lateral gastrocnemius (LG), and soleus (SO) muscles were assessed using high-density surface electromyography (HD....
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The revival of an old metaphor, first coined by Henri Bergson in the 1880s - the brain is (or has) a switchboard!
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A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature
Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tomomichi Oya of @westernuwin.bsky.social writes this #Perspective on Dernoncourt et al. (2025), as their experimental results raise several important considerations regarding MU #flexibility 💭 🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Mostafa Safaie @atmostafa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Job Alert (please repost)! We are looking to hire a Research Assistant to join us in an exciting project looking into Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and how brains learn to control them.
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The Journal of Physiology @jphysiol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Organised by @pgreenhaff.bsky.social & focusing on: 🚑 Injury and rehabilitation ⛰️ Altitude physiology 🦵 Muscle adaptation 🚴 Exercise training 💉 Pharmacological interventions ⚙️ Body composition 🔗 buff.ly/2sVbnLk
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with Matt Apps (Birmingham) & Nathan Lepora (Bristol) Closes May 5th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on a BBSRC-funded project to study the neural basis of foraging, in collaboration with the groups ...
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Paul Greenhaff @pgreenhaff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Clinical and humans physiology to the fore. Think about submitting your work to The Journal of Physiology. doi.org/10.1113/jp28...
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Here comes the sun: the central role of human and clinical physiology in the era of multi‐omics and inter‐organ crosstalk
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