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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 15h

Early start of the day today. Happy to be in Bordeaux to talk about human brain evolution & genetics. Grateful to @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social & @r3rt0.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in a great session of the RESHAPE CNRS network 🧪🧠🧬

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 30/09/2026

🍽️ Eating: One Behavior, Many Sciences! Join us Nov 9 at Institut Pasteur for an interdisciplinary exploration of how genes, brains, cultures & environments shape what we eat. Where nutrition meets neuroscience, genetics, anthropology & more. 🧬🧠🌍 📍Paris | 9:30–17:30 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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BrainFacts @brainfacts.org · 29/09/2026

Print out 3D-printed models of different animal brains for the classroom, lab — or just for fun. vist.ly/5kc8x

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3D-Printed Animal Brain Models

Print out 3D-printed models of different animal brains for the classroom, lab — or just for fun.

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not every cell react the same way to caspase activation. In our recent study (led by @tomcumming.bsky.social and initiated by @avillars.bsky.social ), we tried to better understand what explains this difference and outlined a role of past caspase exposure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Claire Dessalles @clairedessalles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NeMo is finally out! 🐟 We present our new method to peel cellular layers and extract their nematics. If you're wondering what a fish has to do with curved nematics, check out the thread and the publication 👀👇🏼 arxiv.org/html/2609.12...

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are looking forward to tomorrow, on September 23rd, 2026 at 10h30 for the presentation of the book The Brain in Theory and the Q&A with Romain Brette at the Institute Pasteur. Here it's the link to follow the event online and be part of the Q&A. www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t...

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Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Justus Kebschull @justuskebschull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW PREPRINT! An evo-devo look at how new cerebellar nuclei are made. Spoiler: it’s all driven by region-specific excitatory progenitors in the early rhombic lip; inhibitory neurons fill in later. If you care about brain evolution or cerebellar development, check it out: tinyurl.com/CNdevelopment

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

and the journal problem is ancillary to the problem of how academia recruits and funding is provided...

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Fernando Garcia-Moreno @phylobrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The cerebral cortex that is reading this sentence (yours, to be explicit) did not come out of nowhere. It has evolved over hundreds of millions of years... To study this evolutionary process, we decided to focus on non-avian reptiles for our new paper in Cerebral Cortex 🐢🦎🧠 🧵

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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today in Nature @nature.com, we report a new approach to studying human brain development and modeling disease in vivo. Open article link below 👇

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Özlem Yilmaz Silverman @ozlemyilmazs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote an essay (presenting two arguments) after reading these wonderful books. here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Measuring biological processes, counting biological individuals,… 🌱 @ellenclarke.bsky.social @roto-rub.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We thank Ferney Manrique for his interesting presentation about chapters 4 and 9. Today's video recording: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t... This is the last session of the reading group and next week we will have the book presentation at the Institute Pasteur on September 23 at 10:30 CET.

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Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are looking forward to our last session of the reading group before the presentation with the author at Pasteur. Ferney Manrique from Wenzhou-Kean University will present the Chapter 9 and a brief recap of Chapter 4 about living brains and biological computers on September 16 at 16h CET.

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Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More data to enable more discoveries in the fight against Parkinson's disease. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ryan Bateman did it best: Connected the digital fruit fly connectome to a robotic Strandbeest with a camera and IMU. he has a very detailed writeup at boat.horse/fly/

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Martin Clavey @mart1oeil.eu · 13/09/2026

Maintenant lisant "neuro arnaque" par @jeremie-n.cpesr.fr. Et rien que dans l'intro, c'est taquet sur taquet à Plomin, Pinker, et Bronner. C'est carré et ce venant des neurosciences. Je me régale : ce livre comble un manque.

Neuro arnaque. Comment les faussaires du cerveau déguisent la politique en biologie

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are also looking forward for the last session of the reading group where Ferney Manrique will present Chapter 9 and a brief recap of Chapter 4. This session will be about Living brains and Biological Computers. And it will take place on September 16th, 2026 at 16h CET. Join us!

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Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Camille Roux @camilleroux.com · 09/09/2026

LibreOffice 26.8 dépasse le million de téléchargements en une semaine, probablement grâce à sa position sans IA générative par défaut : exécution contrôlée par l'utilisateur, zéro télémétrie, aucune dépendance à un vendeur unique. ⬇️ manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-…

Capture d'écran de LibreOffice Writer montrant un document expliquant les styles de formatage. L'interface affiche un diagramme comparant le formatage direct et les styles, avec un panneau de navigation sur le côté listant les chapitres du document.

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are looking forward for tomorrows presentation, we will have Raoul Doyez from Sorbonne Université presenting Chapter 8 and a brief recap of Chapter 5: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t.... The topics are neural codes and the organization of brain processes. Join us on September 9th, 2026 at 16h CET

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Crowdcast

Where the world gathers

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Julio Alcántara @julioalcante.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the next session, we will have Raoul Doyez from Sorbonne Université presenting Chapter 8 and a brief recap of Chapter 5: www.crowdcast.io/c/brain-in-t... The topics are neural codes and the organization of brain processes. Join us on September 9th, 2026 at 16h CET. @romainbrette.bsky.social

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Reading club: The Brain in Theory by Romain Brette

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

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Marc Abrahams @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

TODAY! The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded at the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday evening, September 3, 2026. The ceremony itself begins at 7:00 pm (Central European time). The pre-show dance performance begins at 6:45 pm. The […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Drawing, by artist Becky Moon, of a person who is the happy target of 1500 happy people throwing paper airplanes at him.

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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our final workshop will be @crick.ac.uk 🔜 10.09 from 16:00. With a talk and discussion hosted by @neural-reckoning.org on: 🧠 Does heterogeneity help the brain and how could we know if it did? Registration is free but required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

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Richard Fisher @richardfisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Recently I went to Chile to see the Extremely Large Telescope being built in the Atacama. The BBC just published my feature about its construction challenges, the discoveries to come, and its fun name...the result of what I call telescopic "nominative magnification". :) www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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In the otherworldly Chilean desert, this huge telescope could reveal alien life

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the biggest telescope ever built is taking shape – and it could radically change our view of the Universe.

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What is information, really? Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, we propose a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits Finally published: “Four faces of information in natural systems” 🧵

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are thrilled to launch The State of Neuroscience in Latin America, a special report in which we spoke with nearly 50 researchers across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay to capture the highs and lows of doing neuroscience research in Latin America. Explore now: bit.ly/4zGjlvn

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This 👇, and Europe should also have more scheme to finance those essential "infrastructures" (rathen than implementing 10 millions single person grant...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects

Letter to the Editor

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A new article by Marco Tagliaferri and Luigi Cattaneo was recently published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. "TractEdit: an open-source interactive tool for virtual dissection and manual refinement of diffusion #MRI #tractography" 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1741... @marcotagliaferri.bsky.social

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna > Forsén stated in the 2019 documentary film Losing Lena, "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It's time I retired from tech, too... Let's commit to losing me."

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What does a single-celled organism tell us about the origins of complex behaviour? Delighted to see the final version of our paper: Embodied behavioural complexity in a ciliated microorganism out in@natcomms.nature.com (Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC) doi.org/10.1038/s414... #cilia #protistsonsky

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As promised, we now share some details why it took 32 months to get this Matters Arising published, and, since many asked, share some comments on the reply to our critique. All details can be found in this small FAQ vincentholst.github.io/the_curious_.... Below is a summary 🧵

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The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption’s Disappearance

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 11/08/2026

As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Do you work on #palaeoneurology ? I’m honored to be serving as @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports collection Guest Editor on this most awesome topic, and I am eager to read your submission! #brain #evolution 🧠 Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: go.nature.com/3NSfTut

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Palaeoneurology

This Collection welcomes submissions of integrative, and multidisciplinary research on palaeoneurology.

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I agree with you guys, but I think we actually have a bigger problem than LLMs, which just amplify the unhinged neoliberalism that's putting us in the edge... (we were already in big troubles 5 years ago when LLMs were not a thing)

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

exactly, 'life' is about being able to make it as a group through millions of years of evolution, not about maximising instantaneous outcome today to disappear tomorrow

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the edge between helpful and harmful is also concerning... Short/mid-term helpful drifting to long-term harmful. De-skilling is one example. Replacing human interactions by LLM interactions is another (asking stuff to an LLM rather than to people around)

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