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Michael Roberts

@robertsneuro.bsky.social
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Auditory neuroscientist at University of Michigan studying how neural circuits process speech and other complex sounds. www.RobertsNeuro.org ORCID: 0000-0003-2835-8752

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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There are only 13 days left to apply for the 2026 Auditory System GRC (June 21 deadline)! Please apply soon, and feel free to reach out with any questions. www.grc.org/auditory-sys...
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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The 2026 Auditory System GRC is just 3 months away! Join us for an exciting program featuring fantastic speakers, including hearing health advocate, @sharieberts.bsky.social. Early career researchers will be selected for additional talks, so submit your abstracts soon. www.grc.org/auditory-sys...
Official group photo showing attendees at the 2024 Auditory System Gordon Research Conference.
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Yunlu Zhu @yunluzhu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Dept of Otolaryngology University of Michigan in May! We study how the brain turns gravity signals into stable movement → zhulab.fish (yup, proudly a #zebrafish lab🐟) If you're interested, get in touch! #newPI
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Yunlu Zhu Lab [University of Michigan]
Systems neuroscience lab at the University of Michigan studying brain's gravity code for balance, with a focus on neurons and glia in vestibular function and dysfunction 🐟
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
As part of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology I am co-hosting this panel on science communication in January (Jan 13 at 12:30PM EST)! Sign up to hear from myself, Dr. Kelsey Anbuhl, and Dr. Alli Coffin about how to communicate your science to a non-science audience!
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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Happy to announce that the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at @umich.edu is running a tenure-track faculty search again this year! Come join our amazing group of auditory and vestibular scientists. Details below.
Open Assistant or Associate Professor position

Kresge Hearing Research Institute
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Michigan Medical School 
					
Applications are being considered for a full-time, tenure-track position in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine. The successful candidate will hold a PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degree and will have research interests relevant to auditory and vestibular biology broadly defined, including the development, function, and pathologies of the auditory and vestibular systems, from peripheral to central. Candidates performing research in the auditory and/or vestibular periphery are especially encouraged to apply. The faculty position is within the vibrant and highly interactive research environment of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute. The Institute is affiliated with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and resides within the very strong and collegial research community of the University of Michigan. We are seeking exceptional scientists to establish vigorous independent research programs, form productive collaborations, and promote translation of their research. Please submit a current CV and a 2- or 3-page description of research interests and future directions. Please ask three to five references to send letters as well. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Materials should be sent to the KHRI search committee at:

khri-facultysearch@med.umich.edu 

The University of Michigan is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
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Liz Ronan, PhD @elizabithian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Check out our first research article from the Emrick lab, published in Cell Reports! We define the sensory neurons in the tooth as sentinels: tuned to detect tooth damage and trigger a protective jaw opening reflex. 🦷🔨 I’m officially a mammalian somatosensory biologist (but I still 🩷 worms 🪱)
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
High profile Lancet report into possible links between hearing loss & dementia: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission 🧪🦻🏾🧠 www.thelancet.com/article/S014...
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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
The number of older people, including those living with dementia, is rising, as younger age mortality declines. However, the age-specific incidence of dementia has fallen in many countries, probably b...
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Uri Manor @manorlaboratory.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Interview: How a Hearing-Loss Grant Got Cut in the Fight Over DEI
“It felt like the floor dropped out,” researcher Uri Manor said after the sudden suspension of his lab’s award.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/07/2025
Another important article by Kate Zernike from the @nytimes.com You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts
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Adam Hockley @adhockley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thrilled to present our paper out today in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social We asked how prediction errors are generated in the auditory cortex during the oddball paradigm. When blocking top-down prediction signals from mPFC, we saw reduced prediction errors in A1. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors
Hockley et al. investigate how the brain processes auditory stimuli based on predictability. The results show that predictions in the medial prefrontal cortex govern sensory information flow and modul...
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Lauren Kreeger @laurenkreeger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thrilled that our paper has been published in @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... We ask: how can a neuron integrate information across multiple time scales? Twist: This neuron has extreme properties that helps it work ~300x times faster than neurons in the hippocampus Summary 🧵to follow
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Pierre Apostolides @pfapostolides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
(Plz repost) I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation. pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu Tyvm
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I spent this afternoon in DC meeting with @repdwightevans.bsky.social about the current science funding freeze & indirect cuts. I'm proud to fight for the biomedical research funding & cures we all deserve—and you can, too.
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Dan Johnston, History of Neuroscience Autobiographies by SFN. Dan was my PhD advisor who I learned so much from. He writes about challenges, successes, failures; love for his dogs, colleagues and passion for physiology. Great perspective by a talented, humble & kind human. tinyurl.com/3kuswnn2
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank so much for all your support with this project Ross!
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Our new work investigating multiplexing and mixed selectivity in auditory inferior colliculus neurons is up on bioRxiv 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Neurons in the inferior colliculus use multiplexing to encode features of frequency-modulated sweeps
Within the central auditory pathway, the inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical integration center for ascending sound information. Previous studies have shown that many IC neurons exhibit receptive f...
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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
! 🚨Preprint Alert🚨
! Flo and Johann’s magnum opus on calcium permeation in AMPA Receptors is up. It’s another chapter in our collaboration with Han Sun (FMP-Berlin), with ephys from our former student @ecekuru.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 
For the details, here's a #bluetorial 1/n
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Atomistic Mechanisms of Calcium Permeation Modulated by Q/R Editing and Selectivity Filter Mutations in GluA2 AMPA Receptors
GluA2 is a key subunit of AMPA receptor ion channels that is abundantly expressed in the vertebrate brain. Posttranscriptional Q/R editing of GluA2 renders AMPARs nearly impermeable to calcium ions, w...
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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky
A snip of my profile. Banner image incldes Arendt, Durkheim, Fanon and others drawn rouglys on eggs in Black and White. Profile picture is me in front of some autumn leaves. 
Key descriptive text identifies me as a criminologist working on atrocity crime. 
At the bottom, highlighted by a big red arrow is my ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7463-1302A snip from my ORCID profile page - at the left is a list of institutional and other links to social media, including one to Bluesky, highlighted by a big red arrow.
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi! I am starting my postdoc in January & am planning to apply for the HHMI Hanna H. Gray fellowship in the 2025 cycle, and I was wondering if there are any recent awardees who would be willing to share example applications or tips? Thank you thank you! #Neuroscience 🧪
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Elie Huez @eliehuez.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi everyone! I am a graduate student in the Roberts lab, I am focused on identifying the neuron types and circuits in the inferior colliculus using light-sheet, tissue clearing and sequencing. I am excited to get to know everyone in the field! #neuroscience
Fluorescent images of green neurons
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
We are recruiting a PhD student! The project will define the sensory strategies that freely moving animals use to chase sounds. The ideal candidate will have an engineering / neuroscience background and strong coding skills. Reach out to learn more! shorturl.at/cNu0p
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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rose ying @roseying.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
here's my latest preprint where I show that auditory midbrain and thalamus display similar patterns of plasticity as the auditory cortex during perceptual task performance and perceptual learning! auditory cortex has 24 hours to respond
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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Going to #AROMWM ? Looking for a postdoc position? Love auditory neuroscience and regeneration? Fully funded position in my research group - would love to tell you more about it at #ARO2024 👂🐟🔬
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sensory Neuroscience/ Zebrafish
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Check out our new preprint! Using live imaging in zebrafish to evaluate cellular mechanisms of cisplatin chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, we show that sensory hair cell mitochondria are direct targets for cisplatin, and that cumulative mitochondrial activity increases hair cell vulnerability 👂🐟⚕️
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Cisplatin drives mitochondrial dysregulation in sensory hair cells
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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
#JobAlert The Sheets lab at WashU seeks a #postdoc to investigate traumatic injury and #regeneration of #sensory receptors and nerves in the #zebrafish model! 🐟👂 Apply here: tinyurl.com/44z4rus3
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Our IC review is live! See below for an overview from @robertsneuro.bsky.social and I about the incredible computations the IC is doing and why cell types & circuit motif identification are critical for better understanding our favorite auditory hub. 🧠 👂 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Identifying Neuron Types and Circuit Mechanisms in the Auditory Midbrain
The inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical computational hub in the central auditory pathway. From its position in the midbrain, the IC receives nearl…
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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Calling all bio undergrads 📢 Want to gain research experience and training before grad school? Interested in projects exploring developmental biology and regeneration? Want to investigate sensory nerve development and regeneration with my lab? 🐟 Applications now open! sites.wustl.edu/devbioregenm...
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Application Instructions
Applications Now Open! Apply by March 15th for Full Consideration Please read through this entire page and eligibility requirements. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Questions can be��...
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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
It’s happening. #jneurosci #sfn #openscience
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
If there's a microphone available, please use the microphone 🥺 Just use it, it doesn't matter if you're "loud" or a random person in the back of the room says they can hear you. It's an accessibility issue that affects me but I don't always have the energy/courage to say anything.
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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
First post! We're looking for a Research Assistant to help us understand how platinum-based chemotherapy drugs damage sensory receptors & nerves! #neuroscience #zebrafish #job jobrxiv.org/job/washingt...
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
The Royal Society have launched a new postdoc career development fund - initally for those of black heritage royalsociety.org/news/2023/09... please circulate widely (and if you're eligible and interested in auditory neuroscience reach out!)
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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
E.A.R.S. is accepting submissions for a special Trainee Session on December 12. Research trainees at graduate or post-doctoral stage in auditory neuroscience are welcome to submit their abstract by Nov. 22 to be given full consideration. forms.gle/2kLrVe4PPjb4...
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
We're hiring - a lab tech and fully funded (UK rate) PhD student! Join us at to figure out how the brain constructs auditory space! Adverts here (tech : shorturl.at/hmrFY) and here (PhD studentship : shorturl.at/adoJN). #neuroscience #hearing
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Reminder that the Big Ten Academic Alliance Fee Waiver program gives waivers for 15 schools' PhD programs (including OSU astro and OSU physics) for US citizen students w/ 3.0+ GPAs and diverse backgrounds! Easy form to complete due by Nov 15. btaa.org/resources-fo...
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Gabriel E. Romero @geromero.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Hi! I'm a neurobiology postdoc at Harvard Medical School working to determine how the brain communicates its internal state to the inner-ear. I'm excited to connect with scientists and others who believe that equity elevates scientific innovation. Bonus points if you dig the auditory system ;)
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Dr. Malinda McPherson-McNato @malindajmcp.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
(1st post!) The McPherson Auditory Perception Lab is coming to Purdue Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences in Fall 2024, & I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs! If you are interested in studying how people perceive and remember complex sounds, please reach out. hhs.purdue.edu/directory/ma...
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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
The E.A.R.S. seminars are resuming for the Fall semester! Please join us on Tuesday 09/26/2023 at 1 pm ET www.med.upenn.edu/pennhearing/... : Applying for faculty positions -- a behind the scenes look. Dr. Daniel Polley (MEEI) Dr. Marina Silveira (University of Michigan) Dr. Chris Petkov (Newcastle)
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Natalie Tronson @natalie-t.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Interested in a PhD in Neuroscience? @umich.bsky.social Neuroscience Grad Program open house is Oct 4 and Oct 25 - register here lnkd.in/g_SZtEyU #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Check out the latest from our lab! Huge congrats to @marinaas.bsky.social for leading this project from conception to publication. 🍾🎉 And thank you to the reviewers for genuinely constructive feedback. #neuroskyence #neuroscience www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Neuropeptide Y signaling regulates recurrent excitation in the auditory midbrain
Neuropeptides play key roles in shaping the organization and function of neuronal circuits. In the inferior colliculus (IC), which is in the auditory midbrain, Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is expressed by a c...
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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Hi all, finally made it over here. Good to see everyone! Big thanks to @pkpd-babe.bsky.social for the invite. I'm an Assistant Prof at the University of Michigan. My lab studies the auditory midbrain 👂🧠, doing a lot of circuit bashing and other fun stuff. Also, patch clampers rule! #neuroskyence
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