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Neuroscientist, Professor of Visual Neuroscience, Nathalie Rochefort rochefortlab.co.uk, she/her

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Women in Neuroscience UK @womeninneurouk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Featured: @rochefortlab.bsky.social, Eve Corrie, Coco Newton, @manuelamarescotti.bsky.social, Tomi Akingbade, and Rachel Horne.
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Working with rats, & not happy w MRI based brain atlases from adult males? We've got you! High resolution (2photon), 3D atlases (female rats) are now available in @brainglobe.info. Plz start using these atlases & let us know your feedback for the official release! brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem... 🐭🧠
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New female rat brain atlases added to BrainGlobe — BrainGlobe
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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Join our next keynote lecture! Nathalie Rochefort @rochefortlab.bsky.social, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, will give an exciting talk at our Institute in Martinsried. 📅 February 3 at 11:00 a.m. 📍 Room NQ105, Martinsried Art by @somedonkey.bsky.social
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Christine Grienberger @cgrienberger.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New preprint from the lab! 🚀 We find that hippocampal OLM interneurons provide a circuit-level inhibitory feedback signal that dynamically controls when and where behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity can occur. Feedback welcome!
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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Great opportunity here! For amazing science as well as proximity to the calanques 😅
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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New @who.int Global Status Report on Neurology calls for urgent action to address the growing burden of neurological disorders & to promote brain health for ALL. @arinatam.bsky.social co-authored Ch4: Effective, timely & responsive diagnosis, treatment & care. Full report: edin.ac/43r3P7U
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SIDB recently featured in STV News. Using a GRIN2B rat model, Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser and Katerina Hristova showed an epilepsy drug can reduce seizures. Check it out ⬇️ edin.ac/3Kz2Mw1 @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social @patrickwildcentre.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social
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Epilepsy medication could control seizures in children with rare brain disorder
Scientists have been studying GRIN2B-Related Disorder, a rare condition that affects the nervous system of young kids.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In August, U.K. software entrepreneur Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley died at age 91. The nation’s autism researchers and advocates remember the tech trailblazer for her philanthropic legacy. By @lauren-schneider.com www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/in-...
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Steve Shirley’s legacy of autism philanthropy
The late pioneer for remote work and women in tech is remembered by U.K. autism researchers and advocates for her support.
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Rochefort Lab @rochefortlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Well done Danai! Congratulations!
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Bryan M. Li @bryanlimy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo. With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social. Paper and code at the end of the thread! 🧵1/7
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes - Nature
Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“We don’t see an epidemic of autism, but we see an ‘epidemic’ of diagnoses” A fresh journalistic look at the rise in autism that brings together perspectives from the researchers & the autism community 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?
RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs
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Jan Gründemann @jangrundemann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease
For each of the many sensory channels through which animals perceive the world, sensory thalamus is an important processing station whose role lies be…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
RatDISCO, a tissue clearing and immunolabelling protocol for large rat brains. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We are incredibly honored to receive continued support from the Simons Foundation in our mission to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders
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Flor Iacaruso @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections? We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & ‪@bturner-bridger.bsky.social‬ in collab w/ ‪@petrznam.bsky.social‬ @crick.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro
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#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #Imbizo
Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa
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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Bosiljka Tasic & @gordfishell.bsky.social ‬ @cp-neuron.bsky.social
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Exploring brain circuits, one cell type—or more— at a time
This issue of Neuron, with accompanying papers in Cell, Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, and Cell Reports Methods, contains studies describing methods for access to neuronal and non-neuronal cell types wi...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/05/2025
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
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France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid Trump’s crackdown
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Oscar Marín Lab @marinlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/10 Our latest research, led by @martijnselten.bsky.social, identifies a mechanism through which Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate their activity in the #cortex. This is the story @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... ⬇︎ 🧵 @devneuro.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Prof Narender Ramnani @nramnani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just 2 days to go before #BNA2025! **AMAZING** programme! meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/prog... Delighted to be speaking at a session on diversity and inclusion in British neuroscience (Mon, 9.30am, Room 4) with @srikipedia.bsky.social (chair), @landreae.bsky.social & @diegobaptista.bsky.social
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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
And that’s a wrap! What an amazing #neuroday2025 we’ve had. Thank you to all participants inc speakers, posters & exhibitors for showcasing the fantastically broad range of research taking place across our vast @edinunineuro.bsky.social community. 🧠🧠🧠
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Philippe Domenech @philippedomenech.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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EU to double funding to attract US scientists fleeing Trump
The European Commission acknowledges its interest in the ‘opportunity’ generated by the cuts and obstacles promoted by the Republican administration
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Chris Zimmerman @czimmerman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...
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A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback - Nature
Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavour representations in the amygdala to support learning from delayed postingestive feedback.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/04/2025
Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Kishore Kuchibhotla @kishoreneuro.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thrilled to share the latest paper from the lab! Huge congrats to first author Dr. Celine Drieu and the amazing team of Ziyi Zhu, Sarah Elnozahy, Joy Wang, Aaron Wang, and Kylie Fuller! Lots of fun stuff in the paper so check it out - and let us know what you think :)
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Rochefort Lab @rochefortlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I just received the price, thank you so much for all your work @womeninneurouk.bsky.social !!!
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
There’s just under 2 weeks to apply for our PhD studentships! Join our dynamic community where we provide an annual stipend of £25K, plus tuition fees (inc. international) 🧠. Apply by 26 January and start your journey with us: sidb.org.uk/phds/ @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are pleased to be partnering with The UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation at the School of Informatics (University of Edinburgh). These PhD projects have a strong translational focus and seek to develop & apply AI approaches to biomedical domains ✨. Apply by 20 Jan www.ai4biomed.io/how-to-apply/
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lyons-lab.bsky.social @lyons-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Couple of opportunities up to join the group! One at postdoc level, but open to senior support path. One research assistant role. Please share, or drop a line if you want to learn more! Or just apply! Thanks! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Paul Donlin-Asp @pdaphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thanks to our recent Wellcome funding- we're hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to explore the mechanisms underlying synaptic RNA capture and selective local protein synthesis. This position has 5 years of funding. Please reach out if you have any questions! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We seek a motivated postdoctoral researcher to conduct primary research into how neurons transport mRNA to distal sites and use these mRNAs as substrates for local protein synthesis during synaptic pl...
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Rochefort Lab @rochefortlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you so much for this award! I am very touched and humbled, as I feel I have learned at least as much from my mentees as they have learned from me. Thank you @womeninneurouk.bsky.social for all the amazing work you are doing!
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We are still recruiting for PhD studentships in basic & translational brain sciences! SIDB provides an annual stipend of £25K, plus tuition fees (inc. international). Find out more & apply by 26th Jan >> sidb.org.uk/phds/ #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh @edinunineuro.bsky.social
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Rochefort Lab @rochefortlab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
♀️ Female brains are more resilient to food restriction than ♂️ males. Read more on the latest paper from the @RochefortLab here: sidb.org.uk/news-events/...
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Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We have fully-funded PhD opportunities combining AI & Autism Research! Find out more & apply by 20th Jan >> www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro... @tisimpson.bsky.social #healthinformatics #biomedicalengineering #biomedicalimaging #genomicmedicine #ExtraordinaryEdinburgh
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