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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am excited about this year's '2026 : A Review of the Year in Neuroscience' by Mark Humphries, given all the rapid increase in interest from fly connectomics (then zebrafish in 2028, mice in 2048, etc.)

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The partial eclipse of 12 August 2026, seen from Paris. Thanks to my friend Satyanu Bhadra's camera work.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So, it is a month to NeuroFly 2026 and we still don’t know if our poster or talk abstracts have been accepted. The registration fee issue was solved by asking us to carry a credit card to the venue. It seems the spirit of Deutsche Bahn has infected the organising university.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I always wonder - when we get to post-scarcity and freedom from oppression, what form of cultural pursuit would you mostly do? Science? Literature? All? Different ones at different times? What?

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This pretty perspex model of the double helix, from 1953, was just sold for $614,400. It was made at the Cavendish by Tony Broad, the ace technician who also ran the X-ray crystallography set-up. I think they cost around £50 each at the time (a lot, back then!). Watson’s copy is in the CSHL archive.

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[dna] | History of Science & Technology | Science | Sotheby's

<p>Metal and Lucite Model, 11-inches tall, 5-inches diameter, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, [1953], being an original model of the double helix DNA structure with painted sheet metal nucleotide...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do you have questions about masters and PhD admissions? Join EqualSTEM on Zoom on: Saturday, July 25th, 2026 – 7:00-8:00 pm Indian Standard Time (i.e. in an hour, VERY SOON!). Sign up here: forms.gle/nwzLKo1vzPweVNoe9

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

NeuroFly 2026 seems pretty poorly organized till now and I am a bit sad because of that. There was an issue with the registration fee payment that has not yet been solved (been over 3 weeks), no decision yet on posters or talks, and the conference is on September 7-11 in Cologne.

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Group for Neural Theory is celebrating its 20th birthday this week with a party in Paris! gnt20.github.io One thing we’re celebrating is its remarkable training record A thread…

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Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Have you ever wondered if fish yawn? (and if they do, what that tells us about yawning?) The first preprint from the lab and a serendipitous observation ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Open Position for a Master's Internship (6 months) at @neuropsi.bsky.social in the team of Tihana Jovanic on « Developing protocols to map locked-in neuronal activity in freely moving Drosophila larvae using CaMPARI » starting as soon as possible! Please share widely!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bonne fête du Travail, joyeux 1er mai ! oïtihašik me dibåšer šubheččha! Happy International Labour Day!

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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

#ESR La discrimination des étudiants étrangers pour les frais d'inscription viole tellement de principes du code de l'éducation que Philippe Baptiste va avoir besoin d'un décret les réécrivant entièrement. Nous pouvons et devons résister. rogueesr.fr/letrange-def...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Congratulations to Tihana Jovanic for the CNRS Bronze Medal 2026! www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

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Tihana Jovanic

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Apply if you want to start a laboratory as a new Group Leader at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI)! Deadline - 15 May 2026. neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao-2026/

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Gokul Rajan @gokulrajan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

As an alum of Marie Curie Actions COFUND program, I highly recommend this. It is easily one of the best PhD training programs in the world.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Do you want to do a PhD on exploring brain-body interactions with expansion microscopy at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, through the Marie-Curie COFUND program? Apply! Deadline : 23 February 2026 Supervisor : Tihana JOVANIC lightinparis.eu @neuropsi.bsky.social

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Franziska Heubach @franziheubach.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Our python package for real-time targeting of birdsong syllables "Moove" is finally out! Thanks to my co-authors Nils Riekers, @goebl.bsky.social and Lena Veit. Our pre-print is online on biorxiv and our code is available on GitHub. Check it out! doi.org/10.64898/202... github.com/veitlab/moove

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Real-Time Segmentation and Classification of Birdsong Syllables for Learning Experiments

Songbirds are essential animal models for studying neuronal and behavioral mechanisms of learned vocalizations. Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica) songs contain a limited number of acoustica...

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Reading about the terrible news coming in from Bangladesh this morning regarding the earthquake. Always have this phobia of the tremblement de terre. Hoping the best for people affected by the tragedy.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Y a-t-il une chance que LFI remporte les élections municipales de mars à Paris ?

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l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 14/11/2025

Violences policières : un ex-policier de la brigade de proximité Quatre-Chemins de Pantin condamné à un an de prison pour violences, trois agents relaxés ➡️ l.humanite.fr/dJN

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I tend to forget how shocked many I know (including moi) were on discovering how weak liberté is in France. Sweeping rights of police to contrôle & shoot, no dedicated freedom of information law, and even things like restrictive naming laws. Hoping that true liberté comes in the 6e république.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

J'adore les trains de nuit. Il est regrettable que ces alternatives écologiques - les trains de nuit - disparaissent de France en raison de la fin des subventions accordées par le gouvernement français. Veuillez consulter cette page. sciences404.fr

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Sciences 404

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 06/11/2025

Bergeaud-Blackler en train d'imploser depuis la nouvelle que Mamdani est maire de NY.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Le premier mois après mon arrivée en France, je cherchais des moyens de cuisiner à moindre coût à Paris. J'ai trouvé le compte insta d'une étudiante qui publiait des recettes, mais le compte a été désactivé en quelques jours. Devinez pourquoi ? And we dare speak of Mamdani.

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CGT Doctorant·es @doctorantcgtsup.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

📣[PÉTITION ATER] Depuis les revalorisations successives des salaires des doctorant·es contractuel·les entre 2021 et 2023, jusqu'à 2 300 euros bruts mensuels (sans charge de cours), les ATER sont moins payé·es que leurs collègues ayant pourtant moins d’ancienneté Pétition : openpetition.eu/!zpbxv ⬇️

Travailler + pour gagner -
Un⋅e ATER enseigne 3 fois plus gagne 300€ de moins qu'un⋅e doctorant⋅e contractuel⋅le
Frais de logement et de transports équivalent à 1/3 du salaire.
Nous réclamons un salaire minimal à 2000€ net
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Stop à la casse de l'ESR Plus d'argent pour la recherche, l'éducation et ses travailleurs
Signez la pétition
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Isaac Bianco @isaacbianco.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev

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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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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

Nice endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard

Colour plate of Crick looking dreamy on the beach at Cold Spring Harbor, 1954.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It should be obvious to French commentators that both the following facts are true : (1) a Zohran Mamdani could not be elected in France because of the lower acceptance and integration of minorities and (2) his economic agenda is pretty normal and not at all radical for France.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

What would be the percentage of non-citizen (hence, non-voting) residents of New York City? I see data for foreign-born residents, immigrant residents, but not non-citizen residents. It is not the same, as immigrant and foreign-born might be naturalised US citizens, right?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Alors en quoi consiste exactement le grand « examen civique » requis pour obtenir une carte de séjour pluriannuelle (pour tous les doctorants et post-doctorants non-ressortissants de l'UE) à partir du 01.01.2026, qui résoudra tous les problèmes auxquels la France est confrontée ?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I had always wanted to post this clip from a weird movie on my first trip to the USA, so now that I am here for the first time in my life, here it is!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

আমি তো ভীতু, বেশি জ্ঞানও নেই, থাকিও বিদেশে, আর “পলিটিকাল স্টেটমেন্ট” দেওয়ায় বারণ আছে, কিন্তু সত্যি বলছি, এই এক দশক পৃথিবীর এত জায়গায় এত লোক দেখলাম, কিন্তু মায় বাঙালির মত আত্মঘাতী, আত্মবিদ্বেষী, অন্ধ গাধাস্বগাধা জাতি দেখিনি, তা সে সীমান্তের এপারে হোক বা ওপার।

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

People of the USA, what scam is it that to save 30 minutes on a somewhat faster Amtrak Acela train from Washington DC to New York City, one has to pay four times as much as the North East Regional or Vermonter train? Vande Yuktrashtra?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I have not taken the RER B for 2 weeks now but have been commuting with the bus of my workplace. Not screaming, crying, shaking, throwing up nowadays. What is this new energy?!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The successor to Cardinal Richelieu, the Prime Minister of the French Kingdom, was known to feel cold and appreciate Indian Chinese food. He was Chilly Mazarin.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Getting bits & pieces back from a dream I saw last night. Involved attending a Giorgio Parisi lecture in Paris, & on the bus back with cool air on my face, watching cars on rainy roads speed by, spraying aerosol while humidity forces a bead of sweat to form slowly on my forearm.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Is there any French university that is *not* under administrative strain, thus delaying things even more so than usual, due to cyberattacks a few months to a few ago?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If any journal wants you to upload the figures of your academic paper separately from the text AND the figure legends separately from the paper, and that’s how you upload on bioRxiv, may the Lord of the Flies have mercy on you if we ever meet.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Syed Mujtaba Ali was probably the last Bengali litterateur who lived in, knew of, and was appreciated by Bengalis across modern borders. Born in what is now Assam (Sylhet), lived in Kolkata, Kabul, Cairo, and Dhaka - in British India, Indian Republic, East Pakistan, & Bangladesh.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I would love to read a book, Alok Rai Hindi Nationalism style, focusing on Bengal and on Bengalis, talking about their relationship to Hindustani, be it Hindi (India) or Urdu (Pakistan). Would be an interesting book.

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Given my recent interests, it is crazy how dopamine is only called the 'pleasure molecule' in popular media, while it has such substantial effects on movement. Even Parkinson's Disease implicates issues in dopamine (substantia nigra). Why didn't I think more of this before?

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is the worst waste disposal bin design I’ve seen (this one’s on Avenue d’Italie). Completely malfunctioning with the slightest of wind. Wonder who came up with it!

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Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু @sharbat.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

125th birthday of Ligne 1 (and hence of Paris Métro) today! Here’s the newly inaugurated plaque at Porte Maillot.

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