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Valeria Gonzalez, PhD

@vgonzalez.bsky.social
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Behavioral neuroscientist with interest in decision-making and (ir)rationality. Assistant Professor at Reed College #newPI Former postdoc at Izquierdo Lab UCLA 🇨🇱 www.vgonzalezlab.com/home

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A new method called SORDINO muted scanner noise during fMRI, capturing clear scans of mice grasping food pellets and simultaneously imaging the brains of two interacting animals. #neuroskyence By @dianakwon.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/methods/sile...
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Silent, motion-resistant fMRI expands scans in behaving mice
The method, called SORDINO, captures brain images in animals while they move and interact.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10
graphical abstract of the manuscript depicting pink estrogen-sensitive neurons with a subset of their nuclei colored in green. These green nuclei represent estrogen receptor dependent neural gene transcription, tracked via the expression of a destabilized GFP with a 2 hour half-life. At top, in green is shown a cartoon of the neural response to estrogen across two estrous cycles, and below there is a cartoon of a mouse implanted with an optic fiber for in vivo imaging.
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Carmen Falcone @carmenfalcone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our newest #review on #astrocytes is now out at #ActaPhysiologica! ✨😍 Written in the Stars: Astrocyte Biology From Evolution to Disease A massive collaborative effort from many international experts, co-lead with Alex Verkhratsky & @NGunhanlar: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Written in the Stars: Astrocyte Biology From Evolution to Disease
In the 21st century, neuroglial research has entered a period of Renaissance, extending the views of prominent neuroanatomists and neurologists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who assigned to g....
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sending love to friends who, like me, are feeling especially close to this tragedy today. There is so much I want to say, but for now, just sending love. Take care of yourselves.
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Kate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We’re hiring a research technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/11232
Photo of group of Wassum lab scientists standing in front of a fountain at UCLA.
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Dr. Jessie Stern @jessastern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Please share widely: We're hiring!📣 The Departments of Psychological Science and Neuroscience at @pomonacollege.bsky.social are seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychological Science and Neuroscience. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32248
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Pomona College, Psychology
Job #AJO32248, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science & Neuroscience, Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Nina Friedman @ngfriedman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Starting in Spring or Summer 2027 K99/R00 (under its new activity code KT1/R00) will only be available to US citizens, permanent residents, and non-citizen nationals. I am hearing this from many program officers, but NIH has yet to make an official statement to my knowledge.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Neuroscience in Chile, and across Latin America, does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible—prestige journals, conferences and networks—increasingly price its researchers out, argues @medelero.bsky.social. #neuroskyence
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Scientific talent is global. Access is not.
Neuroscience in Chile does not lack talent or ideas, but the systems that make science visible increasingly price its researchers out.
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Tamara Stawicki, PhD @tamarastawicki.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Come teach Neurobio with me!! Our Biology Department is hiring a new Assistant Professor who will teach in both Biology and Neuroscience. provost.lafayette.edu/2027-28-biol.... Reposts appreciated.
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2027-28 Biology Department, Assistant Professor · Provost · Lafayette College
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Tobias Ackels @tobiasackels.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️
The research group “Sensory Dynamics and Behaviour” of Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels at the Institute of Experimental Epilepsy and Cognition Research at the
University Hospital Bonn invites applications for a position as:
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
The position is initially limited to three years (TV-L E13/100%),
starting from April 2026 or as soon as possible.
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Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture to rats and mice is now published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, and it's open access! Yay. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Eric Garr @garrface.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Here's a quick analysis I did on data I've been collecting on psych/neuro faculty applicants. I don't have data on unsuccessful applicants, but my inference is that women mentored by women have to rely more on bringing in $ to get a faculty job than men mentored by men.
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Santiago Rompani @santiagorompani.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My lab is looking for an intern interested in the molecular basis of cognitive decline. Work includes deep phenotyping of animal behavior and downstream analysis, including DLC tracking, motif mining (e.g. with Keypoint-MoSeq), and -omics. On-site at EMBL Rome, paid, 1-year commitment. DMs open.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Astrocytes put the brakes on brain plasticity in mice by secreting the protein CCN1 to stabilize existing circuitry, a Nature study shows. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...
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Astrocytes stabilize circuits in adult mouse brain
The glial cells secrete a protein that suppresses plasticity post-development.
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Valeria Gonzalez, PhD @vgonzalez.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Come to work with me! Reed College Psychology Department seeks applicants for a two-year visiting assistant professor position in HEALTH/CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY to begin August 2026. Pease submit materials at apply.interfolio.com/179644 by January 30, 2026. Reach out for questions and share widely!
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Reed College
Reed College is a leading liberal arts college known for encouraging intellectual curiosity. Learn about our vibrant, inclusive community in Portland, Oregon.
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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
(2/2) The Civic Science Fellows program is seeking host organizations for the 2026-2027 cohort. Apply by December 15 to host a fellow working at the intersection of science and society! #neurosky #neuroskyence #scienceandsociety
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Civic Science Fellows Program Invites Applications to Host a 2026-27 Fellow - Civic Science Fellows
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Brain “stars” hold the power to preserve cognitive function in model of Alzheimer’s disease www.bcm.edu/news/brain-s... by @bcmhouston.bsky.social #Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
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Brain “stars” hold the power to preserve cognitive function in model of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 02/11/2025
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st #neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
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Kate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
Photo of a lab group smiling in front of a fountain at UCLA
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Brian Sweis @brianmsweis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science. #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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Angelo Forli @aforli89.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior? Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience? The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring! 🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍 Check out our website for updates: sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
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Dr. Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📚Been writing a book for the past 3 years about the science of pain & how to heal. I'm nervous AF but also know that the time has come for change- ESPECIALLY with all the pain in the world right now. Please spread the word & share with anyone who might need it 🙏🏼💥 www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-Wher...
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal
Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal [Zoffness Ph.D, Dr. Rachel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal
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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An excellent comprehensive review “Revisiting the critical roles of reactive microglia in traumatic brain injury” journals.lww.com/internationa...
Graphical abstract of microglia in TBI review article
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2025
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/
Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I had so much fun organising #CISE2025 conference on Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration with Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb at beautiful Brown University then hearing about all the amazing research from our speakers…
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Rocio Servin @rocioservin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re hiring! My new Gut–Brain Axis Lab at Northwestern is looking for a Research Technologist 2 to help build the lab and explore how the nervous system shapes gut health and disease. 🔬 Apply here: myhr.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu/EMP...
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fully funded #FindAPhD! We'll be studying neurobiology of motivation in mice hunting crickets, using a combination of genetic manipulations, behaviour and in vivo ephys. Co-suprvised by the amazing @agonru.bsky.social and Gareth Arnott at QUB. #Neuroskyence Pls share www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Animal Biology in Health & Disease - Mick Craig
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...
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Valeria Gonzalez, PhD @vgonzalez.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you to the organizers for a great great conference!
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Hayley Dorfman @hayleydorfman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Successful first CISE poster session at beautiful Brown! #CISE2025 🔭
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Armin Lak @laklab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/ 🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct 📍 Brown University 👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb 👇 Speakers Please submit & share!
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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 19/05/2025
Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈 Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London. "Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.
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ari ☀️ @khoudary.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model
The appropriate form of the drift diffusion model depends on how one wishes to reason about their target with the model. If the goal is to parsimoniously explain the speed-accuracy tradeoff, the appr...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#neuroskyence #neuroscience community. What's a good figure to illustrate the exuberant anatomical connectivity of the brain (not just cortex). I use a few in talks but looking for new examples. This one is from Modha and Singh (2010) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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LPJ Lab - Neuroimmunometabolism @lpjlab.org · 13/05/2025
Interested in #microglia? 🤔 This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions. Check it out! #CNS #Immunology #Science #neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration - Nature Neuroscience
Microglia have key roles in CNS development and neurodegeneration. Here, the authors provide an overview of microglia heterogeneity, cell-state annotation and model systems.
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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
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Patricia González-Rodríguez #NoScienceNoFuture👩🏻‍🔬 @pgonzalezrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🧠✨ Symposia submissions are NOW OPEN for Dopamine Meeting 2026! @DopamineSociety 📍Sevilla, Spain 📅 Open: May 1, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: June 16, 2025 Spread the word — don’t miss out! #Dopamine2026 dopaminesociety.org
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Daniel Dautan @2dneuro.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Wireless battery less unsupervised Optogenetic stimulation of an aversive pathway. Every time the animal enter the open arm they receive 5Hz still without any latency due to Bluetooth or Camera TTL. Animals are highly habituated to the elevated plus maze ... 2DNEURO
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Great Spotlight ☀️ on @vgonzalez.bsky.social recent work on the role of ACC in sustained reward seeking, by Qiyue Zhang & Jingfeng Zhou www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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Probing the role of anterior cingulate cortex in sustained reward seeking
A recent study by González et al. provides causal evidence that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is crucial for rats to maintain persistence in reward-seeking behaviors across both information- and...
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Significant update: turns out international candidates **are eligible** in principle for this PhD position. Deadline imminent: 30th April. PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience available @psychologyuea.bsky.social Pls retweet. #neuroskyence #VisionScience #compneurosky
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PhD Studentship: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience: Multimodal Models of Material Perception at University of East Anglia
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience: Multimodal Models of Material Perception Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @liddelowsa.bsky.social explains how two papers from Ben Barres’ lab completely changed the way the field studies astrocytes and enabled everything discovered in glia research since. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two papers that upended astrocyte research
A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.
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