Registration is now open for the Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference & Workshop 2026! Neuromodulation of Neuronal Circuits: From Behavior to Computation Paris Brain Institute 16–17 September 2026 Registration is free (but required): www.paris-circuits.eu

Paris Circuit Dynamics

This conference will bring together leading experts to discuss how neuromodulatory systems shape neuronal circuit dynamics, behavior, and computation. The program will focus on how neuromodulators suc...

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Back to Bluesky to share the most exciting news: my postdoctoral research is now published in Neuron! We used cricket hunting to show how ethological learning persistently rewires juvenile (but not adult!) visual circuits by co-opting homeostatic plasticity. Full story www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Ethological learning during the critical period resets synaptic setpoints in mouse binocular visual cortex

Bissen et al. show that prey capture learning profoundly reshapes visual cortical circuitry and function during developmental critical periods, but not in adulthood. These learning-induced structural ...

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Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power

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I am deeply grateful to have been selected as one of the 2026 #FENSKavliScholars 🥳. This is an incredible opportunity to exchange ideas, build new collaborations and friendships, and contribute to initiatives that strengthen neuroscience across Europe. I can't wait to get started! 🤗

@fkne-scholars.bsky.social · 4w ago

Welcome to the 15 newly selected #FENSKavliScholars! Representing 12 European countries, they join a network of 30 Scholars across 21 countries and 25 nationalities. 🧠✨With thanks to @fens.org, @kavlifoundation.org, @alleninstitute.org and our partners for supporting FKNE. h1.nu/1t8Lw

Our @fens.org Satellite meeting is tomorrow! #FENS2026 Check out our updated program👇 youngpisymposium2026.com/program/ We are all super excited to have everyone joining! Safe travels everyone 🚅 ✈️ 🚲 See you in Barcelona 🔆😎

🔁 LOOPs is at FENS 🎉 we're exited to be represented with several talks by @grohlex.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and Johannes Letzkus, alongside multiple posters from across the LOOPs consortium. Stay tuned for highlights and updates! #FENS2026 #Neuroscience #SPP2411 #BrainLoops

What if part of Huntington's disease wasn't just damage, but a circuit stuck in the wrong pattern? Our new paper, out today in Nature, tests that idea.

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Technical University of Munich @tum.de is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Implantable Brain–Computer Interfaces! We’re looking for someone to help build the next generation of robust, clinically scalable #implantable #BCIs. portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess... 🧵👇

Warum reagieren wir unterschiedlich auf #Stress? Warum sind manche Menschen anfälliger, andere widerstandsfähiger? Darüber spricht Mathias Schmidt @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social im neuen "Ach, Mensch"-Podcast. Eine Hörempfehlung! 🎧 www.mpg.de/26840616/war... @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social

Latest from the lab: @paricio-montesinos.bsky.social & team identified a circuit mechanism for sensory thalamus plasticity. TRN inhibition reshapes auditory thalamus activity to align sensory responses with learned value and action, enabling adaptive behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A thalamic inhibitory circuit aligns sensory coding with learned value

Adaptive behavior requires sensory systems to prioritize cues that predict meaningful outcomes while suppressing irrelevant stimuli, but how relevance-based filtering is implemented along early sensor...

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Fantastic news for IN-CODE! Prof. Marlene Bartos (Uni Freiburg) secured a €2.5M ERC Advanced Grant for "ReMember-CA3". Her team will investigate how the hippocampal CA3 circuit encodes memories without overwriting old ones, and how it retrieves them over extended periods of time. #ERC #Neuroscience

We are happy to announce the 3rd edition of the “Subcortical Sensory Circuits” Meeting on the 9-12 February 2027 at in Trieste, Italy! www.subcortical2027.com Registration will start in August, and we invite you to submit your abstract for a poster or short talk.

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About the Meeting Subcortical circuits play a crucial role in perception and the execution of a wide variety of essential behaviours. The number of laboratories focusing on subcortical areas has incre...

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Please RP! Excited to share our new preprint: “Single-cell chromatin tracing reveals multimodal molecular programs during memory formation” We built a single-cell multiomic atlas of aversive learning and used it to trace memory-linked molecular programs. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Not that the scientific program needed any help, but the setting isn't bad either! 😉 Abstract submission for the European Synapse Meeting 2026 is one week away! #EUSYN2026

🧠 Warum fliehen wir vor einer Bedrohung und stellen uns einer anderen? An der #LMU untersucht Neurowissenschaftlerin @annaschroeder.bsky.social, wie das Gehirn Emotionen oder Bedürfnisse mit äußeren Reizen verknüpft und in Verhalten übersetzt. Im Fokus: die Zona incerta 🔬 Was das ist? Jetzt lesen!

Wenn Gefühle Verhalten steuern

Anna Schroeder, neuberufen an der LMU, erforscht, wie das Gehirn Emotionen, Bedürfnisse und Motivation in Handlungen übersetzt – und wie es Verhalten an wechselnde Umweltbedingungen anpasst.

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With #FENS2026 just around the corner, our unofficial @fens.org abstract explorer is back: fens2026.neuronaldynamics.eu • Search abstracts by author, keyword, affiliation, and more • Discover related work using abstract similarity • Save favorites, add notes and tags, and build your own itinerary

Two brain circuits. Same learning problem. Shared learning outcomes. Different dynamical implementations. Our work shows that learning is not a single canonical solution but can emerge through distinct population dynamics shaped by circuit architecture. Excited to share our latest preprint! 🧵1/12

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Equivalent volitional learning emerges through circuit-specific population dynamics in motor cortex and hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.04.730137v1

🧠We offer 1-2 Postdoc positions in Circuit Neuroscience!🧠 Join us at @dandrite.bsky.social to study thalamic circuits for visual processing, funded by an ERC starting grant and the Lundbeck foundation. Deadline: 14. Juni 2026 Apply here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

1/10 When the going gets tough, the dendrites get going. Here is a summary on our new paper just published in @science.org on flexible learning in frontal motor cortex. With @mattlark.bsky.social 🔬. #neuroskyence #neuroscience 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Tuft dendrites in frontal motor cortex enable flexible learning

Flexible learning relies on integrating sensory and contextual information to adjust behavioral output in different environments. The anterolateral motor cortex (ALM) is a frontal area critical for ac...

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🎉 We’re delighted to announce Professor Erin Schuman, will become Director of the UCL Queen Square Institute (@uclqsion.bsky.social) from 1 Jan 2027. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ap...

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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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🥳1 Year of the Schroeder Lab🥂 From empty rooms and big ideas to a growing team and lab. Building everything from the ground up @lmu.de has been challenging but incredibly rewarding! I'm proud of all we've accomplished and excited for what’s next. Hopefully 2026 is the year we start collecting data!🚀

1/8. New preprint! ✨ How spontaneous is spontaneous behavior? 🧠🐭 We found that whole-brain fUSi signals predicted spontaneous behavioral transitions seconds in advance. Inhibiting one node of this transition-prone state, the medial septum, facilitated switching! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

To reveal the hidden proteome of synapses, my lab @dandrite.bsky.social @nordicembl.bsky.social @promemo.bsky.social @aarhusuniint.bsky.social reports an AI tool for decoding synaptic distribution via protein sequence @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @novo-nordisk.bsky.social @dg.dk @erc.europa.eu

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Protein Language Model Reveals Organellar Calcium ATPases at Neuronal Synapses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709014v1

New preprint! Follow the thread to find out about the exciting work of an outstanding postdoc in my lab @merylneuro.bsky.social !!!

Meryl Malezieux@merylneuro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Excited to see our lab featured in this month's "Liftoff" 🚀 in @thetransmitter.bsky.social!

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In this month’s “Liftoff,” Francesca Mastrogiuseppe shares how she’ll gift a book to departing students and postdocs, and @annaschroeder.bsky.social talks about using feedback sessions to discuss concerns and future aspirations with her lab members. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/475yZnm

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

🧠 Check out this preprint by our postdoc Selin Kenet from her previous work with Thomas Misgeld on neuromyelitis optica! They show that complement-mediated injury directly affects myelin and oligodendrocytes, suggesting that demyelination is not just downstream of astrocyte loss. 🧠

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Early demyelination by off-target complement injury in a mouse model of neuromyelitis optica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711636v1

1/8. New preprint! Using fUSi in head-fixed mice🐭, we found that arousal events trigger a brain-wide wave of activity 🌊🧠. Surprisingly, this pattern was preserved during opto manipulations of the locus coeruleus, pointing to a minor role for noradrenergic tone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

IN-CODE Symposium 2026: “Inhibitory neurons – from synapses & microcircuits to behavior”. Join us in Freiburg, Germany, on October 8–9, 2026!!! Learn more and register here: sfb-trr384.de/symposium/ #neuroscience #interneurons