Thoughts for times when academia feels tough 💡 Hodgkin and Huxley co-discovered the ionic basis of the action potential which underlies how electrical signals are propagated in neurons 🧠

if you're in Edinburgh and looking for research experience 👩‍🔬 🧑‍🔬 we're offering opportunities to join our work on **the sticky sense** in humans and rodents with potential for field research 🫎 🔭 get in touch 💻 📫 📞 @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · last mo.

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

Merci beaucoup @inmed.bsky.social for the hospitality. Great science, lovely people, epic landscape. @davidrobbe.bsky.social @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social 🙏⛰️🐙

Wow! 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brainwide representation of navigation

Tracking your position in the environment during navigation requires integrating multiple signals into a spatial representation. This process is thought to occur primarily in the hippocampal formation...

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Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Brainwide representation of navigation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.29.747979v1

this jellyfish may revert to its wounded inner child when stressed 🪼 🧐

Science Magazine@science.org · 4w ago

When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4gmdt2J #ScienceMagArchives

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Prime cat content brought to you by Current Biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Signatures of branched-chain fatty acids derived from a kidney reservoir confer stable chemical individuality on domestic cats

Ichizawa et al. show that cats maintain durable chemical individuality in urine through donor-specific branched-chain fatty acid (BFA) profiles stabilized by renal cortical lipid droplets. This kidney...

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Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

Tiny fat droplets in cat kidneys—whose function has been mysterious for more than a century—encase chemical calling cards unique to each feline, allowing these messages to remain stable long after the cats themselves have left the vicinity. Learn more: https://scim.ag/46deS5C

grateful for the invitation to visit the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology 🙏 @inmed.bsky.social looking forward to many scientific discussions and a swim or two à la Méditerranée 🪸🏊‍♀️ @davidrobbe.bsky.social @jeromeepsztein.bsky.social

what i refer to as a full-spectrum 🏳️‍🌈 espresso-code-writing-kind-of-day(s) ☕ working on some cool new things, coming soon 💻

Check out our newest research paper! We looked at touch in Surinam toads (Pipa pipa), showing huge neural representation of and reliance upon their unusual fingertips. rdcu.be/fy3SE

What are the neuronal correlates of stickiness? Check out this amazing work done at @mblscience.bsky.social as part of the amazing @nsb-mbl.bsky.social course! 🤩 congrats to everyone involved!

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · last mo.

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

Mochi vs Mallows in rats 🤯🤯

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · last mo.

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

Thank you to @annmclemens.bsky.social and Michael Brecht for their support and mentorship as we brought this project that started @mblscience.bsky.social @nsb-mbl.bsky.social this summer from idea to paper form, it was so much fun to work with Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social, Adam, Tom and Pam.

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · last mo.

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

Check out this fun project we started at @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social this summer 🤩

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · last mo.

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

preprint🚨 ✨A Stickiness Response System in Rats tinyurl.com/4wnu88v9 What underlies that sticky, icky feeling? Sticky sensing is surprisingly underexplored. we investigated its neural and behavioural basis Congrats to Sandra, @simonerencken.bsky.social @jasmine-stone.bsky.social Adam, Tom & Pam! 👏

It's out 🎊 Species-specific housing and routine procedures for spiny mice (Acomys) maintained in large individually ventilated cages tinyurl.com/6k7t796u thx Kerstin Bartscherer for leading the way, Edinburgh Spiny Mouse Core @aidarodrigo.bsky.social Sofia Ferreira Gonzalez We hope it is useful.

If you would like to support my journey, whether through a donation or simply by sharing my GoFundMe page, it would mean more than words can say. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Constanze ❤️ gofund.me/6c3dbadf2

Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam, organized by Banas Araujo

It’s incredibly hard to watch someone you love fight the batt… Banas Araujo braucht deine Unterstützung für Help fund life-extending treatment for Constanze and her fam

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Had so much fun doing science with this dream team at the Neural Systems and Behavior course @nsb-mbl.bsky.social at @mblscience.bsky.social! 🐀✨

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats to the 2026 rat somatosensory team 🐀🧠 Adam, Jasmine, Pam, Sandra, Simone and Tom on their groundbreaking teamwork @nsb-mbl.bsky.social Thx to 🪰🐟 modules, staff, directors for amazing support in making this year another fun-filled, enriching scientific experience 💫 @mblscience.bsky.social

I’m happy to share that our paper about the Sepia officinalis genome is out in eLife!🧬 We compared the assemblies of two individuals that had a different predicted number of chromosomes, and found highly repetitive regions that likely prevented a complete assembly. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Thank you @annmclemens.bsky.social and all involved for an awesome experience learning to patch, do behavioral experiments, and even get results along the way in a creative and fun project!

Ann Clemens@annmclemens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats to the 2026 rat somatosensory team 🐀🧠 Adam, Jasmine, Pam, Sandra, Simone and Tom on their groundbreaking teamwork @nsb-mbl.bsky.social Thx to 🪰🐟 modules, staff, directors for amazing support in making this year another fun-filled, enriching scientific experience 💫 @mblscience.bsky.social

Congrats to the 2026 rat somatosensory team 🐀🧠 Adam, Jasmine, Pam, Sandra, Simone and Tom on their groundbreaking teamwork @nsb-mbl.bsky.social Thx to 🪰🐟 modules, staff, directors for amazing support in making this year another fun-filled, enriching scientific experience 💫 @mblscience.bsky.social

Good evening from a windy Eel pond bridge 🛶🇺🇸 Thrilled to have arrived for the Neural Systems & Behavior course 🔬somatosensory module 🧠 🐀 @mblscience.bsky.social Super excited to drive forward the frontiers of science with the '26 NS&B students & dive into the magic that is Woods Hole 🪄 🐙

my morning has been enriched : the Organism-Environment Pairing by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com 🙏

This must be one of the most delicious figures we have ever published. In this primer Guoan Zhou, Zhixi Tian and colleagues introduce the domestication history and biology odyssey soybean and its many uses. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Science of Love meeting ❤️ @royalsociety.org with familiar and new faces, stimulating 🍷conversations + castle views 🏰 @neurozoe.bsky.social

This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who: - Is UK based - Looking for flexible, part time work - Has an academic/research background - Wants to build a research grants program - Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔

kinda like doing the Sunday crossword 🐭🔬

Enjoyed a great day of science and speaking at the U van Amsterdam neuro research day, lovely hospitality and sweet gifts from the PhD students 🎨🧠🥰

c u soon Amsterdam 🚴 @swammerdamuva.bsky.social looking forward to this and flattered for the invitation, in great company 🧑‍🔬 now to finish my talk ✈️ 💻