What a fantastic week at the Cambridge Open Lab Summer School! 🔬✨ We explored open science and got hands-on: building sensors, 3D-printing models, and tracking movements. Huge thanks to our speakers, TAs, and especially our amazing students for making it such a fun week of learning together! 🙌

@cam-openlab.bsky.social Open Science in Practice School is up and running!

Had a lot of fun writing this primer with @elisagalliano.bsky.social! If you've ever been transported back to childhood by the smell of a familiar scent, you might enjoy this. We unpack a new study revealing how neurons generated around birth help encode these lifelong olfactory memories.

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo ago

How do smells linked to joyful childhood events trigger vivid adulthood memories? @elisagalliano.bsky.social @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social explore a @plosbiology.org study showing that neurons generated around birth help encode these olfactory memories 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3TmixuJ Primer: plos.io/4wKLyP4

A pretty Cambridge college, three meals a day, bursaries (and otherwise heavily subsidised), a stellar organising team (@chloeg-neuro.bsky.social 💯✨), and OPEN SCIENCE theory and practice. If you don’t apply, you’re either a fool, a predatory journal owner, or (fair enough) on holiday⤵️

Cambridge Open Lab@cam-openlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Applications are open for the “Open Science in Practice” Summer School! A week of talks + hands-on workshops on open science, electronics, 3D printing, and DeepLabCut for students & early-career researchers. 📍Homerton College, Cambridge (UK) 📅 Apply by 9 June 2026 🔗https://cambridgeopenlab.org/

⏳ Only 48 hours left! Join us at the Open Science in Practice Summer School for hands-on training, discussions with open science leaders and eLife editors, and workshops on open-source research tools. 📝 Apply: forms.gle/d8preGQyn8dg... #OpenScience #Neuroscience #AcademicSky #ECRChat #OpenResearch

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Thank you for your interest in the Open Science in Practice summer school, taking place from 3rd to 7th August 2026 in Cambridge (UK). This summer school is designed for students and early-career rese...

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And in the second part of the first day we had a talk by Ben Larson and Thibaut Brunet on behavioural complexity of ciliates and the evolution of neural properties of cells in eukaryotes.

📢 Applications are open for the “Open Science in Practice” Summer School! A week of talks + hands-on workshops on open science, electronics, 3D printing, and DeepLabCut for students & early-career researchers. 📍Homerton College, Cambridge (UK) 📅 Apply by 9 June 2026 🔗https://cambridgeopenlab.org/

Join the summer course on open science run by @cam-openlab.bsky.social - learn how to adopt transparent, reproducible, and collaborative research practices during conceptual discussions and practical workshops! More info here - cambridgeopenlab.org!

📢 Applications are open for the “Open Science in Practice” Summer School! A week of talks + hands-on workshops on open science, electronics, 3D printing, and DeepLabCut for students & early-career researchers. 📍Homerton College, Cambridge (UK) 📅 Apply by 9 June 2026 🔗https://cambridgeopenlab.org/

We are happy to see in print a paper by @kacperkon.bsky.social and Jagoda Nawrocka that was conceived at the School of Ideas of Neuroscience 2023!

💬 We’d love to hear from you! How useful would this be in your workflow if we provide it as an open-source tool? Anything else in the wishlist? Comment here, send a DM, or drop me an email, and please share this within your network! 🙏

Do you use Bonsai and Harp for behaviour acquisition? How easy has it been to interface the outputs with your analysis pipeline? We’re building a high-level Python interface to streamline Bonsai/Harp integration and align data streams. Nearly there, we’d love your input! See thread ⬇️ #neuroskyence

We are pleased to announce our first workshop in Portugal, which will guide you step by step through the process of pose estimation and unsupervised behavior analysis, focusing on two powerful tools: DeepLabCut and Keypoint-MoSeq! @deeplabcut.bsky.social

The workshop will take place on Oct 14-17th in Cantanhede, Portugal. Please find more info here - nenckiopenlab.org/keypoints/. TAs are: Konrad Danielewski (Nencki) and @flaviaricciardi.bsky.social (CNC UC).

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We are happy to announce our next workshop – From keypoints to behavior. Hands-on pose estimation and behavior analysis! This practical workshop will guide you step by step through the proces…

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We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

Today we have started our Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience - Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning - with a talk by @heikestein.bsky.social!

📢 Registration is now open for Scents and Imagination, a one-day symposium at CRASSH (University of Cambridge) exploring the cultural and sensory world of smell 👃🏻 With @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie ➡️ Info and Registration: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

Scents and imagination - CRASSH

CRASSH symposium

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Please DO NOT copy paste answers to our applications questions from ChatGPT. Believe us - fifty other people will do the same trick. And we will have fifty one identical applications to discard.

We are starting the fourth edition of Nencki Open Lab Optics and Microscopy course!

Celebrating the end of our 3 days of workshop in the local pub for a proper UK experience!

And the day two - Arduino, finally.

Enjoying some fresh air during the breaks at Sheringham 🌊🐚 All ready for the third and last day of hacking with Arduino 💪🏻

We're on for the second day! This amazing chapel-classroom gives off immaculate vibes to learn everything about Arduinos 😎🧠🧪

The Day One of @cam-openlab.bsky.social Electronics for Neuroscience workshop - we have built first circuits and are ready for more!

It's all set up and ready in sunny Sheringham for our next Electronics for Neuroscience workshop! 🧠🧪

Happy to share that I’ve been accepted into this highly relevant workshop organized vy @cam-openlab.bsky.social, and @fens.org has granted me a fee waiver along with a travel grant. If all goes well, I’ll be in @sheringham.org in early May to learn Electronics for Neuroscience. ✌

Cambridge Open Lab@cam-openlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last day for applying to our next workshop! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

💡NC4Gate: A modular gate system for autonomous control of rodent behavior. 🐭 This is a robust mechanical design that can be built using low-cost #openhardware and execute thousands of cycles before maintenance. 👨‍🔬Adam W. Lester, Gurnoor Kaur, Nadira Djafri, Manu S. Madhav More details and link 👇

Last day for applying to our next workshop! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...

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We are happy to announce the next Cambridge Open Lab Workshop, organised with support from FENS! Basic knowledge in electronics is a necessary prerequisite for every neuroscientist. You will need i…

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Remember that registration for our next Electronics for Neuroscience workshop is live! See below for more details: www.fens.org/news-activit...

Workshop: Electronics for Neuroscience

CHET has partnered with Nencki Open Lab to offer a new workshop: “Electronics for Neuroscience: From Basics to Setup Development”.

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