My personal rule is: always be kind, understanding, and willing to listen to your female colleagues. Whatever they have achieved, in most cases it is more than deserved and they have something to teach you! Great article by @NaturePortfolio www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

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www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... @science.org @nature.com @cellpress.bsky.social

Sometimes one is enough! #neurons #tau

🧠 Congrats Diletta Cavezza presenting at the: @hippocampus spring meeting (lnkd.in/di4KNgYgin) in Verona! "#Sex-dependent engagement of reuniens-hippocampal pathway during incidental encoding" #Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - IBBC #Mnesys Tigem #Fondazione Telethon Great meeting

Great!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Targeted gene transfer into developmentally defined cell populations of the primate brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648413v1

🧠💥 For #Dopamine (DA) & #Memory lovers! 📢 New paper!! we show that memory capacity (MC) in mice can be expanded from 6 to 8 objects using low doses of a D1 receptor agonist. Higher doses? Paradoxically, they reduce MC. #Tigem #Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche lnkd.in/d9skfGeb

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

ARIA Opportunity Space: Scalable Neural Interfaces

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It took so much time to get here, we cannot give up!

Matt Sikora@mjsikora.bsky.social · last yr.

Super disappointing but it shouldn't stop us as reviewers from hammering grants and manuscripts that don't consider sex as a biological variable. We don't (...shouldn't) need an NIH mandate to do good science. (But come on seriously this is so frustrating)

Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies  www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/r... via @statnews.com @jpflores.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social @leslie-bern.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies

Stunned by attacks on the scientific research system, early career scientists plan a D.C. demonstration and a national ‘Stand Up for Science’ event.

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📢 💥 We are ecstatic to announce that another one of our studies on Sanfilippo disease has been published in #MolecularPsychiatry. #Sanfilippo is a rare genetic lysosomal storage disorder (#LSD) that leads to #neurodegeneration and #dementia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

D1 dopamine receptor antagonists as a new therapeutic strategy to treat autistic-like behaviours in lysosomal storage disorders - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - D1 dopamine receptor antagonists as a new therapeutic strategy to treat autistic-like behaviours in lysosomal storage disorders

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Hard time for #science @scinews.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Non c'è mai fine al peggio!

Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 2y ago

President Trump announced today that he would seek to remove the US from the #ParisAgreement. “Such a move is in clear defiance of scientific realities and shows an administration cruelly indifferent to the harsh climate change impacts that people in the US and around the world are experiencing.”

Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem... #neuroscience

Thank Bita @bita137.bsky.social for this post. It gives us an idea of how much scientists need training on mentoring and evaluation, to understand our limitations and biases.

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is worst advice you have ever received from an academic?

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroscience

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans

Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.

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Exciting news from the lab! In collaboration with our #EU-Nanobrigth partners, we’ve developed and tested a new probe for vibrational fiber photometry, enabling minimally invasive Raman spectroscopy deep into the 🧠. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemethods.bsky.social

Vibrational fiber photometry: label-free and reporter-free minimally invasive Raman spectroscopy deep in the mouse brain - Nature Methods

Vibrational fiber photometry enables Raman spectroscopy in the mouse brain with low impact, owing to the use of tapered fibers.

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Anno Domini 2024 👉Nel mondo sono attivi 56 conflitti 👉A #Gaza sono stati uccisi oltre 3.000 bambini 👉In Italia 4,5 milioni di persone rinunciano alle cure 👉A Milano 1 km di poveri sono in fila per un pasto Poi è stato anche un "anno difficile" per #ChiaraFerragni

Oggi il Servizio Sanitario Nazionale compie 46 anni. La sua “mamma” sarebbe molto indignata per l’ignobile tradimento dei princìpi fondanti da lei voluti #SalviamoSSN

Announcing the 2025 "Engram and Ensembles in Learning and Memory" meeting, at @tcddublin.bsky.social Half of speakers will be selected from abstracts submitted by trainees. Registration is open below, with discounted rates available until January 31st. event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

Last update of our databases for the year. Download them here: 493 early-career funding opportunities: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 313 postdoc fellowships: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 189 PhD fellowships: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6

A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Juan and Hugo and the rest of the authors. Not sure if anyone is on bsky yet.

Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors - Nature Neuroscience

Ventral striatal dopamine D3 and D1 receptors regulate motivation and reinforcement, respectively, through dissociable physiological actions.

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I can't beleive it! #cats #gatti

#nerusocientists There is little we can do, but we can distante our delves and publicly condemn deliberate acts of violence, while advocating for an immediate ceasefire.

Yael@yaelniv.bsky.social · 2y ago

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Nature Neuroscience Inhibitory plasticity supports replay generalization in the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inhibitory plasticity supports replay generalization in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

The study of neural plasticity has focused on excitatory neural connections, but inhibitory connections can also change. Learning at inhibitory synapses may support high-level cognitive phenomena, suc...

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I quote and add "or with fancy approaches that do not add much, like replacing Pharmacology with chemogenetics"

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am old so I can say this: innovation in neuroscience research can be accelerated if we did not waste so much resources repeating what we already know from NHP and rat research in Cre mouse lines

Beautiful!

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

Lactate potentiates NMDA receptor currents via an intracellular redox mechanism targeting cysteines in the C-terminal domain of GluN2B subunits: implications for synaptic plasticity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.624499v1

#calabria

We are collecting expressions of interest for two @ERC_Research-funded #PhD scholarships in my lab in 2025 ➡️Research themes range from neural bases of large-scale brain connectivity to in silico modeling of brain networks 🧠 ➡️ More info www.fens.org/careers/job-...