So happy this is finally out! Despite Covid delays and thanks to persistence by @arimoccia.bsky.social + the helpful reviewers Starting to uncover how memory cues and goals interact - with implications for how we understand memory reconstruction during retrieval

Arianna Moccia@arimoccia.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Paper now published! 🚨 The Effects of External Cue Overlap and Internal Goals on Selective Memory Retrieval. Grateful for thorough reviews that made it stronger. Out now in #EJN: doi.org/10.1111/ejn..... w @alexamorcom.bsky.social @MattPlummer @ivorsimpson.bsky.social. Updated summary🧵👇

📣 New paper alert- Detrimental gene dose effect of APOE on perceptual discrimination by mid-life. Published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association @samberens.bsky.social @chrismbird.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Perceptual discrimination of complex objects: Apolipoprotein E e4 gene‐dose effects in mid‐life

INTRODUCTION Complex perceptual discrimination is supported by tau-vulnerable regions of the medial temporal lobe (MTL); notably the perirhinal cortex. This research tests whether there is a gene-do...

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Join me + Dr David Palmer, Haematology Clinician at UHS NHS @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social, for a 3.5yr School of Life Sci funded PhD (UK fees only) studying RUNX1 mutations in myeloid leukaemia here at @sussex.ac.uk @sussexbcr.bsky.social @sussexcancer.org Details 👇 www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Preprint with brilliant medical student, Melis, on the effectiveness of the AVATAR method for treating auditory verbal hallucinations @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social @sussexneuro.bsky.social

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

The effectiveness of non-pharmacological treatments for auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.08.25327225v1

Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to join our vibrant postgrad community? Discover all our Neuroscience courses here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/neuroscience Including: 🏫 International PhD Academy 🏫 Masters courses 🏫 Opportunities across several schools: Life Science; Psychology; Computer Science & AI; and BSMS

🚨 1 WEEK TO GO! 🚨 Soapbox Science Brighton is back next Saturday! 📍 Find us by the i360 🗓 Saturday 24th May 🕚 11am–2pm Come hear brilliant women & non binary scientists share their research. Free, fun, and for everyone! #SoapboxScience #1WeekToGo #WomenInSTEM #ScienceByTheSea

Join us for an evening in the pub discussing memory, mental health and wellbeing during menopause with clinical and scientific experts. Taking place in The Walrus, Brighton on Monday 2nd June. Open to all, but please register to confirm your space.

💤 Meet Maria, Assistant Professor at Sussex and Soapbox Science 2025 speaker! She’ll explore what happens during different stages of sleep, why it matters for your health, and how sleep hygiene and circadian rhythms play a role. Catch her on 24th May by the i360! #SoapboxScience #Brighton2025

Want to join our vibrant postgrad community? Discover all our Neuroscience courses here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/neuroscience Including: 🏫 International PhD Academy 🏫 Masters courses 🏫 Opportunities across several schools: Life Science; Psychology; Computer Science & AI; and BSMS

Taking place on 13 March at the Ironworks Studios in Brighton - find out more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/think-agai...

Think Again- Sense The Difference

Claudia Hammond hosts THINK AGAIN! -a talk series that gives an insider’s look at the psychology behind the way we think, feel & behave.

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Gilly Forrester@gillyforrester.bsky.social · last yr.

Imagine an apple... what does it look like? Imagine the months of the year... what shape do they take? We'll discuss how we sense the world in the next Think Again! at Ironworks Studios #Brighton hosted by @claudiahammond.bsky.social with expert psychologists @sussex.ac.uk Tickets from Ironworks

I am excited to have been awarded a Wellcome Trust CDA fellowship to study whether menopause enhances AD risk by exacerbating vascular dysfunction. I will be starting my lab in Manchester in January 2026, and would love to connect with other researchers interested in sex differences and AD 🧠🩸 🔬.

Aw, we got the cover for our new paper on X-ray imaging and atlas building in the snail brain. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks @pnas.org .. and to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org for funding support #invertebrate #brain #neuroscience THREAD: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin Staras@kevinstaras.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

Michael Crossley led the experimental work, supported by Anna Simon, @arndroth.bsky.social and @enzomarra.bsky.social Thanks to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social for funding support. Thanks for reading! 10/10

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

Applications to Soapbox Science Brighton 2025 are open! All female and non-binary scientists in STEM subjects are welcome to apply 🥼👩‍🔬🌼🐜🐭🐝🧪⚛️ Apply by March 2nd soapboxscience.org/apply-to-spe...

I’m advertising for a 3.5yr fully-funded PhD position at the lovely Sussex Uni. If you're interested in combining behavioural experiments & computational modelling to study how we evaluate our inferences about others, please see here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... [1/2]

Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February. The course will run 14-27 May 2025. parisneuro.ovh

First paper by our excellent PhD student @mbalazs98.bsky.social on trying to unpick the relation between delay learning and structural plasticity in SNNs and visualise what gets learned www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Frontiers | Learning delays through gradients and structure: emergence of spatiotemporal patterns in spiking neural networks

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This coming Monday! Join us for an excellent hour of #metascience #openscience and #neuroimaging! All from the comfort of your desk/couch/chair with @worldwideneuro.bsky.social @sussexneuro.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

Open Neuroscience@open-neuroscience.com · 2y ago

🎉 Don't miss our upcoming seminar by Kendra Oudyk, from ORIGAMI lab at McGill Uni, on open meta-research in #neuroimaging. 📅 Monday, December 9, 4 pm (UTC)/11 am (ET). more details & link to join: www.world-wide.org/seminar/9965/ 👀 hope to see you there! #openscience #opensoftware #metaresearch

✨ We can’t wait to see everyone next week at the 2024 Festive Symposium in Leeds! It’s your chance to connect with #neuroscientists from academia, clinics, and industry as we explore 'The Resilient Brain'. Make sure you’ve got your ticket! bna.org.uk/mediacentre/...

Excited to be speaking at the BNA 2024 Festive Symposium soon! 10 Dec 2024: "THE RESILIENT BRAIN" in Leeds, UK. Giving a talk about the resilient teen brain! @britishneuro.bsky.social. To register www.bna.org.uk/meeting-book...

One of several opportunities to come and do a PhD in our lab! Happy to discuss supervision in all things MRI analysis

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

First post and it's a biggie! The first preprint from our lab is out now 🥳 Something I have wanted to know for a long time- can bumblebees taste amino acids? The answer is yes...but not all of them! 1/2 @sussexneuro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebees

Bees rely on amino acids obtained from nectar and pollen for essential physiological functions, including maintenance, sexual maturation, and larval development. While amino acid concentrations in nec...

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Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...