Happy to share the first paper from my postdoc @sagnera.bsky.social in collaboration with the brilliant PhD students @laiacaudet.bsky.social and @archimistry.bsky.social. In here, we investigate the role of miRNAs in the temporal patterning of the spinal cord. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

two new preprints from Wangchu Xiang (@darbly.bsky.social, Ginty labs) about connectomic reconstruction from electron microscopy of somatosensory afferents and projection neurons in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reminder that the abstract deadline for the Pre-SfN Motor symposium is October 5! Please use this link (forms.gle/Czs4S6NP8vxB...) to register and submit abstracts.

Motor Symposium 2026 Registration

We’re delighted to invite you to the 19th Annual Pre-SfN Motor Symposium, to be held Friday, November 13 at Georgetown University. Meeting Scope: This meeting has a traditional focus on spinal and b...

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Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi All! Rebekah Evans @cellularscale.bsky.social, Kim Dougherty, and I are delighted to invite you to the 19th Annual Pre-SfN Motor Symposium, to be held Friday, November 13 at Georgetown University! 1/n

Twenty years ago, on this day in 2006, Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the completion of our inaugural project: a web-based, 3D map of gene expression in the mouse brain providing scientists with a level of data previously not available. #openscience

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592

Three years of putting my heart into a little alligator and his friends and lots of "but wait this should be way more flexible" and "no way this is not working" and "what if there's a bug" came down to a couple of pages in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cross-species identification of conserved and divergent locomotor kinematic strategies using AutoGaitA | PNAS

Distinct behaviors require the nervous system to execute specialized motor programs, each characterized by unique patterns of body muscle coordinat...

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The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z

Job descriptions for 2 new postdocs positions to study the spinal cord basis of motor control (Just looking at the letterhead for the new lab location has me so excited. Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, U. Of Toronto 🇨🇦, here we come!) @kbi-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca

Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have 2 postdoc positions available to study spinal mechanisms of motor control. Postdoc 1 will focus on how specific spinal cell types shape neural activity www.levine-lab.org jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spinal Mechanisms of Motor Control – Cell-Type & Circuit Function

Company Description: The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Canc...

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How do you recognize who’s who when you live mostly in the dark? 👂👃✋ Our review explores how naked mole-rats use sound, smell, and touch to maintain their remarkable social organization! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @garyrlewin.bsky.social, Firdevs Murad, Wenhan Luo, Alison Barker

We have 2 postdoc positions available to study spinal mechanisms of motor control. Postdoc 1 will focus on how specific spinal cell types shape neural activity www.levine-lab.org jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Spinal Mechanisms of Motor Control - Neural Activity

Company Description: The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Canc...

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The Sauerbrei Lab at Case Western Reserve University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on neural dynamics and motor control: apply.interfolio.com/189987

Roses are red They make ladies swoon

New paper: Spinal circuitry modeled for locomotion using spatial transcriptomics and cell-type projections. Local excitation, long-range inhibition, and a longitudinal skew—an asymmetric "Mexican hat"—give rhythm, rotational dynamics, and gait, with no pacemakers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Want to start your lab in Marseille on a broad neuronal/brain development theme? There's an exciting tenure track opportunity at @inp-marseille.bsky.social and others Marseille institutes! Check more details here: neuro-marseille.org/en/blog/juni... or contact me if you have any question

Congratulations to Professor Wang on winning the Fields Medal (Nobel Prize for Math). Only the 3rd woman in history to win. And she won for a preprint article! We have some ways to go in biology before preprints receive this level of impact and recognition.

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3mo ago

Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

For me this paper is a career highlight..truly astonishing biology! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal - Nature

Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females t...

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A fun milestone: @science.org featured our preprint today! It's really satisfying to see our work spark the curiosity of a broad audience, I'm not gonna lie. @mdc-berlin.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Bungee-jumping mice may reveal why astronauts skip on the Moon

Low gravity puts a bounce in the step of humans and rodents alike

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Thanks @phiejacobs.bsky.social for featuring our work in @science.org! Why did Apollo astronauts skip on the Moon? Our study shows that reduced gravity reveals a proprioception-dependent mechanism for locomotor state selection. @alesantuz.bsky.social leading the way to the moon 🐭🚀

David Grimm@david-grimm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The first foot set on the Moon was famously one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. But did you know there was a spring in that step? And do you know why? Fun story by @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://bit.ly/49YfgaE

The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world

The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) seeks to uncover general principles of brain function through an ecological perspective: studying perception, cognition, and action in the c...

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🚶‍♀️🚶🧪 My Lab and I are going to do again the #OneWalk #London @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social to show support #T1D #diabetes #research! 🙏 Whatever you can donate, it is really appreciated - Thank you! ➡️ support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/...

Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨🧠 Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of spinal cord neurons. In diseases like #ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4anj19z #SciShots

📣 Fully funded PhD positions at MDC in Berlin, all of the below 👇 but also plenty of neuroscience 😉

So I built a small tool that merges Allen CCFv3 with the traditional bregma-relative coordinate system (calibrated with Paxinos & Franklin's Atlas). Click any coronal or sagittal section, and get coordinates instantly. bohanzhao.com/Atlas Hope it saves someone a headache 🐭

Mouse Brain Stereotaxic Coordinate Viewer

Free interactive tool: enter bregma-relative AP/ML/DV coordinates to navigate Allen Mouse Brain Atlas coronal and sagittal sections. Brain regions identified in real time.

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Let us help you with your research! All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are available in one convenient place. Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: https://www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools

Unfortunately this is true, BNI is shutting down very suddenly and soon. We’re still sorting through the fallout, but many incredibly talented postdocs and technicians are taking a huge hit to their careers because of this. If you know of openings, even short term, I’d be happy to circulate them.

Ariel Levine@ariellevine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help

Imagine mice could build little rockets and go to the moon. How would they move around up there, the little moustronauts? Turns out, they would skip around, just as human astronauts do! @alesantuz.bsky.social explains in a fascinating talk at the @mdc-berlin.bsky.social neuroscience meeting.

Want to hear about #Moon walking, #hypogravity #locomotion, and #proprioception, and are in Berlin tomorrow? Come join us at the 2026 @mdc-berlin.bsky.social #Neuroscience Meeting, 8 May, Campus Buch. I’ll be speaking in Session 1!

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help