Celebrating one year of the Social Plasticity Lab with a fun bowling night! we celebrated two BSc thesis defenses and thanked our visiting rotation students from the University of Iowa as well! To another year of exciting science! 🎳🧠
Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos
@neuronico.bsky.social
Ramon y Cajal Investigator @University of Valencia. Junior group leader interested in the neural basis of social behaviors. Previously postdoc @Champalimaud Research https://socialplasticity.wordpress.com/
Distinct afferent signatures onto anterior and posterior VMHvl subdomains and their progesterone receptor-expressing neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728145v1
Spontaneous and stimulus-driven arousal produce distinct acetylcholine dynamics across sensory and prefrontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729441v1
Input-dependent directionality of interactions between cortical areas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725829v1
Day 3 of the ROE meeting starts with Isabel Fariñas speaking about quiescence and neurogenesis. And also with words remembering José Manuel García Delgado, very present among all of us today. @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @carmenagustin.bsky.social
Talk by Pablo Ruiz Campillos at the X ROE Meeting, on distinct afferent signatures onto anterior and posterior VMHvl subdomains and their progesterone receptor-expressing neurons. Great science celebrating the XX anniversary of the ROE l. @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @carmenagustin.bsky.social
Very proud of these guys!
LAURA L-MASCARAQUE@lauralmascaraque.bsky.social · 3mo agoPablo Landete Luna at the X ROE Meeting, sharing the characterization of perineuronal nets in cycling female mice. Wonderful to see such talented young researchers presenting their work at our XX anniversary meeting. @carmenagustin.bsky.social @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @neuronico.bsky.social
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Fully funded PhD at the University of Bristol (UK) on how ant colonies remodel their nests to optimise performance under pressure, combining experimental work, quantitative analysis, and field work. Detail/how to apply: stroeymeyt-lab.co.uk/open-positio... Deadline: 5 June 2026
Open positions – Ant epidemiology Lab
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Happy Birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal - the "father of modern neuroscience."
Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...
Scientists Unveil ‘Long Lost’ Map for Smell
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⏳ Reminder: EBBS Elections are still open! There’s still time to vote for the next President and Ordinary Committee Member — voting closes on May 7. Make sure your voice is heard. 👉 www.ebbs-science.org/elections
EBBS :: Election
Website of the European Brain and Behaviour Society
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Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice
Piantadosi et al. show mice flexibly adjust choices between reward options based on the punishment potential in a BLA-dependent manner. They find that BLA neuronal representation of punishment reactiv...
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Two weeks until the Registration closes for the 1st German Fish Meeting! 🐟🧪 Reminder I will be chairing a session for Postdocs in the Job Market. If that's you, apply and tell everyone why fishes are the best and why they should be shoveling $ at you www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-...
From Postoc to PI Session | German Fish Meeting
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MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 7mo ago#Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)
Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Two positions as Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Computational Science
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Computational Science. Computational science research is conduct
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Are you interested in the neuroscience of social and sexual behavior in health and disease? 🧠 We’re offering a fully funded PhD position at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸 (open to non-EU citizens). 📩 Apply now!
I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread! 👇🏻
Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature
Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...
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Forrest Rogers, PhD@forrestdrogers.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhy are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)
#NeuroJobs Oferta de contrato #Predoctoral 👇👇👇
Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos@neuronico.bsky.social · 6mo agoAre you interested in the neuroscience of social and sexual behavior in health and disease? 🧠 We’re offering a fully funded PhD position at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸 (open to non-EU citizens). 📩 Apply now!
A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.
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Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice
dos Santos Correa et al. show that exposure to a stressful context promotes the acquisition of rescue behavior in mice and that the dorsal hippocampus is required for this learning. Calcium imaging re...
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Are you interested in the neuroscience of social and sexual behavior in health and disease? 🧠 We’re offering a fully funded PhD position at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸 (open to non-EU citizens). 📩 Apply now!
lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis
Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...
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New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting
Parenting behavior emerges from hormonally sensitive circuits, but how distinct circuit components are affected by, and contribute to, sex and state dependent changes in infant caregiving remains uncl...
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New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
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We used rabies virus 👾 to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits 🧠, revealing network-specific reorganization that we didn’t expect. The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social Paper 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thread for a synopsis 👉 bsky.app/profile/alex...
Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
Psilocybin reshapes brain networks through activity-dependent plasticity, including a weakening of recurrent cortical loops that could underlie its therapeutic effects.
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Alex Kwan@alexkwan.bsky.social · 12mo agoNew preprint + thread 🧵 #Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect? Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/12
🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
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Out today in Nature: We uncover a neural mechanism for the integration of two internal states - hunger and estrous state - and how this integration shapes pup-directed behaviors in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression - Nature
Combined behavioural, circuit-level and cellular approaches are used to demonstrate how hypothalamic neurons integrate hunger and oestrous state to drive a switch in how female mice interact with pups...
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