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This looks very cool and super useful for so many applications!

Jonas Wietek@jwietek.bsky.social · 3d ago

light-activated tetanus neurotoxin (LATeNT) by the @aliceyting.bsky.social lab. Includes a comparison with the light-switchable PdCO (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), showing a long lasting inhibition for 1h hour post illumination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see our article out in this month's issue of @natrevgastrohep.nature.com, and pleasant surprise to have it chosen for the cover, and made available for free access! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/nrgastro/vol...

🧬 We're hiring. We’re excited to be recruiting for a Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy to join the Centre for Integrative Anatomy at UCL. 📍 Location: London (hybrid) 📅 Closing date: 20 July 2026 MONDAY 👉 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL

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Thoroughly enjoyed chatting all things GLP-1 with Simon Gaisford, Ahad Rahim and Stefan Trapp on forthcoming podcast for @ucllifesciences.bsky.social - watch this space!

I am happy to share our latest manuscript, led by newly-minted PhD Justin Wang, identifying a neural population that selectively controls hedonic, but not homeostatic, feeding. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons control hedonic feeding and obesity

Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...

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Autonomic C1 neurons promote anxiety via activation of vlPAG: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Autonomic C1 neurons promote anxiety via activation of vlPAG

Fernández-Peña et al. used viral intersectional tools to selectively target epinephrine-expressing C1 neurons in mouse rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). Adjusting their activity altered the severi...

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Looking for a postdoc? The @sciolinolab.bsky.social at UConn is hiring! We investigate how neuromodulatory systems interact with central taste processing regions to regulate behavior using in vivo recordings, optogenetics & mouse behavior. Apply: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

18 months after starting our first Early Career Editorial Board at JNE, board members like @isadoracfurigo.bsky.social reflect on how the experience is equipping them with the tools to excel in their careers: www.neuroendo.org.uk... Keep an eye out for the next enrolment coming soon!

Great reporting on this perspective in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1. Risks of ultra-processed foods are likely caused by their differences in specific nutritional properties, not in being 'processed' 2. 'Ultra-processed' miscategorizes many healthy + sustainable plant-based products

Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence

What do randomized controlled trials really tell us about the effects of ultraprocessed foods?

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Vox@vox.com · last mo.

New analysis suggests other factors may explain the harms blamed on “ultra-processing.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

1 week left to apply for the new Lecturer position in the UCL Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience. If you / anyone you know works in this field (broadly defined) and is looking to start their own lab, please consider applying! Please share! 📈🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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We are seeking healthy individuals to take part in a Johns Hopkins research study. The study will look at the effects of psilocybin, a psychedelic drug, with pindolol (a medication that blocks a serotonin receptor).

📢 Limited poster presentation slots reopened! Showcase your work + get feedback from senior scientists at our Early Career Researcher Meeting, #NeuroendoCelebrate2026 in Manchester, 2-3 Sept. Submissions close once all slots have been filled. SUBMIT: neuroendo.org.uk/Neu...

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Francesca Stavrakopoulou@proffrancesca.bsky.social · last mo.

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

Are you working on a neuroendocrine research project?🧠🔬 💸Get up to £8,000 support for consumables/other research costs to enable you to carry out the best possible neuroendocrine research project. Deadline 31 July Apply: neuroendo.org.uk/grants

Exciting #PhD opportunity (UK students only) with our new departmental colleague Janin @lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social - great opportunity! 📈🧠 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Alpha-Synuclein Condensates and Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Alpha-Synuclein Condensates and Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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UCL is hiring for 5 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

Our CeA GLP-1 story is now online. We've got a lot more cooking in this area and I think this will inform future circuit-guided GLP-1 therapeutics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Great job to my first PhD student, Miguel Duran, who has had a hell of a week.

The central amygdala gates exogenous glucagon-like peptide 1 signals

Nuclei within the limbic system like the central amygdala (CeA) play a critical role in mediating fear, motivation, reward, and appetitive behavior. A…

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Andrew Hardaway@andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really thrilled to share my lab's latest work where we characterize the role of the CeA in integrating exogenous GLP-1 signals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.

Lectureship being advertised at @ccmnlondon.bsky.social, @uclnpp.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk Don't miss this unusual opportunity to bag a job at a world leading institution! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Profs. Alexander Gourine and Stefan Trapp have an incredible research agenda 👀 #neuroskyence

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PAPER FOR TRANSLATIONAL-CIRCUIT-BASED THERAPEUTICS Circuit-specific gene therapy reverses core symptoms in a primate Parkinson’s disease model: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Circuit-specific gene therapy reverses core symptoms in a primate Parkinson’s disease model

An AAV-based circuit modulation approach that consists of a designer retrograde AAV capsid, a medium spiny neuron-enriched promoter, and a selected chemogenetic effector specifically modulates direct ...

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Our Faculty is #hiring multiple academics posts! Includes a fantastic opportunity to join us and start your own group in @ccmnlondon.bsky.social as Lecturer in Cardiovascular or Metabolic Neuroscience (broadly defined). Contact me with any queries, and pls share! 🧠📈 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're excited to announce that we're recruiting for new academic posts in #AI for #Biodiversity Science, Future #Food Systems & #Health, #NeuroAI, Computational #Neuroscience, and #Cardiovascular/Metabolic Neuroscience. 📅 Apply by 10 July 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

We are recruiting! We are looking for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry to join our diverse team in the School of Pharmacy at UCL. Please share and happy to discuss the role with potential applicants. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Directional elements: the preprints are out! 1/n Congratulations to our amazing team: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We screened for principles governing global brain dynamics by developing a set of new methods: 1) conformal immersion microscopy;

Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.

Could sleep be a central regulator for brain disease? 😴 Find out in Dr Matei Bolborea's blog highlighting findings from a recent highly downloaded @jne-editor.bsky.social review. www.neuroendo.org.uk...

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Our work on cAMP-dependent mechanisms in area postrema that mediate Semaglutide-induced weight loss in mice is out in final form. I learned a lot from this study and the effort of the team, especially Claire Gao who led the work, was inspiring. I hope it can stimulate new directions. rdcu.be/fj8Eu

Semaglutide drives weight loss through cAMP-dependent mechanisms in GLP1R-expressing hindbrain neurons

Nature Metabolism - Semaglutide-induced weight loss is shown to depend on Gs-coupled signalling in GLP1R-expressing hindbrain neurons, with a critical role for cAMP in mediating neuronal activation...

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Me as a PI: “this paper is 95% done” The remaining 5% are figures 3-8 and all of the writing

Ol' Chef Dan@olchefdan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.