🔁🐒💼 Le macaque, essentiel en neurosciences et infectiologie, devient rare. Pénurie mondiale, flambée des prix : sans stratégie, la France risque de perdre sa souveraineté scientifique 👉

🎙️ Pénurie de macaques : quels impacts pour la recherche ? - Gircor

D’un côté une forte demande, de l’autre une offre limitée, le paysage du marché du macaque dédié à la recherche s’est fortement transformé ces dernières années. Conséquence : les laboratoires ... Lire la suite

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Our digital sphinx, a cautionary tale about the interpretation of connectome-body models, is now a reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social. We are grateful to the reviewers for engaging seriously with what we hope is a useful (if absurd) demonstration. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"The United States has a shortage of nonhuman primates that was exacerbated by, and has not recovered from, the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences ... examined the current and future needs for nonhuman primates in research."

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University has voted unanimously to develop a plan to scale down the university’s primate research center and pivot its focus to new approach methodologies. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/nonhuman-pri...

Happy to say our head-direction-cell-in-3D is finally out! doi.org/10.1038/s420... Confirms that the brain's compass uses a dual-axis rule (like an iphone does) to maintain a constant estimate of horizontal heading even when the head is not horizontal. Blogpost explanation here: shorturl.at/9VdGM

Reminder: Only 8 days left to apply! Join our lab at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute as a Technical Assistant. From training rats to assisting with wireless brain recordings, you'll contribute firsthand to our research on how the brain navigates the world. 🔗 esi-frankfurt.de/career/techn...

📢 #FENS2026 giveaway! We're distributing 8 R2 system starter kits - including one with our new metal holder- for FENS attendees! Apply here: forms.gle/QFnUVZthhcfR...

It never gets old. #primates #resistance

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 👇

Together with @roozbehkiani.bsky.social and @athenaakrami.bsky.social, we published a Nature correspondence highlighting our open letter’s core message: the academic community must speak out against attacks on academic institutions. doi.org/10.1038/d415... Open access version: rdcu.be/fju9B

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share. to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect...

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Researchers at a national primate center in Oregon have formed a grassroots nonprofit to argue against the center becoming an animal sanctuary, a transition the facility’s host university has been exploring since February. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/nonhuman-pri...

Oregon primate center scientists fight proposed sanctuary transition

A group of employees have launched a series of campaigns to advocate for their work and argue against the center’s potential transition to an animal sanctuary.

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Am I alone in finding the UK Home Office ASPEL form completely and utterly not fit for purpose? I could have run and published an entire experiment in the time it's taken me to get my licence application through the multiple rounds of editing required 😡

We tracked mice in space! This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩‍🚀 Preprint thread below 👇

Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁@eisch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

Just boosting this - 5 more days to go till the closing date - please spread the word!

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 👇

Not every wrong turn is harmless. Misinformation doesn’t just confuse—it can cost lives. Accurate information matters. Protect science. Learn the facts -> savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive

Preprint alert! We've done the first ever wireless brain recordings from the high-level visual & motor regions (IT/PMv/PFC) in monkeys engaged in natural behaviors as well as during controlled screen-based tasks. Read below for a lay summary and the link for details! 1/8

On this day dedicated to animals in laboratories, I thank the animals that make it possible to advance science I pledge to work with them compassionately and responsibly ❤️ I also thank my lab and institute team who share my commitment to ethical science 🙏. I am proud of what we accomplish together

I created this collection of common brain models in neuroscience, all to scale Across species, brains share fundamental principles and many homologous regions But as size increases, complexity and connectivity change. We need the full spectrum, from flies to rodents, non-human primates, and humans

Nice! I presented a Bayesian poster in 2004… and now I do naturalistic wireless ephys and behavior to study navigation in rats and primates. Not too bad! 😁 It may look like Bayesian modeling and information theory peaked, but I think that they became the background, and are now simply assumed.

Renato Duarte@rcfduarte.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Très intéressant, en particulier la section sur les climatosceptiques, qui ressemble beaucoup aux tactiques utilisées les militants contre l’expérimentation animale.

Astropierre@astropierre.com · 7mo ago

[Désinformation] Intéressant dossier du @cnrs.fr avec quantité d'articles sur les récents travaux de recherches sur la désinformation. En vrac : identification des promoteurs et des cibles, analyse des mécanismes et sensibilisation pour mieux s’en défendre : lejournal.cnrs.fr/dossiers/dis...

Chapter 1 – Why do we feel dizzy when turning? This comes from how the inner ear’s rotation sensors (the semi-circular canals) work mechanically. The short videos below (and the next one) explain why. (And yes, that video is low-quality, but it's actually me on the chair 😅)

Hi BlueSky — I’m bringing over an old SciTwitter thread series exploring how beautifully the vestibular system works from a systems and computational neuroscience perspective. Chapter 1 coming shortly! I’ll keep all chapters threaded below.

Wow 😍 I have been dreaming of doing that with Head Direction Cells for a while... Maybe one day!

DANDI Archive@dandiarchive.org · 7mo ago

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

If you are interested to learn about my experiences in neuroscience research, please take a look at my webinar with the Society for Neuroscience.

“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is capitulation to fear and to political pressure that ignores scientific reality,” said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social, a neuroscientist at Emory University NPRC. “You are chasing the approval of a vocal minority, rather than chasing the future of medicine.”

Science Magazine@science.org · 8mo ago

Breaking news: One of the largest monkey research centers in the United States has taken the first steps toward converting itself into a primate sanctuary, a seismic change that would affect biomedical research across the country. https://scim.ag/4bH2COV

If that’s its V1 then this monkey’s got the power to see into the future.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Being grumpy is not a character flaw. People have moods & emotions. They influence their decision making and actions. Negative affect isn’t something that has to be eradicated from science, nevermind life. bsky.app/profile/nico...

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1

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Why animal models are still needed for discoveries in mental health research

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Nature research paper: Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons go.nature.com/4qP4HwB

Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons - Nature

Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.

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