Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica The Nobel prize in physics 2026 has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his work on ghost-like particles called neutrinos and the IceCube detector that observes them at the south pole. Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receives the prize of 12m Swedish kronor (about £900,000) awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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Last year, Janos Fuzik and I organized a symposium on voltage imaging for the @fens.org regional meeting in Oslo. We then teamed up with our speakers to write a review on this. I am very happy to share that this review is now out in #EJN! #neuroscience 🧠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

A few years ago @plos.org put together a collection on optogenetics, highlighting relevant research across PLOS Biology and our sisters PLOS comp Bio and @plosone.org, including some research from the now Nobel laureates! collections.plos.org/collection/b... 🧪

Brain Mapping Methods: Optogenetics - PLOS Collections

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering, ling...

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Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 6d ago

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

To understand the brain, we need to study groups of neurons, not individual cells alone. These groups form distinct “subspaces,” allowing different downstream areas to extract the information they need. Beyond single-cell sensory representations in cortex doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #neuroscience

Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org

🚨Our work #ReScale4DL: balancing pixel and contextual information for enhanced bioimage segmentation, with @henriqueslab.bsky.social is out today!🚀 www.nature.com/articles/s41... ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉 Threat👇

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - Nature

An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

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One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print! Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙 Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑

Steve Haddock@stevehaddock.bsky.social · last yr.

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.

Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

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In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social. My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:

More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

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A workshop for the astrocyte field, bringing together molecular, cellular, circuit and systems-level perspectives on astrocyte biology. An excellent opportunity to discuss emerging mechanisms, new tools and integrative approaches 📍 Porto, Portugal | 12–16 April 2027 #Astrocytes #Glia #Neuroscience

The Synapse Biology Group @ i3S Porto (Portugal)@astrocytesrus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's happening! 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 | 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 is taking place 12-16 Apr 2027 in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 Register by 2 November 2026 for on-site attendance here: meetings.embo.org/event/27-ast... #EMBOAstrocytes @embo.org

Water in the morning... Pick herbs in the morning... Lettuce is crispier in the morning... Okay but what if I want to be a 7pm instead of a 7am gardener?? #Gardening #PlantParent

I often think about precisely this

Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nature research paper: Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours go.nature.com/3UiC3bT

Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours - Nature

Amygdala astrocyte primary cilia are disrupted during stress, and their restoration leads to improvements in stress-related behaviour in mice.

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The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.

Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)

I am happy to announce my very first senior author paper! Serotonin is known to abolish UP-DOWN state dynamics, which occur during sleep and anesthesia. There are several outstanding questions: What happens at short latencies? How widespread across the brain is it? 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Serotonin induces DOWN states across the anesthetized mouse forebrain

Serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) project extensively throughout the forebrain, yet their influence on global network states remains controversial. Serotonin is implicated in regu...

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Happy to share that our paper is now out as a reviewed preprint : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Peter Rupprecht@ptrrupprecht.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited to share our new preprint! We explore the link between the locus coeruleus (LC) and arousal for astrocytes, pyramidal cells, interneurons in the hippocampus. A fantastic collaboration with @sianduss.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social, and many others: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5

These speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to the brain’s information flow. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uK1WOw

In 3 centuries of European climatic history,There has never been anything like the insanity we ll see this week 38/39C UK & Benelux,45C France & Spain,39/41C Germany,Chekia,Slovakia,Poland,35/36 Scandinavia We won' t count the records,we will list the few lucky ones which won't

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY

RECORD HEAT FROM ALGERIA TO GERMANY Some monthly records ALGERIA 44.0 Mostaganem 43.3 Maghnia 43.2 Tlemcen SPAIN 39.9 Zamora LUXEMBOURG NEW NATIONAL JUNE RECORD 37.0 Reckange GERMANY 37.2 Regensburg SWITZERLAND 36.6 Wurenlingen 36.3 Gosgen 36.2 Marsens 36.1 Buchs 35.4 Delemon

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests www.science.org/content/arti... #neuroscience

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow

Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests

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A lightweight head-mounted multiplane microscope allows simultaneous imaging of 1800 neurons in freely moving mice, sampled over weeks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Simultaneous two- and three-photon multiplane imaging across cortical layers in freely moving mice - Nature Methods

A lightweight head-mounted multiplane microscope allows simultaneous imaging from >1,800 neurons spread across the cortical layers in freely moving mice performing complex behavioral tasks, sampled...

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When @lndriscoll.bsky.social began her doctoral research at Harvard, her first task was to find the baseline of how specific neurons fired. Then the baseline kept moving. @dianakwon.bsky.social asked the researchers grappling with the brain's shifting code: https://go.nature.com/3RYKGHJ

Suite de l'affaire : le 9 juin au tribunal. Les violences commises contre les femmes et leur légitimité professionnelle sont-elles prises au sérieux par l'institution judiciaire, par les employeurs publics et plus largement dans notre société ? #Corbeau #Science #VSS #academia

Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

18 teams analyzed a neuro dataset and got different answers

Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.

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We are launching Interoception Circle! A new seminar series on embodiment, psychophysiology & body-brain coupling 1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher) 3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome! 🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/