We are looking for a Marie Curie Fellow (MSCA-PF) to join our lab at CIMeC, UniTrento, to study social brain development & autism (VPA & genetic models), in chick, zebrafish & rodents. Eligible for MSCA-PF 2026? Email: paola.sgado@unitn.it marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

We still have 1 PhD position in Neurobiology at SISSA! deadline is August 18th. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... please read the quoted post for further info. #neurojobs

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up to 5 fully funded PhD positions in Neurobiology at SISSA! Application through the portal until March 25th, start in November. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... Join 1 of our 6 labs studying sensory and motor systems of the peripheral and central nervous system and/or get involved in tool development.

Flexibility Lab at #FENS2026: Po-Yu (PS01-07AM-627) - light/time effects on escape in nocturnal rodents Cinar (-319) - ...in diurnal rodents Carmen (-322) - role of midbrain in OCD Camilla (-320) - colliculus-Pbg pathway in escape @adiesse.bsky.social (PS04-08PM-716) - context-dependent cell types

We are happy to announce the 3rd edition of the “Subcortical Sensory Circuits” Meeting on the 9-12 February 2027 at in Trieste, Italy! www.subcortical2027.com Registration will start in August, and we invite you to submit your abstract for a poster or short talk.

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About the Meeting Subcortical circuits play a crucial role in perception and the execution of a wide variety of essential behaviours. The number of laboratories focusing on subcortical areas has incre...

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Some exciting days, meeting the princess of Belgium and then spending two excellent days at the NN2026 in Bonn taking about naturalistic neuroscience. Thank you for the invitation @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social !

Systems Neuroscience postdoc opportunity in the Asari Lab at SISSA! Interested in the visual system and rodent in-vivo physiology? Join our institute in the beautiful town of Trieste at the Adriatic Sea: www.sissa.it/bandi/selezi...

Many wild populations are fragmenting and declining, leading to inbreeding. We are studying how animals avoid inbreeding and the consequences of inbreeding an in a >20 year study of >20,000 wild mice with whole genomes. We are recruiting a postdoc at Columbia and two PhD students in U Zurich.

Hi all! My lab at the University of Bern @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, funded by @snsf.ch, opening in April 2026, is looking for candidates for several fully-funded positions: a postdoctoral scientist, PhD student(s) and a laboratory technician. Please share (and apply)!

I was very happy to participate in the TWAS-TYAN Neuroscience Workshop at SISSA! TWAS supports and promotes science in developing countries and invited young professors from Brazil, Chile, Ghana and Kyrgyzstan to SISSA. twas.org/article/tyan.... Photos: G.Ortolani (www.flickr.com/photos/twas/...)

Join us at TENSS 2026 to open black boxes, explain how things/brains work and debate the impact (or lack or it) of various new technologies on understanding of the brain and on society. tenss.ro Apply by: March 15th!

Difficult to top the Erasmus MC speaker present! Thank you Robin Broersen for inviting me to Rotterdam. I enjoyed the many stimulating discussions and learned a lot about the cerebellum!

Mentors in North America, nominate your excellent senior PhDs / junior postdocs!

Drew Schreiner@schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I can highly recommend the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (nice backronym for OSNAP)! Need to be 2 years before/after PhD, due March 23. Great opportunity to visit and present at NIH and meet some amazing colleagues. www.nimh.nih.gov/research/res...

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶 cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

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Happy to be part of this webinar tomorrow!

The Kavli Foundation@kavlifoundation.org · 6mo ago

How does evolution influence the brain and its ability to adapt? Join Kavli & @sfn.org on Feb. 18, 11am–12pm EST with PhDs Marco Gallio, Katja Reinhard & Sophie Caron to explore advances in #neuroscience and the mechanisms of flexibility and adaptation. ⬇️

up to 5 fully funded PhD positions in Neurobiology at SISSA! Application through the portal until March 25th, start in November. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... Join 1 of our 6 labs studying sensory and motor systems of the peripheral and central nervous system and/or get involved in tool development.

Studying vision across light levels? Interested in rod photoreceptors and related (patho)physiology? Matteo Rizzi, Kate Powell and I wrote a review on rod photoreceptor activity at daylight doi.org/10.1016/j.vi... . Free access link here kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

One week left to apply for the NERF/VIB-KU Leuven Center For Brain & Disease Research international PhD Call 2026! Learn more about the projects & teams and apply now: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...

Call for applications: A fifth edition for the Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series

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It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!

Very proud of Po-Yu Liao and Cinar Ilhan who beautifully presented their PhD progress reports today! I'm very happy to have you in the lab and about your exciting research!

Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess @chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social

mouse neuro people who use or consider using neuropixels and/or miniscopes: if there was an implant light enough to do both at the same time (+ maybe optic fiber) in a freely moving mouse, would it advance your research? would you use it? please comment or send me a message!

Excellent end to the Italian Congress for Neuroscience (SINS) - our postdoc Lucia Zanetti chairing a fascinating session on the retina & beyond together with @serenariccitelli.bsky.social! Well done & thanks to the speakers Stefano Di Marco, @santiagorompani.bsky.social, Norma Kühn & Max Joesch

who came up with the Europass format? it's one of the worst types of CV to read - feels crowded but at the same time it takes a lot of space. the sections make sense (mostly) but the formatting, fonts, uppercase, bold etc. is terrible. and that's what we suggest/force people to use...

Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.

The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice - Nature

Visual threat triggers contrasting freeze and escape defensive responses in two species of deer mice as a result of different activation thresholds downstream of the superior colliculus in the do...

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🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

Beyond the Lab Workshop - Naturalistic Approaches in Neuroscience! join us in Montevideo, Uruguay, 20-25 October sites.google.com/view/beyondt...

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Karl @farrowlab.bsky.social and I wrote a little opinion piece on the importance of comparative neuroscience

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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