🧪 We recently published our first micro-publication! This paper highlights the pitfalls of using extracellular stimulation to recruit synapses in neocortical circuits, as it lacks specificity. www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

I'd like to make a list of PhD programs that (1) are in Europe (which does include the UK); (2) offer opportunities in systems neuroscience; and obviously (3) pay a stipend. Please share and/or respond to add your suggestions?

Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD programme www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/de...

Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year Programme PhD at the University of Sussex

Join a team of world-leading experts in our high-spec Neuroscience Research Centre whose aim is to understand the nervous system and various neurological disorders.

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We are super excited about this news!!! 🤩 #ERCAdG

Oops the original post was deleted! The news is here: bsky.app/profile/cham...

Champalimaud Research@champalimaudr.bsky.social · last yr.

👏 Congratulations to @megancarey.bsky.social, principal investigator at @champalimaudr.bsky.social on winning a 2.5M€ #AdvancedGrantInLifeSciences, awarded by the @erc.europa.eu, to develop the project 🧠 SCUPTABELLUM - Sculpting cerebellar activity across timescales.

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E

Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to join our vibrant postgrad community? Discover all our Neuroscience courses here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/neuroscience Including: 🏫 International PhD Academy 🏫 Masters courses 🏫 Opportunities across several schools: Life Science; Psychology; Computer Science & AI; and BSMS

I am very happy and thankful for having been part of this amazing journey. Enjoy exploring this incredibly rich dataset!

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · last yr.

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system - Nature

A connectome of the right optic lobe from a male fruitfly is presented together with an extensive collection of genetic drivers matched to a comprehensive neuron-type catalogue.

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Aw, we got the cover for our new paper on X-ray imaging and atlas building in the snail brain. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thanks @pnas.org .. and to @sussexneuro.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @ukri.org for funding support #invertebrate #brain #neuroscience THREAD: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin Staras@kevinstaras.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4hVhrxB

Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on a fun project (literally)! Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...), we will explore:

Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February. The course will run 14-27 May 2025. parisneuro.ovh

come do a phd at sussex neuroscience! 50-ish labs to pick from, doing neuro-stuff from teeny molecules via the obvious sweetspot (zebrafish) to oversized human brainz

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Thank you to Sneha Knedkar for writing this splendid article about our research in The Scientist eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Researchers Discover How Starfish Cut Ties with Their Limbs

A neuropeptide helps starfish shed their arms to escape predators, providing clues about the mechanisms regulating self-amputation.

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Dear all, my first post! I have postdoc positions available if you would like to join my lab in beautiful Sussex by the Sea! Please contact me on k.w.caldecott@sussex.ac.uk

And for this #FluorescenceFriday, here’s the sequel. Froglet of the same line from the Sweeney lab.

Tom Baden@neurofishh.bsky.social · 2y ago

a GCaMP tadpole for #fluorescenceFriday as an introductory hello on BlueSky :) Transgenic by Lora Sweeney (ISTA), and picci by our postdoc Michi Forsthofer

A huge pleasure to repost this announcement - over 40 students have graduated from our fantastic @sussexneuro.bsky.social PhD programme, and each year brings new perspectives and opportunities for both the new joiners and ourselves as their hosts. Do consider applying!

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Mix neuroscience with the seaside! 4 year PhD programme on the UK's south coast at the University of Sussex. Fantastic community of excellent researchers across the neuro field. Apply now. Please RT.

Sussex Neuroscience@sussexneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

I recently went to a talk by Tom Baden (@neurofishh.bsky.social). One of the best I've ever seen. It's a radical reinterpretation of what color vision was initially for. And during questions it covered the roles of the green cone and the UV cones (yep, plural) in mouse vision. youtu.be/gzfiUZ2_5pc

Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour

YouTube video by BadenLab

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