My home institute, @ucleye.bsky.social, is looking for a new Director! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-1183a/

Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - REF 1183 | Veredus

University College London Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology  Location: London Salary: An attractive remuneration package UCL is a world leading, global university with a community of more...

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📣 We're hiring a postdoc in my lab at UCL! Help develop closed-loop neurotechnology for chronic pain by combining long-term neural implants and recordings with real-time adaptive control in mice. Closes 24 July — please repost or share widely.

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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Our paper is out! Work by Christopher Black in collaboration with Liam Browne, Rob Brownstone, and Marco Beato. Here, we describe the unique kinematic signatures of multi-limb coordination in freely climbing mice and show how these flexibly adapt to changing environments. tinyurl.com/4bnw88wk

Naturalistic climbing reveals adaptive strategies for interlimb coordination in freely moving mice

Multi-limb coordination is vital for mammalian locomotion. While coordination requires reliable organization of limb movements, it also requires flexibility to adapt to environmental demands. In natur...

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Huge congrats to @snierwetberg.bsky.social , David (not on BSky), and @maxwellxchen.bsky.social for their paper! They developed a mouse task in which relational structure can be isolated from cue identity and reward statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧠📈🧪 #neuroskyence @uclnpp.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks

Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...

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🧵 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...

*Recruiting new group leaders* The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

🚨 Please RT! We’re recruiting a motivated postdoc to dissect the neurocircuits of affective pain. Expertise in behavioral models of pain/SUDs, stereotaxy, microscopy, opto/chemogenetics, or fiber photometry encouraged. Apply 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10647 #Neuroscience #Postdoc

Postdoctoral Research Position

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

If evolution, comparative #neuroskyence & #PainResearch are your thing, here's a great review from Terry Walters: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain

Summary: The biology of widely shared and unusual features of human pain is informed by functional and mechanistic comparisons of nociception and pain-like aversive states across vertebrate and invert...

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One week left to apply!

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Lots of exciting clinical PhD projects at Crick - including the opportunity for neurosurgeons to work with us and record electrical activity in patients with neuropixels probes. Please share widely!

The Francis Crick Institute@crick.ac.uk · 10mo ago

We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join our 3-year fully funded clinical PhD programme. 🔬🩺 Apply by 14 November 2025. 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

We are proud to launch what we think is going to be fantastic opportunity for pain neuroscientists and clinicians to learn the foundations of pain neuroscience

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences@ndcnoxford.bsky.social · 10mo ago

September is #PainAwarenessMonth, and we are excited to be launching our brand-new MSc in Pain Neurosciences. Could you help shape the future of #pain research? Opening soon for 2026 admissions 👀 Learn more 👇 bit.ly/OxMScPain

New preprint out from the lab. We identified three critical windows over which sensorimotor behaviours can be shaped. Altered early experience over these windows changes somatosensory and motor outcomes for life. Tour de force experiments by Laura Andreoli. @medresfdn.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Discrete and sequential critical periods organise the development of task-specific sensorimotor circuits in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.676788v1

We're looking for a senior project coordinator in Oxford - apply by friday eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...

We've found a new gene linked to chronic pain in humans! The gene SLC45A4 encodes (the long-awaited) neuronal polyamine transporter, which is important for pain signalling in nerves. We hope this discovery might lead to new chronic pain treatments in the future! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter - Nature

The SLC45A4 gene encodes a neuronal polyamine transporter and is linked to pain response in humans and mice.

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We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼

Johannes Algermissen@johalgermissen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪

Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors

Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

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Calling all neuroscience postdocs! Come and share your work with the London neuroscience community. No CVs, publication records or recommendation letters needed. Learn more about SWC’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series and apply by 10 July: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

Excited to present our study in ‪@natneuro.nature.com‬: a deep brain pathway that triggers safety-driven movement—overriding needs like finding food or social contacts. A look into how the brain weighs deep instincts. Congrats to all and first author @nkrauth.bsky.social. shorturl.at/toYFN

A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs - Nature Neuroscience

Animals need to adapt behavior to balance survival with fulfillment of essential needs. Krauth et al. identify neurons in the lateral hypothalamus that, when activated, prioritize survival over other ...

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🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @natneuro.nature.com Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain

Although topographical maps organize many peripheral sensory systems, it remains unclear whether olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) choose which of the ~1100 odor receptors (ORs) to express based upon t...

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Linking function and structure at scale with X-rays - and several times over. Massive congratulations to the team ‪@yuxinzhang.bsky.social‬, @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk and all our collaborators.

Yuxin Zhang@yuxinzhang.bsky.social · last yr.

My PhD project is out as a preprint! We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk

We've developed a way to remotely and precisely activate skin sensory neurons in mice as they naturally explore and navigate their environment - opening doors for studying sensation, behaviour, and pain in naturalistic settings. Now out: shorturl.at/ry4s9 #neuroskyence #neuroscience #PainResearch

2. Systems Neuroscience PhD position, supervised jointly with Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social This is to investigate the differential circuits involved in habitual and goal-directed behaviours. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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PhD Project - Systems Neuroscience PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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1. Project on Computational Neuroscience / NeuroAI PhD, supervised jointly with Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social Here we want to build NeuroAI models that transform visual information to spatial navigation information. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New preprint ✍️🚨 ✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling -Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity -Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc 👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

Last few days to apply to come work with our team- deadline 11th April. See details below.

Stéphanie C Koch@skochlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow! The project will investigate the maturation of spinal circuits and their plasticity within chronic widespread pain states. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... until 11th April. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social @jobrxiv.bsky.social

New preprint out! We developed a behavioural platform for the kinematic analysis of skilled whole body behaviour. Very fun collaboration with Christopher Black, @liamebrowne.bsky.social and Rob Brownstone.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647225v1