"how did you like the half time show, Wayne?" "It was crap" 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥 #legend

Wayne Rooney: Football Legend

Alt: Wayne Rooney: Football Legend

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If I were France I would attempt to score soon. If this match ends as it is now the chances of them advancing are low.

Congrats to @soyonhonglab.bsky.social and ger! Very happy to have played a small part in this!

Soyon Hong@soyonhonglab.bsky.social · 4w ago

This was a truly interdisciplinary team effort w/ expertise across neuroscience, immunology & NDD. Huge thanks to everyone involved including our collaborators in labs of Menna Clatworthy, @lignanilab.bsky.social, Tarja Malm, Victor Tybulewicz, @macaskillaf.bsky.social & @movahedilab.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity for a computational neuroscience lab. Come and join our amazing department! You’ll be surrounded by outstanding systems, cellular and molecular neuroscientists tackling fundamental questions about how the brain works. 🧠📈🧪

UCL Neuroscience@uclnpp.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only two days left to apply to the best neuroscience department! #NeuroSkyence 🧠📈🧪 Computational neuroscience, systems, synapses and molecules, all under one roof. Come join an amazing collaborative group!

Only two days left to apply to the best neuroscience department! #NeuroSkyence 🧠📈🧪 Computational neuroscience, systems, synapses and molecules, all under one roof. Come join an amazing collaborative group!

Isaac Bianco@isaacbianco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling all computational neuroscientists! Our department is recruiting two new lecturers/associate profs. Application deadline 10th July. tinyurl.com/4wnzvjc2 #sciencejobs @uclnpp.bsky.social

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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vision to navigation via colliculus not V1! very cool stuff from @ruedigersarah.bsky.social in @uclnpp.bsky.social

Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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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NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication

The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...

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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

We are recruiting a post-doc to study olfactory processing and decision-making in rodents, combining quantitative behavior with neurophysiology. www.oist.jp/careers/post... Please share with interested colleagues and trainees 🙏

Post-doctoral Researcher - Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit

Post-doctoral positions are available in the Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit (https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/sbn) at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Univers...

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I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know

The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

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New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint 🥳 Gamma secretase isnt a single enzyme, multiple GSEC exist depending on which subunits are incorporated into the complex. We made PSEN1 & PSEN2 knockouts to study the impact of different GSEC in neurons & microglia Led by @celarber.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Random neuroscience trainee tip: If you struggle to keep track of rostral vs caudal, remember that rostral rhymes with nostril.

Super excited to see the first paper from my PhD out! 🐭 Very satisfying to get to build an interpretable model of how the brain does a thing. A nice palette cleanser in the current sea of LLMs and deep ML.

Andrew MacAskill@macaskillaf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Huge congratulations to Jes (not on Bsky) for her paper in @plos.org Computational Biology! A really elegant modelling study on how the brain discovers hidden structure and uses it to guide behaviour. @uclnpp.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪 📈 🧠 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

This is the most insider shade ever and I’m here for it. #wormFly4pres2026🪱🪰

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · 4mo 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...

Huge congratulations to Jes (not on Bsky) for her paper in @plos.org Computational Biology! A really elegant modelling study on how the brain discovers hidden structure and uses it to guide behaviour. @uclnpp.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪 📈 🧠 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Contextual inference through flexible integration of environmental features and behavioural outcomes

Author summary To behave flexibly, animals must determine which situation or context they are in, even when the information that defines that context is incomplete or no longer visible. This problem, ...

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*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below!

Renée Koolschijn@reneecabbage.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very pleased to share that our study “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” is out in @natcomms.nature.com (my final PhD paper, only 3.5 years post PhD! 🙃) Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big changes - wording is a bit ambiguous as to whether these will be peer reviewed..? Hopefully! - experimental medicine and discovery science considered together and funded from the same 'bucket' is a touch scary for the discovery types!

Willem van Schaik@wvschaik.bsky.social · 5mo ago

MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur... MRC applicant-led funding opportunities reopen 7 Apr, experimental medicine opportunities opening 30 Apr Complete change in selection of project: no boards, shortlisted applicants -> in-person panel interview.

Another poster today at #cosyne26 (2-112)! @rowanboard shows how early life social isolation alters dimension-based learning, cognitive flexibility, and the ventral hippocampus–PFC circuit. Great collaboration with @jonroiser.bsky.social linking mouse and human versions of the task!

Can this be a solution?

Poster tonight at #cosyne26 (1-079)! @wanqingjiang.bsky.social & @noehamou.bsky.social show that mice learn hidden community structure in a 15-odour graph even when transition statistics are flat. Fun collaboration with @saxelab.bsky.social that started with East London coffees ☕!

Super cool paper on human hippocampus in a non spatial planning task - congrats!

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

New preprint from the lab on synapse development in the nascent neocortical hierarchy! Using mice that label MAGUK proteins developed by Seth Grant we find key differences in the laminar maturation of association and sensory motor cortices, including delayed, cortex-wide maturation of L1 synapses.

I'm a bit late with this, but awesome to see it out in the wild! A real tour de force from @dozenoaks.bsky.social @timcraggs.bsky.social An amazing example of why we need to think more about flexibility in our biological questions! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Kinesin-1 is highly flexible and adopts an open conformation in the absence of cargo

Kinesin-1 is an essential anterograde microtubule motor protein. The core kinesin motor is a homodimer of two heavy chains; N-terminal motor domains hydrolyse ATP and walk along microtubules, whilst a...

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I really hope at the very least they let unsuccessful applications this round reapply...!

Rob Fagan@robfagan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

They've separately said: Our transition to new ways of working also means we unfortunately expect to make a reduced number of awards to applications currently being assessed by our four research boards and developmental pathway funding scheme. www.ukri.org/blog/mrc-fun...

Some initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵 www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

hmm. not much reassurance here - other than the full new system will be up by the '2027 to 2028 financial period' and 'To repeat the point: levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period and are reflective of recent years'. lets hope we can hold out...

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

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