Very proud of the special issue of Animal Behaviour I worked on with @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @nicolakoyama.bsky.social on addressing biases in animal behaviour. Thanks to all authors- plenty of cool papers to read. Here's our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @asab.org

To protest the unending Bangalore roadworks, I created a game called Swalpa Adjust Maadi (Kannada for "please bear with the inconvenience"). You play the contractor digging up the roads, the residents are mute spectators who always lose! A new puzzle each day: mthattai.github.io/Swalpa-Adjus...

Swalpa Adjust Maadi

A game where you dig up Bangalore's roads.

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Ketamine increases neuroplasticity in female mice but not males. With @istaresearch.bsky.social, we found the key gene behind the difference. If it holds in humans, it could reshape how we approach assessing treatments. 🔗 Story: https://bit.ly/4yM4hvL 🔬 Journal article: https://bit.ly/4pYisK8

Over the past few years, @quorumetrix.bsky.social has been working on bringing neuroscience to the dome. His new planetarium film, more than a decade in the making, takes viewers on an immersive journey into the brain. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/art-in-scien...

A planetarium for the brain

Neuroscientists should take a cue from astrophysicists and use planetariums to inspire awe, argues Tyler Sloan. His new film takes a first step.

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NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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New work from our lab @faurelab.bsky.social expending the tools available to study nicotinic receptors more precisely. @espciparispsl.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research@pasteur.fr · 2w ago

Institut Pasteur researchers developed "optonanobody": a light-controlled nanobody targeting α7 nicotinic receptors. Switch receptors on/off with light, no genetic editing needed. New research tool for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & schizophrenia. #Neuroscience ↘️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty? Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention

In their essay, ALBA Network team members Keerthana Iyer, Arish Rakshasa-Loots, Ana Silva and Violetta Zujovic argue that to improve global neuroscience participation the field must embrace a more holistic definition of underrepresentation. #neuroskyence

Redefining underrepresentation in global neuroscience

Shifting the focus of equity initiatives from identity categories to structural barriers can reveal overlooked challenges and increase global support.

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Looking for a postdoc (fast)!! 😅 2-years funded on the ATIP-Avenir Program. I'll be at #FENS2026 in Barcelona if you want to meet in person. www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Haven’t written science in French in years, but just published a short open-access commentary on my Nat Neuro work with @pierrelemerre.bsky.social. Hopefully useful for teaching in French-speaking contexts! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1051/meds... Original work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thousands of Indian protesters gathered to march on Parliament on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s education minister over botched entrance exams that affected millions of students.

India’s CJP Party Leads Protest March to Parliament After Exam Leaks

The Cockroach Janta Party’s demonstration in New Delhi has swelled since police forcibly removed Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent activist who has been on a hunger strike, on Saturday.

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Just back from #FENS2026 had the pleasure to chair a technical workshop "Imaging brainwide activity with functional ultrasound imaging across species and brain states" with 5 amazing speakers: @mace-lab.bsky.social, @agnesland.bsky.social, Yves boubenec, Thomas Orset and Sadaf Soloukey.

A new standard in brain care? Erasmus MC monitors brain activity while walking using ultra-fast ultrasound and PEEK. “This is an absolute breakthrough,” says Dr. Sadaf Soloukey. #brainhealth #ultrasound #healthcare #research #digitalhealth

Real-time brain monitoring with ultra-fast ultrasound | ICT&health Global

An innovative ultrasound device from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands makes it possible to monitor brain activity in real time, even while a patient is walking.

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New paper in iScience! A subset of #VLPO neurons shows spontaneous #rhythmic #bursting. Huge thanks to Q. Perrenoud, J. Ribot, H. Geoffroy, T. Gallopin, N. Rouach 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #sleep #neuroscience @cirbcdf.bsky.social @pslqlife.bsky.social @espciparispsl.bsky.social

We are delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop of @animalinvention.bsky.social on Agency between Biology and Philosophy. It will take place at UCL and online on 22-23 September. All info and registration details can be found here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

Our labs first paper! Some 😳 surprising effects. Turns out everything comes back to context 🤓

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ventral tegmental area acetylcholine generates appetitive and aversive incentive motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737546v1

Registration is now open for the Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference & Workshop 2026! Neuromodulation of Neuronal Circuits: From Behavior to Computation Paris Brain Institute 16–17 September 2026 Registration is free (but required): www.paris-circuits.eu

Paris Circuit Dynamics

This conference will bring together leading experts to discuss how neuromodulatory systems shape neuronal circuit dynamics, behavior, and computation. The program will focus on how neuromodulators suc...

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Great piece by Théophile Robert-Rimsky: “Avian Everyday Activism: Invasion, Presence, Occupation.” Sharp and entertaining take on how birds and humans share space. Read it here (full open-access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A very interesting article by Théophile Robert-Rimsky on human-bird relations: "Avian everyday activism: Invasion, presence, occupation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Science really takes a village. Thrilled to share this with my friend @dudinlab.bsky.social, and with our brilliant and fearless teams, our collaborators around the world and our mentors - in my case a special shoutout to Buzz Baum, Jan Ellenberg and @monicabettencourt.bsky.social. 1/2

EMBO@embo.org · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Signed! One of the most important ways to make science more inclusive, IMO.

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS@fens.org · 3mo ago

🧠 Statement from @network-alba.bsky.social! 🌍 The ALBA Network is deeply concerned with growing visa barriers and calls on the global community to take action and ensure a fair and inclusive system that strengthens global neuroscience. ✍️ buff.ly/fHP50G1 👉 Sign: buff.ly/G2NeO9X

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

Interview with @braininspired.bsky.social for my book "The Brain, In Theory": www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zE...

BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory

YouTube video by Brain Inspired

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How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Want to explore connectivity & projection patterns yourself, like we do here? We released brain_street_view to let you pick any injection site in the Allen Connectivity Atlas and visualize where it projects in your favorite region of interest: github.com/Julie-Fabre/brain_street_view

Julie Fabre@juliefabre.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How do the basal ganglia turn what you see into what you do? New preprint w/ @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @flickerfusion.bsky.social & @carandinilab.net: we recorded across striatum, GPe & SNr in a Go/NoGo task. Striatum encodes which stimulus, GPe & SNr encode action. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

⚠️ Postdoc Opportunity in System Neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute ⚠️ Feel passionate about neuroscience and sleep 🧠? Want to learn cutting-edge techniques 🔬 to answer exciting basic science questions? Want to work in a multidisciplinary environment at the heart of Paris 🏨? Come join us !

New paper in Nature, @nature.com (go.nature.com/4c4OjCj) : how do social roles emerge in groups of near-identical individuals ? we find that they are neither predetermined nor fixed.

Dopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization - Nature

Longitudinal tracking of mice reveals that stable, specialized social roles emerge spontaneously within groups during a foraging task, with dopaminergic activity in the ventral tegmental area driving ...

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Join us in Paris Sleep Day, 19th of May, a free one-day symposium dedicated to connect early-career researchers working on sleep in Paris and build a long-term local support network. Registration and submission details are available here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Hope to see you there! ✨

Merci a Sarah-Lou Lepers du podcast Tangram de @psl-univ.bsky.social d'etre venue nous interroger au @mnhn.fr avec @anthony-herrel.bsky.social pour parler de respiration et du sommeil des reptiles🦎 !! Lien vers l'episode: podcast.ausha.co/tangram/ce-q...

Ce que la respiration révèle de nous | Tangram | Ausha

Respirer, c’est automatique. Mais si le souffle permettait de comprendre le cerveau, la santé… et même d'apprécier l’art ? Dans cet épisode de Tangram, la respiration devient un terrain d’exploration ...

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