We're hiring!
Research Assistant position in our lab @champalimaudf.bsky.social in #Lisbon. Work on #diet - #brain and #microbiome - #metabolism projects using innovative #microscopy, #connectome and #metabolism methods. Start in May. Apply: ribeirolab.org
Deeply honoured to have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award to study how competition is encoded in the brain.
This builds on the discoveries of outstanding past/present lab members.
Grateful to mentors/collaborators/colleagues for their support.
We are recruiting postdocs/PhD students.
Beyond the epistemic criticisms discussed in this article, there are many technical reasons why this demo is trivial and not an "uploaded" or "emulated" fly.
There is an growing field of fly connectome simulation and neuromechanical modeling, which this demo relied on, but it added nothing but hype
Very happy to see this paper come out from Lucas Martins @d-lucas.bsky.social and Alexandre Laborde. They developed an awesome framework, built with .NET, for developing software to run demanding high-speed behavior and functional imaging experiments.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Fluorescent neurons on black background. We're hiring! PhD Student
🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila.
Please spread the word!
www.groschner-lab.org/join
#Neuroscience #PhD
Are you interested in the neuroscience of social and sexual behavior in health and disease? 🧠
We’re offering a fully funded PhD position at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸 (open to non-EU citizens).
📩 Apply now!
New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!
Want to come do a postdoc with us?
We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!
📣 The Brain Prize Course – Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience, from the @cajal-training.bsky.social is now accepting applications!
🗓️ 13 - 31 July 2026
📍 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
⏳ Application Deadline: 27 February 2026
👉 cajal-training.org/on-site/comp...
🧠The NeuroDoWo is coming to Würzburg
The NeuroDoWo is a conference where neuroscience and phd students are brought together!
📍Würzrburg, Germany
🗓️ 8th to 12th June 2026
Stay tuned for speaker announcements, workshops, and registration info
#phdlife #neuroscience #wuerzburg #conference #neurodowo
How does the brain control locomotion? In our new preprint, we uncover a brain circuit in Drosophila that controls forward walking independently of turning. This dedicated locomotor circuit enables flexible motor control and might reflect a shared principle across species. doi.org/10.64898/202...
Thrilled to start 2026 with our latest preprint, in which we dive into a dedicated forward-walking circuit in the fly brain: doi.org/10.64898/202.... This effort was spearheaded by the fantastic @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social with help from a bunch of talented people in the lab.
Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.
📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P!
⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026
Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd...
#neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc
Landing and takeoff sensorimotor pathways illustrated alongside fly drawings showing behavioral responses.
How do animals channel sensory information into motor pathways to generate flexible behavioral output? Excited to share a new preprint addressing this question by leveraging the new #maleCNS connectome, behavioral experiments, and in-vivo recordings: doi.org/10.64898/202.... A long🧵...
Schematic of how ER-EPG plasticity enables the bump of activity in EPGs to accurately track visual cues. As a fly makes a counter-clockwise turn (top to bottom) it will view visual cues (e.g. the sun) from a new angle and the EPG activity bump (red) will swing clockwise around the network by integrating self motion signals with these visual inputs. When the fly faces a different angle, distinct visual ER neurons are active. Plasticity forms a trough of weak synapses (large circles - strong synapses, small circles - weak synapses) that allow ER neurons with distinct visual tuning to move the EPG bump via disinhibition.
*First preprint from our lab* !!!!!
How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭
led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman:
“Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Here’s last night’s story about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, freedom of speech in the U.S., and why certain broadcast groups could learn a thing or two from Love Island. youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g
Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What if #braindisorders 🧠 aren’t broken parts to be fixed 🛠️ but hurricanes to be redirected? 🌪️
Find out in the latest #LeafingThroughScience #podcast🎙️with neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social as we address one of humanity’s biggest challenges.
🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea...
📺: youtu.be/vlW6i-A_Awc
This week’s main story is about Donald Trump’s grudge against higher education, what we stand to lose if he continues to withhold federal funding from universities, and which unexpected celebrity may hold the key to eternal youth. And yes, we have compelling evidence on that last point. You’ll see.
BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynotes & invited speakers 👇
I rarely dive into circuit-mapping papers, but this blockbuster from @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social lab is a doozy! Check it out.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
We're hiring! Two exciting opportunities in our Lab @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Come work with us on decision-making and neural circuits in Drosophila. Please share!
Senior Research Technician + Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: 10 July
More info here: www.rezavallab.org
A picture of the coastline on Crete
Had an absolutely fantastic time at the #Drosophila 🪰 Circuits & Behavior meeting on Crete - heard about so much cool new science, met so many great people, and had so many exciting discussions - and my first conference where “getting stung by jellyfish” was on the bingo card 🪼🫣
🧿 Excited about molecular biology & genetics 🧬🧬🧬? Wanna live in Paris? Join our team as a lab manager under the supervision of @kevinfidelin.bsky.social & myself! Personal development in professional environment is our mission. Inclusive space where proactive and playing collective people flourish 🧿
Brightly labelled pyramidal cells in the mouse retrosplenial cortex. Blood vessels are visible of various thicknesses in darker colours.
#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience!
Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia.
Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !
