Nice work!

Looks like another great one !! Congrats Caroline and team! Looking forward to giving it a read!

Excited to share the latest one from the lab led by José Solano @jolusolo.bsky.social who explored how early life #stress impacts the mouse 🐭 brain 🧠 vasculature
Science 🧪🔬 can be surprising & 2x stress can induce beneficial adaptations leading to resilience, phew!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Trainees attending @canacn.bsky.social 2026 Meeting - @franklandlab.bsky.social and I are co-hosting the Circuits & Behaviour satellite and seeking 4 trainee speakers (one of whom will receive a $500 "Best Talk" prize). Register by next Friday for consideration:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

Group photo left to right - Derek Bowie, Ciaran Murphy-Royal, Shannon Miedema, Jarrad Perron, Tamara Franklin

Great to discuss the importance of sustained funding for research including neuroscience with MP Shannon Miedema

Part of @can-acn.bsky.social Hill day with @labfranklin.bsky.social, Derek Bowie & Jarrad Perron

1/ Excited & proud to share the results of an exceptional collaboration with @ejrideout.bsky.social led by R. Manceau & D. Majeur @crchum.bsky.social & @umontreal-en.bsky.social, demonstrating the conserved role of lipid droplet function in hunger-activated neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

UK Glia 2026 UK Glia 2026 meeting will highlight the pivotal role of glia in brain physiology, offering invaluable insights for those investigating glia function in both health and disease. Find out more about the...

This meeting looks like its going to be bigger and better than 2024.

Come to Bristol in June for the chance to mingle with the glia glitterati of the United Kingdom

#neuroscience #glia #science #events #conference #networking

www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl...

Missed the symposium deadline over Easter? Good news! The Call for Symposia for GLIA 2027 has been extended by 12 days. New deadline: 20 April 2026. Submit Symposia, Trainee, or Technical proposals: https://www.glia-meeting.eu/2027/call-for-symposia/

Taking a closer look at astrocytes and autism These glial cells are increasingly linked to neurodevelopmental conditions and the regulation of social behaviors and anxiety.

@thetransmitter.bsky.social is doing a lot of the heavy lifting these days, bringing attention to how astrocytes shape behaviour. Here's a nice list of their recent reports -

My last paper from my postdoctoral fellowship at the Bergles lab is finally out!
Check it out here:
lnkd.in/dNzhjhim

Students should read primary literature, not AI summaries Trainees need to learn how to identify and understand a neuroscience paper’s major takeaways without outsourcing the work to large language models.

Trainees need to learn how to identify a paper’s major takeaways and integrate them into their understanding. In her essay, @norabradford.bsky.social argues that this skill doesn’t come from outsourcing the work to large language models.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"

Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

CIHR Project Grant Cycle Restructuring Dear colleagues, Below you will find a draft letter regarding the proposed transition to a single annual CIHR Project Grant competition, and to invite you to sign on if you are in agreement with its c...

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you Carla!

Thanks Tabrez

Cheers Mark!

Thanks Derya!

Thank you Aaron!

Thanks Naguib!

Dans le cerveau, les astrocytes sont des chefs d’orchestre de la peur Dans une étude récente publiée dans Neuron, Ciaran Murphy-Royal, chercheur au Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), et son équipe montrent que l'activité des ...

Longtemps considérés comme de simples cellules de soutien, les astrocytes se révèlent aujourd’hui comme de véritables chefs d’orchestre de l’activité cérébrale. Ciaran Murphy-Royal et son équipe mettent en lumière leur rôle central dans la modulation des circuits neuronaux impliqués dans la peur.

Thanks Caroline!

Merci Baptiste!

Thanks Nathan

Thanks Zoe!!

Astrocytes in mouse amygdala encode emotional state The glial cells’ activity reliably tracks with freezing, hesitancy and other behaviors reminiscent of anxiety.

“Based on astrocytic activity alone, you can tell whether a mouse is in its comfort zone,” a new study suggests.

By Holly Barker

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ast...

Quick drink to celebrate with most of the lab !

Thanks Cate!

Cheers Jibran!

Thank you!