🧠 CNC Scientific Seminar
📆 April 24 | 12:30 PM
👉 Dr. Alfonso Araque
🎙️ “Tripartite synapses: astrocyte regulation of synaptic function, network activity and animal behavior”
⚡️ Host: Fernando de Castro
📍 CNC, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

A cow behind some buildings overlooking a lake - top banner says "I2KxBINA 2026 Community Congress", while bottom banner says "Cultivating the Multiscale Imaging Frontier"

Want to present a poster, talk, or workshop at this year's Images 2 Knowledge (I2K) meeting - Sep 27 - October 2nd in Madison, WI? Please fill out the form by Thursday - we really want to highlight your contributions! airtable.com/appPes56Tahc...

Laura López-Mascaraque, neurocientífica: “He visto a una mujer con alzhéimer gritar y llorar de alegría por un olor” En su nuevo libro, ‘El fascinante universo del olfato', la investigadora del CSIC nos revela el mundo secreto del sentido que más influye en nuestras emociones y que menos conocemos

ENTREVISTA | Laura López-Mascaraque, neurocientífica: “He visto a una mujer con alzhéimer gritar y llorar de alegría por un olor” www.eldiario.es/128_c84b16?u...

Image of a calcium calibration curve, calcium concentration traces of individual cells and lifetime images of cells

📣 New preprint alert! Co-authored by @spalaciosm.bsky.social and @andreacaldarola.bsky.social :
Quantitative imaging of calcium dynamics with a green fluorescent biosensor and fluorescence lifetime imaging
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today @bethcimini.bsky.social and @damiandn.bsky.social lectured on image correction and colocalization. Key take-home: The computer can’t do magic; if you don’t collect photons at the microscope you can’t make them appear later.

Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - FocalPlane Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - GloBIAS - updates from the community

Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano reporting the Hackthon@GloBIAS conference Kobe 2025: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/01/h...

Data-Driven AI for Neuroscience Organizers Carsen Stringer, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Srini Turaga, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Atika Syeda, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus Fabian Sinz, University of Göttingen Alice Wang,

📢 Applications are open! This meeting brings together scientists using data-driven #AI to analyze + model neural circuits and uncover how the brain performs complex computations. 🧠

Apply by May 28 ➡️ janelia.news/NAI26

@computingnature.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @srinituraga.bsky.social

🔬 Registration is open for our pilot Introduction to napari Workshop!

napari is a powerful open-source image viewer for scientific data analysis in Python. This hands-on workshop will get you exploring multi-dimensional datasets fast.

#napari #Python #ImageAnalysis #DataScience #OpenSource

Drawing of the "Aeon" project, an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales.

Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain?

We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals.

More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a

Want to help build the future of neuroscience? Let's come and work together!

🧠 Scientific Seminar at Cajal Neuroscience Center
📆 Feb 13 | 12:30 PM
👉 Dr. Víctor Borrell (@neuroalc.bsky.social)
🎙️ “Evolutionary convergence and divergence of cortical neurogenesis”
⚡️ Host: Sergio Gascón
📍 CNC, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
#Seminar #Neurogenesis

1/ 🚀🧪🤖 Big update for #Omega — the LLM-powered autonomous agent for bioimage analysis in @napari.org ! Custom LLM endpoints, layer actions, plugin extensibility, agentic widget maker, modernized UI, & 30+ fixes. Here's what's new in version *2026.2.8.2*:

A new preprint introduces aDISCO, a DISCO-based clearing approach that makes whole archival FFPE human tissues transparent and antibody-compatible, enabling true 3D light-sheet histology across brain & multiple organs at cellular resolution. Aguzzi & Helmchen teams.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥

Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

🌍 We’re hiring! International Projects Officer
📍 Cajal Neuroscience Center (CSIC) | 2.5-year contract
⏰ Application deadline: 27 February
More info: shorturl.at/fjtYF
#JobOpening #Neuroscience #ResearchCareers #EUProjects #CSIC

🎉 Say hello to Mario Martín-Fernández, the newest member of #CNC!
He’s exploring how astrocytes help the brain encode information and guide adaptive behavior.
🔬His website: astroneuronal.com
Welcome to the team, Mario!
#Neuroscience #AstroCode

Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.

Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.

Fast & Fair peer review. A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.

To accelerate the publication process, @biologyopen.bsky.social are testing an initiative that prioritises fast but fair peer review. This approach pays reviewers while requiring them to complete high-quality reviews in a set timeframe. Apply to be a reviewer www.biologists.com/bio-fast-and...

Best two minutes of your day.

Trust me.

I was invited by @focalplane.bsky.social to write a short description about it:

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/a...

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you.

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

Wait, Mastodon wasn't published yet???????? @jytinevez.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social

Liset Menéndez de la Prida, neurocientífica: “No es normal buscar el placer permanentemente; es importante aburrirse, estar tranquilo” La investigadora publica ‘Cerebro, espacio y tiempo’, un libro donde desentraña los entresijos de ese GPS neuronal ancestral que nos permite ubicarnos en el aquí y el ahora, evocar recuerdos o poblar ...

📰Entrevista a Liset Menéndez de la Prida @lmprida.bsky.social @institutocajal.bsky.social

🖊️ @cinzasnopeto.bsky.social

elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

🎄✨ #CajalXmasMeeting2025 is coming!
🧠 Top international speakers: Hannah Monyer, Magdalena Skipper & Giovanni Marsicano
💡 Science, networking & inspiration!
CHECK OUT THE FULL PROGRAM! 👉 shorturl.at/hRZJM
With the support of @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Toward better 2D - 3D registration in BigWarp BigWarp has so far focused on 2D-2D or 3D-3D registration, and not on 2D-3D registration. After a conversation with @Christian_Tischer , we thought some simple UI changes could make the support for 2...

Do you have 2D-to-3D image registration challenges? Let me know about them here
forum.image.sc/t/toward-bet...

The Cajal Neuroscience Center announces the newly approved #ScientificAdvisoryBoard, established by #CSIC.
We welcome its members and appreciate their support to our scientific strategy.
SAB: O. Marín, A. Lüthi, M. Bartos, M. Heneka, M. Sánchez-Vives, S. Pasca, M. Á. Moro.

We are moving neuroscience forward with the support of our outstanding SAB. @marinlab.bsky.social @mbartos.bsky.social @sergiuppasca.bsky.social Luthi, Heneka, Sanchez-Vives & Moro

Looks like someone is misusing GloBIAS and its president name to approach people for money transfers. Please note - GloBIAS will always send proper payment requests and has no need for members and volunteers to transfer money on their behalf.

For #3DThursday we’re introducing Dynamic Depth color mapping! It encodes distance with smooth depth-aware gradients so layered structures pop without losing context.

🔬 #MicroCT of a P1 mouse
🥼 Hsu Lab, Baylor, @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🎬 syGlass.io

#Microscopy #SciComm #3DVisualization #syGlass

Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation.

It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.