Applications are open for the 2026 Paris Spring School of Imaging and Electrophysiology! It’s a great way to discover Paris (❤️) while learning a pretty wide range of techniques for neuroscience, in a fantastic environment. Share widely: parisneuro.ovh

Le prisme de la technologie est de la rentabilité est pratique pour la communication, mais il faut rappeler haut et fort l’importance du savoir, et de la culture! Les humanités, l’art, la recherche scientifique sans but d’application, sont autant de piliers des Universités et de nos sociétés ✊🏻

Humbling reminder of the fact that BOLD =/= spiking

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

apply.interfolio.com/174756

Risk reshapes amygdala representation of choice Modifying behavior in response to changing environmental conditions is a crucial adaptive function. This capacity is exemplified when animals curtail pursuit of a valued outcome that risks being punis...

for anyone interested in the amygdala and risky decision-making, check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

amygdala neurons track reward-seeking actions, and punishment risk dramatically alters this function. lots of other (BLA-accumbens!) data included.

About the 2010s « Psychiatric researchers and scientific leaders became acutely aware of the need to play a scientifically well-grounded long game that avoids the kinds of reductive and overconfident claims that had been made in the past. »

Very insightful as usual from @awaisaftab.bsky.social reviewing Elusive cures.
👇One sentence I wish applied to research in 2025 🇫🇷 where 10s of M€ are still being thrown out in dead-end reductionism in a promise to solve things while following the same path.

PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A subset of dorsal raphe dopamine neurons is critical for survival-oriented vigilance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....

This!... + perhaps the financial illness goes beyond bullshit jobs & tasks, to encompass the for-profit obsession of public institutions and the idea that we must prepare students for the private market.
We are failing ourselves so badly by losing focus of our core missions

As far as I can see, a small group of colleagues psychiatrists/scientists have themselves pushed inflammatory reductionism (fantasy)… not some Instagram guru