Ann Clemens

stoked to have arrived at the beautiful @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for a few days of intense discussion on the neuroscience 🧠 of animal societies 🐘🐀🦇 with some of my favourite colleagues. very much looking forward to this

In line with many good news these days 🌟 I’m happy to share that I’ve accepted the professorship in Neuronal Circuits for Social Behaviour and Learning at @meduniwien.ac.at! 🎉

Functional gradients facilitate tactile sensing in elephant whiskers Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the animal’...

So great! Mechanical engineers study the physics of elephant whiskers. Unlike mice, elephants don’t whisk. The physics of their whiskers suggests they amplify touch.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're hiring! This is a unique opportunity to translate our understanding of neural computation - from circuit-level mechanisms to computational principles - into the human brain, through the establishment of cutting-edge human neural recording capabilities with collaborators in London and abroad.

We’re hiring a Group Leader!

Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience.

Find out more and apply ⤵️

www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/curr...

3 days left to apply! ✍️

Solid endorsement, thx 🙏

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan

1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2
2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts

apply ✍️

@ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

@annmclemens.bsky.social (and her artwork) is about as far you can get from AI slop.

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan

1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2
2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts

apply ✍️

@ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...

New review out! 🔥🧊
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1

excited to embark on a new era @nsb-mbl.bsky.social w directors Lauren O'Connell (Stanford) + Bruce Carlson (WashU), new 6-week format for graduate students, postdocs & investigators. learn state-of-the-art methods & approach towards neural systems of behavior. deadline Feb 2. tinyurl.com/57476k4v

Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#blueprint 1/7

Most Nature papers are published in Current Biology

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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congrats!! 🪅

merci Bordeaux for a great week of science, beautiful weather, food and some 🍷

Happy to share that my ebike made it to 9000 km, and late to share, but I made tenure 🎉 thanks to everyone that helped me along the way, especially the trainees that made the journey fun and my bike for getting me to the lab everyday 🚲 looking forward to all the great science that is yet to come 🔬👩‍🔬

congratulations @flor-bela.bsky.social very happy to hear this news! you must feel relieved

Scottish Neuroscience Initiative Takes Basic Science From Lab to Clinic The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain aims to discover biological mechanisms underlying autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders and to use that information to deliver therapeutic…

Meet the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain: a center devoted to deconstructing the secrets of neurodevelopmental disorders and the developing brain. Read more: annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2024/scottis... #science #neuroscience

Good news! Brian Knutson contributed a truly special article to our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents:

How we stumbled upon the rat play vocalizations: A recollection

A true tale of scientific serendipity!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

👏 great work team
@flor-bela.bsky.social
@hughtakemoto.bsky.social
@kinshiplab.bsky.social

Scotland 9pm ☀️

it was great working with you all!

settling back into Edinburgh after a great USA trip for the 2025 somatosensory rat module with another outstanding group of students, faculty, course managers & directors @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social & bonus visit to the Dulac lab @dulaclab.bsky.social

Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrai…

Advances in #MachineLearning, #Genetics and more can revolutionize neuroethology. Learn more at India | EMBO Lecture Course "Neuroethology: How the brain controls natural behaviours" in Pune, IN, 7–11 Dec

Deadline: 31 Jul

meetings.embo.org/event/25-neu...
#EMBOneuroethology #GeneSky #EMBOevents 🧪

thanks! here with the 🐙 again this year ?

Hello Eel Pond, looking forward to another great summer @nsb-mbl.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social 🐙🔬

congrats to our undergraduate, Isabel for winning outstanding poster prize at the @embo.org unconventional vertebrate models conference, debuting her 1st class thesis work on social behaviour of the Spiny mouse @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🤩👏

The Neural Systems & Behavior Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory is going to be looking for a co-director. If you're a faculty member who is interested in helping to organize and run this incredible course, submit a brief statement and your CV at this website. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Congrats Neven and @jkohl.bsky.social !