Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠
Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...
🚨 preprint alert!
Check out our revised manuscript out on bioRxiv, where we strengthen the link between D1-dependent dopamine signaling in the anterior insular cortex and the control of anxiety.
@anna-beyeler.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Daniel Huber, Université de Genève, will present a talk on "Cortical circuits involved in voluntary action". Abstract: "We will present how he uses closed-loop optical brain–machine interfaces combined with single-cell optogenetic manipulations to interrogate the cortical circuits underlying goal-directed action. Using two-photon population recordings, we find that cortical activity preferentially encodes behavioral goals rather than detailed kinematic parameters, and that this representation is strongly driven by thalamic input. Together, these findings suggest that cortical activity primarily serves to guide action direction and intent, rather than to issue direct motor commands."
▶️ Daniel Huber from Université de Genève is one of 5 keynote speaker at NeuroControl2026!
▶️ Join us at NeuroPSI for NeuroControl 2026, the conference on the physiology and engineering of limb and prosthesis closed-loop control! Register and submit your abstract: neurocontrol.sciencesconf.org
New paper alert! 🚨
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻
Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.
See below for + details and retweet 🙏
New operant chambers installed at IIT!
A big thank you to the Tonini team — as always, we really enjoyed working with you.
Setup includes IR sensors, sipper & lickometer, auditory stimuli, repositionable grid, IR camera, Python protocols, and multi-cage configurations.
📩 Contact: info@aquineuro.eu
📣 PhD position in computational & systems neuroscience (Marseille, France).
⏰ Deadline 28 Jan.
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on neuromodulatory control of predictive processing in mouse vision, jointly supervised by @ederancz.bsky.social (INMED) and @laurentperrinet.bsky.social (INT).
Join the development of the mouse forelimb prosthesis as a post-doc, apply!
Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌
Dear colleagues, partners, and friends,
The entire Aquineuro team sends you its best wishes for the New Year. We wish you a year filled with happiness, fulfillment, and success, both on a personal and professional level.
Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead.
We invite applications for postdoctoral researchers with strong expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and circuit neuroscience to join our team at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
A Post-Doc position is open in the @touchmovelab.bsky.social of the institute. Learn more and apply 🔽🔽🔽
We have a Post-Doc position in the team. Learn more and apply 🔽🔽🔽
Congratulations to the team! Always nice to see a project go over the finish line. Time to celebrate! 🥂
Looking forward to going to cool talks at the NeuralNet GDR today, tomorrow, and Friday! See you all there!
neuralnet2025.sciencesconf.org
👩🎓 Sambre Mach will defend her PhD entitled "Local control of cerebellar noradrenaline and dopamine release by Bergmann glia and Purkinje cells", directed by Glenn Dallérac and Micaela Galante.
📅 You are welcome Tuesday, the 2nd of December 2025. Salle Albe-Fessard, NeuroPSI!
Our lab digs into how serotonin tunes prediction errors and eye movements — with custom tools and curious mice.We got 2 posters at #SfN2025, Tue AM (C5) and Wed PM (R16).
Recruiting PhD students & postdocs in sunny Marseille.
Come chat about neuromodulators, tinkering, or free will and intuition.
Today, during the first meeting of the psychoneuroimmunology society held in Granada, our PhD student Irene Ferreres will be presenting our latest findings on the impact of adolescent stress on kynurenine metabolism in microglia and astrocytes.
📍 Poster 20 | 🕚 11:00–13:00
Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...
Choose France for Science!
Moved my lab to France 4 years ago — one of my best decisions.
Good life ✅
Strong talent pool ✅
Decent funding ✅
Byzantine bureaucracy ✅ (not much worse than UK/US, often better than Southern/Eastern EU)
Check out the call & reach out if interested
tinyurl.com/5n6u49uv
We got the cover 🎉🎉 🎉 ! Beautiful artwork from the talented Carole Marchese, PhD student in my lab.
Neuropixels Ultra!
By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interested in circuit neuroscience, computational modeling and neuronal signal processing? Apply here ☺️!!
app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/...
Beaucoup de champignons parasites sont à la fois Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde
La biologiste Audrey Dussutour alerte sur la menace fongique mondiale, mal prise en compte, aggravée par le commerce international et le réchauffement climatique
You still have some time to apply!
don't miss this opportunity
Congratulations Agnès, Célian and Yves!
Happy to see my last PhD paper (finally!) out 🥳
Cross-species ferret vs. human, fUSI vs fMRI, round 2!
Is the human cortical hierarchical gradient in background invariance also found in ferrets? Yes!
Are they supported by the same mechanisms? No!
Find out more: 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/106...
So cool! Congrats Jérôme, Julie et al.
Color-coded mean firing rate maps of place fields detected in the forth trials (left, sorted by the location of place fields peak) and back trials (right, sorted according to firing order in the forth trials) of all bidirectional cells recorded in the track with objects (top) or without objects (bottom). The color represents the intensity of the mean firing rate in a given bin normalized to the maximum mean firing rate (peak rate) in each direction. Note that in the CP condition, the mean firing map in one direction is the mirror image of the mean firing map in the other direction, indicating strong distance coding.
Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding.
shorturl.at/63yFo
