Come join us to build great open source tools for neuroscience!
Happy to answer any questions. If ephys and behaviour isn't your thing, we will have some imaging focussed RSE jobs soon!
Do you want to learn essential GIBA concepts and techniques?
We're hosting three mornings of expert-led sessions on gut, immune and brain research, from 23-26 March 📢🌟
🆓 Open to all across the GIBA Network
📅 Register by 13 March!
🔗 giba-uk.org/events/the-g...
New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Are you an undergrad student or know an undergrad who would thrive from a vacation lab project? 🔬
Get up to £3000 financial support for a student undertaking a vacation laboratory project.
Deadline 27 February 2026
Apply: www.neuroendo.org.uk...
20 posts available for non-clinical
Assistant Profs at Imperial
College London. Come work at @imppsych.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social. Collaborate in fields of eating & addictive behaviours, neuroimaging, gut-brain, emotional regulation etc. Deadline 11/3/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK133/a...
GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide 1) protects the mouse heart after ischaemia by activating ATP-sensitive K+ channels on pericytes that constrict coronary capillaries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔬 New insights from gut-immune-brain research 🌟
A study with our network's @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social uncovers a "hidden” gut bacterial group found in higher levels in healthy people.
Could this be key to microbiome health and future probiotic innovation? 🌍🦠
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨
#UCL200 #LoveUCL
Starting on 9 Feb - BBC Radio 4's The Hunger Game is a 5 part series presented by Prof @gilesyeo.bsky.social from the @ims-mrl.bsky.social, exploring the GLP-1 weight loss drug revolution - their development, the latest research and the marketing strategy behind them.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
We're still running this survey w/the Center for MINDS investigating factors that produce tangible creative insights from psychedelics. We unfortunately received >10k responses from bots, so we're no longer providing payment, but your responses will help science!
tiny.cc/Psychedelics...
Some additional clarity (not remotely reassuring) regarding the omnishambolic attempts at restructuring at UKRI...
The pause of response mode funding will have a huge impact on ECRs who are not yet fellowship ready.When researchers leave academia they rarely return. Clarity on when RM will reopen is urgently needed & transitions to the new model need to avoid investment gaps that disproportionally affect ECRs
We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.
New research has revealed how Parkinson’s spreads from the gut to the brain, with the help of immune cells – offering a new potential therapeutic strategy – in a study in mice co-led by Dr @soyonhonglab.bsky.social & Dr Tim Bartels @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
GRANT EXTENSION!
BSN's #ICN2026 travel grant deadline has been extended to 10 February 2026.
Attend the congress in Japan with our travel grant covering:
💷 Registration fee
💷 Abstract submission fee
💷 Up to £1k for travel
Apply by 10 Feb: www.neuroendo.org.uk...
Dear peers:
PLEASE add housing conditions of your animals to the methods. It MATTERS if you house 2 or 5 mice in a cage, if they smell other mice (sex), if it is cold or warm in the room, if you house and breed your WT and KO models together etc.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Turns out that if you use a broom to scratch yourself everyone thinks you're a weirdo but if a cow does it they end up in the cover of Current Biology
Shift the govt wants at UKRI - and its new CEO wants - already in evidence as it pauses some funding calls.
UKRI says it is in a "period of transition" after spending review, as it aligns more funding to "national priorities" and economic growth.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Found an interesting conference abroad you’d love to attend but aren’t sure how to finance?
Get up to £1000 towards your travel costs with our International Conference Travel Grant.
Deadline 30.1.26
More info & how to apply: www.neuroendo.org.uk...
Shifting winds in the food sector in response to wide-spread use of weight-loss drugs #obesityisnotachoice www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We are looking for an excellent #ECR to join our academic team as Lecturer / Assistant Prof.
Multimodal imaging, neurostimulation, and interests linking physiology and cognition are great fits, as are cognitive and affective neuroscience, including in development.
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Exciting times here at UCL!
GLP-1 agonists (eg Ozempic) are showing promise to reduce alcohol drinking and perhaps opioid use. This is, of course, a potential therapeutic success which arises from the random walking of science, not an “efficient” directed research program.
Beautiful paper! Somebody should do it in then viscerosensory brainstem.
What can the Brain Knowledge Platform do for you? 🧠📈
Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.
🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration
Happy New Year folks! 🎉
What are you looking forward to in your neuroendocrine research this year?
💬 Let us know in the comments & we'll share how the BSN can support you in your work.
We need to establish an acceptable proper timeline for the late 20th/early 21st C.
* 'Last year' = 2023-2025
* 'A couple of years ago' = after Lockdown
* 'A few years ago' = between 2004 and Lockdown
* 'About ten years ago' = 1994-2014
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
2026 will bring waves of innovation to GLP-1 medicines from mechanisms to modalities to molecules delivery systems and new indications. #weightloss #obesity A glimpse of the.future here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
