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Apply by May 7 for two early-career #neuro workshops at Janelia! Featuring joint sessions to foster collaboration between theory & experiment. 🧠 🤝

Theoretical Neuroscience→ janelia.news/THE26

Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience→ janelia.news/CNW26

@ratecoding.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social

Build hands-on skills in optical & electrophysiological methods at the TENSS 2026 course & advance your skills in modern systems #neuroscience
🔗 Apply by 1 Mar: https://ibro.org/training-opportunity/perc4_romania/

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope #training

Thinking about applying? Start here. Academy info Sessions: Wed 21 Jan 1am & 1pm UTC and Wed 28 Jan 8am & 8 pm UTC

Don’t miss this opportunity to get ready for #NeuromatchAcademy applications opening in February!

🤓 Register for the Info Sessions here: neuromatch.io/neuromatch-a...

#ComputationalNeuroscience #STEMEducation #GlobalLearning #SummerSchool #VirtualSummerSchool #NeuroAI #CompNero

Applications are open!

📅 Deadline to apply: Feb 13th 2026
📍 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
👥 Course Directors: Ann Kennedy, Daniel McNamee and Giorgio Gilestro

🔗 Apply now: https://form.jotform.com/Cajal_training/qabvr2026-application

#cajal #science #neuroscience

-AND Dynamic Brain
alleninstitute.org/events/
-MBL mbl.edu/education/
-Paris Spring School parisneuro.ovh/
-Cajal cajal-training.org/courses/
-TENSS tenss.ro/index.php
-TBNS nenckiopenlab.org/tbns2025/
-CSHL meetings.cshl.edu/courses
-More courses: thetransmitter.org/courses/

Timeline of application deadlines for hands on couses in behavioral neuroscience.

We’re excited to team up once again with advanced training courses to help students with hands-on training about open source tools and methods for behavioral neuroscience.

Don’t forget to apply! Links below.
#OpenEphys #OEdu

Adam was a visionary, a great supporter of Open Ephys and its mission, and most importantly a dear friend and colleague and we will miss him deeply. Your support helps keep his vision alive.

This community honors Adam Kampff’s vision that great, innovative science comes from mastering the tools you use—not just clicking buttons or trusting black boxes. The foundation is dedicated to developing open, low-cost training courses that teach real technical skills to scientists worldwide.

Donate to In Memory of Adam: His Legacy of Education for Everyone, organized by Elena Dreosti Adam’s greatest loves were his ideas, his work, and our two chil… Elena Dreosti needs your support for In Memory of Adam: His Legacy of Education for Everyone

Hi everyone, we would like to invite you to follow @noblackboxes.bsky.social and share with anyone who believes that explaining and understanding technology is essential for scientists. You can also donate to support the No Black Boxes foundation.

This community honors [Adam Kampff](www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...)’s vision that great, innovative science comes from truly understanding the technology you use — not just clicking buttons, running pipelines built by others, or trusting black-box equipment and kits.

FED Wire-free pellet-dispensing device — Open Ephys FED is a home-cage pellet-dispensing device for training mice on operant tasks. Includes 16GB of internal memory, runs for 7 days, and doesn't need wires.

FED3.2 is out! We’ve upgraded this popular home-cage operant training device.
What’s new?

🪨 Corrosion-resistant titanium mouthpiece
⚡ USB-C for charging & programming
🔋 4× faster charging & better battery management
🌡 I2C connector for temp & humidity sensors

Check out the source, docs and store!

Home — Channel Maps Here you can find the specifications and channel mapping for all the headstages, adapters and EIBs produced by Open Ephys that are available through the Open Ephys Store.

Tired of looking at obscure headstage pinouts to figure out which channel is which? 😵

We’ve launched the 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 to save you time! ⏱️ Now you can easily picture the channel maps of all headstages and connections to compatible adapters and EIBs designed by us.

#OpenEphys

Ophelia watching you walk past our booth without visiting 😢

Only 1 day left at #SfN25 🕓 If you haven't swung by booth 3332 yet, now's your chance. Don’t let Ophelia down, she wants to show you her neuro tools 🔬

#OpenEphys

Open Ephys team at SfN 2025

We’re ready to meet you all at #SfN25 😃 Come demo our tools, ask questions, or just geek out about your research 🤓

Open source means open doors, so let’s connect at booth 3332 🙌

#OpenEphys

Ophelia's warming up for SfN! 🐭 The secret to her tangle-free moves? You'll have to visit us to find out! 💃

Come meet Ophelia at booth 3332 and interact with our product demos at #SfN25

#OpenEphys

Open Ephys | LinkedIn Open Ephys | 241 followers on LinkedIn. Open-source Tools, Support, Training, and Custom Design | Open Ephys is an employee-owned cooperative based in Atlanta, Georgia, with team members distributed a...

Hey Bluesky! Just letting you know we’re now on LinkedIn too! 👔

linkedin.com/company/open-ephys-inc

Follow us there for updates, product news, tutorials, and much more. We'll keep both communities in the loop 🔄

#OpenEphys

We’re gearing up for #SfN25! 🎉

Will you be there too? Then add a stop at booth 3332 to your Meeting Planner and come say hi to our team! 👋😃

See our location on the map below to easily plan your visit 📍

See you soon!

#OpenEphys

This spooky season, bring your miniscopes back to life! 🧟‍♂️⚡

Grab a new PCB here bit.ly/MiniscopePCB and replace the electronics on an existing miniscope body by following this ritual bit.ly/assembly-guide 🔮

#OpenEphys #Miniscope #CalciumImaging

This Thursday, @chucklescience.bsky.social will teach multimodal data acquisition, RT processing and closed-loop setups at the @beyondlabneuro.bsky.social naturalistic neuroscience workshop 🌿🧠

Looking forward to discussing ONIX, Bonsai, Harp, and more with the students in Uruguay! 👩‍🏫👥

#OpenEphys

R2 System — Open Ephys The R2 System is an open-source silicon probe implantation system developed by 3D Neuro based on designs from the Buzsáki lab. This system enables probe Recovery and Reuse, maximizing their value.

As part of an open source community, we’re proud to work with @3dneuro.bsky.social to distribute their 𝗥𝟮 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 ⚙️🧠

This metal implantation system lets you 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 & 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀, making ephys recordings more accessible and sustainable 🌱

Source, docs and store below 👇

#OpenEphys

Hey #neuroskyence #compneurosky

I made this interactive tool for showing the phase planes of 2D neuron models to studs!

Have fun :)

github.com/JuliaSNN/Com...

Shanahan Foundation Fellowship The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience was created to provide freedom and flexibility to promising young scientists from diverse fields, as they work alongside ne...

🧠📈 Now accepting applications for the 2026 Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data & Neuroscience!

Apply by December 1 to join the Fall 2026 cohort: alleninstitute.org/shanahan-fou...

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back!

Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó

@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social

🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST
✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence

Torque-free Commutator - Dual Coaxial — Open Ephys SKU: OEPS-7760 The Torque-free Dual Coaxial Commutator enables tangle-free connection between a stationary data acquisition device and two headstages on a freely-moving animal. It is compatible with any two ONIX headstages or Miniscope V4. Torque-free active commutation is driven by interfacing wi

Are you using two 𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗫 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀, or both at once in a single experiment?

The 𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 is now available in our store! 🎉

It provides a tangle free connection between the acquisition device and 2️⃣ headstages on 1️⃣ animal with 0️⃣ torque 🤓

#OpenEphys

pyPhotometry V2 — Open Ephys SKU: OEPS-8011 pyPhotometry is an open source system for fiber photometry data acquisition . Version 2 includes: 2x Analog inputs for photometry signals. The system supports time-division mul...

pyPhotometry v2 is now in our store! 🚀

⚡Output current of the 2 onboard LED drivers increased to 300 mA
🔦🔦 2 alternative LED digital output channels to trigger external optical hardware that have integrated LED drivers
🔌Additional connections to the pyBoard for expansion

#OpenEphys #pyPhotometry

World Wide Series | Open Neuroscience - 25/06/2021 - Jakob Voigts YouTube video by Openeuroscience

👀Recording of the webinar on Open Ephys @open-ephys.org, #open-source tools for systems #neuroscience.
💡Their ultimate goal is to create a system optimized for tetrodes and optogenetics where users can record and analyse data in real-time.
👨‍🔬With Jakob Voigts
www.youtube.com/live/DmK2Cts...

Aeon: an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales Ethological behaviours are a powerful tool for neuroscience since they leverage the robust neural computations shaped by the species' evolution to study the neural basis of high-level cognitive functi...

New from @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, @gatsbyucl.bsky.social, NeuroGEARS & DataJoint:

Aeon - an open-source platform combining long-term neural recording with naturalistic behavioural tracking in enriched habitats.

📑 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Aeon enables:

– Continuous Neuropixels recordings
– Behavioural tracking
– Modular, scalable design
– Multi-modal data pipelines
– Open-source hardware/software

A new tool for neuroscience → aeon.swc.ucl.ac.uk

While some head into relaxation, other brave neuroscientists are diving into learning instead! 🏖️🏔️🧠

We’ll be teaching Miniscopes at the CSHL Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System Course 🗽 and about open tool integration in the Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience School 🧉

#CSHL #TBNS

It was a pleasure to see everyone recently in the European Social Club and European Brain and Behavior Society Meetings. This one was particularly special for Ophelia 🐭

Thanks to the organizers and those who stopped by to discuss our tools 😃

Have a nice and well-deserved vacation! 😎

#OpenEphys