Ana Dorrego Rivas

We need to keep fighting so that future generations of women can be fully free and autonomous, and for a feminism that is as inclusive as possible.

#8M

Because of women like them, I’m lucky to have a high education, a career in science, the privilege of speaking four languages, and a curiosity about the world that I hope to pass down to my two lively nieces.

Today I’m thinking of my two grandmothers, who barely knew how to read and write, and who fought through the misery of post-war Spain to keep their families going.

Today is an important day to keep fighting, but also to acknowledge the women who paved the way for the rest of us, whose opportunities, autonomy, and freedom were unimaginable not that long ago (🧵)

Couldn’t leave Daunt Books at Marylebone without new material 📚

I’ll be giving a talk at the Francis Crick Institute as part of their Neuroscience Interest Group seminar series on the 18th of March. If you’re around, drop by and let’s chat! I’ll be talking about development in the olfactory system and sharing some of the ideas we’ve been exploring recently 🧠

Mind you, I was entirely sure that I had typed ‘London’ in there

I’ll be giving a talk at the Francis Crick Institute as part of their Neuroscience Interest Group seminar series on the 18th of March. If you’re around, drop by and let’s chat! I’ll be talking about development in the olfactory system and sharing some of the ideas we’ve been exploring recently 🧠

How Imprinted Genes Shape Nurturing Behaviours and Neural Circuits Abstract. Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that, in animals, is found only in placental mammals and, to a lesser extent, marsupials. Broadly, differential epigenetic marking of the genom...

New review article from my lab!
🧬🧠🐭

karger.com/bbe/article/...

Really grateful for all the PIs who’ve reached out with advice, offers to chat, and even visits 🙏 It’s genuinely heartwarming to see how supportive this community can be. Thank you!

Come for the ski, stay for the views 🇫🇷🎿

All geared up to ride the French slopes ⛷️🎿

Non–syndromic autism–associated SCN2A variants selectively exert dominant-negative effects on NaV1.2 channels

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Ski trip this week. 2 deadlines approaching.

We have a postdoc position available. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.

Hey, so those viral injections *might* have worked

Magenta: mitral cells 💜
White: nuclei ⚪️

PhD opportunities The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇.

Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).

🤖🧠🧪

www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

You know it’ll be a good patching Sunday because I am wearing the lucky hoodie, designed and made by most talented friend @drnodepret.bsky.social 🧠

New personal record on number of patched cells in a day

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

The Ephys Club is back! 🎉

Next Thursday, 4 PM, small meeting room (CDN at King’s).

Subham Ganguly (Dimitar Kostadinov’s lab): 'Understanding Neuropixels: Do Neuron Ensembles Dream of Electric Spikes?;

In vivo focus, pizza included. Come curious! Bring your spikes & your appetite ⚡🍕

The Ephys Club is back! 🎉

Next Thursday, 4 PM, small meeting room (CDN at King’s).

Subham Ganguly (Dimitar Kostadinov’s lab): 'Understanding Neuropixels: Do Neuron Ensembles Dream of Electric Spikes?;

In vivo focus, pizza included. Come curious! Bring your spikes & your appetite ⚡🍕

From models to molecules: self-organized and instructed modes of developmental patterning www.nature.com/articles/s41... - nice piece by @davidbrueckner.bsky.social

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Thank you! Back pain has entered the room...