Ana Dorrego Rivas

Sometimes one simply needs to succumb to the demands of their reward system

Paper celebrations memorabilia 🍾🥂

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

A found a nice antibody - it needs antigen retrieval

'Impaired AIS plasticity in ankyrin-G mutant mice alters cortical excitability and behavior'

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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Is this a rage bait?

Just finished 'This house of grief' from Helen Garner. Tough read but, 100% worth it #Booksky

Looking to improve your PeerReview skills? The Reviewer Mentor Program pairs trainees with #JNeurosci & #eNeuro editors & top reviewers to conduct strong manuscript reviews. Open to SfN members at any career stage: http://www.jneurosci.org/rmp

Ana Dorrego-rivas | Neuron Cytoskeleton

I’m giving a talk at the Cytoskeleton of Neurons & Glia seminar on Dec 11 (11am EST / 4pm UK)! I’ll chat about polarity in bulb DA neurons and what it means for release + self-inhibition.

Disclaimer: I’ve aged a bit since that pic, but spirit’s the same 😉

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eLife is hands down the best. The new system let us run revision experiments on our own timeline (crucial when working with mice), and the reviewers made the paper better. Highly recommend.

Have different people reading your application, even better if some of them are not in your immediate field of expertise! That helped me lots with mine. Good luck!

Screenshot of the header of a journal article from the European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2025), article 15:71. The article is categorized under “Paper in the Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences” and is titled “Sex as a biological variable and the pursuitworthiness of exploratory inquiry,” authored by Marina DiMarco, with an ORCID icon beside the name.

In her new 📃, Marina DiMarco analyzes the NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) policy in the context of exploratory inquiry & confirmatory experimentation, arguing that it offers important reflections on pursuitworthiness judgments 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPbio #HPS

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Today we have @inchinn.bsky.social in the department! The room is packed for what we’re sure it’ll be an inspiring seminar.

Now what were the chances of finding a picture of my hometown in Spain on the London tube??!!!

Matt’s speaking today at the Crick about human olfactory sensory neurons and showing some nice staining our student Ziyi did in human samples @grubblabneuro.bsky.social

Of course, a fully packed day with experiments made it impossible for me to cross the river and be there in person. Classic.

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...

Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Oh wow! For a split moment I thought that finally Wordle had chosen my starter word...

Wordle 1,620 2/6

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The highly localized interaction between Neurofascin-186 and Gliomedin promotes subcellular innervation by the chandelier cell A variety of cortical inhibitory interneuron (IN) subtypes differentially but coordinately operate in local circuits to process neuronal signals. The subcellular arrangement of IN synaptic outputs con...

The highly localized interaction between Neurofascin-186 and Gliomedin promotes subcellular innervation by the chandelier cell

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Tis the season 🎄

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

A mouse brain atlas based on dendritic microenvironments - Nature Neuroscience The authors developed a mouse brain atlas using local dendritic morphological patterns from 101,136 neurons. This representation not only improves anatomical precision but also uncovers associations b...

A mouse brain atlas based on dendritic microenvironments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Victorian novels are hilarious (from Jane Eyre) #Booksky

Sculpting Neural Circuits by Axon and Dendrite Pruning The assembly of functional neural circuits requires the combined action of progressive and regressive events. Regressive events encompass a variety of inhibitory developmental processes, including axon and dendrite pruning, which facilitate the ...

Sculpting neural circuits by axon and dendrite pruning

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I breeze through Wordle and Connections thinking I’m unstoppable… then soon enough the Guardian crosswords arrive for its daily humbling. Right back on my toes.

GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission Ventral tegmental area neurons projecting to lateral habenula (LHb) corelease the main inhibitory and excitatory transmitters, GABA and glutamate (VTAGG). Yet the functional role of this synchronous s...

GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission

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How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about

How the Avalanche of Academic Papers Threatens Scientific Research, by Vince Bielski
'Editor-in-Chief Anna Stilz at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social led a revolt that culminated in the mass resignation of the journal’s entire editorial staff and board.'
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/202...