Dan Brierley

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Career Development Pathways at the Ear Institute The Ear Institute at University College London (UCL) invites Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships.

UCL Ear Institute's external fellowship sponsorship scheme is open for applications - come and start your research group with us!
Important dates: 28th August: intention to submit.
1st September, 5pm: Application deadline

Further information: lnkd.in/ehmuJp96

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A landmark volume, The Handbook of Dopamine, is now online:
www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...

Big kudos to the editors, Stephanie Cragg and Mark Walton, for putting this together.

Trainees. Trust yet verify. Reagent validation is annoying, tedious, time consuming, expensive, yet essential. Authorship on a flawed paper is not what anyone aspires to. Don’t let flawed reagents mess up your science. Be the wheat, not the chaff #Reproducibility

🔈The four speakers at our Early Career Researcher event on Transitions and Leadership have been announced:

Dan Brierley
Monica Imberon
Su Young Han
David Garcia Galiano

Register for #BSNBradford & join what will be a fantastic discussion and workshop: bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

4th day highlights from #SSIB 2025!

Superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social presenting data from the lab for first time at #SSIB2025 and absolutely smashed it - very proud PI moment!

What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?

It's a bumper-wasp year: here are my top tips on how to dine alongside wasps, without getting stung.

GET INVOLVED! Tell us what wasps want at YOUR picnic: www.sumnerlab.co.uk/wasp-picnic-...

theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

Send us an application if you're interest in a postdoc with us to work on the human neuroscience of brain body interactions and motivated behavior in psychiatric disorders!

This looks super useful and makes some gorgeous figures - great work!

We've been dabbling with an in house pipeline that's very similar and had great results, so this looks like an excellent upgrade - can't wait to start playing with it.

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The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

An online GPCR drug discovery resource - npj Drug Discovery npj Drug Discovery - An online GPCR drug discovery resource

A new online resource of GPCR drugs, clinical trial agents, targets and disease indications www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A functional perspective on astrocyte heterogeneity Astrocytes are glial cells of the central nervous system (CNS) that perform an array of diverse functions that are essential for brain activity. Studies on the functional diversity of astrocytes sugge...

A functional perspective on astrocyte heterogeneity
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs We want to hear from you about the sources of funding for your research.

Neuroscience PIs: Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social understand the funding landscape by filling out this survey.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/quan...

#neuroskyence

Awesome opportunity!

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to Celine Camon, 2025 winner of the Julia Buckingham Award!

Celine will speak at #BSNBradford2025 on DHED, a brain specific 17β2 prodrug, targets the hypothalamus but does not protect against metabolic dysfunction.

Register: bsnbradford2025.oa-e...

More LUXendins - awesome!

Super useful tools, and stunning microscopy as always too.

Congrats Julia, @daveyboyhod.bsky.social and all authors!

Screenshot of the top of the article, including the title, authors, and abstract.

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!

Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.

Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Striatal astrocytes modulate behavioral flexibility and whole-body metabolism in mice - Nature Communications Striatal neural circuits control reward-associated behaviors but the role of astrocytes is still unclear. Here, the authors show that chemogenetic manipulation of striatal astrocyte in mice restore ob...

New publication out
Led by Enrica Montalban, who did a fantastic work, our new paper demonstrate a role for striatal astrocytes in the context of diet-induced obesity in both metabolic and cognitive processes. Thanks to all the collaborators for their work!

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

What's better than lab BBQ? Double BBQ with @drkatiegray.bsky.social lab too! #whenworldscollide

My department is hiring multiple TT positions in biochem or organic chem and materials chem (open rank) and molecular bio (asst/assoc)! Check us out if you are interested in research intensive SLAC life. Chem ad here, bio next in 🧵 1/5
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Double-blind placebo controlled trial (led by UAB faculty Dr. Timothy Garvey) demonstrates >20% weight loss with co-administration of cagrilintide (which targets amylin receptors) with semaglutide (which targets GLP-1 receptors).
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

How cool is this!!

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1/n We introduce the concept of a #body-#brain (dis) #equilibrium regulating transitions from #health to #pathology

@maastrichtu.bsky.social, Sonja Kotz, Anna M. Czepiel
NWO (Dutch Research Council): doi:10.61686/HNUXR80789

Link to article: doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Striatal astrocytes modulate behavioral flexibility and whole-body metabolism in mice - Nature Communications Striatal neural circuits control reward-associated behaviors but the role of astrocytes is still unclear. Here, the authors show that chemogenetic manipulation of striatal astrocyte in mice restore ob...

An unappreciated role for striatal astrocytes as a direct operator of flexible behavior and metabolic control @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reads: “When I began recording the activity of neurons, it seemed like magic: we would shine a stimulus in front of the eyes, and the neurons in the visual cortex would spring to life. It still feels magical, 35 years later.” Professor Matteo Carandini UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

We caught up with Professor @carandinilab.net (@ucleye.bsky.social) to hear what first sparked his interest in visual neuroscience; and what has inspired him most throughout his career.
▶️ www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... #MeetTheExpert

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July

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