Nicolas Guyon

Postdoc job alert at Institut Jacques Monod in Paris! Interested in fundamental membrane trafficking? We seek a postdoc to study collagen secretion as a model for core principles of how cells and their environment build each other. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

"Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class(...)Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex."
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Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.

The fact that Epstein had ties to the scientific community is not news, but the enormous cache of documents released by the DOJ last week was still startling. It showed just how deeply Epstein was involved—how many were in his orbit, and how deeply involved he was with some research.

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A crucial point to keep in mind when considering automation: work is not about production and money, it's about care. Or at least it should be, if we take some distance with managerial brainwashing.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.

Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪

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« L’Europe doit faire face à son passé colonial si elle veut se rapprocher des pays du Sud » Les pays anciennement colonisateurs doivent entendre les revendications mémorielles des pays en développement qui réclament des excuses et des réparations, explique Julien Bouissou dans sa chronique.

« L’Europe doit faire face à son passé colonial si elle veut se rapprocher des pays du Sud »

Journalists should start by questioning public figures who communicated with Epstein after 2008 and ask, "Why would you engage in communication with a convicted child sex offender? Do you think that sexual violence against children is somehow rationalizable if the perpetrator is white and wealthy?"

Geometric principles of dendritic integration of excitation and inhibition in cortical neurons Selective activation of E and I receptors by two-color uncaging defines their geometrical interaction at the subdendritic level.

#Geometric principles of #dendritic integration of excitation and inhibition in #cortical #neurons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Brain Might Not Function Like We Thought It Did The Brain Might Not Function Like We Thought It Did: Complex thought may be organized by connection, not anatomy.

Our recent work on the prefrontal cortex was featured in @nautil.us.

Check out the article here: nautil.us/the-brain-mi...

@pierrelemerre.bsky.social @carlenlab.bsky.social @ki.se

If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.

Now online if anyone wants to read about acute effects or psilocin (active metabolite of psilocybin) in rat mPFC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Board of Peace - Season 1

A new comparative study of seven lizard species, including chameleons and bearded dragons, finds an ancient sleep rhythm conserved over millennia.

By Lauren Schenkman

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Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...

⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.

Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8

🇪🇺🇺🇸 “Donald Trump isn’t the problem, America is” says @davekeating.substack.com, arguing US-EU relations won’t improve when Trump leaves office.

More in #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/BgrG

Nya hjärnkartor utmanar traditionella beskrivningar av hjärnan I mer än ett sekel har kartor av hjärnan baserats på hur vävnaden ser ut under mikroskop. Dessa anatomiska kartor delar upp hjärnan i regioner utifrån strukturella variationer i vävnaden. Men speglar ...

I mer än ett sekel har anatomiska kartor delat upp hjärnan i regioner utifrån strukturella variationer i vävnaden. Men speglar dessa indelningar verkligen hur hjärnan fungerar? En ny studie på möss från @ki.se tyder på att så ofta inte är fallet @carlenlab.bsky.social #forskning
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Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...

Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.

But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations

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#neuroskyence

The Neurobiology of Mental Health 2026 from May 17 – May 21 in Thun, Switzerland.

Join leading scientists for a 3.5-day #LakeConference discussion on: "The Neurobiology of Mental Health" at the level of genes, cell types, organoids, circuits, networks and brain systems. Learn more & apply by January 31: https://lakeconferences.org/conf/1ed63fdb-de0c-4a56-a8b3-1f72f93d30ea

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New brain maps challenge traditional descriptions of the brain For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the...

Activity-based maps of the prefrontal cortex in mice, presented in @natneuro.nature.com today, challenge classical descriptions of the brain. The new maps reveal functional territories that differ from traditional, tissue-based maps. #Neuroscience #Brain 🧪 news.ki.se/new-brain-ma...

It's out! Our new study (led by @pierrelemerre.bsky.social & @weltgeischt.bsky.social @carlenlab.bsky.social) challenges classical cytoarchitectonic borders in the prefrontal cortex, showing that connectivity better explains its functional organization.
Read the open-access paper here: rdcu.be/eZUkh

a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed ALT: a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed

📢 Open faculty position – Origins of Life
We have an opening in our section at the University of Geneva! 🧬🚀

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The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the plane...

"The time for passive consumption has expired. Every scholar should begin contributing their expertise to Wikipedia — not as charity, but as a core duty"

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If you’re a young PI (or senior postdoc) heading to FENS, this one’s for you! It’ll be a lot of fun—and honestly, I can’t think of a better moment in one’s career to have a strong peer network.

🗓 The next round of #NCAMH funding is coming soon on 1 Feb 2026!
Discover more about the program & start connecting with research partners for your application!
https://ibro.org/grants/ncamh/

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope

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Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells shar...

Published in Cell, a new study shows that the immune system’s reaction to the common Epstein-Barr virus can ultimately damage the brain and contribute to multiple sclerosis, from a team @ki.se

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Genetic sex of enteric neurons enables ovarian relaxin to gate maternal gut plasticity Animals must align intestinal plasticity and feeding with reproductive state, yet the checkpoint that gates these adaptations is unknown. Here we show that an ovary-to-enteric-neuron axis gates the on...

📣First preprint of the lab📣 Did that really happen?😅

Enteric neurons, aka somatic postmitotic cells, must hold on to their sex identity tight, to deliver a tuned response to signals from the ovary that instruct the animal to engage sex-matched behavioural programmes.
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