Elisa Galliano

Turns out that when you have great students, the biggest obstacle to giving PhD theses feedback isn't the content, or the synchronized deadlines. It's the feline co-supervisor who insists in contributing right to the bitter end 📖🐈‍⬛😬
@neurosana.bsky.social @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social

Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.

Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

Massive FOMo seeing the posts of people heading to #SfN2025, all that beach...ehm.. science I’m missing 😭

If you’re there, go say hi to the brilliant Bruno Pilcher and the INSS crew, who just built my lab a custom multiphoton microscope with a spatial light modulator that is pure chef’s kiss 👨‍🍳💋✨

Kind of agree with Bill on the chocolate evaluation...

@pdncambridge.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

New @pnas.org paper led by my brilliant colleague & mentor Sue Jones 🎉
Estrogen drives plasticity in kisspeptin neurons during a developmental critical window, shaping how the female brain regulates fertility. Congrats to Yuanxin + Leonie & Lauren, happy to have played a tiny part
shorturl.at/bItti

Hello Bilbao

Posters printed (5x), talks made (2x), symposia chairing ironed out (2x), preprint posted (1x), whole lab on board (7x): 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐨, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞! #ECRO2025
🇪🇸🧠👃
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@chloeg-neuro.bsky.social @harinw.bsky.social @connordoyle.bsky.social @ailiemcwhinnie.bsky.social @neurosana.bsky.social

Yep, in the EU you need a master to start a PhD and normally masters are 2yrs long (and PhD are 3-4yrs, so in total ~length of US PhD). In the UK masters are 1yr long and you don't need one in theory, but in practice, given how competitive funded PhD spots are, you sort of do...

Mice navigate scent trails using predictive policies Animals actively sense their environment to extract features of interest to guide behaviors. For mammals, odors are prominent environmental features which are sampled by active modulation of sniffing ...

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

Cambridge Junior Research Fellowship = centuries-old academic golden ticket of 4 years’ ££ + total scientific freedom 🎟️✨
JRFs are among the oldest, most competitive, and prestigious postdoctoral fellowships -and often a stepping stone to a PI gig. @chloeg-neuro.bsky.social,
I couldn't be prouder 🥲👏

Straight out of a black-and-white Hollywood classic 🖤🤍🐾 #caturday

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It looks properly yummy Hung!! So happy to see this story in its final incarnation 🎉💪Super science and uber cute mice in the abstract, immediately placed on top ofof the "to be journal clubbed" list

I'm more than psyched to share that my PhD paper is now out in Neuron! It's also my first paper as both first author and corresponding author, which means even more to me!

Thank my partner Chi-Chieh for her contribution to the most adorable ever graphic abstract 🥰

I mean, what better way to cherish your friend than dragging them to Cambridge to gift them a printed copy of your PhD thesis?! Slightly megalomaniac, but also kinda cute 🫠
@lihuang.bsky.social @adorrego.bsky.social

The coolest gift, a book-like printed version of @lihuang.bsky.social’s thesis! We’ll keep it in the thesis hall of fame of the lab 😁

The Latin has been spoken, hands held, gown hooded with new colours 🔴 Congratulations to 𝗗𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗴 @lihuang.bsky.social on finally escaping postgraduate prison 🎓🎉

The paper is out in journal format at EJN! We thank the reviewers for their insightful comments, and how they shaped the final form of this story. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As usual, it's open access! We're getting the data ready for sharing very soon 👀🧠🧪

📸 ⤴️ Head of a female deity, Centrale Montemartini, Roma

Me (July 2024): yay, one year of sabbatical leave!! I will emerge rested, renewed, caught up with the literature, 3 papers deep ✨💪📚

Me (July 2025):

Shreya @shreyac.bsky.social gave an excellent talk at this week's UKSN conference in beautiful Cambridge.

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It was incredible to get the opportunity to talk at UKSN XXX, about some of my PhD work so far AND some surrealism as well! I had a great time 🐭👃🔬🎨

Immediate follow!

@victoria-swi.bsky.social, @emily-winson.bsky.social & Shreya Choudhuri from @inchinn.bsky.social

In this lab, we dress like our slides: bright, sharp, slightly animated, and with a dash of surrealism 🟡🎨
Well done to @harinw.bsky.social for smashing his talk at the 30th UK Semiochemistry Workshop, and to all the PhD speakers in his session for a stellar set of presentations 👏

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We'll get there eventually 😬

Now that’s an enthusiastic endorsement 😅 thanks Samuel!

6/ PS Aaron Seitz’s piece from the same special issue is also already online, read the two short articles together to get a better feel of what was obsessively discussed for six weeks
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

5/ Massive thanks to @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social for hosting what was genuinely the best workshop/conference I’ve ever been part of: science and plenty of coffee by day, communal bbqs and beach sunsets by night.
Someone had to suffer for the field 😉

4/ The paper is short and (we hope) thought-provoking, perfect for a coffee break read ☕
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For full KITP immersion, play some background ocean sounds, pour a glass of something nice, and pretend you’re in Santa Barbara 🌊