Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু

Apply if you want to start a laboratory as a new Group Leader at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI)!

Deadline - 15 May 2026.
neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao-2026/

As an alum of Marie Curie Actions COFUND program, I highly recommend this. It is easily one of the best PhD training programs in the world.

Do you want to do a PhD on exploring brain-body interactions with expansion microscopy at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, through the Marie-Curie COFUND program?

Apply!

Deadline : 23 February 2026
Supervisor : Tihana JOVANIC

lightinparis.eu
@neuropsi.bsky.social

Real-Time Segmentation and Classification of Birdsong Syllables for Learning Experiments Songbirds are essential animal models for studying neuronal and behavioral mechanisms of learned vocalizations. Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica) songs contain a limited number of acoustica...

Our python package for real-time targeting of birdsong syllables "Moove" is finally out!
Thanks to my co-authors Nils Riekers, @goebl.bsky.social and Lena Veit.
Our pre-print is online on biorxiv and our code is available on GitHub. Check it out!
doi.org/10.64898/202...
github.com/veitlab/moove

Reading about the terrible news coming in from Bangladesh this morning regarding the earthquake. Always have this phobia of the tremblement de terre. Hoping the best for people affected by the tragedy.

Y a-t-il une chance que LFI remporte les élections municipales de mars à Paris ?

Violences policières : un ex-policier de la brigade de proximité Quatre-Chemins de Pantin condamné à un an de prison pour violences, trois agents relaxés

➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/dJN

I tend to forget how shocked many I know (including moi) were on discovering how weak liberté is in France.

Sweeping rights of police to contrôle & shoot, no dedicated freedom of information law, and even things like restrictive naming laws. Hoping that true liberté comes in the 6e république.

J'adore les trains de nuit. Il est regrettable que ces alternatives écologiques - les trains de nuit - disparaissent de France en raison de la fin des subventions accordées par le gouvernement français. Veuillez consulter cette page.

sciences404.fr

I’ll visit some day soon, hopefully.

Are you going to Algiers?

France : face à une administration défaillante, des travailleurs étrangers victimes de nombreux abus Les retards et dysfonctionnements dans le renouvellement des cartes de séjour en France plongent de nombreux travailleurs étrangers dans la précarité. Selon Amnesty International, l'incapacité des pré...

L'ANEF est une honte. Tous les doctorants et post-doctorants étrangers que je connais ont été confrontés à cette situation et sont toujours choqués par cette incroyable incompétence.
www.france24.com/fr/france/20...

Bergeaud-Blackler en train d'imploser depuis la nouvelle que Mamdani est maire de NY.

Le premier mois après mon arrivée en France, je cherchais des moyens de cuisiner à moindre coût à Paris. J'ai trouvé le compte insta d'une étudiante qui publiait des recettes, mais le compte a été désactivé en quelques jours. Devinez pourquoi ?

And we dare speak of Mamdani.

Travailler + pour gagner - Un⋅e ATER enseigne 3 fois plus gagne 300€ de moins qu'un⋅e doctorant⋅e contractuel⋅le Frais de logement et de transports équivalent à 1/3 du salaire. Nous réclamons un salaire minimal à 2000€ net Meilleur défraiement des déplacements Fin des baisses de salaires dans les carrières Stop à la casse de l'ESR Plus d'argent pour la recherche, l'éducation et ses travailleurs Signez la pétition collectif-doctorant@fercsup-cgt.net

📣[PÉTITION ATER] Depuis les revalorisations successives des salaires des doctorant·es contractuel·les entre 2021 et 2023, jusqu'à 2 300 euros bruts mensuels (sans charge de cours), les ATER sont moins payé·es que leurs collègues ayant pourtant moins d’ancienneté
Pétition : openpetition.eu/!zpbxv
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Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it! Will it be released in France?

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev

The cover of CRICK

Nice endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard

Section pics that bleed off the page

Colour plate of Crick looking dreamy on the beach at Cold Spring Harbor, 1954.

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

LFI has possibly done the most lutte against racism and talks openly about it, but would still struggle to get a candidate like Mamdani elected, whereas their radical economic agenda would be as unelectable in the USA as an openly Muslim guy like Mamdani would be unelectable in France.

It should be obvious to French commentators that both the following facts are true : (1) a Zohran Mamdani could not be elected in France because of the lower acceptance and integration of minorities and (2) his economic agenda is pretty normal and not at all radical for France.

The same in Paris, by the way. It’s even more discriminatory in Paris that EU citizen residents can vote in local elections but Maghrebi citizen residents can’t.

Asking because I was wondering how many people are okay that like 20% (going by 38% foreign-born residents of NYC, and ~half naturalised) of residents of a city are legally without any representation.

I think it is called 'taxation without representation' in USAmericanese.

What would be the percentage of non-citizen (hence, non-voting) residents of New York City?

I see data for foreign-born residents, immigrant residents, but not non-citizen residents. It is not the same, as immigrant and foreign-born might be naturalised US citizens, right?

Alors en quoi consiste exactement le grand « examen civique » requis pour obtenir une carte de séjour pluriannuelle (pour tous les doctorants et post-doctorants non-ressortissants de l'UE) à partir du 01.01.2026, qui résoudra tous les problèmes auxquels la France est confrontée ?

Yes!

I had always wanted to post this clip from a weird movie on my first trip to the USA, so now that I am here for the first time in my life, here it is!