Inhibitory Circuits lab

Precision Neurotechnologies Backed by £69m, this programme aims to unlock new methods to interface with the human brain at the cellular level, with unprecedented precision.

🚨 Upcoming postdoc openings 🚨

We will soon be hiring postdocs to work on neural data analysis & modelling in the context of a recently awarded ARIA grant aimed at "precision control" of neural population dynamics (w. collabs. across the UK)

Reach out if interested!

www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

Nice images to be proud of! Congrats to all the team!

Why are indexers unable to see that peer review can be more than a thumbs up or a thumbs down? | DORA Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. At eLife we believe that the conte...

'The resistance we have seen [towards eLife's new publishing model] should force the scientific community to confront a question that is often avoided: who controls the scientific literature?'

sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits Sequencing of oligonucleotide barcodes holds promise as a high-throughput approach for reconstructing synaptic connectivity at scale. Rabies viruses can act as a vehicle for barcode transmission, than...

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SBN 2025 Opening Remarks Welcome Remarks – 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology SBN President 2025 Welcome to the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology in be...

"Last year during my opening remarks I had the temerity to state that there had never been a more important time to be a behavioral neuroendocrinologist. Seems almost quaint now."
-SBN President Margaret McCarthy

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The @sierralab.bsky.social lab is hiring!

Postdoctoral position in #microglial development (#IKUR)

www.achucarro.org/job/postdoct...

Curious how astrocyte diversity rewires circuits & drives brain health/disease? Join our S24 symposium “Astrocyte Heterogeneity: Synapses → Behavior” at the XVII European Glia Meeting on Thu 10 Jul 2025! Proud #IBROSpeakerSupport awardee. See you there! #IBRO #IBROinEurope

🧠✨ Ya puedes consultar el programa del #CajalJunior2025: dos días dedicados a la ciencia joven en el @InstitutoCajal 
Charlas, pósteres y más. ¿Te interesa venir como oyente? Escríbenos a comunica@cajal.csic.es 📩
🔗 Link con los horarios: https://tr.ee/ISQD5L #Neurociencia #CSIC

Thanks Luke for sharing your work with us. It has been a pleasure to host you!

⬇️⬇️ Happening today!!! ⬇️⬇️

Happening today!!!

El próximo Viernes, 13 de junio a las 12:30 hrs. en la Sala Washington Buño del #InstitutoCajal, seminario presencial de
@healeylab.bsky.social (University of Massachusetts), con el título: "Learning, cell-types, neuroestrogens, and modulation in the songbird auditory system".

Looking forward to hosting @healeylab.bsky.social ! Thanks @institutocajal.bsky.social for support and for spread the info about the seminar.

🎶 Este viernes 13/06 a las 12:30h recibimos al Dr. Luke Remage-Healey (UMass) para hablar sobre aprendizaje, neuroestrógenos y audición en aves cantoras.
 📍 Instituto Cajal #Neurociencia #SeminariosCajal #CSIC

NEW Avian Endocrinology Special Issue!

Explore topics including:

🐦‍⬛ photoperiodism
🐦‍⬛ seasonality
🐦‍⬛ stress physiology
🐦‍⬛ behaviour including social communication (song) 🎵

Guest editor: Vinod Kumar

Read today: onlinelibrary.wiley....

A book cover entitled: Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis by authors Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. It features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel, as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...

And the ebook will be open access!

#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

"We cannont make progress in #BrainResearch in Europe unless we allow for the ethical and regulated use of animals." @tjryan.bsky.social

💡 Learn more about the #BOARD25 compaign, led by
@eara.eu: eara.eu/board25

🎥 Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Xr...

A portrait photo of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, an older man wearing a purple and blue checkered suit. A headline reads: "1926-2025: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Scientist Behind the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98." Julie Glassberg for The New York Times.

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who was often called the father of the abortion pill — and who was also known for his pioneering studies on the role of steroid hormones in human reproduction and aging — died on Friday. He was 98. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...

NEUROGLIAL CB1 RECEPTORS CONTROL NAVIGATION STRATEGIES Navigation and memory functions are essential for survival and are regulated by the hippocampus. These processes are tightly controlled, and one of the key modulators involved is the endocannabinoid s...

New preprint. Hippocampal CB1 and navigation strategies.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Best wishes for the continuation Nicolas!

Screenshot of article summary of: Toward Science-Led Publishing by Damian Pattinson, George Currie published as an opinion piece, in Learned Publishing Summary The current dynamic of scholarly publishing prioritises the wants of the publishing industry over the needs of the research community. This article explores this theme through the lens of ‘publisher-led science’ as a description of our current status quo, and through ‘science-led publishing’ as an improved future state. We argue that financial motivations central to most publishing distort how research is presented, how it is assessed and even what research is undertaken, leading to a system that hinders, rather than facilitates, scientific progress. We propose three elements of a science-led publishing approach that would accelerate research communication, incentivise collaboration between authors, editors and reviewers, and create a more transparent and equitable research landscape. We believe that research funding and research assessment are two of the primary levers for wider change in research and research culture and consider the future purpose of scholarly publishing in a world where these proposals have been widely adopted.

Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing?

Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#OpenScience

The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding Histological evidence suggests that the estrous cycle exerts a powerful influence on CA1 neurons in the mammalian hippocampus. Decades have passed sin…

🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:

Do you want to help as a technician in a transaltional project in the context of Alzheimer's disease? Yes, we are hiring. 2-year contract. This is a straightforward collaboration between CIRCE Scientific and Creatio UB. See the offer also at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Congratulations Francesca!

📣📣📣📣@inhcirlab.bsky.social job offer 📣📣📣📣

We are looking for new lab members, reach out if interested or, please, spread!

The many sides of estrogen signalling in the brain !Congrats for these nice finding Charlotte & team.

El próximo Viernes 28 de Marzo, a las 12:30hrs. en la Sala Washington Buño del #InstitutoCajal, seminario de la Dra. Juliana M. Rosa @hnparaplejicos.bsky.social @idiscam, con el título: "Bridging layers: how astrocyte networks boost tactile encoding and sensory integration".

Interactions between menopause and high‐fat diet on cognition and pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease INTRODUCTION Post-menopausal women constitute about two-thirds of those with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Menopause increases dementia risk by heightening the likelihood of metabolic disease, a well-kn...

Check out our new paper led by Charly Abi Ghanem showing interactions between menopause & high fat diet in AD👇
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thx to @alzassociation.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social & NINDS for funding!

Thx to collaborators Damian Zuloaga & Sally Temple

Check out my preprint on hippocampal ripple diversity, with @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret at the MRC BNDU, where we reveal that distinct CA1 laminar profiles of ripples are associated with different reactivation dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our preprint led by Ain Chung
& @jasonalipio.bsky.social showing how immature adult-born DGCs preferentially recruit inhibition of CA2 and CA3 to disproportionately affect hippocampal network properties and social memory. We began by asking 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...