Josien
#astrocytes fanatic. Studying the stars of the brain in sensory processing. Also SciCom, books, music and running.
- Reposted by Josien‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find
- Reposted by JosienDoes our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg
- Reposted by JosienPSA for all #microglia lovers: certain Iba1 antibodies (see our new paper below for details) label not only microglia, but also vasopressin neurons, at least in mice. Brain region and species matter. A friendly reminder to always validate your antibodies! 🔬 www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...
- Reposted by JosienEurope loves to lecture the world about values, but morals without power is just vibes. We regulate AI we don’t build, sell handbags instead of hardware, and rely on others for our security and energy. If we really believe in liberal democracy, we’d better be willing to back it up.
- Reposted by JosienWhat's the relation between voltage and calcium in dendrites? Xiang Wu studied this in CA2 hippocampal pyramidal cells in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by JosienTekenen, tenzij je gekke Henkie bent.
- Reposted by JosienI’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward. Full text here: rdcu.be/eY5nh
- Reposted by JosienExcited to be giving the van Vreeswijk Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar this Wednesday, Jan 14, where I'll talk about "Computation Through Neuronal-Synaptic Dynamics"! www.wwtns.online
- Reposted by JosienDistinct endocannabinoids specifically signal to astrocytes or neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by JosienFor decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by JosienAstrocytes control oxytocin-based maternal behavior via connexin 30 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by JosienViolence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado | Claudia Ignacio Álvarez
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- Reposted by JosieniGluSnFR4 is now available @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates 🧪
- Reposted by JosienMembers of WarsawGliaComm Publish 🔬🧬🧪 Proud to highlight the new study from Anna Malik Lab in NatComm! Brilliant insights into how astrocyte distress triggers brain pathology via δ-secretase. Check it out! 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #glia #Warsaw
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New episode alert! Discover episode 5 of Qrieux: #Sleep better thanks to #astrocytes. Featuring Félix Bellier, Léana Razaghi & Armelle Rancillac. Available in FR with FR/GB subtitles. Watch now 👉 youtu.be/nHTbSGvEpGM?... #Neuroscience #Qrieux @psl-univ.bsky.social @inserm.fr @cirbcdf.bsky.social - Reposted by JosienThe fruit fly visual system gets a glow-up during pupal development. A new study reveals how non-neuronal calcium activity fine-tunes the boundaries between each portion of the compound eye. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/developmenta...
- Reposted by JosienIn 2017, a lawsuit uncovered emails from Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer. Now, the paper has been retracted. scim.ag/4iG55KO
- Reposted by JosienThe temperature in central the Netherlands over the past 320 years. Clearly shows that we're already well over 2 degrees of warming here. This year is heading for 11.5°C again. This coming Monday and Tuesday, we'll even have that average, in December...
- Reposted by JosienNature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
- Reposted by JosienIl y a près de trois ans, Libération révélait qu’un agent du CNRS était suspecté d’avoir harcelé une neurobiologiste et d’avoir dissimulé une caméra dans les toilettes pour femmes. Les victimes dénoncent depuis l’extrême lenteur de l’enquête malgré les nombreuses preuves matérielles.
- Reposted by JosienWe look forward to seeing you Tomorrow Nov 26 at 2PM for the 2nd IGN SYMPOSIUM. A time for Glia related Science, with open and live discussion with the Italian glia community. See you Tomorrow!!! unipd.zoom.us/j/83647074227?… Italianglianetwork.com
- Reposted by JosienSchiphol heeft enorme groeiplannen tot 2050. Deze petitie is een reactie erop, want een pas op de plaats is gepast: de planeet warmt op, de overlast groeit steeds verder en de natuur is toe aan herstel. Zeg daarom NEE tegen de groei van Schiphol. toekomstschiphol.petities.nl
- Reposted by JosienImage screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
- Reposted by JosienThe link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
- Reposted by JosienOnline lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT) Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science' Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...
- Reposted by JosienCheck out our new review article from my lab: doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
- Reposted by Josien@sfn.org #SfN25 #SanDiego starts this Saturday. The lab is going to be there in full force - see our presentations below. Represented this year by @borderbiologist.bsky.social, Nick Kathman, @mrodea.bsky.social, @melcooperphd.bsky.social, @pryprk.bsky.social, @kerrylimberg.bsky.social. (1/2)
- Reposted by JosienMany of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by JosienThis was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
- If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
- Reposted by JosienWe are doing it again!!!! Save the date for the next in-person #AstrocyteCafe next June 3-5 (2026) in Pamplona (Spain)! We can’t wait to see many of you in person again, thanks so much to the main local organizer @maitesolas.bsky.social ♥️
- Reposted by JosienThis is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Josien💡 Research Spotlight: Primary cilia in astrocytes are key for their development, metabolism & synaptic regulation. Defects lead to neuronal and behavioral issues in mice, offering new insights into neurodevelopment & ciliopathies. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41593-024…
- The posters are on the wall. Ready for the festival della scienza 2025 starting tomorrow! Excited to see the kids amazed by the multisensory illusions! 🧠🤯🤩
- Reposted by JosienRapid adaptive optics enabling near noninvasive high-resolution brain imaging in awake behaving mice Under 2P excitation, adaptive optics measures the aberrated point spread function in ≈0.1 s/measurement, compensating for aberrations and scattering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by JosienFinally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
- Reposted by JosienLoved working with our amazing outreach team on this short video about representational drift! @crmatematica.bsky.social 🧠🧪 In it, I explain the points we make in our recent review in CONEUR: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
- Memories feel fixed, but the brain never stands still. @j-b-eppler.bsky.social talks about representational drift; how memories remain stable even as the neurons behind them constantly change. youtu.be/z63fmYSBcB0 #Neuroscience #Mathematics #Memory #Brain #CognitiveScience #Neurobiology #Research
- Reposted by JosienProblemen rond wetenschappelijke integriteit halen zelden de media. Dinsdag vertel ik waarom dat problematisch is voor het publieke vertrouwen in de wetenschap en de media, bij een colloquium van @isis-radboud.bsky.social, @willemhalffman.bsky.social. Ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social is van de partij!
- Reposted by JosienAls de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?
- Reposted by Josien“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” www.reuters.com/business/env...
- Reposted by JosienA pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics: Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by JosienWe’ve known for some time that air #pollution is bad for human #health. But the focus was mostly on the lungs and heart. Yet somewhere along the way, it became more mainstream to consider how air pollution might affects brains too. What I found surprising was the recency of that. #neuroskyence
- Reposted by JosienThrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/
- Reposted by JosienThis is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Reposted by JosienThere is no reasonable justification not to ban bottom trawling everywhere.
- Reposted by JosienThanks so much @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, along with @mcxfrank.bsky.social, for your input on this! And ofc @sarahexplains.bsky.social and @parshallison.bsky.social for your editing!
- How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
- Reposted by JosienHere’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility. Fewer cars. Less driving. More inviting mobility choices. Better communities and cities. These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.
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- Reposted by JosienThanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!
- Some neurons respond more strongly to visual stimuli than others. But the rest of the brain doesn’t prioritize signals from those neurons, according to a new study. Read more in this month’s Null and Noteworthy. By @ldattaro.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...
- Reposted by JosienAstrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
