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Neuroscientist and Research Director @CNRS. «Orientation&Coordination» team. Head direction, interneurons, memory. Saints-Pères, Paris 👩‍🔬🧠
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#NeuroFrance2025 registration & abstract submission are open! 🥳 We'll be back in the beautiful city of Montpellier next May for the biggest neuroscience meeting in France. Don't miss out! 🤩 Registration: www.neurosciences.asso.fr/SN25/inscrip...

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How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? 🧠 🧪 🦇 doi.org/10.1126/scie... (1/n)

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now @nature.com !!) with Wenbo Tang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz✉️, and Azahara Oliva✉️: we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! #Neuroscience #hippocampus nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/12👇

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Delighted to highlight our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 70 days ago • 12 comments

The Neural Systems & Behavior course at @mblscience.bsky.social is now open for applications (deadline 1st Feb 2025, tinyurl.com/329nbtzp). Students often describe this 8-week training course as a life-changing and eye-opening scientific experience. Apply and join us in magical Woods Hole 💫🐙🧠🔬

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Lovely historical perspective piece from Patricia Sharp here on the history of theories of the hippocampus: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧠📈

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We are pleased to announce the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience. AKA the Paris Neuro Course. The course will run 14-27 May 2025. parisneuro.ovh Please forward to anybody or any forums you feel may be interested 👩‍🔬🧠

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Created a starter pack of neuroscience in/from Paris. Let me know if you want to be added (the 'from' can include those not in Paris anymore) or just tap in if you want to know what we're talking about! Regardless, please re-tweet! go.bsky.app/3Zs9w5w

submitted 72 days ago • 27 comments

Check out our pre-print from Xiaowei Gu! It shows how the medial prefrontal cortex encodes an internal model of emotional associations which can be used for inference biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

#Neuroscience and #cognition science students around the world! Want to do a #PhD in the #Paris region? Apply to the @c-brains.bsky.social international PhD program and select one of the 40+ projects selected for this year's competition! More information on dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...

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We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠 Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments