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patmont-bsky.bsky.social
Principal investigator | Neuroscientist | @UPorto FMUP, Portugal | Alumni @MIT | @mcgovernmit | Basal ganglia and ASD. The brain trying to understand the brain.
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🚨 We're hiring! A Research Project Manager position is open in our lab at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH, Alicante)! Join us in exploring how spontaneous activity shapes sensory circuits 🧠✨ @glb-lab.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Jobs #ResearchManager 📅 Deadline: May 25

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring! PostDoc position on my ERC for wire-less electrophysiology in our 9mX5m rat HexMaze! Experience with tetrodes or silicone probes required. Contact me for questions! www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

submitted 25 days ago • 128 comments

🎈Our latest 🪅 We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior. We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

Was just pointed to this important preprint from @minsanally.bsky.social : www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4... tl;dr: classically "non-responsive" cells are preferentially recruited by top-down inputs and are critical for learning. So, my neuro-friends: Don't ignore untuned cells!!!! 🧠📈 🧪

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli... Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Today on #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, our lab dressed in blue to celebrate diversity and show our support for the autism community, ensuring that neurodivergent individuals and their families feel seen, supported, and included. #BeInclusive #DressBlue #AutismAwareness

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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

submitted 168 days ago • 18 comments

please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 104 days ago • 533 comments

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submitted 150 days ago • 7 comments

Sending this to the journal editor who has emailed me 4 times since Christmas day about a manuscript review

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience. Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind... GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...

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Help bluesky neurohivemind! If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!

submitted 174 days ago • 13 comments

Women in Neuroscience Now a list! add to feeds/follow/suggest 😄 bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 185 days ago • 29 comments