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sborrie.bsky.social
Wandering neuroscientist. 🇳🇿 living in 🇧🇪. alzheimer's, autism, rasopathies, microglia, social behavior
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In her Essay, Renata Basto highlights the huge budget cuts facing the scientific community in France. In response to the cuts, a group of researchers has formed the ‘Pour une Recherche d'Avenir’ initiative to secure the future of French research. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge... - my response to a paper proposing editing the genomes of human embryos

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

State of funding into universities and research in NZ continues to get worse, with more cuts about to be announced. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Check out this mind-blowing paper from a group of UCSF scientists. T-cells engineered with brain antigen specific receptors that can trigger any number of tissue-targeted effects (car-t activity, cytokine production...) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.' pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

@mrc-lms.bsky.social is hiring! Are you looking to start your own research group? Come & join us! Fantastic research, wonderful facilities & super supportive colleagues. Deadline 13th Jan. Get on it! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share our review on how different lipids shape microglial biology in #GLIA journal. 💫 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 👉🏽with Gaurav Chopra, Caitlin Randolph, and @katherinewalker.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

It's the week of microglia lipid reviews!! Here's a complimentary one from the Tremblay lab in JCN!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

[Resource] π-HuB: the proteomic navigator of the human body www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders! Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris. Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science. Contact me if you want info ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

The CSHL conference on neural stem cell models & development coincides this year with the publication of a consortium effort in Nature. This article outlines a framework for experiments with #organoids, #assembloids from QC of pluripotent stem cells to characterizing cells in vitro & in vivo.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Trying for a molecular and cellular neurobiology starter pack - happy to add folks and connect :) #neuroskyance #cellbiology go.bsky.app/PgEk7aF

submitted 107 days ago • 48 comments

Useful read on statistics and o values!🧪🧠 In my opinion (as a user, not an statistics expert), the p value is a tool to agree that something may be going on. Without context or further confirmation by independent experimental approaches, it means nothing. It is not sacred evidence of an effect.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Here is the new account in Bluesky that every #microglia lover or afficionado should follow.🧪 You can find a repository of previous talks at www.achucarro.org/es/european-...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Latest from De Strooper lab: congrats Nora and the rest of the team 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Microglia and neuroinflammation peeps, check this start pack 👇

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Nominate or apply! Big prize!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why

submitted 93 days ago • 9 comments

Reminder:

submitted 478 days ago • 3 comments

📢 We are hiring - please share! PhD student and Postdoc positions available in Cell Division and Cytoskeleton group at Danish Cancer Institute! Read more and apply before December 22nd 👇 www.cancer.dk/om-os/job-og... www.cancer.dk/om-os/job-og...

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Calling all stress neurobiologists - the 2024 Stress Neurobiology Workshop will be held in Boston June 4-7, and the scientific program is now live! www.stress2024.com/speakers The website also has info on applying to be a postdoc speaker, as well as travel award submission.

submitted 478 days ago • 2 comments

hello #HiSciSky, finally I made it here! I'm a neuroscientist postdoc based in Belgium, currently I’m all about what microglia are doing in Alzheimer’s disease. Also passionate about neurodevelopmental disorders and rare disease research. #neuroskyence #neuroscience

submitted 478 days ago • 1 comment