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Neuroscientist at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab). Opinions my own.
@sainsburywellcome.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netAt SWC, we’re unravelling the mysteries of the brain.
Ready to join us?
Applications for our Systems Neuroscience PhD programme are now open!
@yulonglilab.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netExcited to share our first red ACh sensor! 🔴 We developed GRAB_rACh1h, the first genetically encoded red fluorescent sensor for recording acetylcholine dynamics in vivo. (1/3)
@carandinilab.netWherein Janan Ganesh remarks that a cool restaurant in East London is hard to book hence everything is fine and by the way Trump is not fascist. Is there a Pulitzer for non sequiturs.
@takakikomiyama.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netAlmost four years ago, An and I were just starting to prepare this manuscript when tragedy struck. Since then, Qiyu and the team have worked extremely hard to bring this study to light. I could not be more proud of them.
@labhaas.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netMind the Gaps! A thread to tell you about our fresh Science Advances @science.org paper:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@carandinilab.netYes! I believe Rachel Eckhard (later Matthews) was Adrian's next collaborator after Zotterman. Together they recorded from the optic nerve while the eye was stimulated with light. They started a field. More details here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbm...
@carandinilab.netIf you liked this piece on Adrian's discoveries, consider reading the book that inspired me to write it:
"Galvani's Spark", by Alan McComas.
Strong recommend. It's expensive if you buy it new, but often available used (e.g. on AbeBooks) for a reasonable price.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
@thetransmitter.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netIn two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes. @carandinilab.net describes the remarkable discovery and how it shifted focus from the medium (the nerve) to the message (the neural code). #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...
@carandinilab.netThe neural code at 100
Out today in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
@cosynemeeting.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.net📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open.
Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE
Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su...
@thetransmitter.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netThe platform combines two-photon optogenetic holography with wide field mesoscopy, which had not been done before. #neuroskyence
By Simon Makin
@sethabramson.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netA friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight
@brainprize.orgReposted by @carandinilab.net2026 Brain Prize winner David Ginty spent his career mapping the nerve cells sensing pain. Then he got shingles — and used his own body to identify the neurons responsible.
@carandinilab.netThis is awesome! Super useful to have the pulse of what's hot in neuroscience right now (rather than in 2 years, when these papers will be published). And I would say this even if my lab didn't have 2 papers in the top 10. Only suggestion: please add links to the papers!!!
@carandinilab.netOk now we have recognized optogenetics, which massively deserved that Nobel medal. Next on the list is dopamine, right? Wolfram Schultz and colleagues have changed our understanding of the brain and mind to the point that dopamine/reward are now part of popular culture (and for the right reasons).
@smfleming.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netExcited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social
To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
@deisseroth.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netThank you to everyone sharing in this moment!
I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators…
dlab.stanford.edu/group-members
(pic: Peter and I together in 2017)
Reading for all those asking:
for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu
for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
@nature.comReposted by @carandinilab.netBREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” More to follow.
@nobelprize.orgReposted by @carandinilab.netBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
@cate-cholamine.bsky.socialReposted by @carandinilab.netThis is the best Substack I’ve ever read
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