Josien
@joscience.bsky.social
#astrocytes fanatic. Studying the stars of the brain in sensory processing. Also SciCom, books, music and running.
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Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
September 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Tell your boss that I gave you the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Great stuff. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org
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🚨Our work #ReScale4DL: balancing pixel and contextual information for enhanced bioimage segmentation, with @henriqueslab.bsky.social is out today!🚀
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉
Threat👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉
Threat👇
September 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM
🚨Our work #ReScale4DL: balancing pixel and contextual information for enhanced bioimage segmentation, with @henriqueslab.bsky.social is out today!🚀
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉
Threat👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉
Threat👇
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If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain:
inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor.
Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates.
The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor.
Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates.
The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
September 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain:
inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor.
Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates.
The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor.
Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates.
The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits - Nature
An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.
www.nature.com
September 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Whole-body cellular activity imaging in zebrafish, headed by Virginie Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social - new paper is out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print!
Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙
Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑
Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙
Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑
Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
September 9, 2026 at 3:49 AM
One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print!
Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙
Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑
Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙
Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑
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The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost.
This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe.
Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe.
Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
www.irishtimes.com
September 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost.
This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe.
Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe.
Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
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In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social.
My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies
Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.
www.nature.com
August 25, 2026 at 1:07 PM
In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social.
My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
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A workshop for the astrocyte field, bringing together molecular, cellular, circuit and systems-level perspectives on astrocyte biology.
An excellent opportunity to discuss emerging mechanisms, new tools and integrative approaches
📍 Porto, Portugal | 12–16 April 2027
#Astrocytes #Glia #Neuroscience
An excellent opportunity to discuss emerging mechanisms, new tools and integrative approaches
📍 Porto, Portugal | 12–16 April 2027
#Astrocytes #Glia #Neuroscience
It's happening! 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 | 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 is taking place 12-16 Apr 2027 in Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
Register by 2 November 2026 for on-site attendance here: meetings.embo.org/event/27-ast...
#EMBOAstrocytes @embo.org
Register by 2 November 2026 for on-site attendance here: meetings.embo.org/event/27-ast...
#EMBOAstrocytes @embo.org
August 28, 2026 at 6:28 AM
A workshop for the astrocyte field, bringing together molecular, cellular, circuit and systems-level perspectives on astrocyte biology.
An excellent opportunity to discuss emerging mechanisms, new tools and integrative approaches
📍 Porto, Portugal | 12–16 April 2027
#Astrocytes #Glia #Neuroscience
An excellent opportunity to discuss emerging mechanisms, new tools and integrative approaches
📍 Porto, Portugal | 12–16 April 2027
#Astrocytes #Glia #Neuroscience
Water in the morning...
Pick herbs in the morning...
Lettuce is crispier in the morning...
Okay but what if I want to be a 7pm instead of a 7am gardener??
#Gardening #PlantParent
Pick herbs in the morning...
Lettuce is crispier in the morning...
Okay but what if I want to be a 7pm instead of a 7am gardener??
#Gardening #PlantParent
August 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Water in the morning...
Pick herbs in the morning...
Lettuce is crispier in the morning...
Okay but what if I want to be a 7pm instead of a 7am gardener??
#Gardening #PlantParent
Pick herbs in the morning...
Lettuce is crispier in the morning...
Okay but what if I want to be a 7pm instead of a 7am gardener??
#Gardening #PlantParent
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I often think about precisely this
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
August 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I often think about precisely this
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Nature research paper: Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours
go.nature.com/3UiC3bT
go.nature.com/3UiC3bT
Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours - Nature
Amygdala astrocyte primary cilia are disrupted during stress, and their restoration leads to improvements in stress-related behaviour in mice.
go.nature.com
August 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Nature research paper: Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours
go.nature.com/3UiC3bT
go.nature.com/3UiC3bT
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The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades?
A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
August 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades?
A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
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Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)
July 25, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)
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I am happy to announce my very first senior author paper! Serotonin is known to abolish UP-DOWN state dynamics, which occur during sleep and anesthesia. There are several outstanding questions: What happens at short latencies? How widespread across the brain is it? 🧠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Serotonin induces DOWN states across the anesthetized mouse forebrain
Serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) project extensively throughout the forebrain, yet their influence on global network states remains controversial. Serotonin is implicated in regu...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2026 at 9:15 AM
I am happy to announce my very first senior author paper! Serotonin is known to abolish UP-DOWN state dynamics, which occur during sleep and anesthesia. There are several outstanding questions: What happens at short latencies? How widespread across the brain is it? 🧠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Happy to share that our paper is now out as a reviewed preprint : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
June 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Happy to share that our paper is now out as a reviewed preprint : elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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These speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to the brain’s information flow.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uK1WOw
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uK1WOw
June 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM
These speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to the brain’s information flow.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uK1WOw
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uK1WOw
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In 3 centuries of European climatic history,There has never been anything like the insanity we ll see this week
38/39C UK & Benelux,45C France & Spain,39/41C Germany,Chekia,Slovakia,Poland,35/36 Scandinavia
We won' t count the records,we will list the few lucky ones which won't
38/39C UK & Benelux,45C France & Spain,39/41C Germany,Chekia,Slovakia,Poland,35/36 Scandinavia
We won' t count the records,we will list the few lucky ones which won't
It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week.
Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East
Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C
UK will ridiculize its June national record
Germany 10 days 37C+
This is CRAZY
Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East
Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C
UK will ridiculize its June national record
Germany 10 days 37C+
This is CRAZY
June 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
In 3 centuries of European climatic history,There has never been anything like the insanity we ll see this week
38/39C UK & Benelux,45C France & Spain,39/41C Germany,Chekia,Slovakia,Poland,35/36 Scandinavia
We won' t count the records,we will list the few lucky ones which won't
38/39C UK & Benelux,45C France & Spain,39/41C Germany,Chekia,Slovakia,Poland,35/36 Scandinavia
We won' t count the records,we will list the few lucky ones which won't
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RECORD HEAT FROM ALGERIA TO GERMANY
Some monthly records
ALGERIA
44.0 Mostaganem
43.3 Maghnia
43.2 Tlemcen
SPAIN
39.9 Zamora
LUXEMBOURG NEW NATIONAL JUNE RECORD
37.0 Reckange
GERMANY
37.2 Regensburg
SWITZERLAND
36.6 Wurenlingen
36.3 Gosgen
36.2 Marsens
36.1 Buchs
35.4 Delemon
Some monthly records
ALGERIA
44.0 Mostaganem
43.3 Maghnia
43.2 Tlemcen
SPAIN
39.9 Zamora
LUXEMBOURG NEW NATIONAL JUNE RECORD
37.0 Reckange
GERMANY
37.2 Regensburg
SWITZERLAND
36.6 Wurenlingen
36.3 Gosgen
36.2 Marsens
36.1 Buchs
35.4 Delemon
It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week.
Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East
Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C
UK will ridiculize its June national record
Germany 10 days 37C+
This is CRAZY
Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East
Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C
UK will ridiculize its June national record
Germany 10 days 37C+
This is CRAZY
June 21, 2026 at 6:58 PM
RECORD HEAT FROM ALGERIA TO GERMANY
Some monthly records
ALGERIA
44.0 Mostaganem
43.3 Maghnia
43.2 Tlemcen
SPAIN
39.9 Zamora
LUXEMBOURG NEW NATIONAL JUNE RECORD
37.0 Reckange
GERMANY
37.2 Regensburg
SWITZERLAND
36.6 Wurenlingen
36.3 Gosgen
36.2 Marsens
36.1 Buchs
35.4 Delemon
Some monthly records
ALGERIA
44.0 Mostaganem
43.3 Maghnia
43.2 Tlemcen
SPAIN
39.9 Zamora
LUXEMBOURG NEW NATIONAL JUNE RECORD
37.0 Reckange
GERMANY
37.2 Regensburg
SWITZERLAND
36.6 Wurenlingen
36.3 Gosgen
36.2 Marsens
36.1 Buchs
35.4 Delemon
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Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow
Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests
www.science.org/content/arti...
#neuroscience
Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests
www.science.org/content/arti...
#neuroscience
Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow
Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests
www.science.org
June 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow
Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests
www.science.org/content/arti...
#neuroscience
Rotating neuronal waves are built into brain anatomy and help coordinate far-flung regions, mouse imaging study suggests
www.science.org/content/arti...
#neuroscience
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A lightweight head-mounted multiplane microscope allows simultaneous imaging of 1800 neurons in freely moving mice, sampled over weeks.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Simultaneous two- and three-photon multiplane imaging across cortical layers in freely moving mice - Nature Methods
A lightweight head-mounted multiplane microscope allows simultaneous imaging from >1,800 neurons spread across the cortical layers in freely moving mice performing complex behavioral tasks, sampled...
www.nature.com
June 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
A lightweight head-mounted multiplane microscope allows simultaneous imaging of 1800 neurons in freely moving mice, sampled over weeks.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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When @lndriscoll.bsky.social began her doctoral research at Harvard, her first task was to find the baseline of how specific neurons fired. Then the baseline kept moving.
@dianakwon.bsky.social asked the researchers grappling with the brain's shifting code: https://go.nature.com/3RYKGHJ
@dianakwon.bsky.social asked the researchers grappling with the brain's shifting code: https://go.nature.com/3RYKGHJ
June 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
When @lndriscoll.bsky.social began her doctoral research at Harvard, her first task was to find the baseline of how specific neurons fired. Then the baseline kept moving.
@dianakwon.bsky.social asked the researchers grappling with the brain's shifting code: https://go.nature.com/3RYKGHJ
@dianakwon.bsky.social asked the researchers grappling with the brain's shifting code: https://go.nature.com/3RYKGHJ
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Suite de l'affaire : le 9 juin au tribunal.
Les violences commises contre les femmes et leur légitimité professionnelle sont-elles prises au sérieux par l'institution judiciaire, par les employeurs publics et plus largement dans notre société ?
#Corbeau #Science #VSS #academia
Les violences commises contre les femmes et leur légitimité professionnelle sont-elles prises au sérieux par l'institution judiciaire, par les employeurs publics et plus largement dans notre société ?
#Corbeau #Science #VSS #academia
June 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
18 teams analyzed a neuro dataset and got different answers
Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 5, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
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We are launching Interoception Circle! A new seminar series on embodiment, psychophysiology & body-brain coupling
1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher)
3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome!
🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/
1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher)
3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome!
🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/
June 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
We are launching Interoception Circle! A new seminar series on embodiment, psychophysiology & body-brain coupling
1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher)
3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome!
🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/
1st online talk tomorrow: “What Role for Interoception in Perception? Evidence from Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials” (Marie Loescher)
3 June, 12pm CEST. All welcome!
🔗 ace2lab.com/2581-2/