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Saturday posters and talks from SWC researchers at #Cosyne2026

Friday's posters from Sainsbury Wellcome Centre researchers #Cosyne2026 ⤵️

Heading for #Cosyne2026? Check out SWC researchers’ posters and talks! sainsburywellcome.org/content/swc-co… Thursday's posters ⤵️

Why do we sleep? We asked leading neuroscientists for their thoughts on what happens in the brain as we snooze. ⤵️ sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/6-rea… #WorldSleepDay #Neuroscience #WorldSleepDay2026

Whether the hippocampus is involved in unrewarded learning has been a controversial question. A new preprint finds that it may be critical for passively learning information. By @natmesanash thetransmitter.org/memory/hippoca…

A new review maps the convergence and divergence of statistical and reinforcement learning, from origins to neural implementation. From Athena Akrami, Ambra Ferrari and Floris P. de Lange. Blog: sainsburywellcome.org/blog/two-engin… Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New research has reconstructed movies from the activity of neurons in the mouse visual cortex. Out now in @eLife from Joel Bauer, Troy Margrie and Claudia Clopath. Paper: elifesciences.org/articles/105081 Blog: sainsburywellcome.org/blog/lights-ne…

We are recruiting a research software engineer to build pipelines for processing of weeks of continuous neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals collected with the Aeon platform (aeon.swc.ucl.ac.uk). ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

This British Science Week, check out our free neuroscience teaching resources, including lesson plans, videos, career profiles and activities! sainsburywellcome.org/resources-teac… #BritishScienceWeek #STEM #Education #Teaching

Dr Saurabh Vyas, Carnegie Mellon University, is advancing methods to interpret neural dynamics underlying unique, first-ever cognitive events. As a 2025 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series winner, he recently spoke at SWC. Q&A: sainsburywellcome.org/qa/solving-new…

New @eLife publication from SWC Senior Research Fellow @MSableMeyer Completed at Collège de France & @NeuroSpin_91 with @StanDehaene, the study explores the language of geometry and how we perceive shapes. Blog: sainsburywellcome.org/blog/language-… Paper: #s7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">elifesciences.org/articles/10646…

New preprint from the Akrami Lab shows that mice can quickly learn patterns in sounds, including abstract rules, simply from experience. The hippocampus is essential for this capacity. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… Blog: sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/findi…

We’re hiring a Group Leader! Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience. Find out more and apply ⤵️ sainsburywellcome.org/content/curren…

Congratulations to @OleChSylte on receiving a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉 Ole will investigate how the brain transforms spatial knowledge into goal-directed actions.

Studies using fruit flies by University of Oxford researchers @RafSarnataro & Dr Peter Hasenhuetl are providing new insights into how sleep is controlled. As two winners of the Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series 2025, they recently spoke at SWC ⤵️ sainsburywellcome.org/blog/what-frui…

📢 We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Scientific Instrument Maker to join our expert team carrying out highly skilled precision work in the design, development, construction, and validation of scientific instruments. ⏰ Apply by 22 Feb: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Learning to read is a key stage in education that deeply changes the brain. @StanDehaene, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, discusses the neuroscience of reading at our Annual Lecture. ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=eqHUkM…

➡️For full details of the method and its use, check out the paper in iScience: cell.com/iscience/fullt… x.com/SimonWeiler3/s…

New protocol from SWC reduces off-target effects in optogenetics 🚥 Light can unintentionally activate retinal cells, complicating results. The protocol minimises light leakage and verifies off-target activity is reduced. ➡️ Paper in @STARProtocols star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4708

New work from Jeffrey Erlich (SWC) & Evgeniya Lukinova (@UniofNottingham) links cortisol measures to reduced willingness to wait for larger rewards, but only when participants actually experienced the delay. Paper ⬇️ frontiersin.org/journals/psych… Blog ⬇️ sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/under…