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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Aug 27

You got love Lyon!

This weekend you can go to the main park in Lyon - Parc de la Tête d'Or - to talk with a scientist on a 20-min private (2-5 people) boat tour! How cool is this??

There will be so different scientific topics represented!

Know more here:

Les conférences embarquées, 6ème édition

Embarquez avec un ou une scientifique pour une mini-conférence surprise et confidentielle, sous forme de balade en barque sur le lac du Parc de la Tête d'Or.

www.rhone-auvergne.cnrs.fr

Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 19

Be part of the open source community! 🥰

Add your open science project to the biggest, well-curated database!!
buff.ly/4hiM93o

You can also sign up to give a seminar:
buff.ly/3ElYXra

Know more here:

Open Neuroscience

Open Neuroscience is a user led repository of open source projects for neuroscience

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is so cool!
‪‪A summer school on "Research leadership and career development for early-stage rearchers" at @uminho.bsky.social‬

When? 7-9 July
Where? UMinho, Portugal
How much? Free!
For whom? PhDs and early post-docs
How many? 18

Know more here: arqus-alliance.eu/event/arqus-...

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 17

Need a “friend” to help you home-cage monitoring your mice? Well, say no more! My friend @davorvirag.bsky.social and his colleagues created MIROSLAV, an OPEN-SOURCE system to do it!

Know more and check their paper here👇 and thank you Davor et al. for the community service!! 🙏

Davor Virag @davorvirag.bsky.social · Jun 17

MIROSLAV, your buddy for WiFi home cage circadian monitoring, now out in Behavior Research Methods!
- Real-time, remote monitoring,
- No PC in the habitat,
- Hundreds of cages,
- Full software package (preprocessing, exploration, statistics)
PDF: rdcu.be/eqVsW
DOI: www.doi.org/10.3758/s134...

My friend MIROSLAV: A hackable open-source hardware and software platform for high-throughput monitoring of rodent activity in the home cage

rdcu.be

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 16

Interested in doing a master's in computational neuroscience?
Have you considered Lyon, in France? You should!

masterneuro.univ-lyon1.fr/m2-cns/

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 13

Don't miss today the Journal Club "The Bilateral Prefronto-striatal Pathway Is Necessary for Learning New Goal-Directed Actions" organized by the Basal Ganglia Club at 1 pm.

Know more here: basalgangliaclub.com/journal-club/
Zoom link: bordeaux-inp-fr.zoom.us/j/9164609749...

JOURNAL CLUB

Next Journal Club June 13th, 2025 – 1.00 pm CET The Bilateral Prefronto-striatal Pathway Is Necessary for Learning New Goal-Directed Actions, by HaRT et al., 2018 ABSTRACT The acquisition of …

basalgangliaclub.com

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 12

Today with @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social 😊

Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is already tomorrow! Do not miss the interesting talk by ‪@mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social‬ on "Integrative models of depressive-like behaviours in rodents"
helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The discussion already started at the ‪@thebehaviourforum.bsky.social‬
Not there yet? Sign up, be part of it!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 10

See you soon at the school! ☺️

COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · Jun 9

Also in Bratislava, @neurodaniela.bsky.social will teach how to use DeepLabCut’s deep learning tools for accurate, automated animal pose estimation and behavioral analysis through its user-friendly GUI.

#DeepLabCut #BehavioralResearch #MachineLearning #Neuroscience #OpenScience

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 9

You computational friends, you are lucky!
Applications are open for the Computational Neuroscience @imbizo.bsky.social

When? 11 Jan - 1 Feb
Where? Cape Town, South Africa☀️
Who? Early researchers
Deadline: 01/07

If you have the chance, apply!
The school seems great and look at SA 😍
I loved it!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 4

It is tomorrow! 😍

Am I biased or do psychedelic symposiums "taste better" than the others? 🙊

Come to discuss at the @institutducerveau.bsky.social with

Matthias Liechti
David Erritzoe
Mickael Naassila
Christian Lüscher
Amandine Luquiens
Katrin Preller
Frederike Holze
Lea Mertens
Guy Goodwin

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · Jun 2

"Decoding the brain: from methods to meaning" - @openlab.bsky.social Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience

This week @institutducerveau.bsky.social with
M.Chirimuuta @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
H.Yin @duke-university.bsky.social
F.Zahnoun @uantwerpen.be
@romainbrette.bsky.social
@heikestein.bsky.social

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 28

This seems so cool!

Welcome to the first edition of the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software week at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London!
neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Open-source neuroscientists let's discuss:
- animals in motion
- brainfglobe
- big imaging data

The event is free!

Open Software Week — NIU

NIU

neuroinformatics.dev

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 22

One more year, one more successful event! 😍

Pint of Science @pintofscience.pt in numbers:
- 10 cities
- 34 sponsors
- 46 events
- 92 speakers
- 155 volunteers
- 1000+ participants

I am super proud of my team!
See you next year for one more edition on the 18th-20th May

pintofscience.pt

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 20

Yes!
Be part of the community!

Open Neuroscience @open-neuroscience.com · May 20

🔊New resource: The Behaviour Forum, a place to discuss experimental methods in animal behaviour
💡This is a global platform bringing together scientists, technicians, and animal welfare experts to advance the study of animal behaviour.
👩‍🔬By COST-TEATIME
🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/a_pl...

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 10/10

As usual, one of my favourite parts of conferences is to meet old and new friends!

It was a blast Neurofrance, see you in two years!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 9/10

Besides my poster, it was great to present with @dhuzard.bsky.social the www.thebehaviourforum.org , a @cost-teatime.bsky.social initiative I am very proud of being part of!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 8/10

The last day was for "Advances in neuroprimatology" and "Neural mechanisms for defensive responses: from circuits to function" organised by
@ruisrodrigues.bsky.social and @antoinembesnard.bsky.social nard.bsky.social

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 7/10

It is always lovely when you can support your (11) speaker friends! I am their biggest fan 🙂

Here is Camille presenting his beautifully designed task to assess object categorisation and spatial representation in mice

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 6/10

A beautiful surprise was the roundtable around lunchtime. I had the opportunity to discuss with Stéphane @aquineuro.bsky.social about their challenges and my crazy ideas as well as with Kim from
@agencerecherche.bsky.social. Also goodies!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 5/10

The symposium on "External and internal sensory processing for the encoding of emotions" from the second day was my favourite! Shout out to
@merylneuro.bsky.social and @mariocarta.bsky.social
‬and all the speakers!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 4/10

Best way of ending the day! The talk by
@stephcragg.bsky.social
on "Directors and star actors: roles for acetylcholine and astrocytes in gating dopamine transmission" is the perfect example of why it's great to go to conferences What an overview!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 3/10

First day was dedicated to "From well-being to neuropsychiatric disorders: new insights on the reward circuit" and to the "Prefrontal neuromodulation for adaptive behaviour" with great talks by
@causalself.bsky.social
(recruiting!) and A Petitbon

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 2/10

I was happy to present my poster at the satellite event of the Basal Ganglia Club.
basalgangliaclub.com/event/

I particularly liked
the plenary by Jean-Antoine Girault
and @jeremie-n.bsky.social
@lauriegalvan.bsky.social

Great start!

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Daniela Duarte Domingues @neurodaniela.bsky.social · May 19

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 1/10

Neurofrance this year was full of sunny vibes!
Of course Montpellier also helps ☀️

I really enjoyed the conference and the city!
I found a store "where the mice dance" with the LSD logo 🤯
A lot of cool art and chill ambience 😍

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