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Michael Roberts
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Auditory neuroscientist at University of Michigan studying how neural circuits process speech and other complex sounds. www.RobertsNeuro.org

ORCID: 0000-0003-2835-8752
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Michael Roberts @robertsneuro.bsky.social · Oct 21
Happy to announce that the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at @umich.edu is running a tenure-track faculty search again this year! Come join our amazing group of auditory and vestibular scientists. Details below.
Open Assistant or Associate Professor position Kresge Hearing Research Institute Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery University of Michigan Medical School Applications are being considered for a full-time, tenure-track position in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine. The successful candidate will hold a PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degree and will have research interests relevant to auditory and vestibular biology broadly defined, including the development, function, and pathologies of the auditory and vestibular systems, from peripheral to central. Candidates performing research in the auditory and/or vestibular periphery are especially encouraged to apply. The faculty position is within the vibrant and highly interactive research environment of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute. The Institute is affiliated with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and resides within the very strong and collegial research community of the University of Michigan. We are seeking exceptional scientists to establish vigorous independent research programs, form productive collaborations, and promote translation of their research. Please submit a current CV and a 2- or 3-page description of research interests and future directions. Please ask three to five references to send letters as well. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Materials should be sent to the KHRI search committee at: khri-facultysearch@med.umich.edu The University of Michigan is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
robertsneuro.bsky.social
Happy to announce that the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at @umich.edu is running a tenure-track faculty search again this year! Come join our amazing group of auditory and vestibular scientists. Details below.
Open Assistant or Associate Professor position Kresge Hearing Research Institute Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery University of Michigan Medical School Applications are being considered for a full-time, tenure-track position in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine. The successful candidate will hold a PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degree and will have research interests relevant to auditory and vestibular biology broadly defined, including the development, function, and pathologies of the auditory and vestibular systems, from peripheral to central. Candidates performing research in the auditory and/or vestibular periphery are especially encouraged to apply. The faculty position is within the vibrant and highly interactive research environment of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute. The Institute is affiliated with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and resides within the very strong and collegial research community of the University of Michigan. We are seeking exceptional scientists to establish vigorous independent research programs, form productive collaborations, and promote translation of their research. Please submit a current CV and a 2- or 3-page description of research interests and future directions. Please ask three to five references to send letters as well. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Materials should be sent to the KHRI search committee at: khri-facultysearch@med.umich.edu The University of Michigan is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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elizabithian.bsky.social
Check out our first research article from the Emrick lab, published in Cell Reports! We define the sensory neurons in the tooth as sentinels: tuned to detect tooth damage and trigger a protective jaw opening reflex. 🦷🔨

I’m officially a mammalian somatosensory biologist (but I still 🩷 worms 🪱)
July 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
High profile Lancet report into possible links between hearing loss & dementia:

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission 🧪🦻🏾🧠
www.thelancet.com/article/S014...
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
The number of older people, including those living with dementia, is rising, as younger age mortality declines. However, the age-specific incidence of dementia has fallen in many countries, probably b...
www.thelancet.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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manorlaboratory.bsky.social
undark.org/2025/07/11/i...
Interview: How a Hearing-Loss Grant Got Cut in the Fight Over DEI
“It felt like the floor dropped out,” researcher Uri Manor said after the sudden suspension of his lab’s award.
undark.org
July 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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ardemp.bskyverified.social
Another important article by Kate Zernike from the @nytimes.com

You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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adhockley.bsky.social
Thrilled to present our paper out today in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

We asked how prediction errors are generated in the auditory cortex during the oddball paradigm. When blocking top-down prediction signals from mPFC, we saw reduced prediction errors in A1.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors
Hockley et al. investigate how the brain processes auditory stimuli based on predictability. The results show that predictions in the medial prefrontal cortex govern sensory information flow and modul...
www.cell.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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laurenkreeger.bsky.social
Thrilled that our paper has been published in @elife.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

We ask: how can a neuron integrate information across multiple time scales?

Twist: This neuron has extreme properties that helps it work ~300x times faster than neurons in the hippocampus

Summary 🧵to follow
April 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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pfapostolides.bsky.social
(Plz repost)

I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.

pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu

Tyvm
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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audreydrotos.bsky.social
I spent this afternoon in DC meeting with @repdwightevans.bsky.social about the current science funding freeze & indirect cuts. I'm proud to fight for the biomedical research funding & cures we all deserve—and you can, too.
February 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Dan Johnston, History of Neuroscience Autobiographies by SFN. Dan was my PhD advisor who I learned so much from. He writes about challenges, successes, failures; love for his dogs, colleagues and passion for physiology. Great perspective by a talented, humble & kind human.

tinyurl.com/3kuswnn2
February 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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audreydrotos.bsky.social
Thank so much for all your support with this project Ross!
February 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Our new work investigating multiplexing and mixed selectivity in auditory inferior colliculus neurons is up on bioRxiv 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Neurons in the inferior colliculus use multiplexing to encode features of frequency-modulated sweeps
Within the central auditory pathway, the inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical integration center for ascending sound information. Previous studies have shown that many IC neurons exhibit receptive f...
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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andrewplested.bsky.social
! 🚨Preprint Alert🚨
!
Flo and Johann’s magnum opus on calcium permeation in AMPA Receptors is up. It’s another chapter in our collaboration with Han Sun (FMP-Berlin), with ephys from our former student @ecekuru.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the details, here's a #bluetorial

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Atomistic Mechanisms of Calcium Permeation Modulated by Q/R Editing and Selectivity Filter Mutations in GluA2 AMPA Receptors
GluA2 is a key subunit of AMPA receptor ion channels that is abundantly expressed in the vertebrate brain. Posttranscriptional Q/R editing of GluA2 renders AMPARs nearly impermeable to calcium ions, w...
www.biorxiv.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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andy8chi.bsky.social
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.

#AcademicSky
A snip of my profile. Banner image incldes Arendt, Durkheim, Fanon and others drawn rouglys on eggs in Black and White. Profile picture is me in front of some autumn leaves. Key descriptive text identifies me as a criminologist working on atrocity crime. At the bottom, highlighted by a big red arrow is my ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7463-1302 A snip from my ORCID profile page - at the left is a list of institutional and other links to social media, including one to Bluesky, highlighted by a big red arrow.
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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audreydrotos.bsky.social
Hi! I am starting my postdoc in January & am planning to apply for the HHMI Hanna H. Gray fellowship in the 2025 cycle, and I was wondering if there are any recent awardees who would be willing to share example applications or tips? Thank you thank you! #Neuroscience 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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eliehuez.bsky.social
Hi everyone! I am a graduate student in the Roberts lab, I am focused on identifying the neuron types and circuits in the inferior colliculus using light-sheet, tissue clearing and sequencing. I am excited to get to know everyone in the field! #neuroscience
Fluorescent images of green neurons
November 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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bizleylab.bsky.social
We are recruiting a PhD student! The project will define the sensory strategies that freely moving animals use to chase sounds. The ideal candidate will have an engineering / neuroscience background and strong coding skills. Reach out to learn more! shorturl.at/cNu0p
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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May 30, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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roseying.bsky.social
here's my latest preprint where I show that auditory midbrain and thalamus display similar patterns of plasticity as the auditory cortex during perceptual task performance and perceptual learning! auditory cortex has 24 hours to respond
April 14, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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olybinewski.bsky.social
Going to #AROMWM ? Looking for a postdoc position? Love auditory neuroscience and regeneration? Fully funded position in my research group - would love to tell you more about it at #ARO2024 👂🐟🔬
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sensory Neuroscience/ Zebrafish
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
jobrxiv.org
February 1, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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olybinewski.bsky.social
Check out our new preprint! Using live imaging in zebrafish to evaluate cellular mechanisms of cisplatin chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, we show that sensory hair cell mitochondria are direct targets for cisplatin, and that cumulative mitochondrial activity increases hair cell vulnerability 👂🐟⚕️
Cisplatin drives mitochondrial dysregulation in sensory hair cells
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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olybinewski.bsky.social
#JobAlert
The Sheets lab at WashU seeks a #postdoc to investigate traumatic injury and #regeneration of #sensory receptors and nerves in the #zebrafish model! 🐟👂
Apply here: tinyurl.com/44z4rus3
January 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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audreydrotos.bsky.social
Our IC review is live! See below for an overview from @robertsneuro.bsky.social and I about the incredible computations the IC is doing and why cell types & circuit motif identification are critical for better understanding our favorite auditory hub. 🧠 👂 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Identifying Neuron Types and Circuit Mechanisms in the Auditory Midbrain
The inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical computational hub in the central auditory pathway. From its position in the midbrain, the IC receives nearl…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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olybinewski.bsky.social
Calling all bio undergrads 📢
Want to gain research experience and training before grad school?
Interested in projects exploring developmental biology and regeneration?
Want to investigate sensory nerve development and regeneration with my lab? 🐟
Applications now open!
sites.wustl.edu/devbioregenm...
Application Instructions
Applications Now Open! Apply by March 15th for Full Consideration Please read through this entire page and eligibility requirements. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Questions can be��...
sites.wustl.edu
December 7, 2023 at 7:36 PM
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jonasobleser.bsky.social
It’s happening. #jneurosci #sfn #openscience
November 30, 2023 at 2:37 PM