One month out from @FENSorg Forum 2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇺
We are looking forward to joining our colleagues and collaborators, and sharing our work with the neuroscience community.
#FENS2026fensforum.org/scientific-pro…
One month out from @FENSorg Forum 2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇺
We are looking forward to joining our colleagues and collaborators, and sharing our work with the neuroscience community.
#FENS2026fensforum.org/scientific-pro…
🌟 FENS is excited the announce the winners of the 2026 @FensKavliNet Prizes!🌟
🏆️ 2026 FKNE Mentoring Prize Winner
🔷 Professor Dietmar Schmitz
🏆️ 2026 FKNE PhD Thesis Prize Winners
🔷 Dr Andrea Muñoz Zamora
🔷 Dr Remi Hudelle
👉️ Read more: buff.ly/3tECX4V
A fantastic day at the Royal Irish Academy @RIAdawson yesterday! We're raising awareness and encouraging applications to the #ListerPrize which is open to researchers from across the island of Ireland! Application to the 2027 Prize opens in July.
New paper with Dan Burnston at @Tulane.
Part of a special issue on "Representation in the Neurosciences and AI" in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences
An alternative to encoding for thinking about neural representation. share.google/J7VyC7YaBMpIJoN…
Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?
What does 'representation' mean to you?
We invite you to participate in a brief survey on conceptual questions across fields.
eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNX…
Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?
What does 'representation' mean to you?
We invite you to participate in a brief survey on conceptual questions across fields.
eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNX…
Microglia Activity in the Brain Drives Infantile Amnesia in Young Mice
According to the data, when microglia activity in the brain was suppressed, baby mice were better able to recall fearful experiences
@TJRyan_77@tcddublin#microglia#brain#amnesiahubs.li/Q03_M_lh0
Recent discussion on Brain Ponderings with the singular Mark Mattson.
We discussed current ideas on engrams, and the adaptive functions of forgetting.
youtu.be/F7E9U55kxyE?is=LPhV…
Concluding 2025 with a thread on one of our most recent manuscripts at @RyanLabTCD
"Extinction and subsequent updating of innate fear responses to a visual looming stimulus rely on hippocampus-dependent mechanisms"
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…#engram#instinct@PLOSBiology
Happy Holidays from everyone at @RyanLabTCD. Thanks to all of our alumni, collaborators, colleagues, and funders for helping us to continue to deliver science in turbulent times.
Looking forward to a busy 2026
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#12DaysofIrishResearch: Prof Tomás Ryan (@tcddublin) is exploring how early-life memories are lost - and differ in autism and between sexes - aiming to reverse memory loss. Funded by Research Ireland’s Frontiers for the Future Programme. Learn more: researchireland.ie/news/fron…