Nicolas Guyon

This is a good week! On Monday, my PhD co-supervisor @deisseroth.bsky.social was awarded the @nobelprize.org for his work on optogenetics. Yesterday, I submitted my primary postdoc work on photopharmacology, a complementary method that uses light for the precise spatial and temporal release of drugs

Not everyone seems to realize that the origin of the machine view of life is not scientific at all. It dates from the 17th century (Descartes) and it's the expression of a monotheist view opposing pagan views of nature. A living being is like a perfect machine made by God, not an autonomous being.

How far will cockroach movement go? India's youth-led protests defy Modi government

Quand Trump dit à un public blanc du Minnesota qu'il a "de bons gènes", il s'appuie sur une *grammaire commune* qui circule aussi chez les libéraux & progressistes, des podcasts sur la dopamine aux discours sur le genre ou l'école. Entretien avec @hnirom.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to the developers of optogenetics. Did you know that optogenetics is based on a discovery made in green algae? Well, now you do! Here’s a comic explainer we did back when it was still new. @phdcomics.com 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Neuro arnaque sort aujourd'hui chez Textuel. On nous explique les crise écologiques par le striatum, l'inégalité scolaire par les gènes, les préférences genrées par l'évolution... La neurobiologie réelle raconte une tout autre histoire. www.editionstextuel.com/livre/neuro_...

Learn more about the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Press release: bit.ly/4rgMBol Popular information: bit.ly/4xBghhH Advanced information: bit.ly/4j2v4OM

The 2026 Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine have laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

New fUSI workshop in Paris in December 🎉 join us! Opportunities for young investigator talks and travel grants available too ✨

Exemplaires de mon bouquin "Neuro Arnaque", reçus pendant l'été, ça fait tout drôle 🥹 Sortie le 7 octobre, j'espère que ça contribuera au débat.

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

After a long journey through review, our paper is finally out in Nature Communications. We started with a simple problem: The visual cortex is strongly modulated by movement. So how can it represent the visual world without movement interfering with everything? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news for Sweden (and Europe) if this is confirmed later tonight! #valet2026

🧠 #Opportunity: Become a leader for brain health! Apply for the inaugural Global Brain Care Scholars Program by @institutvbhi.bsky.social, @bkmfoundation.bsky.social, @institutducerveau.bsky.social, Global Brain Health Institute, BrainLat Institute and Global Brain Care Coalition

Ma contribution aux assises pour l'Université et pour la Recherche (3-4/9/2026), concernant le financement de la recherche. romainbrette.fr/pour-un-fina...

📣 Apply early to get a chance to be selected for a short talk!!!! Early-bird registration: 15 September 2026 Abstract submission: 1 October 2026 Standard registration: 1 November 2026

An essay I've just written for @nytimes on why Big Tech is the 21st Century’s equivalent of the East India Company: "What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

Maybe postdocs are different, but during my time as a union organizer, the bespoke relationships I noticed getting disrupted by unionization were the ones where the mentor threatened to have the mentee's visa revoked unless the mentee worked all weekend and ran errands unrelated to their assignment.

"If an animal can do something (regardless as to the behavioral rarity or particular species), there are neural circuits for these actions which can be examined [...]" Great piece and reflexion on "naturalistic" behavior by @froemkelab.bsky.social. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Can't wait to try it!

To protest the unending Bangalore roadworks, I created a game called Swalpa Adjust Maadi (Kannada for "please bear with the inconvenience"). You play the contractor digging up the roads, the residents are mute spectators who always lose! A new puzzle each day: mthattai.github.io/Swalpa-Adjus...

Ketamine increases neuroplasticity in female mice but not males. With @istaresearch.bsky.social, we found the key gene behind the difference. If it holds in humans, it could reshape how we approach assessing treatments. 🔗 Story: https://bit.ly/4yM4hvL 🔬 Journal article: https://bit.ly/4pYisK8

Over the past few years, @quorumetrix.bsky.social has been working on bringing neuroscience to the dome. His new planetarium film, more than a decade in the making, takes viewers on an immersive journey into the brain. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/art-in-scien...

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

New work from our lab @faurelab.bsky.social expending the tools available to study nicotinic receptors more precisely. @espciparispsl.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social

Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty? Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention

In their essay, ALBA Network team members Keerthana Iyer, Arish Rakshasa-Loots, Ana Silva and Violetta Zujovic argue that to improve global neuroscience participation the field must embrace a more holistic definition of underrepresentation. #neuroskyence

Looking for a postdoc (fast)!! 😅 2-years funded on the ATIP-Avenir Program. I'll be at #FENS2026 in Barcelona if you want to meet in person. www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Haven’t written science in French in years, but just published a short open-access commentary on my Nat Neuro work with @pierrelemerre.bsky.social. Hopefully useful for teaching in French-speaking contexts! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1051/meds... Original work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thousands of Indian protesters gathered to march on Parliament on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s education minister over botched entrance exams that affected millions of students.

Just back from #FENS2026 had the pleasure to chair a technical workshop "Imaging brainwide activity with functional ultrasound imaging across species and brain states" with 5 amazing speakers: @mace-lab.bsky.social, @agnesland.bsky.social, Yves boubenec, Thomas Orset and Sadaf Soloukey.

A new standard in brain care? Erasmus MC monitors brain activity while walking using ultra-fast ultrasound and PEEK. “This is an absolute breakthrough,” says Dr. Sadaf Soloukey. #brainhealth #ultrasound #healthcare #research #digitalhealth

New paper in iScience! A subset of #VLPO neurons shows spontaneous #rhythmic #bursting. Huge thanks to Q. Perrenoud, J. Ribot, H. Geoffroy, T. Gallopin, N. Rouach 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #sleep #neuroscience @cirbcdf.bsky.social @pslqlife.bsky.social @espciparispsl.bsky.social

We are delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop of @animalinvention.bsky.social on Agency between Biology and Philosophy. It will take place at UCL and online on 22-23 September. All info and registration details can be found here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

Our labs first paper! Some 😳 surprising effects. Turns out everything comes back to context 🤓

A very interesting article by Théophile Robert-Rimsky on human-bird relations: "Avian everyday activism: Invasion, presence, occupation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Science really takes a village. Thrilled to share this with my friend @dudinlab.bsky.social, and with our brilliant and fearless teams, our collaborators around the world and our mentors - in my case a special shoutout to Buzz Baum, Jan Ellenberg and @monicabettencourt.bsky.social. 1/2

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Signed! One of the most important ways to make science more inclusive, IMO.