Gamze Güney

PhD student at Poulet Lab, @MDC_Berlin. Associated with @iNAMES_RS. Studying temperature perception.

[Dr. Emily A. Aery Jones @EmilyAeryJones]

The Aery Jones lab is recruiting another postdoc! If you're interested in neural mechs of spatial memory, high-density recordings, cool tasks (like cricket hunting), and/or aging and Alzheimer's, come check us out: https://t.co/smTojuAk6G. Please pass along to your friends :D

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Why am I sharing this? Because Dr. Vestergaard doesn't have a Twitter account, and I would like to share this great news as someone who has been working with him for the last 4 years!

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Vestergaard Lab is hiring a postdoc and a PhD student, who is passionate about investigating the cortical processing of pain! Totally recommend working with Dr. Vestergaard :) Always great science and fun.
📍Location: Copenhagen
🗓️Start: 01.11.2025
🔗Link: https://t.co/SGlXK8jsU7

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Also, there is a fellowship opportunity: https://t.co/SAesgzRlgp

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Tomorrow, twitterless Dr. Svenja Steinfelder and I will be giving a talk at Planetarium Berlin! We will talk about temperature processing in mammals from past, present, and future perspectives :) This will be my first talk in German after a looong time! Looking forward to it!

[Max Delbrück Center @MDC_Berlin]

Join us at Zeiss-Planetarium tomorrow to learn "How our body recognizes temperature", with Gamze Güney and Svenja Steinfelder from #mdcBerlin's Poulet Lab. The talk is part of @campusbuch's "New directions in biomedicine" series.

Register now: https://t.co/JKRV0neSFG (in German)

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

@zeynpokr @UniBasel_en @biozentrum Bravo!! 👏👏

[EmilianiLab @EmilianiLab]

We’re thrilled to announce that registration is now open for the 6th edition (on March 2025) of the Paris School on All-Optical Neuronal Circuits Control with Optogeentics and Multiphoton Microscopy!

Join us and explore the latest breakthroughs with an outstanding lineup of experts covering cutting-edge techniques and hands-on practical demonstrations @3i_inc @dim_elicit on: holographic light shaping, 1P and 2P optogenetics @ClaireWyart @zenith_etn and voltage imaging @MichaelLinLab, 2P mini-scopes @WikiZong, 2P fiber-based endoscopy @NicsNextTo, 3P microscopy, 2P holographic mesoscopy @LamiaeAdm @AdenisikHillel, viral expression strategies @DalkaraLab, pioneering genetic tools @joH_VieR @OferYizhar , new approaches for high throughput connectivity mapping @DimitriiTanese @ChenIWen1 @koweiss .
More details at https://t.co/La8fXaKx4V

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

anyone? 🥹

[Lena Kaufmann @lena_v_kaufmann]

Hey FENS-people, I need a jump the fens ticket, does anybody have a spare one? @FENSorg #FENS2024

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

On my way to #FENS2024 in Vienna! Looking forward to a week full of neuroscience 🧠
I will be presenting a poster on Wednesday, 09:30 – 13:00.
PS01-26AM-617: Thermal encoding by GABAergic interneurons in the posterior insular cortex.

[iNAMES @iNAMES_RS]

Last week we gathered at the beautiful Apart Hotel Haveltreff for an inspiring iNAMES PhD Retreat 🏨🌴 We enjoyed the gorgeous nature of Schwielowsee, had chalk talk presentations, workshops, fantastic talks from our keynote speakers ––and also built some spaghetti towers 🗼🫰

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

@annmclemens @BrechtLab @kinshiplab @llFlorll @ZuzannaMBaran @sidb_edinburgh @EdinUniNeuro @EdinburghUni it was a great pleasure to spend time with you 🤓

[Dr. Taylor van Doren ☕️ @taylor_vandoren]

me leaving my office after writing code for 8 hours to make 1 little figure

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Congrats my friends @nataliegloveli, @misnaej and other members of @BrechtLab 🥹👏👏

[Brecht Lab @BrechtLab]

Happy to share our latest study on tickling and play responses in the brain that is out now in @NeuroCellPress! @nataliegloveli @misnaej

[Masoud @linguistMasoud]

I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Goodbye Les Diablerets! It was a great pleasure🥹 I met sooo many great scientists with whom I had inspiring and helpful discussions. I am going back home satisfied and happy, with new friends and new ideas. Hopefully I will be back with a talk next time! #InhibitionGRC

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

Looking forward to the GRS/GRC Inhibition in the CNS! I will be presenting a poster today in the GRS and on monday in the GRC on the cellular encoding of temperature by the posterior insular cortex excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Drop by! #InhibitionGRC

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

@fluorescence_SC @GaryRLewin1 @ThanosBalomenos @klich_jd Tell usss!!! One of Khaleesi's dragons?

[Gamze Güney @gamzegueney]

The fact that they tried to silence the female scientist commenting on this is somehow more concerning.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This is unbelievable!

Kurt Wüthrich, an 84-year-old, Swiss, male scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 claims that "as a male scientist" he has "a feeling of discrimination."

He said this during the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on a panel that had four old, male scientists including him and an old, male moderator. (It was literally a susage fest!)

When Science Magazine asked him to elaborate on the kind of discrimnation he faced, "Wüthrich said he did not feel personally discriminated against as an individual at the event but thought that all men attendees faced discrimination while women were tokenized."

Here's an example of the discrimination Kurt Wüthrich, a Nobel Prize winner, gave:

In group photos of laureates, women laureates were asked to stand in front while male scientists like him were told to stand behind them 🤦😂😭

This makes him feel "horrible" because asking women laureates to stand in front is "ridiculous, fully ridiculuous."

A young scholar countered Wüthrich's childish tantrum and the moderator tried to shut her up.

For reference, here's a comparison:

Nobel Prizes won:
By men: 892
By women: 60

Speakers invited to this year's Lindau meeting:
Men: 34
Women: 5

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A couple of observations:

1. The feeling among men that gender equality is somehow a form of discrimination against them is not limited to incels (involuntary celibates) on the internet.

Male Nobel Prize winners can feel the same way too.

2. Many young scholars and scientists are still playing the "prestige" game: do a PhD in a "prestigious" university, do a postdoc in a "prestigious" lab, go to "prestigious" meetings like Lindau.

Playing the prestige game takes a lot of toll on one's mental health and personal relationships. The worst part is make you feel extremely insecure.

No amount of external validation, not even a Nobel Prize, will help you overcome your insecurities.

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

I feel attacked by this meme 😂

[Butt Lab - Oxford @Interneuron_Dev]

We're looking for a research assistant for next year. It's an ideal position for a grad who wants a bit of research experience in circuit & system neuro as a bridge to MSc/PhD course applications. It will be very hands-on - patching, lasers etc. Please RT

https://t.co/B92lJBXXpB