Come hang out with me tomorrow afternoon at poster JJ5! I'll be sharing new work investigating how replay features like rate of occurrence, speed and self-avoidance change dynamically with learning at behaviorally relevant locations
Caitlin Mallory
@caitlinmallory.bsky.social
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow, current postdoc at UC Berkeley. Interested in memory, imagination, replay and internally-generated sequences. Other main interests include children (especially my 3 y/o daughter) and dachshunds (borderline obsession).
My 4 year old just showed me the "book" she made at school explaining, "here's your book, I hope you like it. Don't forget to subscribe!"
I was in tears after a rough science day until my 4 year old hugs me and says "at least you have a great kid!"
Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior? Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience? The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring! 🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍 Check out our website for updates: sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
This is one of the most outstanding examples of circuit understanding I've seen in a long time. The unification of theory and experiment is beautiful. When Malcolm presented this in my lab, the audience was cheering at the end, and one person shouted (non-ironically) "You did it!"
Malcolm Campbell@malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵
Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics
Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...
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Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by HHMI. We’re immensely honored to have two #PMB faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social , among this inspiring group. An incredible and well-deserved achievement! @ucdavis.bsky.social
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
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1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!
The time course and organization of hippocampal replay
The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...
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SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now @nature.com !!) with Wenbo Tang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz✉️, and Azahara Oliva✉️: we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! #Neuroscience #hippocampus nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/12👇
Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay - Nature
The temporal microstructure of the brain can multiplex distinct cognitive processes during sleep to support continuous learning.
nature.com
I showed my 3 year old The Lion King once and now she's using "Hakuna Matata" as though it means "YOLO". I'm like, Sadie, don't jump off that ledge, you could really hurt yourself!" and she's like "Mama (sigh) Hakuna Matata".