I've got a new chapter out, Insights Into Retinal Remodeling In Retinal Degenerative Disease: bryanwjones.com/2026/07/insi...

#Zebrafish for the win! Congrats to Jack Nicholls and this beautiful image of lamination in the zebrafish retina 🐟 🧪 See the rest of the Top 10 here: thenode.biologists.com/results-of-t...

Young Embryologist Network@yen-network.bsky.social · last mo.

We are excited to announce the results of the YEN 2026 Image Competition! Thanks to all who submitted an entry. This year amazing work has been shared with us complementing our perspectives talks on art+science. We congratulate the winners of the YEN and public votes! #yen2026 #yenimagecompetition

Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

SHOW US YOUR BRAINS! Enter your beautiful brain images and videos into the Annual BRAIN Initiative Photo and Video Contest! Submission closes soon, and all are eligible to enter! 🧪🧠🎨 www.2026brainconference.com/event/44a17f...

RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Household debate of the day, if you entered the dungeon with one of our dogs and that dog would become a sentient crawler in your party, you taking Hank (big baby brute force idiot) or Loretta (tiny vicious trickster)?

It slowly becomes more difficult to not post things I shouldn't post.

Quilt soap is both imperfect soap and an imperfect quilt.

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” NIH BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai argues that the future of neuroscience depends on integration across data types, species, technologies, and communities. 🔗 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00277-1

Giving at talk tomorrow at Women in Neuroscience. Stoked to share all the cool things BRAIN has been supporting. Also peep the very old, but still my favorite, headshot by @bwjones.bsky.social neurowomen.org

Home | Women in Neuroscience

An inclusive scientific community produces better health outcomes.

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Momma for mother's day.

Learn more about the BRAIN Initiative Research Roadmap, and the BRAIN Directors vision of the future of neuroscience! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Inventing the future: A neuroscience research roadmap

The past decade of transformative advances in neurotechnology portends an exciting future for neuroscience. This NeuroView charts a strategic path to accelerate and integrate research discovery and sp...

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Bridging the gap with invasive imaging: promises and challenges of a new generation of ultrahigh resolution fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717824v1

Look at my friend, the phenom, @cllantz.bsky.social, how did I trick her into being my friend?!?!

Careers in Neuroscience: Science Program Strategist

<p><em><em>Learn about Crystal L. Lantz, PhD, chief of extramural activities at the NIH BRAIN Initiative, in this new&nbsp;<a href="~/link.aspx?_id=A964A632F77940A78056DED149487282&amp;_z=z">Careers i...

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Same same but different

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks

Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...

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In partnership with @fens.org and @ibroorg.bsky.social, the Dana Foundation commissioned a survey of past #BrainAwarenessWeek grantees and applicants to better understand how Brain Awareness Week advances its goals. Read the highlights from the survey in the latest President's Perspective. ⬇️

Strengthening Trainee Skills Through Brain Awareness Week

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I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️

Stories of WiN@storiesofwin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! Thank you for helping us appreciate women in neuro & their stories! We believe in the power of storytelling, & our latest profile highlights Dr. Paula Croxson (@paulacroxson.bsky.social) who made science communication her career. Enjoy! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Always awesome to work with you and your team Bryan!

Bryan Roth@zenbrainest.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper inspired by @nanopharmnc.bsky.social Xylazine's k-opioid agonist activity is not shared with other FDA-approved alpha2-adrenergic agonists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Off to Sunposium tomorrow. Feel free to message me here, on the meeting app or just say hi if you want to chat about BRAIN or NIH.

The brain oscillates and we should figure out why. Development of new analytics will be key: Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #neuroscience

Frontiers | Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series

Neural oscillations have long been considered important markers of interaction across brain regions, yet identifying coordinated oscillatory activity from hi...

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Have we reached the point where we should be taking Roko and their basalisk seriously?

Every year I made niche interest based Valentine's Day cards for my partner. They have ranged widely from video games, tv shows, animals. This year, they are Mat Armstrong.

#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain

Snowtime quilt. I like the pattern and color way. I tried a garland of neurons around the border, I don't think I like it but too late now. Gift for a 'retiring' colleague.

Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o... #neuroscience

Opinion | What Are We Thinking?

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I have finished my quilt x hardcore patch collection and I am proud.

“adoption of AI in science presents what seems to be a paradox: an expansion of individual scientists’ impact but a contraction in collective science’s reach, as AI-augmented work moves collectively towards areas richest in data...

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening... www.nature.com/articles/s41...