You want to 'democratize' science? Fight for funding and opportunities. Companies are trying to take that away from you🧪

🧵 Excited to share my first paper, now out in Science Advances! 🧠 How does premotor cortex represent actions when we perform them vs. when we watch others? We looked at this using population-level recordings in macaque premotor cortex. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)

Dynamic population coding of kinematic structure across executed and observed actions in primate premotor cortex

Premotor neural populations dynamically integrate seeing and doing by reflecting the unfolding kinematics of grasping actions.

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Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @natcomms.nature.com !🧠🔍 Accumulating virtual rewards enhances both decision-making accuracy and neural value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex by dynamically shifting a goal-dependent internal reference point. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters

Female beast hunters battled leopards in ancient Rome, long-lost mosaic shows

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters

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A Super El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temperatures looked like this, millions died. Reshare. Earthlyeducation

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Been really struggling to wrap my mind around this graph. It shows just how wildly off the charts global temps are right now. When is so hot that it becomes an imperative to organize around and meaningfully address?

I, too, am calling for people to cut oil demand. In addition to these ideas, also try demanding: -adequate funding for transit operations, -protected bike lanes, and -an end to freeway expansions.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo ago

The International Energy Agency is calling for people to cut oil demand by working from home more, flying less and driving slower, as the Iran war rocks global energy markets. ft.trib.al/gfbNyyI

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience

Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

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For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪

Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science

The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.

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You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠 The deadline is this Friday, March 6th. Run! 🏃‍♂️💨 Apply here: 🔗 www.bambschool.org

BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior

Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

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Climate change can flip some mountain ecosystems from grasslands to woodlands, according to a study in Colorado. Artificially warmed plots transitioned from mostly herbaceous plants to mostly woody shrubs over 29 years. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vOGH50Yl7JC

Gerald Zaltman's pioneering research methods for understanding the unconscious desires of customers are used by companies around the world. Dare to Think Differently draws on these groundbreaking methods to explain the innovative thinking used by successful executives https://ow.ly/YfqL50Yiu19

As promised: a detailed figure-by-figure thread on our @pnas.org paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We use signal correlations and noise correlations in chronic imaging data to show that representational drift is shaped by a balance between Hebbian and stochastic changes. Let’s dive in 👇 🧠🧪 1/9

Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning | PNAS

Recent evidence indicates that even under stable environmental and behavioral conditions, responses to sensory stimuli undergo continuous reformatt...

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Jens-Bastian Eppler@j-b-eppler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New @pnas.org paper out 🎉 “Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning” 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... What drives representational drift in neural populations? Here’s the short version. 👇 🧪🧠 1/5

Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org

BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior

Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

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Cognition is not steady state. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications

How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

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Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠 Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...

A study published in Nature analyses the impact of AI on scientific research, revealing that AI-augmented scientists publish 3.02 times more papers and receive 4.84 times more citations compared to their peers. go.nature.com/4rmyX2x 🧪 #ArtificialIntelligence

🚨Do we need a large, expensive MRI scanner to map whole-brain networks in the mouse? Not necessarily! In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI 🧵👇

“Why does MAGA hate the planet?” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Turning Our Back on Clean Energy

Why does MAGA hate the planet?

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Quick reminder that 3 °C of warming would set Europe up for heat domes that kill 30,000 people in a single week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo ago

‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating

This is cool. Complex behavior is built from subcomponents. Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature

The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

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the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years. if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.

💡 Our new #preprint is available online! How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change? In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments. 🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a thread 🧵

Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours - Nature

The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes the value, salience and valence of learned stimuli along distinct neural dimensions, and the geometry of these representations shapes motivated behaviours in ...

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🌟 The #FENS–#EJN Image Competition is open! This is your chance to showcase your creativity at #FENS2026 in #Barcelona! 🇪🇸 🗓️ Deadline: 28 February 2026 👉 Learn more and submit your image here: buff.ly/TPA5eoV #FENS #BrainResearch #NeuroscienceConference

Cortex works with rhythms and waves. Nested spatiotemporal theta–gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New study uses #satellite records and shows that #SouthernOcean #phytoplankton responds in contrasting ways to marine #heatwaves and #cold spells. The impacts vary sharply by region, exposing distinct #ecological sensitivity to #climate -driven extremes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme temperature events reshuffle the ecological landscape of the Southern Ocean - Nature Communications

Satellite records reveal that Southern Ocean phytoplankton responds in contrasting ways to marine heatwaves and cold spells. These opposing impacts vary sharply by region, exposing distinct ecological...

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🚨 #FENS2026 LAST DAY! 🗓️ 5 February is the final day for early registration, abstract submissions and travel grants for the #FENSForum. Be part of Europe’s largest #neuroscience conference and connect with the global brain science community. 🧠 👉 buff.ly/psyzZje