Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social

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Now accepted and published --- with many thanks to the referees for helping sharpen the manuscript. Long time since the first notes. Good to see it officially out. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A vector navigation and inference architecture can construct universal cognitive maps for abstract reasoning

Bicanski proposes an algorithm and neural mechanisms for the iterative construction of abstract cognitive maps via non-local inference. Map positions are triangulated and memorized by a set of extant ...

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Andrej Bicanski@andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪

I am concerned that the explosion of AI in science will be the ultimate implementation of Brandolini's law... So that what scientists will increasingly be doing is chasing down potentially plausible answers without a way of verifying the underlying premises. FYI: Brandolini's law

Applications are open for the San Juan Winter School on Connectomics & Brain Simulation 2027! 🧠 📍 San Juan, Puerto Rico 📆 Jan. 10–23, 2027  💻 Lectures, hands-on connectomics and neural modeling, and research projects Apply by Oct. 22: sjcabs.com

And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior.

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · last wk.

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

Just out in Nat Neurosci: disentangling of neural odor manifolds in "olfactory cortex" of adult zebrafish after learning. Great work by Bo, Nesibe et al and wonderful collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social that fundamentally changed my view of olfactory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first Danionella paper from the lab. Danionella cerebrum is transparent, so you can see all of the internal organs. But what sensory information are the organs sending to the brain? In our new preprint, Emily Bayer wanted to find out. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ultrastructural reconstruction of hundreds of neurons by volume EM revealed cell types and a precise glomerular organization in the zebrafish olfactory bulb. A heroic effort by Nila! Special thanks to Nila @michalwj.bsky.social and the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deep anatomical and ultrastructural classification of neurons in the zebrafish olfactory bulb

Neuronal circuits in the olfactory bulb (OB) perform computations fundamental to pattern classification including a decorrelation and normalization of odor-evoked activity. These computations are medi...

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New preprint by Tommaso: olfactory cortex (of zebrafish) represents not only odor information but also temporal context, and these multimodal representations are sharpened after learning. And check out Tommaso's new method for 2P imaging in awake adult zebrafish! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Joint experience-dependent representations of odors and temporal context in the zebrafish homolog of piriform cortex

Intelligent behavior requires experience-dependent internal representations of relevant information. We examined representational learning in telencephalic area pDp of adult zebrafish, the homolog of ...

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New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating

Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

Hippocampal engrams configure prefrontal context representations to guide flexible decisions Impressive combo of methods to manipulate and record this process: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hippocampal engrams configure prefrontal context representations to guide flexible decisions

Flexible behavior requires using past experiences to configure cortical computations to suit current task demands. A central question in neuroscience is how memory representations control such reconfi...

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Nature research paper: An intrinsic cytoskeletal oscillator establishes neuronal polarity go.nature.com/4p9dWbh

An intrinsic cytoskeletal oscillator establishes neuronal polarity - Nature

The ARP2/3 complex works together with actomyosin in an oscillatory program at the soma to govern neuronal polarization.

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Happy to share our latest work, out today! We show that spatial representations and their dynamics differ across anatomical compartments of hippocampal CA3, and that these differences can be explained by the level of recurrent connectivity in each compartment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recurrent connectivity shapes spatial coding in hippocampal CA3 subregions

Stable and flexible neural representations of space in the hippocampus are crucial for navigating complex environments, yet how they emerge from the u…

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What if part of Huntington's disease wasn't just damage, but a circuit stuck in the wrong pattern? Our new paper, out today in Nature, tests that idea.

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

I’m very excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron! 🎉

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...

Exclusive: Janelia sunsets rodent work, launches transparent fish project

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that…

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Where do ideas come from? We founded the Night Science Institute with the mission of training in the creative scientific process every early-career scientist in the world. Help us to spread the word with this clip! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c1V... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

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If you use this, ask yourself: do you really like your job? 🧪

MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 3mo ago

Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.

Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets