Very promising

Fabian Schwimmbeck@fabian31415.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can we study MTL ripples non-invasively? New preprint! We show that source-resolved MEG tracks ripple-like activity during sleep that: • localizes to the MTL • follows the canonical SO–spindle hierarchy • matches an iEEG benchmark • indexes memory reactivation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is an extremely important and tragic story from @science.org and @retractionwatch.com on the death of a girl during a neuroscience gene therapy trial www.science.org/content/arti... There is a lot to unpack here, scientifically and ethically.

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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I'm excited to share that I'll be starting my independent lab at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology! 🎉 The lab will be based in the Department of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine, and affiliated with the new Technion Healthy Aging Institute (iTechAge).

Exciting new preprint from the lab, led by @lizsiefert.bsky.social , together with @annaschapiro.bsky.social. Findings help to clarify when hippocampal ripples occur across wake and sleep, better aligning human data with animal models.

Liz Siefert@lizsiefert.bsky.social · last mo.

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

Increasing EEG electrode density improves decoding of visual categories and source localization: an exploratory ultra-high-density EEG study

🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation 1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep. doi.org/10.64898/202...

For more than a century, the study of brain lesions has been central to understanding cognitive processes and normal brain function (e.g., Broca’s studies). However, what electrophysiological signatures emerge following a brain lesion?

New in #JNeurosci from Pinggal et al: Medication-withdrawn adults with ADHD exhibit more sleep-like brain activity while awake than neurotypical adults that is linked to poorer performance in a task that requires sustained attention. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1694-25.2025

I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠 - Simple API - Built-in atlases - Custom atlas support 🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)

Still pumped up from yesterday's international sleep replay workshop! Provocative talks, engaging discussion groups & enthusiastic engagement by all attendees from undergrads to full professors. Stay tuned for info on the next one. And now, on to @cnsmtg.bsky.social. Check out our lab's posters!

Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor Sessions on: memory processes sleep & replay analysis and stimulation techniques www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab... plz rp

A worm, H. miamia, appears to have a diffuse 'brain' without regional specialization. "Early brains may have arisen through the condensation of diffuse nerve nets into unregionalized brains, with regionalization evolving secondarily." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th @cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay

Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events   SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...

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"During smartphone use, the probability of waking cortical slow wave bursts increased" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sleep colleagues, please submit tonight to be considered for a short talk.

Ken Paller@paller.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS. Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact. Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS. Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact. Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.

Nice Saturday morning read www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

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Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!

CNS 2026 Annual Meeting@cnsmtg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th @cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu @cnsnews.bsky.social

Why do we remember emotional events so vividly? Our new paper @nathumbehav.nature.com suggests that emotional arousal enhances memory by strengthening integration across large-scale brain networks! Led by the amazing @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Jadyn Park@jadynpark.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Eti Ben Simon@sleepingeti.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our research on sleep loss and misinformation is nominated for the Mind Science People’s Choice Award🥳Help us win by casting your vote in the link below🙌Voting closes October 14th. #MindScience #BrainStorm2025 #SleepScience

For #FluorescenceFriday✨ Exploring the beauty of the locus Coeruleus using IF staining: neurons🔵 surrounded by glowing astrocytes🟢 embracing delicate blood vessels🔴, alongside striking pTau signals💗. A vivid reminder of the cellular complexity shaping brain health and disease. #LC #Neuroscience

Thanks for the shout out! The preprint is available: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40894612/ Big kudos to our amazing first author, Tenzin Desel! We are looking fwd to further improve it in the review process

American Aging Association@americanaging.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New research from Dr. @omersharon.bsky.social UCBerkeley! In aging, slow delta waves intrude phasic REM sleep → linked to worse memory consolidation 🧠 & Alzheimer’s pathology. Suggests REM sleep plays a critical role in memory & brain health. #SleepScience #AgingResearch #Alzheimers

Please join us and spread the word

Eitan Schechtman@eitans.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list. isrw.bio.uci.edu Pls repost! #sleep