Excited to share our work now in Nature Methods! We wrote this manuscript to help others better analyze and interpret calcium imaging data. As a central aspect, we show why nonlinear behavior of calcium indicators matters in practice. Very happy about this work!

Nature Methods@natmethods.nature.com · 2mo ago

An Analysis from @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social et al investigates the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using different algorithms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

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Interesting read in the New Yorker (and shameless self-promotion:)

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo ago

A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development tells us a lot about how vision works. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵

Our new paper on how mice become experts in a visual spatial attention task - after just 18 days of training! 🐭👁️🧠🔦 Lots of new findings made possible by standardized behavioral procedures and a fantastic team of 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬. Open access, all data + code posted. Check it out 👇

Cell Reports Methods@cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A standardized and reproducible behavioral framework to elicit multiple aspects of visual spatial attention in mice

In case you missed it... here's how we train mice to become experts in a visual spatial attention task (in 17 days!) PLUS new findings: contrast sensitivity improves at relevant spatial locations 👁️🧠 Tons of work from the team (700+ days of data from 36 🐭and 11 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬) led by Kayla Peelman 💪

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A standardized and reproducible behavioral protocol to elicit visual spatial attention in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695467v1

10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and @gtresearch.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social for connecting us w @us.theconversation.com

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9mo ago

Studying how mice see is giving neuroscientists new insight into how the human brain turns light into vision 👀 theconversation.com/gazing-into-... 🧪

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

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🧪 The Sjöström Lab in Montreal is looking for a postdoc! We study cortical circuits, synaptic plasticity, and NMDAR signalling using custom 2-photon microscopy and optogenetics. We seek candidates with strong patch-clamp and/or 2-photon imaging expertise, and a relevant publication track record.

2. Systems Neuroscience PhD position, supervised jointly with Sarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social This is to investigate the differential circuits involved in habitual and goal-directed behaviours. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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PhD Project - Systems Neuroscience PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!

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PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs

FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement

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Check out our latest paper today in Nature: “Goal specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning” www.nature.com/articles/s41... By Nuri Jeong, Xiao Zheng, Abby Paulson, Steph Prince and colleagues.

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

Brain gain? Toronto's @UHN hospital system will announce a strategy to attract U.S. health scientists - plan to be unveiled Monday. Website isn't up yet, but U.S scientists interested check here Monday. Hopefully other hospitals & universities follow UHNCanadaleads.ca

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This was a difficult thread to write.. Our research on antidepressants has been supported by NIMH for 10 years. Until the last moment, their comms team was still trying to put out a press piece about this work for us. I’m so sorry.

Alex Kwan@alexkwan.bsky.social · last yr.

Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪 Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov 📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/12

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just boosting this again because after a bit of bureaucratic wrangling we are now almost ready to launch! Adverts should be out next week - will keep you posted

Interesting work by Tony Lien & @haiderlab.bsky.social. They reveal how some frontal cortex neurons mirrors V1 neurons. Responses lag visual cortex (VC) by ~25ms, with strikingly similar receptive fields—yet lacking a topographic map. Crucially, silencing VC abolishes these responses. Congrats

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Highly selective visual receptive fields in mouse frontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645272v1

Exciting new results from the lab -- *visual* receptive fields in motor and cingulate cortex! Great work from Tony Lien 🧠🧪

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Highly selective visual receptive fields in mouse frontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645272v1

Congrats to Kayla Peelman on publishing her paper AND defending her thesis in the same week ✨🎉 Click 👇 to see how the environment shapes the timing and selectivity of vision 👁️🧠🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Environmental context influences visual processing in thalamus

Peelman and Haider show that environmental context shapes visual processing in the thalamus. In a context that enables locomotion—versus one that does not—visual responses are faster but less selectiv...

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Bilal Haider@haiderlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Basic features of visual responses depend on the environment in which they are measured— even during identical alertness and stillness. Great work from Kayla Peelman! check it 🧠👁️👇🏼 #neuroskyence 🧪

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2

Lateral inhibition from parvalbumin neurons in mouse primary visual cortex reduces sensitivity to contrast; lateral inhibition from somatostatin neurons changes the gain of contrast sensitivity 🧪🧠 @haiderlab.bsky.social @gtresearchnews.bsky.social s.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lateral inhibition in V1 controls neural and perceptual contrast sensitivity - Nature Neuroscience

The role of lateral inhibition for perception and neural computation remains unsolved. Del Rosario et al. show that distinct types of cortical interneurons in V1 drive lateral inhibition that causes s...

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Congratulations to these two outstanding physician-neuroscientists! Many people now are familiar with the fascinating fundamental research of @michellemonje.bsky.social but most people probably don't know she is a truly great physician. I'm fortunate to be inspired by her every day, in every way.

The Brain Prize@brainprize.org · 2y ago

Congratulations to winners of The Brain Prize 2025! Professors @michellemonje.bsky.social, @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and @hhmi.org Investigator, and Frank Winkler, Heidelberg University Hospital, have pioneered the field of Cancer Neuroscience. Learn more: brainprize.org/winners/canc...

Super interesting... phenotyping social behavior + touch in 7 monogenic rat models of autism

Bence Ölveczky@olveczky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8

just noticed @jdelrosario.bsky.social has joined us here - welcome and congrats on a great study 👇

Bilal Haider@haiderlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

(1/10) Happy to share a science update! 🧠🧪 Our @natureneuro.bsky.social article shows how inhibitory neurons calculate “subtraction” or “division” to adjust visual sensitivity! This one has it all – behavior, optogenetics, modeling, cell types, subthreshold mechanisms. Quick thread 🧵below

(1/10) Happy to share a science update! 🧠🧪 Our @natureneuro.bsky.social article shows how inhibitory neurons calculate “subtraction” or “division” to adjust visual sensitivity! This one has it all – behavior, optogenetics, modeling, cell types, subthreshold mechanisms. Quick thread 🧵below

Lateral inhibition in V1 controls neural and perceptual contrast sensitivity - Nature Neuroscience

The role of lateral inhibition for perception and neural computation remains unsolved. Del Rosario et al. show that distinct types of cortical interneurons in V1 drive lateral inhibition that causes s...

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I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵

Our paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Confirmed (by many sources) news about 50 NIH Study Sections being allowed to announce meetings in the Federal Register. As usual, MANY more questions than answers... 1/2

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Amazing opportunity for a UCL faculty position:

Sarah Garfinkel@sarahgarf.bsky.social · 2y ago

*We are hiring* Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London