🚨 new work from the lab! "Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall" by @ryguy.io & @rsuthard.bsky.social thank you to the entire team for your camaraderie and for muscling through science together 🧠 -- we welcome all feedback! nature.com/articles/s41...

Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall

Nature Neuroscience - Senne, Suthard and colleagues show that dorsal hippocampal astrocytes display time-compressed calcium-event sequences after foot shock and upon context re-exposure, and that...

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I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!

Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

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📢🔥🎉🤩 New preprint from the lab, in collaboration with @clopathlab.bsky.social ! What network mechanisms generate a diversity of neural activity sequences within and across circuits? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

A common structure in recurrent networks supports neural sequence generation locally and in downstream neurons

Neural sequences, characterized by neurons or groups of neurons that fire one after the other, have been observed in multiple brain regions, across species, and are known to underlie a diversity of br...

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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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I’m very excited to share our new paper, led by the very talented Jack Bowler, a postdoc in the lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We all know that the way we learn something matters. But how does a training curriculum actually shape how the brain learns to solve a problem? a 🧵 1/N

Structured experience shapes strategy learning and neural dynamics in the medial entorhinal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

The authors use recurrent neural networks to predict how structured prior experience shapes neural dynamics as mice learn flexible timing strategies during complex context-dependent behavior.

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In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

What’s the role of spontaneous neural activity during sleep?

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach.

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Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end

Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...

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Har du hørt om havets fyrverkeri? I Akademiet for Yngre Forskere sin spalte i Forskersonen kan du i dag lese om hva det er som glitrer og skinner i dypet, og hvorfor jeg mener at Norge er et ideelt sted å studere dette fenomenet. God søndagslesing! www.forskersonen.no/bioluminesce...

Det ukjente fyrverkeriet: lys i havets mørke

POPULÆRVITENSKAP: Vi tenker ofte på havets dyp som mørkt, men de som har tatt turen ned forteller om et fyrverkeri uten like, skriver innsenderen.

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Out now in @science.org : How does the brain rapidly scan space to guide navigation? We found that the brain’s internal map is continuously retuned from moment to moment, focusing neural activity on what matters most. 🧵1/8 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adaptive modulation of theta sweeps in the brain’s navigation circuit

Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...

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📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience

In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...

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Interested in new ways to test models of memory consolidation? I'm taking this to the extreme with new model systems and naturalistic behavior and it is guaranteed to be cool 🥶 Come to poster 414 this afternoon (Thursday)! #FENS2026 #memory #hippocampus #neuropixels #hibernation #peromyscus

🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

"Ripple occurrence consistently tracked low arousal: rates were maximal in NREM sleep, small-pupil wake states, and slow heart rate periods across sleep and wake... ripple-like activity outside the hippocampus showed an opposite modulation, increasing with high arousal."

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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If our experiences unfold like a stream over time, how would this stream unfold in other animal species? Together with @birchlse.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social, a review of temporal illusions and a path for temporal phenomenology in animals! a 🧵/n www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

This paper is absolutely wild and amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions

Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...

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Story time friends... Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity. The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity. How is this possible? 1/🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

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I’m very sad to share that Howard Fields has died. He made seminal discoveries in pain modulation, placebo, and addiction. He was also a wonderful mentor and friend who taught me how to think about the brain and the joy of scientific discovery. www.iasp-pain.org/publications...

In Memory of Howard L. Fields - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

IASP is deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of Honorary IASP Member, Prof Howard Fields, and we offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. We are […]

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🚨 New Preprint 🚨 I’m excited to share the first paper from my postdoc. We found age differences in the timescales of neural activity in the hippocampus during movie viewing 👀 These timescales were related to memory specificity in an interesting way (spoiler: the hippocampus may not be special!?)

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Age Differences in Hippocampal Neural Timescales During Movie-Viewing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723065v1

Check out this very cool new paper on rat ultrasonic vocalizations emitted in a naturalistic habitat--some surprising findings, and cool quantitative analyses done by Jordan Saltzman in the Ron Frostig Lab in Neurobiology & Behavior @ucirvine.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Correlating ultrasonic communication with behavior in a small-scale rat colony living in a naturalistic habitat

Rodent behavior; Biological sciences; Zoology

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The final typeset version of this paper is online now! Check out the new analysis approach that Narjes developed to track changes in event structure at multiple timescales, allowing us to see how event dynamics in a film clip change with repeated viewing

Mariam Aly@mariamaly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication

The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...

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Aha! Moments are due to time perception. Because we figured something out in less time than we thought we would. Neat idea!

Cognition@cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A computational theory of Aha! moments! New paper explaining why Aha! moments occur & why they feel so good. TLDR: They are a form of meta-cognitive prediction errors i.e. they occur when we surprise ourselves about our own abilities! @rachitdubey.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published at @elife.bsky.social. Very smooth process and kind, constructive reviewers. Revised version in the works :) elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Ben Kanter@beneuroscience.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy belated publication of some of my PhD work! Building on our findings that grid field firing rate changes can cause hippocampal remapping and memory impairment, here we show that this effect has a fixed input-output relationship, and we can even predict how place cells will remap!

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school

How children remember time changes dramatically as they grow up & understanding that shift matters more than you might think. Two new papers from the lab's newest PhD, Dr. Owen Friend, explore what that difference looks like & what it tells us about the developing brain 🧠

Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results. we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/108...

TDLM-Resting-State Simulation

How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

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Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social's new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges. #neuroskyence www.linkedin.com/pulse/nontra...

The nontraditional model organism renaissance

Each month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci...

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