Hallelujah! Papers written by an AI and reviewed by an AI can finally be read by an AI, fulfilling the prophecy of the Great AI Circlejerk

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does sleep consolidate muscle memories? New research from @mstephensonjones.bsky.social lab & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com reveals that motor-skill memories are replayed in the striatum during sleep, independently of the hippocampus. www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/muscle-...

Muscle memories: how does sleep produce consolidation? | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

Sleep not only makes us feel better, but it’s vital for helping us form memories and learn new skills. For many years, neuroscientists have studied how the brain consolidates episodic memories during ...

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Nice Claude skill to create basic neuroanatomical visualisations with BrainGlobe & blender: github.com/SamedVossber... The single prompt "Use the allen mouse brain atlas to create an animation to show primary visual cortex and primary motor cortex" gives:

Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice

Biological sciences; Behavioral neuroscience; Laboratory animal science

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📢 #FENS2026 giveaway! We're distributing 8 R2 system starter kits - including one with our new metal holder- for FENS attendees! Apply here: forms.gle/QFnUVZthhcfR...

Deadline day! We are almost full... www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/en/groupsite...

Andrew Plested@andrewplested.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very pleased to announce the 3rd Berlin Single Molecule Biophysics Course, this September 14th-18th. We now include more single molecule microscopy, with @ewerslab.bsky.social and Maximillian Ulbrich joining Jelena Baranovic and Claudio Grosman as tutors. Apply @ bsmbc@icloud.com by 12th June!

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Interesting article on something I think is very relevant to open science: several teams analyzed the same ephys dataset and got quite different answers. Not because the analyses were bad, but because this kind of work involves many analysis choices, and those choices can change the result.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Differences stemmed from the way researchers defined concepts, to the algorithms they used to analyze the data, to the parameters they employed when implementing the algorithms, note @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

Someone asked me what makes us, humans, special. We were talking about the brain. I keep thinking about it, but so far the only special thing about us I could come up with is that we are the only animals who think they are special.

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Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Great… so no it will be impossible getting an animal licence to put pigeons in an fMRI. Yet another of my groundbreaking ideas killed by regulation…

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

So useful!

Bohan Zhao@bohanzhao.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So I built a small tool that merges Allen CCFv3 with the traditional bregma-relative coordinate system (calibrated with Paxinos & Franklin's Atlas). Click any coronal or sagittal section, and get coordinates instantly. bohanzhao.com/Atlas Hope it saves someone a headache 🐭

We have extended the deadline on this until June 8 when I'm back from holiday - please pass along to anyone you think would be interested! I've got email with me so drop me a line if you would like more details

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Yep, let’s keep on dancing and farting around.

Lauren Deschain@thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Book review 📚 How to breathe life back into brain theory go.nature.com/4dwswFt

How to breathe life back into brain theory

Neuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.

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The psychology of 'simps': "The fear of being single contributes significantly to the motivation behind male simping behaviors." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42178873/ 🫠

🧪 1/ Our review “The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity” is now out in The Neuroscientist. We explore the idea that astrocytes help determine when & where synaptic plasticity is permitted, reframing the credit assignment problem in biological circuits. doi.org/10.1177/1073...

The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity - Airi Watanabe, Connie Guo, P. Jesper Sjöström, 2026

Learning and memory were long thought to be the domains of neurons and neural networks, but recent work across brain systems has established that astrocytes pla...

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I'm excited to share the new paper from the Cossart lab @inmed.bsky.social , a work I had the pleasure to share with Caroline Filippi and Manon Mantez, without forgetting all the people involved in this team effort. It's available in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Distinct developmental trajectories of externally and internally generated hippocampal sequences and assemblies

Leprince et al. use longitudinal two-photon calcium imaging to track the development of internal vs. external representations in the CA1 region of the mouse hippocampus. They identify the mid-fourth p...

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As part of this effort, we've just released three new atlases from v2 of the Allen mouse CCF - the brain atlas, fiber tract atlas and developmental brain atlas. Most pipelines have moved to CCFv3, but adding v2 allows atlas comparison and reproducing old analyses. brainglobe.info/blog/ccfv2-a...

BrainGlobe@brainglobe.info · 5mo ago

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

The biblical diet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Hilarious. But not as much as Louis CK. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=220...

And, lo! The latest fad diet is upon us – and it’s called ‘eating biblically’ | Arwa Mahdawi

Some Christian conservatives are only eating foods mentioned in the Bible. At least Jesus wasn’t devouring ultra-processed sausage rolls, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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How does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊

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

Vision shapes neural maps of space through an ancient midbrain pathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.16.725555v1

Post-hoc rationalisation: the brain’s most reliable feature.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...

The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal

The anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal in real time.

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Pleased to share that I’ll be part of a fantastic lineup at the BARCCSYN FENS Satellite Meeting on “Multi-scale Dynamics in Decision Making,” taking place on July 5th at IDIBAPS in Barcelona. Details and registration here: lnkd.in/dZ68-Czd

"Major AI models converge as they model reality better... because there's only one reality to model!" towardsdatascience.com/how-major-re... Well, we are only training our AIs on one "reality", which is the human reality (more specifically the 21st century internet user reality 99% of the time...)

How Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They Model Reality Increasingly Better | Towards Data Science

Because there's only one reality to model!

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this saves soooo much time, thanks @guidomeijer.com

Guido Meijer@guidomeijer.com · 5mo ago

Are you interested in serotonin receptors? I made a website which visualizes the expression of different 5-HT receptors! Data from the Allen Brain Atlas (@alleninstitute.org) website by the IBL Brain Viewer (@intlbrainlab.bsky.social). atlas.internationalbrainlab.org?buckets=meij... Instructions 👇

I'm very happy that fairness and reason has prevailed and the ERC has backtracked on this. Thanks to everyone who signed the open letter to the ERC for making this happen 🙏🏻 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/europ...

ERC backtracks on stricter grant resubmission rules

The swift reversal came after more than 1,000 scientists signed an open letter protesting the stricter rules last week.

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Guido Meijer@guidomeijer.com · 6mo ago

The ERC is changing the rules retroactively! A "B" grade now carries a 2-year timeout instead of 1, even for those who submitted under the old rules. Researchers (incl me) make massive career decisions based on these timelines, you can't change them after the fact 😵‍💫 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Wait what? Is it really so simple?

Aaron Milstein@neurosutras.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Single author flips table. Wait does it do XOR

Bloody hell! It’s the first time I feel envy for imaging vs ephys. Well done Simon and team!

Simon Schultz@simonschultz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Want to image the activities of many thousands of neurons over an 8mm diameter field of view, in behaving mice? Read our new paper, just published in Light: Science & Applications. Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy for multi-scale neuronal imaging. rdcu.be/fc57b