Anterior and posterior retrosplenial cortex employ distinct strategies for egocentric–allocentric transformation in spatial coding | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Anterior and posterior retrosplenial cortex employ distinct strategies for egocentric–allocentric transformation in spatial coding | PNAS

The transformation from egocentric to allocentric spatial coordinates is a critical process in neural spatial computation. The retrosplenial cortex...

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Parallel independent #voltage #computing along #dendrites of #CA3 pyramidal #neurons | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Parallel independent voltage computing along dendrites of CA3 pyramidal neurons

Dendritic computation contributes to information processing in cortical circuits. Hippocampal CA3 plays a central role in navigation, but how the dendrites of CA3 pyramidal neurons process information...

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If you have ever wondered how pallial circuits of other vertebrates beyond cortex in mammals are functionally organized, please check out this new paper from the Yaksi lab! By studying other species, we get closer to understanding the general principle of brain circuits and computations 🐟🧠

Emre Yaksi@emreyaksi.bsky.social · last mo.

I am excited to announce the latest paper from our lab, published in Science ! In this study, we show that thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain process sensory information hierarchically across topographically organized forebrain circuits.

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 · 4w ago

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

I’m excited to share our latest preprint, and the main work from my PhD, on the role of the direct entorhinal input in hippocampus CA1 spatial coding. 1/9

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w ago

The emergence of a novel CA1 spatial map requires direct entorhinal input https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736055v1

I had the pleasure to be part of this wonderful and unique meeting on navigation (Strüngmann Forum in Frankfurt) which resulted in this series of book chapters which I highly recommend: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Challenges in Navigation Research

This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.

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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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Second paper from my PhD out ✌️

Tim Viney@vineytj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out in Current Biology. We define thalamic head direction (HD) cells based on the combination of neurochemical identity, physiology, sensorimotor responses, and connectivity, suggesting cell types. Great work led by Sara Hijazi and Shan Jiang from the lab. www.cell.com/current-biol...

They are going "all in" on zebrafish - do I have that right?

HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Excited to share our first red ACh sensor! 🔴 We developed GRAB_rACh1h, the first genetically encoded red fluorescent sensor for recording acetylcholine dynamics in vivo. (1/3)

There’s just over a week left for postdocs to apply for the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2026. Applicants are judged solely on the quality of their scientific ideas. Find out more and apply by 30 June ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

We developed DANT to match units from the same neurons from chronic Neuropixels recordings. The key idea: cluster units with similar waveforms and firing statistics, then iteratively refine matching and drift correction. We tested it in rat cortex and striatum during reaction-time behavior.

Patterns, a Cell Press journal@cp-patterns.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Online Now: Density-based longitudinal neuron tracking in high-density electrophysiological recordings #datascience

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD-fellowship (301774) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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New book on navigation (open access). The result of the Ernst Strüngemann Forum 2024. Was great to be there and discuss for a week with 50+ wonderful colleagues. Many thanks to the organizers, Julia Lupp + ESF team, the editors @noranewcombe.bsky.social, Ken Cheng link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Challenges in Navigation Research

This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.

link.springer.com

This first person history by John O'Keefe of the discovery of place cells is a must read. This whole special issue is full of gems. It's edited by my PhD advisor Michael Hasselmo. It's filled with first person accounts of famous discoveries. Fantastic idea. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Discovery of the Hippocampal Place Cells

This paper describes the events leading up to the discovery of the place cells in 1971 for which the author received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt and Ed...

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Huge field-of-view, fast, high res. two-photon imaging. This technology (paper link below) is available now, in the Ventana products. Sold as complete turnkey systems, or components. pacificoptica.com/ventana/ Installations are happening now at some of the best labs in the world.

Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday

The solution to the binding problem is that there is no binding problem. The visual cortex represents naturally co-occurring patterns of information rather than processing isolated features. Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroscience

To get good two-photon calcium imaging signals, you need photons. So you want bright indicators, like the GCaMP8 series. www.nature.com/articles/s41... HOWEVER, that's not the whole story... (1/3)

Extremely proud of Johanne Egge Rinholm who won the students’ prize of best teacher at the medical faculty across all years. Almost 500 teachers, only one 🏆 🥇. www.med.uio.no/studier/aktu...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

Organization, development, and plasticity of the serotonergic dorsal raphe nucleus projectome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709518v1

Comparison of place field detection methods and their effect on place field stability and drift in mouse dCA1 for freely moving 1-photon imaging data

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

Comparison of place field detection methods and their effect on place field stability and drift in mouse dCA1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.708942v1

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine - Nature Methods

Improved red and green indicators for norepinephrine and their characterization are reported. These indicators allow detection of norepinephrine release in awake behaving mice in dual-color fiber phot...

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Agree this is a very cool paper. The result is that soma-dendritic mismatch reflects an error (teaching) signal. Below panel (5e) is key data, supporting the idea that their SD residual approach captures differences in their two populations as a function of the behavioral outcome (error).

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴 1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction 2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion. Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring Please RT! 🔄 @UiO_LifeSci #Neuroscience #PhD #SystemsNeuro #Glioblastoma

You know what? For €25, this is not a bad way to add a digital read-out to a stereotaxic frame. I'm measuring about a 20 micron discrepancy per millimeter between the DRO and the stereotax; not terrible. #neuroSkyence 🧠

We had a lot of fun doing these experiments! Theta sweeps in MEC and internal direction signals in parasubiculum track moving objects during pursuit and reverse during backward movement. Simultaneously recorded HD cells in other areas remain locked to head direction across behaviors:

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal! Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/6)

Maybe this isn't new, but I just noticed in the new @zotero.org version 8 that you can do split view of a PDF. Really nice feature for quickly checking results against methods

Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌

Projection-specific integration of convergent thalamic and retrosplenial signals in the presubicular head direction cortex

Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal com...

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I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n

Bradley Love@profdata.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2