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Animals must make crucial behavioural choices on a minute by minute basis to survive in a changing environment. A long-standing enigma is, how are alternative options evaluated in the brain...
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Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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Cool study on how just a few small evolutionary tweaks to connectivity let mice sing...!
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory@cshlnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn a new study published in @nature.com, CSHL graduate student Emily Isko in the @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social lab discovered an evolutionary difference in Alston's singing mice that allows for enhanced vocal capabilities. Watch this video: www.cshl.edu/what-can-sin... @tonyzador.bsky.social
“Researchers looked at two high-profile AI agent tools developed to help computer scientists in the field of machine learning. Both systems engaged in acts that violate research integrity, including making up data & p-hacking: running an experiment multiple times but only reporting best outcome.” 🧪
AI agents may be skilled researchers—but not always honest ones
Two high-profile tools have been shown to make up data and “p-hack” their results
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Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...
Scientists Unveil ‘Long Lost’ Map for Smell
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Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
The deadline to apply for this position at #LancasterUniversity working on the #MURIDAE project @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social is rapidly approaching! ➡️ 18th January 2026 ⬅️
Prof Anthony Isles@profantisles.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 Job Alert 📢 Post-doc position at #LancasterUniversity working on the #MURIDAE project @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social Working with #genetic #preclinical models for #schizophrenia 🧠🧬🐭 Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW471/s...
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. go.nature.com/49fOOrP
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Great roundup as always from @markdhumphries.bsky.social
Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
❄️ A Year of #FENS: @fkne-scholars.bsky.social ❄️ 🧠 #FKNE has continued throughout 2025 to champion excellence in European neuroscience by supporting researchers and strengthening scientific leadership across Europe 👉 Learn more about #FKNE here: buff.ly/2EWch1g
I’m proud to have helped launch the #PITraining survey of FKNE @fkne-scholars.bsky.social We ask PIs to share what really matters for effective research leadership. Your feedback = better support, better science. Take part or share: fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-pi-surv... Deadline: 29 Dec 2025
lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis
Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...
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At #BNA2025 @britishneuro.bsky.social a number of symposia explored how molecular and behavioural neuroscience approaches to preclinical research are changing. Here 👇🏼 we summarise our symposium highlighting the role of the @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🧠Nominations open for the 2026 ALBA-Roche Prize honouring mid-career #neuroscientists whose research achievements - relative to opportunity - advances understanding of causal mechanisms of #braindiseases. 🏆€15,000 + travel support for #FENS2026 ceremony 🤝Self-nominations welcome 👉🏾 loom.ly/_EvQvm4
Great opportunity for junior/mid career neuroscientists in Europe! Do apply!
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social · 10mo agoCall for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
sciencedirect.com
By popular demand — the next edition of our hands-on @Stanford @BrOrganogenesis course is coming in 2026! This year, the focus turns to neural #assembloids, reflecting the growing movement toward modeling circuit-level and complex cell-cell interactions in brain disease. 🧠 Deadline: mid-December
Basic, curiosity driven, sometimes very exploratory, research is the seed corn that leads to the biggest scientific advances www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
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What do we know about the causes of #autism? @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Professor Laura Andreae speaks with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science about the genetic factors behind autism, particularly around twin studies. 🔊 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Inside Science - The science behind autism - BBC Sounds
What do we know about the causes of autism?
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Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A deep learning pipeline for accurate and automated restoration, segmentation, and quantification of dendritic spines
Garcia et al. present RESPAN, a pipeline that enables automated dendritic spine analysis through seamless integration of deep learning image restoration and segmentation capabilities with comprehensiv...
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🧪 We got the privilege to write a Preview on the beautiful work of Morabito, Zerlaut, Rebola and colleagues that was recently published in Neuron. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Branch logic: Dendritic computations diversify inhibition
Long known for different circuit roles, parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons are shown by Morabito et al.,1 in this issue of Neuron, to differ in…
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We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with @expeditions.bsky.social, the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection, highlighting the importance of sharing knowledge as widely as possible. Read more about this exciting partnership: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/EXPedit... @annavignoles.bsky.social
Chance, Choice, and Control: Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe (or: "Yes, you could have done otherwise" 😉) philarchive.org/rec/POTCCA-6 (with Henry Potter)
The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....
MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies
Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...
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Hello world! We just released a thing! In this preprint we provide evidence questioning the ability of the axon initial segment to undergo rapid structural plasticity in intact neurons from mouse, rat, and human cortex.
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.Absence of short-term axon initial segment plasticity in human, mouse, and rat cortical circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.672986v1
🌟 #FENS-#EJN Awards and Prizes: Last Chance! 🌟 TODAY is the last day to submit nominations for the two prestigious awards offered by #FENS in partnership with @ejneuroscience.bsky.social and @wiley.com!
Thanks to the support of the F.R.S. - FNRS, I’m hiring two postdocs to help kickstart the lab. Informal inquiries are welcome via socials or email. More about the two postdoc positions and how to apply: www.chinilab.com/opportunitie... RT for visibility are greatly appreciated! 🙏
Chini Lab
Chini Lab at GIGA–ULiège. We study how neural activity emerges in early development from a systems neuroscience perspective.
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