Michael Goard
@michaelgoard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara. I study neural circuits underlying sensation, decision making, and spatial navigation.
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
Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Does replay (like place cells) follow the champagne rule, where non-hippocampal consolidation is just ‘sparkling repetition’?
Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 2w ago"Replay occurs in the dorsal striatum during offline consolidation of a procedural memory in mice" - even with total hippocampal lesions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42493550/ It looks like memory replay is a general capability of the brain - not a special feature of the hippocampus!
Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵
Zach Nudelman@zednud.bsky.social · 3w agoExcited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8
New review on ecological visual processing. Really enjoyed writing this as part of a longstanding collaboration with @crisniell.bsky.social, @mbeyeler.bsky.social, and @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social
Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 3w agoEcological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
The latest result from a fun ongoing collaboration! @mbeyeler.bsky.social @michaelgoard.bsky.social @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social
Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 3w agoEcological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Arrived in Banff for iNav a little early, not disappointed…
It is sad that Scott Atlas doesn’t understand basic economics. Paul Samuelson wrote about public goods—why NIH has been such a stunning success—more than 75 yrs ago. Also, to see why Atlas urges ending US success, just look at who elevates him: pro-privatization billionaires. 1/
Beautiful morning in Machu Picchu to cap off a six-day trek through the Andes…
Very nicely done Radiolab episode featuring @emilyjacobs.bsky.social and team’s work. Check it out! radiolab.org/podcast/this...
This is Your Brain on Hormones
We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.
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Labrigger Catechism for 2p calcium imaging 1. Get enough photons/s/cell. About 1000 - 10,000 photons/s/cell can be enough. 2. Make sure that your neuron signals are not completely swamped by neuropil. labrigger.com/blog/2026/06... (1/3)
Hillscape cells: Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior #neuroskyence @roddy-grieves.bsky.social Eleonore Duvelle and Jeff Taube: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior
Place cells map terrain geometry, not behavior, revealing a surface-based brain code for real-world navigation.
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In this new blog post, I review some several recent studies on dendritic voltage and calcium imaging in hippocampus: gcamp6f.com/2026/05/19/d... Great work by @bhlee1117.bsky.social, Xiang Wu, @adamezracohen.bsky.social, Attila Losonczy, Balazs Rosza, Kevin Gonzalez, and others!
Dendritic imaging of pyramidal neurons in mouse hippocampus
Dendrites are the tree-like arborizations of neurons through which they receive input from other neurons. This compartmentalized anatomy has given rise to the idea that individual dendrites process…
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In celebration of World Bee Day, I wanted to recommend the Secrets of the Bees, a new 2-part doc that uses innovative camera work (exec produced by James Cameron) to get some really incredible shots of bee behavior (waggle dance, hornet mobbing, and more): www.scientificamerican.com/article/tita...
Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron explains why bees are his latest fixation
James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the inside of a beehive
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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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In Beautiful Hawaii for @ossdcomm.bsky.social premeeting on women’s health! Up next is @emilyjacobs.bsky.social for our keynote on the Unchartered Mind: New Frontiers in Women’s Health.
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
On the other hand, since this is being accomplished via administrative reshuffling of multi-year funding programs, the decimation of American science is saving the tax payer a whopping (checks notes)… $0.
Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS@thanh-neville.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis administration is making health scientists a non-sustainable career. #NIH #academicmedicine
New preprint out 🚨 “Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks”! This was an awesome collaboration with co-first author @fatihdinc.bsky.social , @andyalexander.bsky.social, @xiaoxiao-lin.bsky.social, and May Chen biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
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Very excited to announce the first preprint from the lab @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social -- "Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional RNNs." @wtredman.bsky.social (starting his own group at JHU this fall) summarizes the work nicely in this thread.
Will Redman@wtredman.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew preprint out 🚨 “Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks”! This was an awesome collaboration with co-first author @fatihdinc.bsky.social , @andyalexander.bsky.social, @xiaoxiao-lin.bsky.social, and May Chen biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
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New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?
This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago. 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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My main postdoc work is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...! We (myself, Isabel Low, Frances Cho, and @lgiocomo.bsky.social) discovered task-relevant remote representations in entorhinal cortex independent of CA1. #paperthread below! 1/13
Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independently of CA1 - Nature Neuroscience
Neurons in medial entorhinal cortex collectively represent discrete nonlocal positions during immobility. During this nonlocal coding, CA1 is uncoupled from entorhinal cortex. These representations ar...
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Hey everyone! Do you remember this post from your fav blogger? labrigger.com/blog/2025/11... Not super easy to use - I know. Well, spring break has sprung here at ucsb and we decided to bring that activation energy down a notch. I guess welcome to my first bsky thread? letsgo (1/5)
Snappy looking calcium imaging videos – Labrigger
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New @annualreviews.bsky.social #neuroscience article 👁️🧠: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... w/ @crisniell.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social Grateful to be part of this collaboration & learn from such a sharp group while rethinking vision in natural settings!
Ecological visual processing in the mouse | Bionic Vision Lab
We review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception.
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Amazing work by my mother-in-law Jo Ellen Jacobs and colleagues to uncover the true origins of On Liberty
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo agoA new edition of On Liberty, a canonical work of political philosophy, “is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill”. [dailynous.com]
