Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Cool new work in drosophila identifying breathing effects on flight power 🪰 👇

Yichen Luo 骆奕辰@camellyc.bsky.social · 2d ago

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This problem translates to other sciences. If AI doesn’t develop creative ideation outside of formal systems like math and doesn’t develop the ability for building theories, this will lead to a self-limiting process that cuts off the fuel on which science runs. 2/3

Just read this super interesting piece by @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social there's much to think about here, especially around attentional interactions b/w so-called emotive faces & periphery 👀 #neuroskyence Visual Attention in Crisis sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/f...

Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers@ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 3d ago

This clarifies a lot: Why am I expected to PROVE processing is parallel? To relitigate all attention research? This is why I ended up writing my "visual attention in crisis" paper. shorturl.at/3xsMr Because I also don't think X, Y, or Z prove the mechanism is as serial as people think.

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No offense but may be better to question the idea that there is a typical neuro in the first place? #neuroskyence

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Are brain rhythms a steady hum or a brief buzz? Both. Alpha and beta activity are relatively sustained, helping maintain ongoing brain state, supporting its role in top-down control. Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics - Nature Communications

Brain oscillations are traditionally regarded as sustained rhythms. Here, the authors show that there are both high and low-rhythmicity bands, characterised by brief bursts, which can signal responses...

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Here's a really nice paper by @edbaggs.bsky.social on "James J. Gibson’s affordance examples". The affordance idea is often glossed as about "possibilities for action". Anyone who actually reads Gibson will see many examples that don't fit that schema. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.

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Dendrites keep their own memory of the past and even predict the future independently of the cell body. #neuroskyence By @natmesanash.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/dendr...

Dendrites compute independently of cell body

Depending on their distance from the cell body, dendrites play different roles in learning and memory.

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If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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Goodnight Brisbane ❤️

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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The hippocampus has been having a bit of a moment this week! 🧠 New work in 🐁 suggesting the hippocampus provides a teaching signal to visual cortex to help combine novel representations 👇 #neuroskyence

Helen Barron@helencbarron.bsky.social · last wk.

***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Developmental tuning of functional manifold dimensionality across the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740635v1

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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Definitely worth a read for those studying the #neuroscience of emotion. A 50 year career, summarised by @theamygdaloid.bsky.social 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

My Fifty Years Thinking about Emotional Consciousness in the Brain

This piece provides an overview of my fifty-year career as a neuroscientist. I spent much of this time trying to understand what emotions are and how they relate to human behavior and consciousness. I...

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Next time someone accuses me of “making science partisan” I’m going to throw the physical NYT edition of this article at their head. These people are operating in bad faith…we have a mountain of evidence. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Spent most of last night in hospital with gut wrenching pain but all my obs are strangely normal.... Hoping it's just a virus but haven’t felt this ill since swine flu. Now I'm home watching 30 Rock in bed to try and laugh my way out of this... Send your funniest film recommendations please! ❤️

Interested in how the brain plans and controls action? Read Dr. @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social's new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science article on the neural networks underlying skilled behavior, cognition, and language. oecs.mit.edu/pub/hnpt2een...

New preprint from the lab asking what minimal parts of whole body posture/motion allow for rapid movement recognition arxiv.org/abs/2607.13216

Classifying daily activities needs posture, reconstructing them needs motion

Humans recognize movements effortlessly, even from noisy and complex visual input. But what information in the stimulus allows humans to rapidly classify movements? No framework has systematically com...

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Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Fascinating. Now I'm wondering how diet variations in humans might vary with vocalisation. Does tongue strength predict preferences for fibrous food? Does mushy food lead to mushy enunciation?

Cristian Gutierrez-Ibañez@gallinaciega.bsky.social · 2w ago

Neural correlates of seed-eating in songbirds royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Our new paper showing that songbirds that dehusk seeds with the beak and tongue have an enlarged trigeminal nucleus in the brainstem, particularly the part where the tongue is represented.

“We humans tend to overestimate how special we are” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/s...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans (Gift Article)

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

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I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…

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New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alpha frequency predicts speech processing rate and experimentally speeding them up enables comprehension of previously unintelligible ultrafast speech. 🧠💬👂 #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Wow this is so cool!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."