The Sauerbrei Lab at Case Western Reserve University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on neural dynamics and motor control: apply.interfolio.com/189987

Another proposal to fix the peer review crisis, trying to avoid free riding. I don't know if this would work, but the struggle to find reviewers is real... doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Really pleased that this work with @dudman.bsky.social is now out in Neuron: A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The best Choose Your Own Adventure ending of all time:

I like neuroscience and history, and over a decade ago I started a list of neurohistory events that influence my scientific views. I've been meaning to format as a timeline for a while, and doomscroll prevention + GenAI left me no excuse: neurojak.github.io/neurohistory/

Mammals have hundreds of joints and muscles. Controlling them individually would be nearly impossible. How does the nervous system organize such complexity into coherent actions? Our new study explores this question through a natural behavior: jumping.

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

How Congress can restore the independence of US science

Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

nature.com

Rest Of Lakers Trying To Act Casual While LeBron James Spanks Bronny https://theonion.com/rest-of-lakers-trying-to-act-casual-while-lebron-james-spanks-bronny/

Want to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Very excited to share a new preprint - my first paper in the @mikeeconomo.bsky.social lab where we asked when and why the motor cortex is recruited for movement control:🧠👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699314v1

Dynamic engagement of the motor cortex in controlling movement

Neural circuits do not contribute equally or continuously to behavior. In mice, the motor cortex can be essential or dispensable for movement in different contexts, but how it is dynamically recruited...

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Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn

The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...

science.org

This head is spinning continuously, but we see it rotating back and forth... ...presumably because of our strong prior expectation that faces are convex. This is a very nice example of the Hollow-Face illusion promoted by Richard Gregory: www.richardgregory.org/experiments/

If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

open.substack.com

To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾 To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning! [Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks. #SfN2025

I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A genetically-defined population of amygdalofugal neurons promotes suckling and early postnatal growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.18.683193v1

Keep The Shuttle Update nasawatch.com/shuttle-news... "the KeepTheShuttle team is pleased to report that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors just completed a unanimous and bipartisan vote opposing the proposed relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian."

Keep The Shuttle Update

According to a press release from KeepTheShuttle

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Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

whitehouse.gov

New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output" ...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

whitehouse.gov

Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #neuroai www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment

Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.

thetransmitter.org

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning

As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.

thetransmitter.org

Some really nice single-neuron tracing here, highlighting the diversity of potential loops between brain and cervical spinal cord. Mostly consistent with previous results from bulk axon labeling, but with more detail about collaterals and all in one place for synthesis: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Single-neuron projectome reveals organization of somatosensory ascending pathways in the mouse brain

Ding et al. mapped a single-cell projectome of 785 spinal projection neurons and 1,464 central relay neurons in thalamus, hypothalamus, PB, SCm, PAG, and medulla. They have constructed a high-resoluti...

cell.com

Can your AI beat a mouse? Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing. 10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n

A site dedicated to tangible benefits that came from federally-funded research. Browse the examples, or add another + share it so more people add examples. publicusaresearchbenefits.com

This is a very significant statement from 1,900 leading scientists writing to the public to highlight the catastrophe of the current US adminstration's actions: Administration is weakening U.S. research cap | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Check out my postdoc work at Ariel Levine’s lab, hot and fresh, describing how you build a dorsal horn! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643370v1

Thank you very much @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and @hhmi.org for inviting me to give a seminar! That talk was supposed to be today, Tues Mar 11th. I would have talked about @lafosse.bsky.social's work on neural activation functions (con't below)... But I had to cancel due to the NIH travel ban. 🧪 1/