Yep, Doris's (and all the events in the main hall Skirball) are already available in the drop down menu on the site. Events in other rooms are also being recorded and everything will be posted to the YouTube page after the conference

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 3d ago

Opening remarks are starting soon. Reminder that all events in our main hall will be live streamed here: 2026.ccneuro.org/skirball-the...

In fact, I think that this is *the* great sin of psychology. We want so badly to be a grown up science like physics that we never bothered to get rid of our phlogiston and ether and establish our particles, elements, and mechanics. We don't have solid foundations in almost any part of our field.

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · yesterday

As a friendly (and very earnestly well-intentioned) counterpoint, I worry that we‘re a bit too focused on “meeting challenges where they are” before building solid foundations. Minimally, we need parallel pushes forward at all levels.

The satire these times need.

In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 2d ago

Decades ago when I studied early vision, I felt like the logic of progress in the field was a bit too formulaic (show an exceedingly well-established model is incomplete and extend it). Today I'm envying those for whom scientific progress has a logic that their community generally agrees on.

A great entry by @nicolecrust.bsky.social in a fantastic resource. Gives a succinct overview regarding all the difficulties related to emotion and affective science oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Emotions, Moods, and Affective States — OECS

The phenomena that comprise emotions, moods, and affective states are united by their valence—their pleasantness or unpleasantness—such as the pleasure of seeing a baby laugh or the aversion to smelli...

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How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)

Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

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Ketamine increases neuroplasticity in female mice but not males. With @istaresearch.bsky.social, we found the key gene behind the difference. If it holds in humans, it could reshape how we approach assessing treatments. 🔗 Story: https://bit.ly/4yM4hvL 🔬 Journal article: https://bit.ly/4pYisK8

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

Best news ever- I have finally earned my PhD in Neuroscience!!🧠 My thesis was completed in the lab of Dr. Gregory Corder @flybottleescape.bsky.social & is titled: “Opioidergic Organization of the Nociceptive Medial Thalamus & A Behavioral Model of Placebo Analgesia”

Well said, Joe LeDoux. 10 years ago me would probably regard this as bonkers. Until you sit down to puzzle through questions about emotion/mood (and mental suffering), it’s easy to take one of two sides but the answers most likely lie in the middle. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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My colleague @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social is amazing on so many levels. The ethos of our era (including the makers of big budget films like Christopher Nolan) recognize that but I sometimes encounter those who missed the memo. If you don’t know Emily, here’s an intro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_W...

Emily Wilson (classicist) - Wikipedia

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

Fascinating and important. Including the provocative finding “What we believe about our bodily sensing may have little to do with how we actually sense it.” A place where subject report diverges (read the thread). Congrats to this team!!

Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

Crowdsourcing: Where can I find good summaries of midbrain dopamine neurons? Starting with response properties including phasic/tonic responses, comparisons across species, etc. Thanks!

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...

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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

The July 21 #OA spotlight comes to you live from beautiful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the @cogscisociety.bsky.social will be holding court for the next few days. Today's @mitpress.bsky.social publication is DEFLATING MENTAL REPRESENTATION by Frances Egan. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

This era is an exceedingly frustrating superposition of things like this (how informative and exciting!!) superimposed on … /1

CantlonLab@cantlonlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Geometry is not something humans invented from scratch —congratulations to Jialin Li on her first, first author paper. More to come from this team… @spiantado.bsky.social @wenjieli.bsky.social @jialin21.bsky.social @emilymsanford.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Terrific episode that combines some of my favorite topics: complexity and emergence, enthusiasm around the big mysteries of biology, illustration of what understanding looks like - and even curiosity along with acknowledgment that we just don’t yet know about the role of the microbiome in mood.

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Wonderful to see this! For (controversial?) context. There’s long been an argument that what brains & ANNs are doing cannot be fathomed beyond the meta like (eg) architecture, learning rules and such. And there’s a counter-idea: ”let’s try?”. When we stumbled on the correlates of memorability /1

micha heilbron@mheilbron.bsky.social · 3w ago

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️

Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Now up at @oecs-bot.bsky.social ! Looking to wrap your head around concepts & terms (and debates) in emotion & mood research (“affective science”)? Here’s a go to. oecs.mit.edu/pub/bhn7j5s7...

Sorry, I've been under a rock - have computational neuroscientists now concluded that computation has nothing to do with the brain?

Our major conceptual and technical update on findings that describe a new medial temporal lobe (MTL) computation, now posted. Kudos to Simon Bohn for listening to community feedback, thinking hard, and solidifying what these clear differences between brain regions imply. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A two-stage algorithm underlies the transformation from vision to familiarity in the primate brain

How is the act of seeing an image transformed into the memory that it has been seen? To investigate, we leveraged the systematic variation with which some images are better remembered than others, ima...

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Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last week, we published the surprising result below (visual cortex == hippocampus). Today, we've posted a revised preprint showing something that's actually different between the two structures. Evidence for a novel medial temporal lobe computation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We need not adopt a style of scholarship to appreciate its existence. @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy challenges norms. I think that’s good. Recommended listen, especially for those who feel they don’t quite fit b/c something about all this “computationalism” seems a bit off. He’s right about that.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.

In this @braininspired.bsky.social episode, @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy argues why neuroscience should ground concepts such as agency, intelligence and consciousness in principles fundamental to life, not as detached algorithms and computations. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Huge congratulations to Dr. Dan Mirea (@danmirea.bsky.social) on his dissertation and defense!!! We are so proud of you and can’t wait for all the big things you continue to do! 🥳 Read more about Dr. Mirea's amazing work in this thread:

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Mark D Humphries@markdhumphries.bsky.social · last mo.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

It's July 1, and it's time to update my bio to remove "on leave as a Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow." I'm thankful for the experience. What an amazing year! On day 366, I find my mood even more intriguing than I did on day 1. www.simonsfoundation.org/people/nicol...

Nicole Rust

Nicole C. Rust is a Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Scientists, especially younger ones, are going to have to come to terms with the idea that “doing science” is no longer enough. We all have to fight for science: what it means, what are its values, and why it matters.

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientific research in the United States might not collapse with a bang, or with a whimper, but with a rule change. And it's not just Science. This rule change hits DOE, DOT, VA, HUD. ALL federal grants are at risk. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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Exciting new preprint from the lab, led by @lizsiefert.bsky.social , together with @annaschapiro.bsky.social. Findings help to clarify when hippocampal ripples occur across wake and sleep, better aligning human data with animal models.

Liz Siefert@lizsiefert.bsky.social · last mo.

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Speechless. WTF @irishtimes.com? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

So your daughter wants to study science at university? First, take a reality check

It will be at least 13-18 years after the Leaving Certificate before there is any possibility of her getting a permanent academic position

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