Out today in @natneuro.nature.com is (a highly evolved version of) the second chapter of my dissertation (with @eblissmoreau.bsky.social) assessing the comparative anatomy of the insula across 🐁mice, 🐀rats, 🐒monkeys, and 🚶humans! rdcu.be/fyd7T

Comparative insights into insula structure and function

Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...

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1/ New paper out today from my group, in @natneuro.nature.com, in which we review the anatomical & functional data on insula structure across species. This was a "whole lab" project led by @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social. It's been a 5 year in the making (a full 3 years in review)! rdcu.be/fyd7T

Comparative insights into insula structure and function

Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...

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A key challenge for computational psychiatry is to distinguish state from trait markers and go beyond cross-sectional studies. Here we show that as paranoia waxes and wanes in patients with schizophrenia, so too do volatility priors

Biological Psychiatry@biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 2w ago

Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders expect greater volatility in the world, and this cognitive bias is linked to paranoia and delusion severity over time.

Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders expect greater volatility in the world, and this cognitive bias is linked to paranoia and delusion severity over time.

Longitudinal associations between volatility priors and delusions in individuals recovering from an acute psychotic episode

Computational psychiatry has revealed latent aspects of cognition that relate to psychiatric symptoms. Yet, to understand their clinical utility, it must be known whether these computational…

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🎙️ In an article published by @thetransmitter.bsky.social, Violetta Zujovic explores why underrepresentation in neuroscience should be understood not only through demographic characteristics, but also through the structural barriers that can shape scientific careers. 👉 urlr.me/Vf8EWq

Redefining underrepresentation in global neuroscience

Shifting the focus of equity initiatives from identity categories to structural barriers can reveal overlooked challenges and increase global support.

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How quickly we update our beliefs depends on the environment. This recently published work, shows that humans adjust their learning rates both rapidly, from recent prediction errors, and gradually, through environment-specific meta-learning—supported by representations in the orbitofrontal cortex.

Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience@ghentccn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates

Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.

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Are you a senior postdoc with a complete scientific story to tell? Apply for our Yale Molecular Psychiatry MAPS program and tell us about your work at our weekly neuroscience seminar series. PLEASE REPOST!

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place! #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...

Neuroscience Grants Funding Finder

Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages.

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New, expanded preprint! Sensorimotor training makes a finger-extending exoskeleton feel lighter, suggesting active use helps wearable augmentation become perceptually transparent. Much longer, much better version now on bioRxiv: w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social

Sensorimotor training lightens the perceived weight of body augmentation devices

Wearable haptic and robotic devices must transmit useful forces and tactile information without remaining perceptually intrusive. Here we show that perceived weight provides a behavioral marker of thi...

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New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex

Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.

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The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

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New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last mo.

Behavioral and causal evidence for object-based scene recognition in visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735096v1

New lab preprint! Computational psychiatry assumes anxiety arises from domain-general biases. We argue this is mistargeted: trait anxiety is generated by person-specific world models, which requires a fundamentally different approach to task design. 🧵 https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/98ktg_v3

Out now in eLife, our new and improved paper on Attention and planning. Here, we explore how attention acts like an inductive bias that selects relevant information on which to plan. 📍🗺️👀 (1/5) elifesciences.org/articles/108... @smfleming.bsky.social

How attention simplifies mental representations for planning

Spatial attention controls the information people become aware of and, in turn, incorporate into simplified perceptual representations for use in multi-step planning.

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I’m still processing Lindau. One of the most joyful, moving weeks of my life: Nobel stories, brilliant young scientists, so much care, and the privilege of speaking in Next Gen Science about congenital blindness, schizophrenia, and what protects the blind brain. Full brain, full heart. #LINO75

I don't use the H-word lightly, but this has been an absolute honor. My brain got tickled by quantum mechanics, evolution, RNA, computer graphics, neutrinos... Meeting brilliant ppl from around the globe, young & old, swimming daily in spectacular Bodensee. Cannot believe this job sometimes #LINO75

Anna-Lena Eckert@eckertal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Made it to Lindau through the heatwave and the classic DB rollercoaster, just in time for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2026 #LINO75 Ready for a week of inspiring science and Bodensee charm 🏞🍷 Thanks alma mater @unimarburg.bsky.social for nominating me!

This landmark study investigates how patterned human gastruloids can provide insights into neural tube closure.This technical tour de force is exceptional and one of the first studies to reveal new knowledge on human development through embryo models.

Arrayed single-gene perturbations identify drivers of human anterior neural tube closure

Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media.See more details

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How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Amazing 1st lecture by Katalin Karikó, who gave candid insights into her life in science & deeply non-linear path towards her Nobel Prize in 2023. Favourite quote: "When things go wrong, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself" What a way to kick off #LINO75 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462526...

knock knock, it's the 90s. What software should I use for a simple listserv, ideally avoiding Big Tech?

Meet the Program Committee behind this year's Models of Consciousness conference: @joannaszczotka.bsky.social , @ksks.bsky.social , & Robert Prentner! Their expert curation bridges mathematics, neuroscience, & philosophy to advance rigorous consciousness science at hashtag #MoC7

Big news: I got an FNRS Chargée de recherches fellowship to join UCLouvain, hosted by @olicolli.bsky.social 🥳 My project asks how congenital blindness shapes perceptual inference, and why people born blind seem resistant to schizophrenia. Very lucky, very grateful, and very excited!!!

Lovely to see our eLife study in BPS Research Digest @bpsofficial.bsky.social @researchdigest.bsky.social! We studied how the brain adapts to finger extensions, finding three rapid phases of sensorimotor plasticity as users integrated them into body representation. www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Our publishing model emphasises peer reviews, eliminating accept/reject decisions in favour of high-quality, public eLife assessments. Find out exactly what this new process entails in our process page: buff.ly/mtSeGuS

Peer review and publishing at eLife · eLife

eLife is pioneering an approach to scientific publishing that combines the immediacy and openness of preprints with the scrutiny of peer review by experts.

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New in The Lancet Neurology 🧠 — Michela Bassolino & international colleagues make the case for somatosensory hand prostheses: restoring touch, reducing phantom pain & improving life after amputation. Cover article! https://f.mtr.cool/wvgcdronuj

VISUAL EXPERIENCE SHAPES ARM POSITION SENSE IN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REFERENCE FRAMES AND ASSOCIATED CORTICAL LOAD https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730866v1

Floris van Wettum @florisvanwettum.bsky.social presenting his poster "Bayesian computations underlying perception of exoskeletons":

Hüseyin Orkun Elmas presenting his poster "A Probabilistic Kinematic Account of Tactile Spatial Localization":

Throwback to the poster session at #BRNet2026, where our PhD students presented their fantastic work! Each poster deserves its own spotlight; we will be sharing them in the thread below 👇