light-activated tetanus neurotoxin (LATeNT) by the @aliceyting.bsky.social lab. Includes a comparison with the light-switchable PdCO (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), showing a long lasting inhibition for 1h hour post illumination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Light-activated tetanus neurotoxin for conditional proteolysis and inducible synaptic inhibition in vivo - Nature Methods

LATeNT is a light-activatable form of tetanus neurotoxin that can be used for spatiotemporally precise inhibition of exocytosis in neurons and other cells. It can inhibit synaptic transmission in vivo...

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Nordic Neuroscience Meeting 2027 in Iceland! June 14-16, 2027 Call for symposia, see details below

High Axial Resolution Is Necessary for Quantitative Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Neuronal Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.28.741086v1

📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience

In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...

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In honor of Ed Kravitz, with support from the Grass Foundation @grassfoundation.bsky.social, this scholarship supports students attending research training courses at the MBL. The Grass Foundation will match your contribution. internationalsocietyofneuroethology.growthzoneapp.com/ap/contribut...

International Society for Neuroethology@neuroethology.org · last wk.

Former ICN president Paul Katz introduces the Edward Kravitz Memorial Scholarship which is meant to support researchers attending summer courses @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole.

Check out this compact 920 nm ultrafast fs laser for 2p imaging of GCaMP, etc.. Mounted on its side like this, it takes up very little space on the table. That's the Axon 920, generously loaned to the course thanks to @ewadorotaz.bsky.social and others at Coherent. It's what we use on our own rigs.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

This looks pretty fantastic. Master's level - transitioning into PhD. The headline got me "Imagine building 3D microscopes right by the beach!" Research Fellowship in Bioimaging at the Quantitative BioImaging Lab (QBI), CCMAR Algarve, Portugal, IMAGINE project ccmar.ualg.pt/en/job/ccmar...

CCMAR/BINCGAM/10/2026 | Research Fellowship | Bioimaging | 1 Vacancy

Research Fellowship – 1 VacancyWithin the project - IMAGINEProject Refº: HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01-101094250Ref.

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I’m excited to share our latest preprint, and the main work from my PhD, on the role of the direct entorhinal input in hippocampus CA1 spatial coding. 1/9

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4w ago

The emergence of a novel CA1 spatial map requires direct entorhinal input https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736055v1

During sleep, neurons in the hippocampus 'replay' past activity patterns. This is thought to underlie memory consolidation 🧠 After a busy day, how does the brain sort out what is worth replaying? 🤔 Check out this preprint 📃 from Tirole, Duvelle and Bendor for answers! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Time, but not reward, shapes replay-based episodic prioritization

Why are some experiences remembered better than others? Leading theories propose that hippocampal replay prioritizes memories for consolidation according to their expected future value. We recorded hi...

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🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

Representational drift - the change in cells' responses to the same stimulus over time - may be a feature rather than a bug. Thank you to @dianakwon.bsky.social for giving me a chance to talk about this fascinating topic. 🤯 The brain never ceases to amaze!

Diana Kwon@dianakwon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My latest feature for @nature.com is about "representational drift," a concept that's turned some long-standing ideas of how the brain works on its head. “When people talk about this phenomenon, it’s exciting because it’s just so full of possibilities." - Andrew Fink

A hackathon reveals that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data, write @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

18 teams analyzed a neuro dataset and got different answers

Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.

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Ultrasensitive voltage imaging reveals distinct electrical microdomains in neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728040v1

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

Our NeuroAI study made it onto the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence ❤️. In it, we demonstrate that a developmentally-inspired visual diet can drastically improve the robustness of ANN-based vision systems. www.nature.com/articles/s42... open access, open code, open weights, open science.

Plans for next year. Bochum, Germany.

The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia

During wakefulness, neuromodulators operate largely independently to support behavior and cognition. By contrast, sleep reorganizes their activity into a coordinated brain rhythm. During sleep, the ma...

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The Lin Lab is hiring! We're seeking motivated postdocs for projects on voltage imaging and optogenetics in the brain. If you're excited to develop new methods to undersatand and correct brain diseases, working together with other neuroscience labs at Stanford, drop us a line!

Made possible by • coppaFISH 3D, a new, inexpensive, open-source method for 3d spatial transcriptomics • CASTalign: a tool for human-supervised nonlinear 3d registration www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1A...

Demonstration of in vivo to ex vivo registration using CASTalign

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American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft@maxplanck.de · 3mo ago

Upholding #AcademicFreedom is essential to ensure #Europe 's competitiveness and democratic resilience. Joint Statement of the G6 network of #research organisations ➡️ www.helmholtz.de/assets/g6/Do... #demogracy w/th @helmholtz.de @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @maxplanck.de @cnrs.fr @csic.es

I am very pleased to announce our upcoming Theo Murphy meeting at the Royal Society: Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence 21–22 September 2026 - Bristol, UK Registration deadline: 1 July Register here: lnkd.in/eGDAux-M #AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience

Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...

BrainGlobe Template Builder

Atlas building is complex and time-consuming. To help the BrainGlobe team meet growing demand, we streamlined the first stage: generating a high-quality, standardised 3D reference template.

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I make 65k a year right before going up to Full Professor please explain to me again how I am an ELITE and do not understand the perils of normal Americans.

We even use it in systems neuroscience!

Flatiron Institute@flatironinstitute.org · 3mo ago

We're seeking a research software engineer to work on community-oriented software projects in astronomy, primarily the Astropy Project. https://apply.interfolio.com/184639 #science #astrophysics #hiring

Our piece on language-like properties in animal vocal behavior is available today. Check it out! This is an incredibly difficult and thorny topic which is nonetheless of supreme importance and interest imco (in my current opinion)