📣 Register for #MCCS26 now! Join us on November 12 & 13 in Washington, DC for talks, networking, and an all-around great time! To be considered as a selected speaker, submit your abstract by August 21. More information here: event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...

Congratulations to author @okaysteve.bsky.social, whose book How to Change a Memory has been shortlisted for the 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. Read more: press.princeton.edu/news/royal-s... Published by PUP in North America, and Robinson in the UK. @royalsociety.org

Every day, our brains arbitrate between competing memories and motivations. This ability allows us to flexibly adapt our behavior as the world around us changes. But how does the brain actually do it? Our new study sheds light on this! www.cell.com/current-biol...

The prelimbic cortex arbitrates memory-guided conflict resolution

Caban-Murillo et al. show that, during approach-avoidance conflict, prelimbic cortex ensembles are recruited to represent reward and punishment through distinct network patterns. Both ensembles are ne...

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We are heartbroken to have lost our founder, who provided so much inspiration, but we are all honored to carry on the science he loved so much. picower.mit.edu/news/picower... #neuroscience #biology

Picower Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Tonegawa made landmark discoveries about how the immune system generates antibody diversity and how the brain forms memories.

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Delighted that Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social has been shortlisted for The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 for the very brilliant 'How to Change a Memory'. Congratulations to Steve and the other shortlisted authors!

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In 'How to Change a Memory', Steve Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited and even constructed from nothing. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

In 'How to Change a Memory', Steve Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited and even constructed from nothing. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

We are very happy to announce the six titles shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026. From health misinformation to the fishing industry, these mind-growing reads represent the best of science writing from the past year. #SciBooks bit.ly/4vgp5Zm

Shortlist unveiled for Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 | Royal Society

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Looking for your weekend listen? @okaysteve.bsky.social joined @calebzakarin.bsky.social to discuss his book, How to Change a Memory, and the new science of memory manipulation Listen to their conversation here, then check out the audio edition of this work, read by Ramirez himself! buff.ly/DMfedlk

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Move over, GLM-HMM—there’s a new hidden Markov model in town. In our new preprint, we introduce the DDM-HMM: a model that jointly infers latent decision states from reaction times and choices. Using 24-hour behavioral data from rats, we found that evidence accumulation changes with time of day!

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Diurnal rhythms of choice: a novel state-dependent drift diffusion model uncovers time-dependent changes in rat decision making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727672v1

Please join us in welcoming incoming chairs @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social & @gisellavetere.bsky.social, and newly elected vice-chairs @tristanshuman.bsky.social & @lindsayschwarz.bsky.social. We can’t wait to see what this team has in store for #OptoGRC2028!

A heartfelt thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors for supporting #OptoGRC2026! Your generosity played a huge part in making this year’s event a success, and we are so grateful for your partnership 💚💙

#OptoGRC2026 has officially come to a close! Thank you to our incredible lineup of speakers, discussion leaders, and poster presenters – and to everyone who joined us and made this a meeting we won’t forget. Stay tuned for more on #OptoGRC2028!

Join us for an exciting #OptoGRC2026 session on advances in microscopy, tool development & sensors 🔬⚡ With @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social & speakers @ianoldenburg.bsky.social, Olivia Masseck, Linlin Fan, @sagescientific.bsky.social, Tommaso Fellin & Adam Gordon-Fennell!

From cells to behavior, this #OptoGRC2026 session explores how neural activity shapes behavioral outputs 🧠⚡ Featuring @j9kwapis.bsky.social, Catherine Peña, @nicoleferrara.bsky.social, Kevin Franks, Priya Rajasethupathy, Jennifer Lawlor & Yasmine Ayman, you won't want to miss this lineup!

Take a closer look at biology in action at #OptoGRC2026 🔬⚡ Led by @danielaharoni.bsky.social with keynote speaker @rafaelyuste.bsky.social, alongside Takashi Kitamura, @brimcr.bsky.social & @ltpancotti.bsky.social, join us to explore cutting-edge approaches to visualizing biological systems.

Join us as we explore where optogenetics is headed next at #OptoGRC2026 ⚡ With Megha Sehgal, Nicolo Accanto, @flaviodonato82.bsky.social, @logangrosenick.bsky.social, @sydneytrask.bsky.social, Hoda Shamsnajafabadi & Susoban Das 💡

Don’t miss this session exploring the computational side of brains and behavior at #OptoGRC2026 🧠 💻 Discussion to be led by Sweta Agrawal, featuring speakers Yaniv Ziv, @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social, Takashi Yamaguchi & Jesse Kaminsky, Wednesday evening!

Join us in Paris this summer for our #Miniscope Workshop 🔬 We'll teach you everything you need to know about miniscopes and have a blast while we're at it! Applications close on May 22, so don't wait 👇

UCLA Miniscope Project@miniscope.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications open for 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop! July 1-3, hosted at ESPCI. Apply here: forms.gle/4CWh7MeMchLS...

Can't wait for this #OptoGRC2026 keynote session that will shine a light on the ideas and tools driving optogenetics🔦🧠 Bringing together Tatiana Korotkova, @oyiz.bsky.social & Sheena Josselyn, expect a powerful discussion from leaders in the field!

So incredibly proud to celebrate these two remarkable researchers I've had the privilege to work with! @joezaki.bsky.social and Rimi are truly deserving recipients of the #LeonLevyScholars recognition for 2026. They continue to make invaluable contributions to the field!

Be sure to join us for this session where we take opto beyond the brain at #OptoGRC2026 🧠⚡➡️🫀 Featuring discussion leader @katrinachoe.bsky.social & speakers Li Ye, Katharina Gapp, Andreas Lüthi & @timmachado.bsky.social

Small perturbations spark big discoveries at #OptoGRC2026 🧬⚡ Led by Erin Calipari with Guosong Hong, @kacummings.bsky.social, Conor Liston, David Anderson, Akemi Ito & Ishaan Kapoor, on Monday morning!

Get ready to map behavior in motion at #OptoGRC2026 🧠📊 With discussion by @neurrriot.bsky.social & speakers Christian Lüscher, @honglab.bsky.social, @biancasilvalab.bsky.social & @derynleduke.bsky.social, this Tuesday PM session highlights innovative ways to monitor, model & make sense of behavior.

Don't miss THE Frontal Cortex meeting with this amazing, not-to-miss line up! 🤩

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Frontal Cortex Peeps: The full program for the 2026 GRC Frontal Cortex is now available! Applications are due July 12, 2026 - don't delay! Spots are starting to fill up! Check out the complete program and register here --> www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Was aiming for fast fiction for spring break, but hitting “engram” in the first bits made me wonder if I’d find it ridiculous knowing so much about memory research myself, but I enjoyed it and felt super cool to personally know @okaysteve.bsky.social when finding him in the Acknowledgement :)

The #OptoGRC2026 Power Hour will be Monday, May 11 at 3pm, hosted by @ismail-ahmed.bsky.social & @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social! Join us to exchange ideas & take part in thoughtful conversations on how we can continue to support and grow our community 🤝 🧠 Register: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

Excited to have @rafaelyuste.bsky.social as our third #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker! Join us for his talk on how neural circuits & dendritic spines work together to "orchestrate" brain activity 🎹✨ Don’t miss the chance to attend — registration closes 4/12. www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

We can't wait to hear from #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker, Sheena Josselyn! Be sure to catch her Sunday evening talk exploring engrams and how memories are encoded in the mouse brain 🐭 🧠 Haven’t registered yet? Applications are still open through April 12 👇 www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

In this edition of Ideas, @okaysteve.bsky.social discusses his book, How to Change a Memory, a disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation. Read more: press.princeton.edu/ideas/steve-... Plus, save 30% on his book with code PUP30. #NationalMemoryDay #Memories

Steve Ramirez on How to Change a Memory

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where we can…

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