Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

New preprint led by @rgast.bsky.social- part 1 of Richard's ongoing effort to make a better firing rate model: developing mean-field models that can be fit to biological data to capture both the dynamics of neural populations and the underlying physiological heterogeneity that sculpt those dynamics.

Richard Gast@rgast.bsky.social · last wk.

The Ott-Antonsen ansatz revolutionized our understanding of coupled oscillator systems with heterogeneous oscillators. We developed a multi-ensemble method that increases the applicability of the OA ansatz to empirical data substantially arxiv.org/abs/2607.09516, as we demonstrate on neural data.

Happy Monday! Come learn how jellyfish swim. In a review led by fluid dynamics maestro Alex Hoover, we outline how neuromechanical modeling will help us understand how modulation of neural activity allows jellyfish to jet and pirouette through fluids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Ott-Antonsen ansatz revolutionized our understanding of coupled oscillator systems with heterogeneous oscillators. We developed a multi-ensemble method that increases the applicability of the OA ansatz to empirical data substantially arxiv.org/abs/2607.09516, as we demonstrate on neural data.

A multi-ensemble mean-field reduction method for networks of globally coupled phase oscillators with arbitrary parameter distributions

Understanding the dynamical properties of coupled phase oscillator systems with heterogeneous oscillator frequencies has been a long-standing challenge of complex systems theory. While the seminal wor...

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🌡️Could the current #ElNiño become the strongest in at least 150 years? #2027 could become the hottest year on record with major consequences for #Biodiversity. A timely reminder that ecosystem management must prepare for climate extremes—not just long-term trends. 🧪🌍🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

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🎉 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Richard Roth to UHN’s @krembilresearch! Dr. Roth joins us as a Scientist, focusing on the interplay between synaptic plasticity and neural circuit adaptation, and how these processes shape motor learning.    🔗 Learn more about his research: www.motor-plasticity.org

Unbelievable thuggery. No other good team in FIFA does this stuff, as often or at this scale. It's not even close. You think you've seen it all with Mexico and CONCACAF, but it's not even in the same ballpark.

Sophie E. Hill@sophieehill.bsky.social · 2w ago

jesus christ paredes. 5,000 match ban at least.

Look at them. Absolute nonsense. Give them all cards. Send them all off.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Argentina behavior on every foul - encircling the ref & yelling at him - is illegal & no other team does it as comprehensively & often as they do, & it should not be tolerated.

Heading to Halifax for the @cnsorg.bsky.social meeting? Make sure to plan to attend the workshop organized by @rgast.bsky.social and myself on "Neuronal heterogeneity’s role in network dynamics and computation." The (hopefully) final schedule is linked below! richlab.pnb.uconn.edu/cns2026/

Going to be in Nova Scotia for #CNS2026? Make sure you swing by the workshop I've organized with @rgast.bsky.social entitled "Neuronal heterogeneity's role in network dynamics and computation." The preliminary schedule and talk abstracts are now available! richlab.pnb.uconn.edu/cns2026/

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Braitenberg Vehicle day with Hugo Marques at QABVR: wire light, touch, and distance sensors to a pair of motors, then tune the sensor gains and motor outputs to play follow the leader

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/

Neuroscientists interested in rigor, methodology, and open practices, check out this job opportunity to work on a COS-MIT collaboration to improve the research culture in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Neuroscience Research Methodologist

MIT - Neuroscience Research Methodologist - Cambridge MA 02139

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Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

"We are watching two disciplines trade their worst habits. Neuroscience is mistaking benchmarked prediction for understanding, and machine learning is mistaking mechanistic language for mechanism. ..."

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems? www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Too adorable not to post. She's making sure you see the sign. #birdoftheday #birds #owls #adorable

I know for a fact that Anthropic used an illegally uploaded version of one of my books for their training data. The way I feel about it does not factor into this at all.

Jen Benka@jenbenka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"For authors, this is not just a technology, it’s a moral issue. Authors feel their work has been stolen." —Seth Fishman www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

omg, nailed

The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Happy #LebowskiDay to all who celebrate

micks_picks@straycat820.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Big Lebowski opened in theaters 28 years ago today, on March 6, 1998.

#DynamicsClub in March: 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝘀𝘁 @rgast.bsky.social will share his work on neural heterogeneity and network function (PMID: 38198531, 41475350) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41475350/ March 6 (Friday) at 11am PT / 2pm ET Join us in person at UCLA or on Zoom: lingyunxiong.github.io/DynamicsClub/

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature

Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.

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Delighted to see that @ohbmossig.bsky.social has confirmed dates for the 2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social brain hack! ohbm.github.io/hackathon2026/ 11-13 June Thur-Sat, in the usual 3 days before the meeting, at the Campus Victoire, University of Bordeaux Looking forward to it!

me and the peer reviewer i suggested

University of Groningen: ⭐ no more big-tech by 2030 ⭐ Google Workplace 🚫 Windows 🚫 MS Office 🚫 ChatGPT 🚫 A huge challenge! Meeting culture won't get us there. Dedication and focus will. 💪🚀 Let's get to work. ukrant.nl/magazine/we-... @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #science

We can do without them: how the UG is cutting ties with Big Tech

By 2030, the university aims to be digitally independent. And that’s not a pipe dream, say proponents of the plan.

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Alchemists be like

a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .

Alt: a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face saying WTF.

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The Independent@the-independent.com · 7mo ago

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

Just out in @nature.com BME: Our Review unpacks intracortical microstimulation: axons, not somas, drive activation; direct + indirect pathways shape perception; parameters interact with neuron type, layer, and network; long-term use limited by neural depression & tissue response. 🧠⚡ rdcu.be/eZbTz

Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration

Nature Biomedical Engineering - Intracortical microstimulation can elicit artificial sensations in persons who have lost sensation due to neurological injury or disease. This Review discusses...

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Anyone have a thought about this weird mol on my hand?

Useful browser extension to help assess issues in papers: - retraction check - PubPeer comments check - tortured phrases check - fake references check We need more tools in this spirit to help make sense of science.

Colby Vorland@colbyvorland.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article. See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain

No two neurons are the same, yet models often treat neural populations as pools of identical and interchangeable elements. Here, Dahmen et al. highlight recent theoretical advances that reveal the imp...

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