Jonathan Whitlock
@jonwhitlock.bsky.social
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Thrilled to share the recent preprint / & thesis project of
@pearlsald.bsky.social
: We had rats actively pursue a moving bait & found a dedicated subset of retrosplenial cortex cells encoding target location (but not boundaries or objects) relative to the head.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.14.705560v2
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Some argue that prefrontal cortex is just premotor cortex— but how does it relate to actions we make, really? We dug into this in work led by
@idavrautio.bsky.social
: unlike most of cortex, PFC is weakly connected to motor behavior and operates at longer timescales.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Prefrontal cortex encodes behavior states decoupled from motor execution
By tracking the natural actions of freely moving rats, Välikangas et al. show that prefrontal cortex encodes abstract behavioral states rather than low-level physical aspects of movement. Prefrontal a...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)00216-0
28 days ago
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Now hiring: capable post-doc wanting to dig into the behavioral & cortical algorithms of predictive pursuit. 4-yr position
@kavlintnu.bsky.social
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.
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In a world lousy with chaos, I at least started this gem today- nice work, Nachum!
11 months ago
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Matthijs van der Meer
11 months ago
We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.
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Ali Nourizonoz
about 1 year ago
Kicking off Bluesky with BlueBerry, our open-access, multichannel wireless optogenetic device for freely moving rodents. Visit
www.OptoBlueBerry.org
for documentation and see its neuroscience applications from large-scale to social settings in our recent preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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BlueBerry Wireless Optogenetics
BlueBerry is a multi-channel wireless optogenetic system for freely moving mice and rats.
https://www.OptoBlueBerry.org
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Edvard I Moser
over 1 year ago
If you believe investment in science is needed to solve global challenges, join us in this call to action:
www.febs.org/milan-declar...
@m-bmoser.bsky.social
@kavlintnu.bsky.social
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
@ercresearch.bsky.social
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Milan Declaration - FEBS
https://www.febs.org/milan-declaration-science/
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Edvard I Moser
about 1 year ago
Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to
@azvollan.bsky.social
l &
@rjgardner.bsky.social
for this heroic discovery.
@ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons
@m-bmoser.bsky.social
@kavlintnu.bsky.social
@nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature
A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08527-1
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