New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A

A recent scientific paper included an antigenic map, comparing the immune status of individuals vaccinated with a range of vaccines ("… vaccinated sera"), against a collection of significant variants ("Virus …"). The map was very informative, so I built a quick dataviz project to explore. 🧵

Proud zealot here. And not just against Covid 🙋🏻‍♂️ #maskup #airborneaware

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467

This is an important study but psilocybin potentially promoting brain tumor growth is consistent with human studies suggesting SSRIs may worsen survival outcomes in glioma

RCT: Rituximab reduced relapse rates in adults with frequently relapsing or steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome compared to placebo. ja.ma/3YmmkHG

Another day, another day dragging NIH into areas where it doesn't belong and demeaning himself and the agency...

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

0/10 Thanks for the interest in our preprint. Some takes say it negates or fully supports the “manifold hypothesis”, neither quite right. Our results show that if you only focus on the manifold capturing most of task-related variance, you could miss important dynamics that actually drive behavior.

LFG!

"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...

How our foray into acute neural recordings from the frontopolar cortex started. Check out Kati Rothenhoefer’s LBP028 poster this afternoon (11/16) to learn about how it’s going. #sfn25 #sfn2025

Current feeling in US academia… 😓

Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flu season is here somewhat early. Be careful out there, masks in crowded indoor spaces are a good idea, and get your flu (and Covid) shots asap.

Voting for a better future 🇺🇸💪

25 hospitalizations, six deaths and one fetal loss have been reported in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled ready-to-eat pasta salads supplied by Nate's Fine Foods Inc. sold at Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Kroger, Walmart. FDA, CDC are investigating multi-state outbreak.

Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house. Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.

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Behavioural and neuronal insights into multisensory combination of unpracticed cues. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685323v1

How Covid 🦠impacts the brain 🧠

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Happy Halloween from Yau Lab and friends! @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social

New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility

#spookyseason #ghostlyappetite @torchystacos.bsky.social

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

Eliminating DEI & hiring your friends www.science.org/content/arti...

Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

Infusion Day! Let’s go! #CIDP #autoimmune #rituximab #MaskUp

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)

Also, nevermind the weak statistical effects that fail to achieve significance if appropriate corrections for multiple comparisons are applied…

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win. But at NIH we have seen this exact play before. It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture. A 🧵:

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Two years ago, research established increased risk of new onset dementia in people over 65. Now, they find that it's people over 50 at increased risk. What's next, 35 year olds? No reason to believe otherwise. Wear a respirator to protect your brain.

Jesus according to MAGA: "For I was hungry and I ate your lunch, I was thirsty and I drank your milkshake, I was a stranger who pulled up the ladder behind me... Truly I tell you, oppressing the least of those illegal aliens and especially Democrats, you did for me. Verily, $#&% those people".

Each day we perform our neurophysiology recording experiments, we gather together late in the day to scroll through raster plots. Everyone pauses from what they’re doing to join. It always feels a bit like we’re opening 🎁. One of my favorite aspects of our work! 😍 #spikes

I wish I could join Jonathan’s lab now!

Jonathan is honestly one of the best most talented junior PIs out there and joining his lab is essentially future proofing your career

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

October is #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth For many with #LongCovid, dysautonomia means daily struggles with dizziness, palpitations, fatigue & more We need research, support & compassion Let’s #MakeNoiseForTurquoise this October #POTS #Dysautonomia #invisibleillness