Terrific work led by @emmaroscow.bsky.social showing that hippocampal replay reflects events with large prediction errors, all the better to bootstrap learning as we slumber Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”

The final version of our paper "Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data", by Dimmock et al, is now available online at eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/102... Thanks to @cianodonnell.bsky.social and Conor Houghton who involved us in this project.

Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation? In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813

Very grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for including me in their Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 alongside some really inspiring scientists. Check out the link to see some of their cool work 🧠✨ www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Check out this cool new work lead by @pengfei-sun.bsky.social !

The few days I met Jonny Smallwood in person were some of my favourite in science. I would accidentally spend hours in his company, which was so warm and interesting. He made academia friendlier and life more interesting. Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís

In the end, even basic brain connectivity is different between rodents and primates, with primates having more specialized, sparsely connected brain regions. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

What an exciting line-up! Can't wait to be locked away with some of my favourite scientists for a few days. (That's how Gordon Research Conferences work, isn't it?)

🌟Prof @lizcoulthard.bsky.social 🌟discussing blood tests for dementia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really nice work by the always creative @dabalpedamonti.bsky.social in @somnirons.bsky.social 's lab

A cool summary of our paper!

BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say.

Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

New paper from the lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread (1/10)

Great to see recognition for a legend of neuroanatomy

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

We have a new name, the Cambridge centre for Precision Psychiatry and Data Science – or CPPDS, and a new website: www.cppds.org.uk Led by @gkmurray.bsky.social and myself, we focus on #datascience, #psychiatry, #genomics, and #translational medicine, at @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social 1/2

𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗫 By Mars and Passingham "Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition" Going to the top of the reading list! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”. Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇 P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries. Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

More cool work linking cell-types, systems and cognition by @jorgefmejias.bsky.social and team.

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article. We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

updated version of our paper on bayesian modelling for whole-brain cell count data: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... People spend 1-2 years collecting these kinds of gene-expression/anatomy/IEG data... what's another 1-2 months learning + applying Bayes to get more stats bang for your buck 😍

Very grateful to be among an inspiring group of @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellows for the next 4-7 years. We will infuse brain anatomy into AI to study shared principles and important differences in cognition across species. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line. www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 That’s 10% of the entire population of Gaza in 2 years www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

What determines where specialisation for sensory information occurs in the cortex? We observe a spatial competition between primary sensory areas and the Default Mode Network, using our new Spatial Component Decomposition method. Work by @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social , with Bazin & Daniel Margulies

Spatial layout of visual specialization is shaped by competing default mode and sensory networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674858v1

Excited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

Short- and long-term modulation of rat prefrontal cortical activity following single doses of psilocybin. New work in Molecular Psychiatry with Ross Purple, Rahul Gupta, Chris Thomas, Caroline Golden, Nicola Palomero, @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, Matt Jones www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The entire cerebral cortex in one hemisphere corresponds to a large cookie". Presumably in surface area rather than computational capability. An underappreciated piece of wisdom on the macaque monkey brain from Felleman & Van Essen.

OUT NOW in Communications Biology from Jude Mitchell: Marmosets are more easily distracted than macaques. Their brain cells have more dopamine receptors, which may make it harder to stay focused when unexpected things happen. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1038/s420... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social

We start strong on Monday at 15h, when we organize the Satellite Workshop 'RNNs making decisions' together with @molanomazon.bsky.social. Speakers @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @veronicachelu.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social and others: sites.google.com/view/rnnsmak...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This is an amazing opportunity. Such a great project in one of the best scientific environments in Europe (in my opinion), and you get to live in Barcelona.

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Are the brain's representational formats predetermined by its intrinsic architecture, or are they efficiently tuned to the statistical structure of the visual world? In our new study, we test these possibilities. So proud of this fantastic and inspiring work, led by @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social.

It is truly astonishing that this paper was published without any references to previous studies using ME20.4-saporin in rhesus monkeys. academic.oup.com/jnen/advance...

Lecturer JOB! There is a fixed-term (2 years) teaching-focussed Lecturer position open in our department! Focus is on (human!) cognitive neuroscience. I'm not part of the recruitment process, but always happy to answer any questions about Bristol and our School. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

In other words, the EU will continue to do nothing.