! New paper from the lab ! How does novelty impact value-based decision making ? What are the circuits and what mechanisms do they implement? Congratulations to Dr. Takaya Ogasawara and team www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Not to be a hater, but EVERYTHING we’ve done in the last 365 days, we done with *hundreds of thousands* of dollars less than the salary of the CEO of AAAS. So help us keep it up: www.standupforscience.net/donate

The tulips, the tulips.

Hey @eboyden3.bsky.social care to explain?

@sebastianseung.bsky.social Did you follow through on your plan to visit Epstein island?

We are watching in real time who some scientists are willing to sacrifice in favor of access to funding: early career researchers, trainees, scientists from historically excluded groups and immigrants.

Would love to see MIT take the same sort of action vis a vis high profile players in the Epstein files (beyond the Media Lab situation)

Brilliant.

I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ARTE

Wonderful blog post Spencer and I could not agree more.

Excited for the publication of our recent work on how pyramidal cells shape the identity of interneurons in the Cortex! Big shout out to @artofbiology and Sherry Jingjing wu! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is amazing

Mice don’t have a prefrontal cortex (granular PF). They have an ACC and an agranular OF.

We won’t be ok here. I will never forget

I guess granular prefrontal cortex is just a spandrel of evolution. Excuse me while I let my whiskers grow out. bsky.app/profile/pier...

One week left to apply!

Utterly brilliant writing by Cory and so rare to see any critical thought so well expressed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Holy hell, what an obituary

I am very thankful that my wonderful colleague Karen Bales (baleslab.bsky.social ) has signed on to direct our center moving forward. She's been a breath of fresh air and incredibly effective in the 2 years that she's been the interim in the role. www.ucdavis.edu/news/karen-b...

New preprint: visual attention may follow decisions more than it shapes them. We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you tried #OCTRON yet? Here's a speedy run-through of the pipeline, showing how you go from annotating animals, to training a model, and visualising predictions in new videos. Everything you need to track your favourite species! 💪

On NIH, rightwing thinktanks, and the future of science. I wrote up something about the Mike Lauer IFP interview and what he seems to miss about science politics. Science today is deeply tied up with democracy, politics, and the law. We must all work together. 🧪

For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. scim.ag/3LkRfRY

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

Who said that philosophical skepticism has no real world impacts. Pragmatism rekt

New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In mice indeed

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI? ➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/eWVmA

For 2026, I dare the human & rodent behavioral & cognitive neuroscience communities to find one NHP paper relevant to your research & cite it regularly next year when writing up your manuscripts. If you already cite one, find another one and double up. #Neuroskyence bsky.app/profile/vinc...

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

Hi everyone, If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board: github.com/linuxfoundat... Thanks 🧡💙

Unfortunately this study, while heroic in many ways, does not take into account cardiac, respiration and other vasomotor effects, all of which have spatial signatures. Nor is there an electrophysiological measure of neural activity. Be careful before throwing the baby out with the bath water.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

Excuse me while I grab a Coke, (which I like more than Pepsi b/c my NAc is more active when I drink it) & fill out the STAI in order to activate my salience network.

Did I sleep in too late & miss out on the announcement that rs-fMRI networks can be reliably used to infer cognitive functions and psychiatric diagnoses?

"drug for disorder which isn't a disorder doesn't act on a brain network (which isn't a network) called as the thing in the name of said not-disorder, according to increased signal detected by a method in which increased signal possibly doesn't indicate increased activation"

So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL. For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter. Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.

We are looking for a talented neuroscience research technician to join our lab at Columbia University! This is an ideal position for a recent college graduate interested in pursuing hands-on research for 2 years before applying to PhD programs. opportunities.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Again and again and again and again. You see where this antisemitism and anti Israel hatred leads! Enough is enough. Never again

Happy Hannukah --- Every year our card contains a picture that aims at inspiring moral reflection about the world we all share. (Photo: Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

Petition in Germany with 40,000 signatures calls for a phased EU-wide end to primate research. EARA stresses that #NHP studies remain vital for developing treatments and vaccines and warning against politically driven restrictions before alternatives are ready. www.eara.eu/post/petitio...

We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

scientist men on bluesky i promise you can exist on this platform without everything you post trying to argue about how the brain works (consciousness, waves, whatever the fuck). it will be okay