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🌿Positive News Story of the Day🌿 Chinese pangolins are making a comeback in the wild for the first time this century. Pangolins are the most trafficked mammals in the world, so this kind of recovery is a BIG deal, and proof that conservation efforts can work.💚

Preprint alert! We've done the first ever wireless brain recordings from the high-level visual & motor regions (IT/PMv/PFC) in monkeys engaged in natural behaviors as well as during controlled screen-based tasks. Read below for a lay summary and the link for details! 1/8

Not every wrong turn is harmless. Misinformation doesn’t just confuse—it can cost lives. Accurate information matters. Protect science. Learn the facts -> savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

Wow. To all those throwing up their hands and saying “what can we do?,” read this thread. Colette is a freaking grad student (complimentary). What is your excuse?

Women I spoke to recently doing innovative theoretical work have been discouraged by colleagues with power to apply for grants and ERC just announced recently they won't be allowing junior people the same chances as before. Killing academia through their own decisions. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

Job alert! Assistant professor position in Precision Neuropsychology now available at Maastricht University. Were looking for someone interested in individualised approaches to brain-behaviour relationships in clinically relevant contexts - e.g., cognitive fingerprinting, predictive modelling.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

DOGE’s cuts to government have cost the equivalent of 3 entire NIH budgets. At the same time, they have made us: Less safe. Less happy. Less healthy. Less able to handle natural disasters. Less able to withstand military threats. Less able to handle global intelligence crises. Made us less…

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Anti-amyloid drugs, in a meta analysis, do not meet the risk:benefit tradeoffs necessary to recommend to patients, at least according to this Cochrane review. www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.

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We've posted a new group-based lexical-semantic brain viewer! You can now inspect cortical conceptual maps at the group level (24 participants), vertex-by-vertex. Check it out! gallantlab.org/viewer-stori...

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So the Big Lie and the attacks on science are directly linked, via media and consensus truth. Can’t have an autocratic regime if the pro-democracy side can effectively disprove the lies of the leaders.

Pleased to share our new study showing how different cell types in the paratenial thalamus interact with the medial prefrontal cortex and other brain regions, all done by my graduate student Nigel Dao: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

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

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If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

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The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.

Best Star Trek Crew, Wrong Answers Only

Best Star Trek Crew, Wrong Answers Only

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our recent review, which highlights algorithmic and implementational degeneracy in studies of cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Goooooooood morning! This is fascism! @standupforscience.net is here to fight.

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grants.nih.gov/news-events/... Please please please fill this out and speak up for animal research, especially primate research. So many diseases of the body and brain will only be cured if we support the models that best reflect human biology.

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trust me--read this. You'll be glad you did. and thank you Dr. Bennet for writing it. 🧪

You may have seen Eon Systems' viral "fly brain upload": a connectome-controlled virtual fly that walks, grooms, and feeds. (if not, here is a good article about it: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...) It seems impressive. But how do we know the behavior is coming from the fly brain?

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Excited to share our new preprint about the neural signals underlying finger and wrist movements. Alexandriya Emonds did a great job, check it out! doi.org/10.64898/202... Liza Okorokova, @garyhwbl.bsky.social, @jenpitt.bsky.social, Sliman Bensmaia, @leeemiller.bsky.social, @johndowney.bsky.social

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

More new results, this time from the amazing Lily Kramer! 🎉 “Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex” doi.org/10.64898/202... Visual experience unfolds in time. We asked how temporal structure reshapes population activity in visual cortex. 🧪🧵1/

New preprint: our lab’s first Alzheimer’s paper! “Loss of neuronal population organization links pathology to behavior in a model of Alzheimer's disease” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵1/

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

Meet Sarah Heilbronner, a neuroanatomist building wiring diagrams to understand the structure of pathways in the brain. 🧠#AskaNeuroscientist @srheilbronner.bsky.social

Deadline extended to March 25th , send in your Applications 🙌🏾😁