Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...

I make 65k a year right before going up to Full Professor please explain to me again how I am an ELITE and do not understand the perils of normal Americans.

We even use it in systems neuroscience!

Our piece on language-like properties in animal vocal behavior is available today. Check it out! This is an incredibly difficult and thorny topic which is nonetheless of supreme importance and interest imco (in my current opinion)

Someone tell this to the liberal arts college I work for

Come join us in Liège for the 4th Neural Stem Cells and Cortex Development meeting in June! We will select 5 slots for short talks from the abstracts. Or you can win a poster prize. Submit your abstract today! Hope to meet you there!

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

🧪🧠🧲 #gobirds 🦅

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Smell is topographically organized after all. A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very excited to announce the first preprint from the lab @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social -- "Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional RNNs." @wtredman.bsky.social (starting his own group at JHU this fall) summarizes the work nicely in this thread.

Now at the @mblscience.bsky.social !

YES! If I have one piece of advice for students/early career people, it is to use and learn the free/open source software inside out, even if your institution has licenses for the commercial equivalents. There will be a future time where you will lose access to the license, and they are *expensive*!

Finally online @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a fun collaboration with @finkryan.bsky.social @massecklab.bsky.social @tpatriarchi.bsky.social @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social @campbell-lab.bsky.social @jangrundemann.bsky.social 🧪🧠🔬🧬

If you’re craving insight on the ‘Kraken‘ from an expert in cephalopod paleobiology, @dannastaaf.bsky.social literally wrote the book on it:

Drawing regions of interest has been among our most-requested features, and a long time in the making. Building it on top of @napari.org was fun. Drawing and editing shapes is such a joy!

This is the first of many collaborations to build novel anatomical atlases. We want to expand advanced computational anatomy to new fields. If this sounds interesting, get in touch!

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Such a beautiful study: Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... They even 3D printed "sinistral shells" and showed that the fish can adapt to the altered geometry.

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow! Locus Coeruleus (LC) norepinephrine neuron. Take that, Claustrum!!

Got sent a press release for this awesome paper doi.org/10.1643/i202... by @anoplogaster.bsky.social and became instantly obsessed with the much-too-human face of the attached anglerfish photo (credit: Matthew Davis), so I had to give it a body

For those who missed the talk: the recording is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUDh...

New paper (with lots of cute animal videos!) Ever watch your dog "run" while asleep and wonder what’s going on in their brain? In Current Bio we suggest that those twitches aren't just leaky dreams—they’re a vital maintenance system for the most precise movements www.cell.com/current-biol...

You underestimate the colossal pain of academic silence. They say trauma is when you go through tragedy without even compassionate observers. Dehumanization happens when there’s silence, no expression of collective pain. Are we not seen as humans? Colleagues? Would you all be so silent about MIT?

transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion... This got press hate because of the word "emotions" but it is cool work. "Internal motivational states" serve as a form of working memory that helps animals organize their behavior, so why not ask if similar computational primitives help LLMs to do the same?

Since @napari.org just released 0.7.0 I also checked if my to little plugins still work and released new versions with some small updates. pypi.org/project/napa... pypi.org/project/napa...

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Reviewer #2: “The aims are not well defined and the impact is unclear, what specific question is being addressed?"

Immense respect for handling this situation with this level of integrity. Mistakes happen. Science is a process.

This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence www.fens.org/news-activit...

Meet Kilian. A 2 GB CT scan of a chameleon — rendering in the browser in a few hundred milliseconds. Built with Kiln: a WebGPU-native out-of-core volume renderer. Bricked volume storage, GPU memory virtualization, LRU streaming, compute shader ray marching. Open source: github.com/MPanknin/kil...

New protocol from the lab out! Spearheaded and perfectionised by @amycourtneyyy.bsky.social . May it be useful to many to uncover brain activity in non model marine organisms! 🐙🦑

New preprint alert 📣 We are sharing our protocol for calcium imaging of acute brain slices from Octopus vulgaris hatchlings during application of neurotransmitters. Another fruitful collaboration between the Schafer and Seuntjens labs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is why we love #CalciumSignaling Look how mechanical damage triggers long range Ca2+ waves in this plant !! By @annalisabellandi.bsky.social, who is now around here ;) Full www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org #microscopy #cell #mechanobiology 🧪🔬

If you're interested in the intersection of neuroscience 🧠 and software engineering 👩‍💻, these are excellent opportunities. Great teams and a supportive working environment. Can't recommend them enough! #neuroskyence

Come check out our poster "[2-018] Predictive pursuit emerges in high dimensions" Friday from 1-4p if you are at #cosyne2016! This work was led (and is presented) by the amazing @wtredman.bsky.social alongside an awesome team incld. @xiaoxiao-lin.bsky.social, @fatihdinc.bsky.social, and May Chan.

Check out and give feedback on the latest pre-release 0.7.0rc0! You can install with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.7.0rc0"` or via the bundled app. 😁 🥳 The release notes, with highlights, include so many great new features and changes: napari.org/dev/release/...

Beautifully written, and I so agree …

1/7 🧠 My journey into development begins with this work and question: how does the brain's spatial navigation system develop? We found that the neural networks for spatial navigation (tori and rings) are preconfigured and only later anchor gradually to the world with experience! 🧵

Some cool metal urban octopus art in Santa Cruz, California #AnimalArtTuesday #WestCoast #California #Cephalopods #Octopus #AnimalArt #UrbanGaze #Photography

BIG UPDATES! OCTRON now supports the new SAM3 models (alongside SAM2)! We’ve also added a global switch for Detection vs. Segmentation: Use the same annotations to train either lightweight detection or full segmentation models. Plus, we’ve added support for the new YOLO26 models. ⤵️ 1/12

Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain? We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals. More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a

I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.). I’d like to crowdsource recommendations. Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?

We have PhD positions and Post Doc positions available! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/... Please apply if you are interested in human invasive intracranial recordings or applied machine learning in a neuroscientific context. Deadlines 1st of March (Sunday!) and 4th of March. Please RT!

Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday

Really nice work from the Kentros lab — repeating chemogenetic manipulation of grid cells produces the same place cell remapping each time. Direct evidence that grid subfield rate changes predictably drive place field reorganisation. Love it https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.10.705142