Our (with David McAlpine) Einstein Visiting Fellow grant has been prolonged! I am very excited about continuing this fruitful and fun collaboration on a fascinating subject!

🚨 New opinion piece written with Tara Keck 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘈 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 rb.gy/m862ik It's part of a special issue born from an unforgettable science extravaganza hosted by @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social in Santa Barbara🌴🧠 1/🧵

YES!! 🙌 #proudalum

🚨new paper alert Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass. Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I joined!

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

🚨 LOOPS Webinar! 🚨 Join Prof. Jens Kremkow in this week’s exciting webinar as he explores how excitatory and inhibitory Superior Collicular neurons process retinal input in mice, with a comparison to thalamocortical circuits! 🧠🔄 🗓️April 9 | 4 PM CEST 🔗 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi... #spp #Neuro

At @ox.ac.uk it's time for the staff survey. Here's my answer to: "What is the main thing the University could do to help you to progress your career?" Please repost and respond similarly to the survey if you agree. It's the only way to get our points across!

About time, @istaresearch.bsky.social welcome !

And that’s a wrap on #NWG2025! Thanks to everyone who joined our LOOPS symposium! Exciting times ahead for cortico-subcortical research. See you all at the next NWG! Want to keep the discussions going? Check out our LOOPS webinars 🔗 brainloops.de/loops-webinars #LOOPSatNWG @neurowissg.bsky.social

Postdoc position available! starting winter '25/'26 in Cambridge U. @uniofcam.bsky.social; @pdncambridge.bsky.social; @camneuro.bsky.social Join a small supportive lab to address system neurosc. questions on the role of cortico-subcortical loops in sensory perception and learning. www.dehozlab.org

I will set up a lab in Cambridge @uniofcam.bsky.social, in the dept. of physiology, development, and neuroscience @pdncambridge.bsky.social starting in October. I am truly excited to join a vibrant community as well as new horizons and its challenges.

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Paper Alert 🚨: New work from our own loopie @stefanieliebe.bsky.social & @humansingleneuron.bsky.social in Nature Neuroscience! They show that neuron firing phase in human MTL does not reflect event order challenging a key memory theory. Read more ⬇️ #Neuroscience #Memory #MTL #spp

Neurons in the medial temporal lobe do not fire in sequence to object presentation. A working memory experiment revealed theta-locked firing without item order. RNNs mirror this pattern, suggesting memory relies on phase coding, not replay. @stefanieliebe.bsky.social @humansingleneuron.bsky.social

Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks. Beautiful work by @stefanieliebe.bsky.social

To the person I should meet now at Hall 009, please write me an email. Thank you.

It felt so good to read the email sent by the @ucl.ac.uk UCL President & Provost, Michael Spence, on diversity and pluralism at UCL (and academia in general). See an excerpt. Stand your ground, folks!

If you are @neurowissg.bsky.social in Göttingen, join us tomorrow for Symposium 15 - Building blocks of the brain: insights into CNS circuits and ultrastructure. with Co-Chair M Schifferer, and Speakers: K Briggman, Y Kubota, and K Ponimaskine March 27, 2025 14:30 - 16:30 At Hall 102 #NWG2025

If you’re at the NWG meeting in Göttingen, share your insights using #LoopsatNWG and tag @brainloops.bsky.social ! Especially if you’re attending Symposium 6 on Wednesday at 14:30, we’d love to hear your thoughts! #NWG2025 #LoopsatNWG #Neuroscience

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

Read this from @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spent a moment compiling drawings from my past few years of funding applications, including so very many drawings of mice. Posted here in hopes they save someone else the effort: drive.google.com/file/d/1x_Jo...

Congratulations @kishoreneuro.bsky.social and Celine Drieu on this beautiful study demonstrating rapid and slow learning in sensory cortex

Hey @meredithschmehl.bsky.social it's live!

While it might seem like a waste of time or an anachronism, as scientists we need to keep setting the record straight, presenting facts, instead of spewing hate and ignorance. 👏👏, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! #scicom

A new treatment first found successful in mice has officially shrunk the tumour of a man living with advanced #LiverCancer in half. Learn more: news.stv.tv/scotland/man... #AnimalResearch

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated: 1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n... ......

'...to make us safe for ideas.'

Check our new manuscript on ‚Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in the hippocampal CA1’. www.biorxiv.org/forward/emai...

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

Good to have independence in this time:

Professional development EARS seminar tomorrow (Tuesday March 11 at 1pm ET). We invited three auditory experts to compare their experiences within and outside academia and discuss their career trajectories. www.med.upenn.edu/pennhearing/...

'I am here today because science is a common good. Science is for everyone. It is time to stand up for science.'

#IWD2025 is an important day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural & political achievements, but it's also a good occasion to call for gender equality. The #SheFigures report on R&I describes the challenges women researchers face, but also highlights ideas to help them. 🔗 buff.ly/3EJDkB4

When a woman is empowered, the world is empowered.💜️ #InternationalWomensDay

Wake up, March 8, do science, repeat 🔁 Just like Groundhog Day, but with microscopes, electrodes, and lots of brains: in our lab, every day is #InternationalWomenDay 🔬🌍💜🤍💚 #EveryDayIsMarch8

Celebrating the brilliance of women in neuroscience on #InternationalWomensDay! From groundbreaking research to leadership, their contributions shape the future of brain science. Let's empower voices,and inspire the next generation of women in #STEM! #WomenInNeuroscience #IWD2024

Proteste gegen die neue US-Regierung gibt es bislang kaum. Doch nun wenden sich Tausende Wissenschaftler öffentlich gegen Kürzungen. Experten warnen, dass wichtige Forschung gestoppt werde, etwa zu Krankheiten.

At the Boston StandUpForScience rally today. We had at least 1500 people, probably more.

Was at the NYC @standupforscience.bsky.social in Washington Square Park (here on sabbatical leave) and delighted to see superstar theoretical physicist and Harvard colleague Prof. Lisa Randall address the crowd! (she's in a hat holding a mic, halfway up vertically and in the left 3rd)

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

Nice coverage in the Inquirer for Philly’s protest ✊@standupforscience.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/health/trump...

#StandUpForScience Denver. Photo by Jeff Kanipe.