Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land. By @helenak.bsky.social #neuroskyence" www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/n...

The authors of a Nature paper outlining a mechanism for multisensory memories in Drosophila melongaster have retracted the work after they were unable to replicate a set of imaging experiments. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/r...

The question of if and how we should be integrating AI into programming and neuroscience education is an ever-present one in my mind. Here are my current set of thoughts, driven by an undercurrent of *you need to talk with students about it* regardless of how you personally use AI, or not.

The requested boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams, which will result in a $195 million drop in funding for fiscal year 2027. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/lett...

Scientists and educators are concerned about students using AI to shortcut their learning. But there are also opportunities, especially when it comes to teaching neuroscience students how to code, writes @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...

Organizers of a leading neuroscience conference are trying to allay concerns after a policy that bars submissions from researchers based at institutions sanctioned by the United States government attracted intense scrutiny online. By @dalmeet.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

A lack of reviewers threatens the robustness of neuroscience literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. To explore how the review probability and percentage of biased reviewers influence the likelihood of biased review, check out this interactive simulation. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

Last week, the NIH announced an influx of $150 million to develop infrastructure for the testing of novel alternative methods, following the administration’s push to move away from animal research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fund...

Trainees need to learn how to identify a paper’s major takeaways and integrate them into their understanding. In her essay, @norabradford.bsky.social argues that this skill doesn’t come from outsourcing the work to large language models. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges. The first edition features nontraditional model organisms that are well suited for studying certain behaviors or neurological conditions. bit.ly/4v6x506

“The interesting part is what exactly seems to be stable and what exactly seems to be drifting,” says @trose-neuro.bsky.social. #neuroskyence By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spatial-cogn...

Wonderful Machine posted a spotlight article about our lively scientist/bat photoshoot by Ronen Goldman: wonderfulmachine.com/article/spot... by Francisco Miranda #sciart

On the latest episode, @braininspired.bsky.social with @juangallego.bsky.social about the wealth of evidence that supports the view that neural manifolds are real and useful, even if they may not completely solve the age-old mind-body problem. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Our ICLR paper 👆🏻 on the parametrized complexity landscape of circuit discovery is cited in this thought-provoking piece 👇🏻 by @gershbrain.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/thet...

“Based on astrocytic activity alone, you can tell whether a mouse is in its comfort zone,” a new study suggests. By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ast...

Two studies looking at the link between the microbiome and the brain contain data duplications, casting doubt on the findings, says researcher @deevybee.bsky.social. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/academia/dat...

Great piece and important topic

Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems? www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

In a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social talks candidly about luck, persistence and why he decided to write about his journey into neuroscience. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

In celebration of #BrainAwarenessWeek, here's a recap of some of our news and perspectives spotlighting advances in brain research. #neuroskyence

Skipping a tiny segment of the MECP2 gene boosts protein levels and improves cellular function in neurons from people with Rett syndrome, offering a potential path for treatment. By @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exo...

The neuroimaging community is raising multiple concerns about the NIH’s suggested policy regarding the sharing of human data. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

In this month’s “Liftoff,” Francesca Mastrogiuseppe shares how she’ll gift a book to departing students and postdocs, and @annaschroeder.bsky.social talks about using feedback sessions to discuss concerns and future aspirations with her lab members. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social bit.ly/475yZnm

Another successful #COSYNE2026 in the books! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our social and exhibit booth to learn more about our autism and neuroscience research, @thetransmitter.bsky.social#COSYNE2026and #FlatironCCN. #neuroscience #science

“The thing about Ph.D.s is they can figure stuff out.” In our latest Frameshift Q&A, @caitvw.bsky.social explains how she used her science-communication skills and entrepreneurial prowess to transform her passion into a successful company. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

To put it bluntly, we need to recruit more AI researchers to be interested in women’s brain health, and we need to make women’s brain health researchers more fluent in AI, writes @amykooz.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Scientists are beginning to unravel the heterogeneity of senescence in the brain—and grappling with what this means for how they identify, describe and classify the state. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/aging/signs-...

“I actually got kicked out of my first lab,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social reveals in a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind.” He talks about his challenging upbringing, his luck to land in Larry Abbott’s lab, and more. bit.ly/4rEu18t

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

Addressing the gap in women’s health data will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events that women experience, writes @amykooz.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Are you at #COSYNE2026? Swing by the Simons Foundation booth to learn more about the organization and @thetransmitter.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

A leader in the field of voltage-gated calcium channel research over the course of a five-decade career, Annette Dolphin was “amongst the luminaries.” By @eisensteinium.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/ion-channels...

A new study “challenges a long-standing assumption in statistical genetics—that a single genome-wide significance threshold works equally well across all allele frequencies,” says @abesterman.bsky.social at the University of California San Diego. By Holly Barker bit.ly/4cMcYh2

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @talialerner.bsky.social shares how Stephen Lammel and Rob Malenka’s 2011 Neuron paper on dopamine neuron diversity taught her how to go about challenging widely held assumptions in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

In his new book, “The Laws of Thought,” Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social shows how symbolic logic, probability theory and neural networks, when used together, are enough to explain how mind and brain work via “laws of thought.” #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Thanks @natmesanash.bsky.social for covering our new work, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social!

Thanks to the folks at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social for hosting us. It was a pleasure to meet with the Yale neuroscience community at the institute to talk about how we cover the field and the resources we offer online. #neuroskyence

Whether the hippocampus is involved in unrewarded learning has been a controversial question. A new preprint finds that it may be critical for passively learning information. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/memory/hippo...

Why would sea squirts eat their own brains? In his new book, “The Fox, The Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,” Rogier Mars provides a detailed account of this and other quirks in animal and human brain evolution. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/th...

My latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

“I made it my mission to develop a journal club course to teach students how to become fair reviewers.” @eblancosuarez.bsky.social shares how she developed a class in which students review preprints alongside the published papers that evolved from them. www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

Amid shrinking tenure-track faculty positions, we must think creatively to keep early-career scientists afloat, writes @lucinauddin.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

In the first essay of our new neuro-education series, @eblancosuarez.bsky.social shares how she reimagined the traditional journal club course by developing a class in which students review preprints alongside the published papers that evolved from them. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4reKhg8

“You can look at the minutes from both meetings side by side and decide which has the potential to advance the cause of autistic people more,” says autism researcher @dsmandell.bsky.social. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/new...

Two neurobiologists who helped decipher how the somatosensory system detects touch and pain have won this year’s Brain Prize, the largest award in neuroscience. By @helenak.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/somatosensat...

Dynamic coding of speech, as suggested by two new studies, challenges the idea that language features are encoded in a one-to-one manner in the brain. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/language/shi...

Tick neurobiologist @tickphysiology.bsky.social says others should join her in studying the parasite because “there are a lot of low-hanging fruits with ticks. There are so many open questions that just are waiting to be addressed.” By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/46CcIgB

“Astrocytes in the lateral septum may explain, or be at the basis of, the sex differences we observe in terms of social fear.” –Alexandre Charlet. By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ast...

Carola Städele @tickphysiology.bsky.social a self-proclaimed “tick magnet,” studies the sensory neurobiology of ticks—in other words, how the parasitic animals zero in on their next meal. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/n...

Attending #COSYNE2026? Join us for our social on March 13th at 8PM to learn about our research, funding opportunities, and resources. Staff from the @flatironinstitute.org and @thetransmitter.bsky.social#COSYNE2026will also be there. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/cosyne-social/ #science #neuroscience