What are the ethical implications of using brain organoids for research? Might their clinical use change the definition of brain death? In his new book, philosopher Walter Glannon explores these and other ethical questions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/organoids/ne...

Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

Congratulations to @sciwithrach.bsky.social winner of @womeninneurouk.bsky.social's Communicator of the Year Award, sponsored by @thetransmitter.bsky.sociall. This award celebrates Honeyghan-Williams’ unwavering commitment to translating neuroscience to diverse audiences.

@thetransmitter.bsky.social is a proud sponsor of the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social Awards 2025, celebrating exceptional women in neuroscience and the people driving more inclusive research, at every career stage. This year, The Transmitter will present the Neuroscience Communicator of the Year Award.

@okaysteve.bsky.social sat down with @franciscorr25.bsky.social to discuss the inspiration behind the book, why he decided to write it partly as a memoir, and what he wants readers to take away from reading it. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...

Frontiers in Public Health retracted two papers touting the benefits of an ADHD intervention; one for its “unacceptable level of similarity” to another paper and the other over concerns about its “scientific validity.” By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/j...

A set of 12 papers published in Nature journals offers new atlases of brain development and hints at the varied evolutionary origins of different cell types. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/con...

U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

Congratulations to Sheena Josselyn @sjo09.bsky.social, contributing editor at @thetransmitter.bsky.social, on winning the 2025 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize in recognition of her profound impact on memory research. #neuroskyence

Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Congratulations to Josh Sanes, one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s contributing editors, on being awarded the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, SFN’s top prize, for his seminal contributions to our understanding of neural development.

Many of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #neuroskyence

Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europe’s biggest facilities. Neuroscientists are worried. By Lauren Schenkman #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Hundreds of animal studies about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage show signs of image manipulation or duplication, which may have stalled research into treatments. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/i...

Over-active excitatory neurons in the cortex in infant mice lead to social deficits, according to a new preprint that study researchers claim can sway the debate over how signaling imbalances contribute to autism. By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ram...

Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” Sandra Jurado explains how a 2006 Cell paper taught her that synaptic vesicles aren’t passive containers for neurotransmitters but dynamic, precision-built nanomachines. #neuroskyence https://bit.ly/43F0eDe

Cracking the worm would provide a test bed for how molecular recipes generate neural physiology. And it would allow us to understand how neurons work together to yield emergent brain functions, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

The first Pan-African neuroscience journal, the African Brain Journal, prepares to launch. By Lauren Schenkman #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/f...

Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social bit.ly/479Ggmo

Congratulations to @callimcflurry.bsky.social for winning a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications. Read Calli’s award-winning work:

Why do human synapses take so much longer to form than those in other mammals? Chimeric mice transplanted with human neurons are beginning to provide some answers. By Holly Barker www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pro...

In the amygdala, noradrenergic signaling in astrocytes could prime their response to nearby neurons that helps stabilize fear memories. By @lauren-schneider.com www.thetransmitter.org/memory/engra...

How is it that some nociceptors—the sensory neurons that detect heat, chemical irritants and toxins—can withstand a lifespan’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli, whereas others die? New findings reveal how they do it. By @vcallier.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sensory-syst...

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

@thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social have teamed up to learn more about what early-career neuroscientists need. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

There is still “an urgent need for donations from the community,” says Eric Lai, president of the Fly Board. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

“It resembled a molecular piñata—tiny, spherical and absolutely bursting with surprises inside and out.” Sandra Jurado marvels at the paper that mapped synaptic vesicle structure—the latest in our “This paper changed my life” series. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Naturalistic approaches such as Ulanovsky’s open up “potential opportunities to really reveal why the brain is structured in the way it’s structured,” says Iain Couzin. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology, and how neurons generate behavior, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social. #neuroskyence bit.ly/48EzEO8

The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

A large study of developing brains reveals genetic and molecular differences between males and females. The findings may help explain why neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, occur at different rates in boys and girls. By @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social bit.ly/4q9BsVH

Astrocytes get less attention than their neuronal neighbors, partly because they’re harder to study. But the glial cells could help explain how memories take a more stable form after recall. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/memory/engra...

Don't miss this piece in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @vcallier.bsky.social on @danielkronauer.bsky.social's latest work! His lab discovered that a protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.

Hello world 👋👋🏻👋🏼👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿 Quietly setting up my own lab in Sheffield. Thank you to my funders @wellcometrust.bsky.social Thank you to the @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring me today www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @neurojacob.bsky.social talks about how there is no one “holy” method in neuroscience, and @izzynchristie.bsky.social reflects on her mentor’s advice and the value of persistence. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

New findings solve “developmental biology’s most complicated problem”: how each olfactory neuron in the ant expresses exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors. By @vcallier.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sensory-perc...

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

@thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social have teamed up to learn more about what early-career neuroscientists need. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Results showed it was possible to “effectively rescue motor neuron function,” and George Mentis and his team think their results are coalescing into a theory, even if they don’t fully understand it yet. By David Adam #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neurodegener...

A variant of CRISPR amps up expression of SCN2A, rescuing mice from seizures caused by haploinsufficiency. By @cqchoi.com www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/boo...

In this episode, @braininspired.bsky.social talks with @niko-kukushkin.bsky.social about his new book, ‘One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind.’ #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

While the newly awarded Autism Data Science Initiative projects look “outstanding,” concerns remain over the program’s abnormal and opaque review process. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exc...

Exciting time to be in Cancer Neuroscience! Thank you to The Transmitter for featuring our lab's work.

To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics. By @franciscorr25.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/3Wx5nt3

Neurons in the brain form functional connections with small-cell lung cancer cells that have spread there, fueling the growth of these brain metastases, two independent studies show. By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...

The awarded projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes in autistic youth and adults. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/mee...