Congratulations to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics Lars Bildsten, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, for his election as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! news.ucsb.edu/2026/022527/... #kitp #aaas #ucsb #astrophysics 🌟 🧪

Congratulations to #FlatironCCM mathematician Charles Epstein on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! https://bit.ly/4mWQKMb #math

1/4 The Kavli Foundation is proud to support three featured sessions at the 2026 MRS Spring Meeting spotlighting leaders advancing the frontiers of materials science. If you're attending, don't miss these sessions! #S26MRS #KavliNano 🧵

To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

Join us in celebrating our 2025 Cozzarelli Prize–winning paper for Class I: Physical and Mathematical Sciences, “Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.” Read the article here: https://ow.ly/iTVL50YH7gp

Yard signs are here! Residents of New Jersey's 12th District, from Trenton to Princeton to Plainsboro to Plainfield, get yours now! SamForNJ.org

We're thrilled to support geneticist Alexander Starr as a FutureHouse AI-for-Science Fellow. From human-chimp cell data to AI-driven discovery, his work is uncovering the genetic roots of uniquely human traits and predicting how gene regulation evolves across species.

Very same. It is an honor and a privilege to be a scientist supported by the public to do work in service of knowledge and future cures.

This week, #FlatironCCB brought together a mix of theorists and experimentalists studying simple organisms for a two-day workshop on Information Processing in Biological Networks. #science #biology

Elaborate chalkboard for the upcoming talk by Tim De Coster of the Max Plank Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) with the KITP Program: Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ. Online talks here: online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/cardi...

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

Apply for #FlatironCCN's Neural Data Analysis workshop at #FENS2026 before April 10! Learn more: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccn_fens2026/ #science #neuroscience

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Welcome to the Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ (#cardio26) program at KITP! March 30 - April 23, 2026 Learn more: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/c...

A big thank you to everyone who attended in-person and online our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information on Friday. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk An unedited live-stream is available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/unuuHyd...

#OTD in 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann wrote a famous letter to a colleague outlining her theory that seismic waves (P-waves) recorded from distant earthquakes indicated Earth had a solid inner core. Her discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior. #WomenInSTEM

This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed

Big news from @edvardmoser.bsky.social and @m-bmoser.bsky.social — the grid cell toroidal manifold, like the HD ring, is preconfigured before experience. Guardamagna et al. show it’s there at P10, before eye opening, before locomotion. The spatial map exists before the animal has ever navigated.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

A heartbreaking message from a brilliant med student in Iran, determined to pursue neuroscience. She graduated only one week before the war started and now is volunteering to care for the injured. What would you tell her? (Part #4, especially). Please share your thoughts and comments. #IranWar

Just arrived in Lisbon for #COSYNE2026! Check out what our lab is presenting at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Looking forward to catching up with friends over the next few days.

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

At @cosynemeeting.bsky.social? Come see some of our works! Tonight (March 12): [1-050] From sequences to schemas: How recurrent neural networks learn temporal abstractions 20:30 – 23:30 Pavilion 1 (I will present on behalf of the lead author Vizhe Boboeva, who is on maternity leave) #cosyne2026

In my head, the title of this paper is "Chaos! At the light ring." arxiv.org/abs/2603.08790 Chaos and fractals of the black hole photon ring Roman Berens, Peter Galison, Trevor Gravely, Alexandru Lupsasca, Leo C. Stein 🧪⚛️🧮🔭

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The deadline for applying to the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at MBL in Woods Hole is approaching (March 16)! An exciting course with an amazing lineup of lecturers in a beautiful location www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

The Ig Nobel is being far more serious than “serious” scientific conferences. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

“A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition” from Langdon, Genkin, and Engel 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/2)

These reviews on neural manifolds are super relevant to today’s world of large-scale population recordings. How do we link circuits, population geometry, dynamics, and function? “A neural manifold view of the brain” from Perich, Narain, and Gallego 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)

VMH SF1 neurons are the gift that keeps on giving. They control defensive behaviors! elifesciences.org/articles/6633 copulatory behaviors! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... exercise-induced improvements in endurance! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Such overachievers.

Jorge Jaramillo: Postdoctoral fellows in computational neuroscience at the University of Chicago

Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074

The tribute to David Mackay has attracted only around 60 signatures. Let's change this! He wrote one of the best textbooks ever written, "Information theory, inference and learning algorithms", not to mention incredible seminal and influential work in that area. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Apply by May 7 for two early-career #neuro workshops at Janelia! Featuring joint sessions to foster collaboration between theory & experiment. 🧠 🤝 Theoretical Neuroscience→ janelia.news/THE26 Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience→ janelia.news/CNW26 @ratecoding.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social

Thank you thank you thank you to all my coauthors, @sasolla.bsky.social , @mayankmehta.bsky.social , bluesky-less John Disterhoft, any and all people who gave feedback, and the NIH FOR SUPPORTING THIS RESEARCH!! Would love any questions/complaints/feedback :)

they beginning of the end! ephys 4 lyfe!

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org 📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴 🗓️ Between July 6-24 Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

I recommend this school to anyone interested in computation in the brain - it receives excellent reviews year after year, it is highly interactive and social, and the setting is remarkable.

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊 Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules. Led by Dammy Onih! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy 462nd Birthday to Galileo Galilei, born #OTD in 1564 -- a crucial figure in the early stages of what we now call the scientific revolution. Here are photos that I took in 2009 of his (rather humble) birthplace in Pisa, and his ornate tomb in Florence: #science #history #histsci

Are you doing ephys in humans? Come do neuroscience with us!

At @uwpsychology.bsky.social, former Fellows-to-Faculty awardee Sama Ahmed studies the neurobiology of multitasking: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-sama-ahmed-studies-the-neuroscience-of-multitasking/ #neuroscience

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

Thank you Vishal Mathur for choosing “What Is Intelligence?” as your favorite read from 2025! I really enjoyed our conversation for @hindustan-times.bsky.social last October on how prediction is fundamental to intelligence.

I talked to @latif.bsky.social at @radiolab.bsky.social about brain organoids for their new episode. Listen here: radiolab.org/podcast/brai...

Are you a journalist looking to deepen your understanding of complex systems? Join the 2026 CSSS Journalism Fellowship at SFI, offering a space to study complexity alongside researchers and reflect on science communication from within the field. Apply by Feb. 4, 2026 santafe.edu/journalism-f...