🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

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Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks Nicole! Briefly, we used "sociocracy", which is a thing invented to make lots of people get along and make decisions. It is used by various collaborations including those at CERN. It aims to achieve "consent" if not "consensus". This might be useful: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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If we spent a lower proportion of time writing papers and a higher proportion reviewing, there would be overall fewer papers, but they would reach their final form more quickly (arguably increasing quality). And if there are fewer papers, the absolute time spent reviewing might actually decrease.

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

🧪 TIL of sand batteries ⬇️ Good article, worth a read -

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Using the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social BWM dataset, which comprises electrophysiological recordings of 60 k neurons covering one mouse brain hemisphere, we find all brain regions contain most neural response types, i.e. function is widely distributed: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Reminder! Tenure track position in Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! Come join us, we're nice... 😊 Please repost! 🙏

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

Can any living being, human or otherwise, truly grasp about what it means to die?

I now had a chance to listen to it and it’s not entirely terrible. Gaute’s voice is actually quite soothing and his questions are good. You might not immediately die while listening to this. Thanks @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social for cutting out all the bits that would’ve gotten me fired.

Excellent post distinguishing mechanisms from behaviours! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 (We have a similar discussion in the context of high-order stuff here: arxiv.org/abs/2203.12041)

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

Hirsch=250 #TCTeAC @odedrechavi.bsky.social @svobodalab.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social

Walk-up songs make a session fluid & so much more fun! For example, this can elevate your "flash presentation" of poster abstracts to a leggit party. Proof: here's @odedrechavi.bsky.social entering stage #TCTeAC to introduce @qedscience.bsky.social - can you guess the song? ☺️

I just started listening to the Night Science podcast and it's brilliant. All about the very different creative processes scientists use. This episode seems like a good place to jump in.

The slide you submitted | The slide you’re presenting #tcteac #PragueSights

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social the conference to end all conferences

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social we get to hear what we can learn from mantis shrimps :)

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Excellent video on adversarial collaborations, in consciousness science and beyond, from the Cogitate Project - via Lucia Melloni 👇

Oh wow. Starting grant 0-10 years post PhD from 2027, Consolidator 5-15

𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 This target paper by Anil Seth should lead to good discussion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

In this conference we couldn't care less where you published your story because 1. we only care if it's interesting and good and 2. participants will discuss unpublished work

Who does that? We rented a train JUST for the conference, that will take the participants from Prague to the woods of Bohemia. There'll be talks ON THE TRAIN. In Prague we'll have 5 locations with different atmospheres. #theconferencetoendallconferences Register now: woodstock.img.cas.cz

Standing up for science in Seattle - some lab members (Zhiwen, Nancy, Fabiola, and Jeremy) plus lab-friend Harsha @harshag.bsky.social. If only it seemed like there was the remotest chance anyone in the administration cared about our voices.

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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