Excited to share we’ve been awarded the ERC StG 🎉 for our project ProSocial, studying neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior in health & disease. Huge thanks to my group for their amazing work & to great colleagues for their support! Positions opening soon—reach out if interested!

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺? Implications for reinforcement learning. Very interesting paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

Currently, there are technologies that can directly read the brain, decipher thoughts and feelings, and implant feelings that are not one’s own In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid. #neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Check our new manuscript on ‚Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in the hippocampal CA1’ by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠📈 I had the privilege to attend #IBNSConnect conference in Tromsoe last week and it was fantastic. I presented data with the rescue behavior task and the role dorsal hippocampus play in the learning of this behavior. My former PhD supervisor presented my PhD data. I watched the sun *not* set.

we should be better at writing papers, clearly be better at maths (I’m looking at you neuro community). We should engage locally and globally. When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?

I think what irks me a bit is that PhD’s are expected to do SO many things these days. We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…

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Now compare that to what works: Mental health embedded into leadership development Clear budget and ownership Real cultural permission to talk about it Metrics tracked over time That’s where ROI lives.

Too many executives still treat mental health as an HR issue. It’s not. It’s a leadership issue. It’s a business issue. And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈 Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Rategory learning: antidromic systems consolidation. Not really, but it’s pithy. 🧠📈

Mark Solms talks about a Patient W he had who had basically his entire frontal lobes (apart from Broca's area) surgically removed as a teenager, due to repeated post-operational infections. This patient was fully conscious (in the responsiveness sense) and reported having mental imagery.

Brain activity during decision-making tasks can be grouped into categories with unique neural signals, highlighting the importance of variability in neuroimaging studies, new work finds. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...

🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇 How do bats tell navigation from social calls? Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives. Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz

🌟We are delighted to announce 🏆Mid-Career Award: Congratulations to Felix Leroy, Principal Investigator at the Cognition and Social Interactions Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (Spain) for his outstanding contributions to Neurosciences 🎉Join us in celebrating his achievement @leroyfelix.bsky.social

Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪 Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov 📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/12

"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Bonus: My son Luca's first pub

The language used is monstrous, this is crazy!

🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❗️When America has your back: The Economist on the background of recent events

🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

New lab paper! We reveal a novel mitochondria–cilia interaction in neurons & #mitochondrial control of #ciliary molecular pathways & structure Kudos to Dogukan Ulgen & Ale Chioino 🙏 O Zanoletti, A Quintana, E Sanz @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social @jphysiol.bsky.social Read doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

Category boundaries modulate memory in a place-cell-like manner: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

A Tiger fell into a well in India, most likely in pursuit of the wild-boar that fell in too. The two abandoned their ancient instincts of fight or flee, eat or be eaten, to co-operate, driven by will to survive, and be saved by local authorities. Truly amazing!!!

A Sensitive Soma-localized Red Fluorescent Calcium Indicator for Multi-Modality Imaging of Neuronal Populations In Vivo. It works well with wide-field imaging, two-photon microscopy, and fiber photometry biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What's the connection? I think too many scientists believe that for science to have authority as a mode of knowing and as a basis for policy, we have to perpetuate a fiction about why scientists do what they do. That fiction undermines the strongest reasons to trust science.

2 years ago my PhD supervisor was extremely happy that she didn't have to deal with me anymore, now I was the problem of another research group #neuroskyence #neuroscience #phdlife

Check this special issue on mechanisms of social behavior! From so many fruitful discussions from our 2023 Erice meeting: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine. https://buff.ly/4jnWk82

2nd last post of 2024: the future of neurogrifters and neuro-nonsense (also is a guide for the #unethical looking for fraudulent #start-up ideas) www.brainpizza.com/p/prediction... #neurogrifters #neurononsense #neuroastrology #brainpizza #neurobranding #scams #psychskyence #neuroskyence

Kaitlin Kharas helped to lead a campaign to get Canadian graduate students and postdocs their biggest pay rise in 20 years. Kharas is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. 🧪

I recently created this account and figured I should make an introductory post. I'm a Ph.D. candidate interested in all things neuroscience, although primarily involved in systems and computational aspects of the brain for the moment. Looking to connect with the neuro folks in here! #neuroscience

New open access paper out in Neuropharmacology! @alicesanson.bsky.social shares another piece of the puzzle about the role of the #CRF and #oxytocin systems in the nucleus accumbens shell (NacSh) in the postpartum period. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Anatomical Connectivity Constrains Dynamic Functional Connectivity among Neural Systems: Implications for Cognition and Behavior direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... #neuroscience

Check out our new tool to assess the rhythmicity of biological signals (a.k.a. how predictable is the phase in your favourite frequency band): Lagged Hilbert (auto)coherence. Way less noisy, more accurate, implemented in Python and MATLAB. #psychscisky 🧪 🧠🟦 🤖🧠 🧠📟 🧠📈

ICYMI: @sophiepeterson.bsky.social work comparing OFC and hippocampus in the retrieval and inference of context-dependent predictions is now out in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... Also check out the great summary by (bsky-less?) Matt Gardner: www.cell.com/current-biol...

"The Left has no choice but to stay on Twitter" can be best understood as the writer saying "I worked very hard to get all my followers on Twitter and I don't want to have to start all over again somewhere else"

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models

🧪 1/ What we could define as “the dentists nightmare” is a particular fractal: the Menger sponge. Fractals are geometric objects, introduced by the Polish-French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010), which present an incredible peculiarity: the self-similarity.

The ALBA Network is now in bluesky You can follow us here: @network-alba.bsky.social & Time to nominate for several open prizes. One here.

"pantheon" on Netflix is kinda cool #pantheon

Quem é o esquerdista Yamandú Orsi, herdeiro de Mujica eleito presidente do Uruguai www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/quem-e-o-esq... +