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Emily Singer
The Transmitter
about 2 hours ago
Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes
@jvoigts.bsky.social
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Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.
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@samwang.bsky.social
, an autism scientist who made headlines for his data-based analyses of congressional districts, is running for a House seat in New Jersey. By Lauren Schenkman
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Meet the neuroscientist running for Congress
Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been interested in “fixing bugs in democracy” for decades.
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Chances are you have not heard her name, but Marcelle Lapicque may have been the first Black woman neuroscientist in Europe. By
@avaskham.bsky.social
,
@rebeccasky.bsky.social
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This month’s early-career newsletter features a Q&A with Raphe Bernier about how he ventured away from academia—and found his way back. Plus,
@dlevenstein.bsky.social
and
@qlu.bsky.social
on their new labs, and more. Sign up for the newsletter.
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Newsletters and alerts
The latest news and perspectives on the neuroscience topics that interest you most, direct to your inbox
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If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes
@suthanalab.bsky.social
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Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
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Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring the top neuroscience meetings and events through September 2027.
#neuroskyence
#neuroscience
#events
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Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity, writes
@lmprida.bsky.social
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From genes to dynamics: Examining brain cell types in action may reveal the logic of brain function
Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/defining-cell-types/from-genes-to-dynamics-examining-brain-cell-types-in-action-may-reveal-the-logic-of-brain-function/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20260209-perspective-defining-cell-types-from-genes-to-dynamics
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Another thoughtful piece from Tim Requarth on the potential impact of AI tools on the scientific process.
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A wonderful piece by
@callimcflurry.bsky.social
on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field.
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PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places
The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/interoception/piezo-channels-are-opening-the-study-of-mechanosensation-in-unexpected-places/
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The Transmitter
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Studying aspects of the brain’s emotion system that enable organisms to infer indirect threats and understand changing context can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis, writes
@jojolab.bsky.social
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The Transmitter
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The creativity is still mostly human, writes
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
. The AI’s strength is relentless, moderately clever trial-and-error in the space of technical solutions.
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How to collaborate with AI
To make the best use of LLMs in research, turn your scientific question into a set of concrete, checkable proposals, wire up an automatic scoring loop, and let the AI iterate.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-intelligence/how-to-collaborate-with-ai/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20260121-perspectives-how-to-collab-with-ai
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The Transmitter
about 2 months ago
Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research, writes Michael Halassa.
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Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research.
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Emily Singer
The Transmitter
about 2 months ago
Books by Nachum Ulanovsky,
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
, and
@evoneuro.bsky.social
and Georg Striedter made the list of some of the most engaging neuroscience titles released in 2025.
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The Transmitter’s most-read neuroscience book excerpts of 2025
Books by Nachum Ulanovsky, Nicole Rust, and Andrew Iwaniuk and Georg Striedter made the list of some of the year's most engaging neuroscience titles.
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The Transmitter
about 2 months ago
A competition to design small, efficient neural models may provide new insight into real brains—and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts, writes
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
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The 1,000 neuron challenge
A competition to design small, efficient neural models may provide new insight into real brains—and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts.
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The Transmitter
2 months ago
Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes
@marcusghosh.bsky.social
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Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models
Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.
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The Transmitter
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A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research, writes
@alexkwan.bsky.social
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How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/drug-development/how-basic-neuroscience-has-paved-the-path-to-new-drugs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251215-perspectives-how-basic-neuroscience-has-paved-path-to-new-drugs
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@russpoldrack.org
's guidelines for AI-assisted coding can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
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AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
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Francisco Rivera Rosario
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Check out the first entry on our new Q&A series about neuroscientists who’ve built careers outside of the lab!
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Check out our courses calendar, where you can search for upcoming neuroscience courses. If you’re organizing a course and would like to share it with us, submit it at
[email protected]
.
#neuroskyence
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Courses
Explore upcoming neuroscience courses, filtered by topic.
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The Transmitter
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Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring the top neuroscience meetings and events through September 2027. Are you organizing a neuroscience conference? Share it with us at
[email protected]
.
www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...
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Great having
@drnancypadilla.bsky.social
contribute to the series!
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3 months ago
In
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.
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Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.
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At the
#SFN2025
#NeuroAI
session and want to hear more from Terry Sejnowski?
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Thinking about thinking: AI offers theoretical insights into human memory
We need a new conceptual framework for understanding cognitive functions—particularly how globally distributed brain states are formed and maintained for hours.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurotechnology/thinking-about-thinking-ai-offers-theoretical-insights-into-human-memory/
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The challenges Neurodata Without Borders faces reflect a broader need for funding that sustains new research tools once they are established. By Lauren Schneider
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Neurophysiology data-sharing system faces funding cliff
After the primary grant supporting Neurodata Without Borders ends in March 2026, the platform may no longer be maintained or kept up to date.
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An exciting collaboration with
@worldwideneuro.bsky.social
,
@tpvogels.bsky.social
@bozelosp.bsky.social
@moritzstefaner.bsky.social
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Congrats to
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
staff reporter Calli McMurray &
@quantamagazine.bsky.social
contributing writer Max G. Levy for winning Gold Awards for Science Journalism!
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta-and-the-transmitter-writers-win-aaas-kavli-gold-awards-for-science-journalism/
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Quanta and The Transmitter Writers Win AAAS Kavli Gold Awards for Science Journalism
Quanta and The Transmitter Writers Win AAAS Kavli Gold Awards for Science Journalism on Simons Foundation
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/quanta-and-the-transmitter-writers-win-aaas-kavli-gold-awards-for-science-journalism/
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In our latest Postdoc Perspectives essay, Dana Rubi Levy, Kevin Mastro and Michael Ryan argue that some age-related changes in the brain are not solely the result of cognitive decline but rather part of a larger adaptive process.
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Aging as adaptation
Some age-related changes in the brain and in behavior are not solely the result of cognitive decline but rather part of a larger adaptive process.
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Such an important project! Please share your research stories.
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I'm excited to share a big project we've been working on for the last few months!
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@jeromelecoq.bsky.social
describes how he brought together more than 50 scientists to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models and to design experiments to fill those gaps.
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A community-designed experiment on predictive processing
More than 50 scientists came together to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models.
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4 months ago
Many well-known perimenopause symptoms arise in the brain, but we still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research—both in animals and humans—is essential, writes
@kundakoviclab.bsky.social
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Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
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Had a great time chatting with Steve about his new book, How to Change A Memory. Check out the interview and read a short excerpt of the book today on
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/42vam6hn
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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.
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Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science
Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-society/we-developed-a-searchable-repository-of-useful-research-to-restore-trust-in-federally-funded-basic-science/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251105-perspectives-searchable-repository-useful-restore-trust-basic-science
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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.
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How neuroscientists are using AI
Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.
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Emily Singer
The Transmitter
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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.
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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.
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Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.
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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.
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The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynamics/the-missing-half-of-the-neurodynamical-systems-theory/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20251027-perspectives-missing-half-neurodynamical-systems-theory
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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:
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Editing this series is so fun! I remember reading Takamori’s paper in grad school and feeling some of the same excitement that Sandra writes about in this piece. Give it a read!
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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
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@eboyden3.bsky.social
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Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now
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 work together to generate…
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I love this piece! It shows the many ways a connectome can be put to use, AND the many complementary modalities that are needed, beyond the connectome, to answer real questions. And it makes me feel good about having helped to generate the thing. :)
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Congrats to
@bucklr01.bsky.social
on being selected as a finalist in the NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards, for her piece "Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research"!
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Announcing the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners
The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes i...
https://www.nasw.org/article/announcing-2025-nasw-science-society-journalism-award-winners
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Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top neuroscience meetings and events through April 2027. Are you organizing a conference? Share it with us at
[email protected]
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www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...
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Facial movements reflect a mouse’s decision-making patterns independent of their chosen action during a foraging task, per a new study. By
@lauren-schneider.com
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Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices in the eye, writes Anne Churchland.
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Reproducibility is a team sport
Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibility/reproducibility-is-a-team-sport-lessons-from-a-large-scale-collaboration/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250929-perspectives-reproducibility-team-sport
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The Transmitter
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@pessoabrain.bsky.social
talks to
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
,
@aliyarumana.bsky.social
and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/beyond-newtonian-causation-in-neuroscience-embracing-complex-causality/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250922-perspectives-embracing-complex-causality
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The Transmitter
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Explore our Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center—with news, expert insights, practical tools and more to help you navigate the field:
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My new essay for
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
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Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
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“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth
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From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise
Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.
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