Exploring why Claude develops something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans, writes @nicolecrust.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/what...

AI is pushing scientific publishing to the brink. For a field as sprawling as neuroscience, the crisis may also be an opportunity to finally connect findings across subfields, writes Tim Requarth. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

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By designing decision-making tasks that vary along multiple dimensions and truly challenge our animals, we might finally understand how multiple brain areas coordinate to drive decisions, writes @chandlab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/decision-mak...

These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity, writes @juangallego.bsky.social. But will we be able to understand them? #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/why-...

“Recognizing the scope and impact of heterogeneity in basic neuroscience is essential if we want to understand complex conditions and the brain in health and disease,” write @lindadouw.bsky.social, Klaus Eyer and Lara Keuck. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

@macshine.bsky.social talks with Mario Senden about his new project using AI-driven bibliometrics to map the structural organization of neuroscience across 25 years. The field it reveals is at once thriving and theoretically adrift. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...

A new preprint shows that deep learning can make a fly walk realistically using a worm’s brain — exposing a fundamental problem with how connectome models are being built and sold to investors. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

This is a great opportunity for grad students and postdocs to get hands-on experience with modern neural data analysis tools in Python

Scientists and educators are concerned about students using AI to shortcut their learning. But there are also opportunities, especially when it comes to teaching neuroscience students how to code, writes @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...

A lack of reviewers threatens the robustness of neuroscience literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. To explore how the review probability and percentage of biased reviewers influence the likelihood of biased review, check out this interactive simulation. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

Trainees need to learn how to identify a paper’s major takeaways and integrate them into their understanding. In her essay, @norabradford.bsky.social argues that this skill doesn’t come from outsourcing the work to large language models. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems? www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

“I actually got kicked out of my first lab,” @sussillodavid.bsky.social reveals in a Q&A about his new book, “Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind.” He talks about his challenging upbringing, his luck to land in Larry Abbott’s lab, and more. bit.ly/4rEu18t

It was a delight to chat with @sussillodavid.bsky.social about his new book! He talks about why he wrote it, his work to develop FORCE learning with Larry Abbot and much more. Check out the interview and head in to read a short excerpt from the book! 👇🏽

My perspective in The Transmitter on the role of AI and neuroimaging in advancing women’s brain health. “To put it bluntly, we need to recruit more AI researchers to be interested in women’s brain health, and we need to make women’s brain health researchers more fluent in AI.” tinyurl.com/4mvytsdu

@bingbrunton.bsky.social presenting on "Embodied intelligence" at #cosyne2026. Read more about why this is so important: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Are you at #COSYNE2026? Swing by the Simons Foundation booth to learn more about the organization and @thetransmitter.bsky.social. #neuroskyence

My latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

“I made it my mission to develop a journal club course to teach students how to become fair reviewers.” @eblancosuarez.bsky.social shares how she developed a class in which students review preprints alongside the published papers that evolved from them. www.thetransmitter.org/neuro-educat...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...

@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 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

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 #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring the top neuroscience meetings and events through September 2027. #neuroskyence #neuroscience #events www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/defining-cel...

Another thoughtful piece from Tim Requarth on the potential impact of AI tools on the scientific process.

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. www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/psychiatry/c...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/books/the-tr...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

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. www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop... #neuroskyence

@russpoldrack.org's guidelines for AI-assisted coding can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

Check out the first entry on our new Q&A series about neuroscientists who’ve built careers outside of the lab! #neuroskyence

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 www.thetransmitter.org/courses/?utm...

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_... #neuroskyence

Great having @drnancypadilla.bsky.social contribute to the series! #neuroskyence

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. #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience bit.ly/4rnFnyQ

Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.

At the #SFN2025 #NeuroAI session and want to hear more from Terry Sejnowski? www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

The challenges Neurodata Without Borders faces reflect a broader need for funding that sustains new research tools once they are established. By Lauren Schneider #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/ne...

An exciting collaboration with @worldwideneuro.bsky.social , @tpvogels.bsky.social @bozelosp.bsky.social @moritzstefaner.bsky.social

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/

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/aging/aging-...