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-...

Such an important project! Please share your research stories.

I'm excited to share a big project we've been working on for the last few months!

@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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

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

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

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. #neuroskyence

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. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #neuroskyence

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

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:

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! #neuroskyence

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 and @eboyden3.bsky.social. #neuroskyence bit.ly/48EzEO8

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. :)

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"! www.nasw.org/article/anno...

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]. www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...

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 #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...

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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

@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. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Explore our Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center—with news, expert insights, practical tools and more to help you navigate the field: https://www.thetransmitter.org/early-career-researchers/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250908-ecrrc-gif

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. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Selfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs! www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt

From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing by Tim Requarth: www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t... A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery by @callimcflurry.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

Our current approach to defining neural populations is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Calling all PIs! @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to understand the diverse funding sources that support your neuroscience research. Complete this survey and let us know: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/quan... #neuroskyence

Prairie voles have typically been used to probe the neural basis of love, until now: Female voles that lack oxytocin receptors struggle to make friends with other females, a new study shows. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...

We are excited to announce the launch of a joint quarterly newsletter in partnership with @neuromatch.bsky.social. Together, we want to connect neuroscientists who share a common interest in computational neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence

Computational sciences can offer a unique opportunity for democratized access and participation, but we are currently falling far short of that goal, writes @neuromatch.bsky.social's @meganakpeters.bsky.social and Bradley Roberts‬‬‬‬. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/education/ho...

Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #neuroai www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Are you a basic scientist? What do you think about public engagement? Whether you're active, curious, or unsure where to start—we want your perspective. Take our survey to help shape future support & training. Open until 3 Aug airtable.com/appIOiMGYFhF... #BasicScience #PublicEngagement #SciComm

Neuroscience PIs: Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social understand the funding landscape by filling out this survey. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/quan... #neuroskyence

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Great piece for anyone who wants to know what an NIH study section is like, and what that service feels like in this fraught moment.

I would love (and am trying) to build a whole lab off of data reuse + modeling. This article pointed to some useful resources I hadn't heard of. I would also add that reuse can be for things far afield from what the data was originally collected for. Your data may have value you've never dreamt of!

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Our award-winning news team is looking for an enthusiastic trade journalist to join our fast-paced newsroom in NYC. This is an excellent opportunity for a science journalist to develop a beat in the field of neuroscience. For more info, please visit: bit.ly/4nvAy4k #neuroskyence

To truly understand Alzheimer’s disease, we may need to take a systems approach, in which inflammation, vascular injury, impaired glucose metabolism and other factors interact in complex ways, writes @mikeyassa.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d...

In her new book, published today, neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social takes a bird's-eye view of where the neuroscience community is currently and where it needs to go to solve some of the field’s biggest questions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...

Keeping up with the literature is essential. But so is devoting time to developing your own scientific ideas, writes Sheena Josselyn. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

I hope Elusive Cures will help shift the current narrative (from scientists as corrupt data falsifiers). Most scientists I know are impassioned individuals throwing their best at complicated challenges that matter for society; this is how Elusive Cures describes them. I'm humbled by this review.

ICYMI: Sex-related factors are important in two ways, writes Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social. They are more precise variables than sex, and they are gender-independent. Part of our series on sex differences in the brain. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...