How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job post alert!👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow in CompNeuro/ML in the Artificial and Biological Computation lab at NYU (csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab). Exciting opening in the Data and Theory team in the new Simons Collaboration in Ecological Neuroscience! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #neuroskyence

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Really excited to share the latest work from my lab, where we identify how distinct cortical projections differentially encode sensory category and choice.

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't. If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

Writing is thinking, not just word production. (And we need thinking.) Agree strongly with Tim's take for @thetransmitter.bsky.social here: "The problem is not that the tools don’t work—it’s that they work too well."

#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 emphasizes that ovarian hormone fluctuations - across the menstrual cycle, postpartum, & menopause - are key drivers of psychiatric risk in ♀️, yet remain understudied / @kundakoviclab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work with @shiyanliang.bsky.social‬, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina. We uncover the principles that organize single-neuron timescales across the entire brain, unifying regional specialization with universal brain-wide dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdocs: Apply now for the SYNAPSES series @kavliatyale.bsky.social @yaleneuro.bsky.social! Deadline to apply is September 7th

Excited to share this profile + interview with Dr. Emily Jacobs! Amazing work on human precision brain imaging across hormonal fluctuations, and such an inspiring story! I had such a great time interviewing her!

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress rdcu.be/ezzYq

late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9 ✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling 👏 great work team @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

Our next profile is here! Dr. Melissa Caras studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning. Follow the link to listen and learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN

“Like a group of skiers descending a mountain, each [neuron] prefers a slightly different path, but all are shaped by the same slope,” says PNI's @engeltatiana.bsky.social‬ on her lab’s new ‪@nature.com‬ study revealing how the brain makes decisions. 📰: pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/al...

Very happy to see a Transmitter (@thetransmitter.bsky.social) piece on our recent work on estrous cycle modulation of hippocampal structure and function. Thanks to Sydney Wyatt (@sydneywyatt.bsky.social) for covering the work and its context: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroendocri...

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

Lovely work from my colleague @Cell Reports! He shows that mouse vocalizations activate posterior insula, and actvity onset precedes vocal production -even in deaf mice - indicative of a motor signal. Also, neurons that respond to conspecific vocalizations seem to multiplex voc. w/ social context!

A new preprint from @valentina-cs.bsky.social using @ajboender.bsky.social CRISPR tool shows that locally expressed oxytocin receptor in BNST modulates effects of stress on social approach and vigilance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New work from the lab highlighting the differential effect of arousal on distinct excitatory projections!

This academic cycle was really challenging for those students that applied for PhD programs. Please help me share this special episode discussing what to do if you didn't get accepted into a PhD program. open.spotify.com/episode/5tsj...

Stoked to share our new review on why neuroendocrinology needs a systems lens and why hormones should matter to systems neuroscience. It’s time for serious cross-talk!

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Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Want to compare social and nonsocial reward seeking behavior? 
On STAR Protocols, we provide instructions for the assembly of a 2 choice operant chamber with an easy to use GUI-based acquisition system. Low cost and fully automated. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lateral septum enthusiast? Interested in learning more about how LS projection populations and their inputs are organized. Check out our preprint in which @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social map out brain wide inputs to 6 LS projection populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Are you a neuroscience postdoc interested in an academic career? Apply (by 05/31/2025) for this invited seminar at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department! Applications are reviewed by postdoc, keeping in mind the importance of varied contributions to the scientific community!

Our next profile is here! Dr. Monique Smith (@moeneuro.bsky.social) studies the neural mechanisms of empathy. Follow the link below to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!! Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

🚨📃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

Happy to share this interview one of our founders, @drnancypadilla.bsky.social! 💜

In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... #WomenInScience #February11

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

I'm so thrilled that we featured Dr. Annegret Falkner's story. In her down to earth style, Annegret shares how her windy paths brought her to study how internal states shape social behaviors and to push the boundaries of how we study and quantify behavior 🧠🐁🎙️

So happy for the opportunity to sit and chat with my most amazing mentor and a scientist I admire so much!! Excited for y’all to check out her story!

Nature Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest review-with @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we pour our ❤️🧠 & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.25.625278v1

Love seeing a big science migration to 🦋!! To all #StoriesOfWiN interviewees, please let us know if we missed you when we made the starter pack or if you just joined the blue skies. We’ll add you! 🧠💕 And to those just discovering WiN, we’re a podcast/website highlighting women in academic neuro!

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Omowumi Femi-Akinlosotu studies neurobiology and forensic anatomy. Follow the link below to listen to the full interview: www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro

Friends, I’m going to try very hard to move here from the other platform. Is there a starter pack for auditory neuroscientists? If not, I’ll make one — please reply to this post and repost if you’re an auditory neuroscientist. And please comment with links to systems neuro starter packs.

Thrilled that our paper on the role of the rat prelimbic cortex (PLC) in decision making is finally out! Three main findings are described in this thread Co-authors: Jensen Palmer, Samantha White, and Kevin Chavez Lopez doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

For so many, there was a book - often read ~20yo - that had a very big influence on their next steps. Do you have a book story like that? Do tell! My book was Crick's "Astonishing Hypothesis". I got to feature my 30yo tattered copy in a recent photo shoot. www.thetransmitter.org/summer-readi...

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...

Do you do Neuropixel recordings and are you struggling with preprocessing? I'm introducing the Power Pixels Pipeline! An end-to-end pipeline from raw data to single neurons in Allen Atlas brain regions. Github 👉 github.com/NeuroNetMem/... Read more 👇🧵 #neuroscience

Felt a little extra today when preparing a spike sorting lecture and put together these illustrations, I could not find anything similar for single electrodes! 🧪🧠⚡ #neuroskyence #SciArt