Thus far, engineering has outpaced theory in the science of intelligence. But Tomaso Poggio is hopeful that theories can catch up. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions rdcu.be/eRVUk

Aperiodic parameters are systematically dependent on the frequency range used to estimate them. We evaluated intracortical recordings of 62 patients using both Specparam and IRASA. The full article is finally out. @martinirani.bsky.social @medelero.bsky.social ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Traveling waves. Your brain has them for a reason. Dynamical Mechanisms for Coordinating Long-term Working Memory Based on the Precision of Spike-timing in Cortical Neurons arxiv.org/abs/2512.15891 #neuroscience

New results! Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity doi.org/10.64898/202... Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social #neuroscience

High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces go.nature.com/4ocRj3n

When you record spikes, you also record LFPs. It’s ironic to hear people claim oscillations don’t matter while they are discarding the very data that could test that. As Thomas Kuhn would say… #neuroscience

"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors." One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay

The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits: A computational perspective doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

Last year, a special issue of Science explored the complex and close associations #rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models. 🐀 Learn more: https://scim.ag/46VBOrb #ScienceMagArchives

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Steven Rose obituary: Vituperative neuroscientist,” in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development. Proud to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m excited to share my final co-first author paper from my postdoc in Dan Dombeck's lab! We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells

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Excellent episode of BrainInspired with @xjwang.bsky.social discussing his new book ++. TIL about his link w/ Rosemary Kennedy (via 2 degrees of separation). I'm really looking forward to @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece he mentions on bifurcation. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Very necessary! www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

The firing of neural populations is high-dim even if their subthreshold activity is low-dim! This work by @bio-emergent.bsky.social and @haydari.bsky.social shows how, with a solvable model, a data analysis technique, and data from mouse visual cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper (I played a minor role in)! Representational similarities in mouse auditory cortex remain stable during drift. When Taka Noda ablated neurons, these similarities destabilized but recovered within days - previously unresponsive neurons stepped up to fill gaps. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪🧠

We want to hear from you! We’re conducting a survey on the state of neuroscience. This week’s question is: How will neuroscience training need to change in the future? #neuroskyence thetransmitter.typeform.com/neurotrainin...

New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability—and their efforts are beginning to pay off. www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...

Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650663v1

Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies. https://go.nature.com/437FWT6

Oscillatory control over representational geometry of sequence working memory in macaque frontal cortex www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

Very humbled to have been selected for the 2025 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows Program! Excited to continue working at @beckmanillinois.bsky.social under the guidance of Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani and Dr. Howard Gritton.

Check out some of our locus coeruleus reconstructions - the average fully reconstructed LC neuron is about 30 cm in length (in a mouse brain that spans ~1.3 cm front to back)

Nature research paper: Inhibitory specificity from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex https://go.nature.com/4lkFW9D

Excited to share that I just published my first ever first-author paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology in the Marler Lab. We found that oxytocin may impair wound healing when animals are isolated. @cmarler.bsky.social @patrickmonari.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share the recording of my plenary talk at Cosyne 2025 two days ago. You will learn about the statistical physics approach, phase transitions in learning, transformers, sequence models, attention etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PurZ...

Many apparent disagreements over the utility of neural manifolds come from a lack of clarity on what the term really encompasses, argues @mattperich.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇

And we need to embrace the likely possibility that brains are more than connectivity patterns and their weightings. That is the start, not the end. Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce... #neuroscience

They conclude the latter, but I object to the question. When someone says "epiphenomenon," I hear "doesn't fit my theory." Oscillations in Natural Neuronal Networks; An Epiphenomenon or a Fundamental Computational Mechanism? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroscience

Happy to see this study led by Irene Onorato finally out - we show distinct phase locking and spike timing of optotagged PV cells and Sst interneuron subtypes during gamma oscillations in mouse visual cortex, suggesting an update to the classic PING model www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Students are being "unaccepted" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...