*New preprint from the lab* – “Granularity of thalamic head direction cells” doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧠📈 🧪 1/11

What changes and what stays the same as you scale from single neurons up to local populations of neurons up to whole brains? Michael and Mac @macshine.bsky.social on the systems approach to study brains across scales. braininspired.co/podcast/220/

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level). If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow — a Comment article by Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I need some help from the #neuroskyence Bluesky-verse. Anyone know the source of this ~quote from Walter J. Freeman Jr.: "the secrets of the brain are hidden by two of God’s own firewalls: neurobiology and non-linear dynamics". I read it yrs ago but can't seem to find my way back to the source.

🚨Pre-print alert🚨 We stimulated serotonin with optogenetics while doing large-scale Neuropixel recordings across the mouse brain. We found strong widespread modulation of neural activity, but no effect on the choices of the mouse 🐭 How is this possible? Strap in! (1/9) 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🚨 California and Hawaii under tsunami watch after 8.7M quake in Eastern Russia.

Tsunami Warning – 7/30, 9:40am The Tsunami Advisory has been upgraded to a Tsunami Warning. Waves of up to 3m are expected. Those near coastal areas, rivers, or lakes should evacuate to higher ground immediately. #tsunami

The point is, the monkeys making the loudest noise have the smallest balls. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26592343/

Dem leadership should appoint an official Alt Press Secretary to give briefings after every one that Karoline Leavett does and just break them down lie by lie maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂

An exciting collaboration is underway. @thetransmitter.bsky.social is partnering with @neuromatch.bsky.social to serve the computational neuroscience community and help connect neuroscientists across all career stages. www.thetransmitter.org/neuromatch-p... #neuroskyence

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Prefrontal axons going to lots of places! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroskyence

Pairs well with www.nature.com/articles/s41... “Our results indicate that individual V1 neurons do not signal how the actual visual input deviates from the animal’s predictions, as postulated within the predictive coding framework” Thrilling to see a major theory get tested!

Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/endo/article... 🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic

I honestly think we should have a screening system for who gets to have money and influence based on asking "what was Star Wars about?" and "who were the good guys?"

Molecular and functional diversity of the autonomic nervous system — a Review by Tongtong Wang, Avedis Tufenkjian, Olujimi A. Ajijola & Yuki Oka #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

🚨 New paper in Journal of Vision! We show that scene affordances—what you can do in a space—shape how we perceive and categorize scenes. This shapes your similarity preferences, predicts your categorization false alarms, and even alters neural representations. 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov.... (1/7)

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Short new piece on aphantasia just out in TiCS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Key idea: aphantasia often involves a lack of *visual-object* imagery (explaining subjective reports & objective correlates) but selectively spared *spatial* imagery (explaining preserved task performance).

ICYMI: “For fMRI to meaningfully contribute to progress in neuroscience, we need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels,” writes Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

Another great article from @thetransmitter.bsky.social and Laura Lewis, who has been working painstakingly over the last few years to help ramp up the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI so that we can really start to dig into whole-brain signals in vivo.

ICYMI: Recent technological advances in functional MRI provide a range of new information about brain physiology. Collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists will help maximize these gains, writes Laura Lewis. www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

Paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800 Code is here: github.com/DynamicsAndN... If you're interested and at #OHBM2025 come watch Rishi present his work in the "Modeling and Analysis - Connectivity" workshop on Saturday in the Great Hall; and check out his poster #1440 (on Friday & Saturday)

New preprint! Why are long-range connectomic interactions in the cortex dominant in shaping dynamics in some experiments but apparently negligible in others? We (w/ R Maran, @elimuller.bsky.social) address this question by studying a new hybrid model of cortical dynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800

The Open Science Room has been an exciting space at the OHBM Meeting for many years, but its future is threatened. Please sign this petition to signal your support for preserving a dedicated space for the OSR at future meetings. ohbm.github.io/osr2025/peti...

Useful #OHBM2024 deep link - Table listing all posters with stand-by times & categories gmpartners365-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person...

Fantastic article from one of the leaders of the burgeoning field or layer-resolved functional MRI. A pleasure to read!

ICYMI: In this essay for our Future of fMRI series, Laurentius Huber @layerfmri.bsky.social explains how new advances in functional MRI could help to connect cells and brain areas at the mesoscopic scale. #neuroskyence #OHBM2025 www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

The diversity of methods we use to probe the brain (epistemologies) naturally leads to clashes in our theories of how the brain works (ontologies). So how do we reconcile this divide and grow into a more unified neuroscience? Here is our take: apertureneuro.org/article/1388...

🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders. 🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560 @arokem.org @alexfornito.bsky.social @macshine.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

New preprint modelling suppression depth in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression with Hugh Wilson, @macshine.bsky.social, & David Alais

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order www.cos.io/about/news/c...

𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 This target paper by Anil Seth should lead to good discussion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hard agree. Great article on a timely issue by @neuralreckoning.bsky.social for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

Together with @macshine.bsky.social & @elimuller.bsky.social we have a cool interdisciplinary project on compositional cognition, and we’re looking for a PhD student. More details here www.findaphd.com/phds/project... DM or email any questions Please RT or pass on to interested students. Thanks!

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

I fell in love with neurophysiology because of the beautiful biophysical properties of stellate cells pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8395571/ Finally I go back to these cells and put biocytin in them and what a wonderful surprise Stained and imaged by Kristian Moan @gquattrocolo.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Applications are now open for our fall internship program! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

Purkinje cells form inhibitory connections on cerebellar nuclei cells. So, when Purkinje cells fire abnormally, as in disease states, we should see the inverse in nuclei cells, right? Well - it may not be so straightforward: tinyurl.com/PCtoNC @fralinbiomed.bsky.social @vtneuroscience.bsky.social

Big shout-out to @jlizier.bsky.social, whose patience, dedication, and guidance in supervising me through this project have been invaluable 🙏 Thank you also to our other fab co-authors for their insightful input as always: Oliver Cliff, @macshine.bsky.social, and @bendfulcher.bsky.social!

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

The data processing inequality does state that the brain cannot generate new information ABOUT the external world. But technically, being a source of entropy, the brain DOES generate information. And that might have implications, e.g. vis-à-vis resting states, default mode networks, delusions, etc

Want to stay up to date on the latest developments in human brain mapping? As part of a new partnership, we are excited to announce the launch of a joint quarterly newsletter with @ohbmofficial.bsky.social. Sign up for the latest on neuroimaging research: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-...