Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

By the way, if you’re interested in working together on problems like this, I’m starting my lab at UCSF this summer. Get in touch if you’re interested in doing a postdoc! More info here: wj2.github.io/postdoc_ad (7/7)

If you're at SfN and interested in Behavioral Timescale Plasticity, dendritic plateaus or mechanisms for learning and memory, consider coming to our minisymposium on BTSP tomorrow morning: eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SfN25

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Delighted that our main #TeamReuniens paper is finally out in @plosbiology.org. Been a long time in the making, congratulations to Lilya and all the team. A thread to follow soon, after I've had some sleep... #NeuroSkyence journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

First author Ramanujan Srinath demonstrated some of the things that make him a great scientist: he thinks deeply & creatively, brings together many forms of evidence & people, and is determined and innovative. He is on the job market this year and will run an incredible lab – don’t miss out! 5/

Not too early to get excited about presenting in San Diego in November! A minisymposium on BTSP organized by @antoinemadar.bsky.social www.sfn.org/meetings/neu...

A broken clock gives the right time twice a day... A call for Universities to stop feeding the publishing industries 40% margins and build a global university consortium taking charge of academic publishing (by R Kaplan, former associate director of NIH) www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Today NIH staff sent a letter to the NIH Director voicing their concerns over the impact of recent actions on biomedical research, and urging him to reverse the disruptive NIH policy changes and restore NIH grants that have been cut or delayed. Add your signature. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

In a recent study, @antoinemadar.bsky.social & Mark Sheffield looked at place cells of the mouse hippocampus in vivo to understand what plasticity rules support learning—spoiler alert, it wasn’t Hebbian plasticity! Go check out my story for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🧪

"My instinctive reaction was to withhold this case from publication. The patient was my only sister." An incredible article (still guarded behind a paywall by Oxford University Press, 90 years after publication)

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

Turns out, saving science costs money. Please consider supporting our fight with a donation to @standupforscience.bsky.social. Every. Single. Dollar. Counts. (really!)

You can join the Tax Strike at anytime, not just during tax filing season. If you're a W4 employee, retiree, or self-employed, you can change your withholding now and delay your decision to pay federal income taxes. It's time to take back our power. Join us today: Taxstrike.info

Tax Day is a reminder that there is strength in numbers. This administration is using our money to takeover our government - and WE have the power to stop them. We will not allow our tax dollars to be used to undermine the Constitution, disappear our neighbors, or destroy our institutions.

Tax day today. Or is it? Not paying taxes is a historical and fundamental tool to resist. #taxstrike @nationaltaxstrike.bsky.social taxstrike.info

Public protests are important for solidarity & signaling. But the real work having impact right now is in the courts. So if you've attended protests and are thinking 'what's next?' here are some legal funds to donate to: statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/ democracyforward.org ldad.org/letters-briefs

Guys it's a reasonable ask #handsoff2025

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

Want to know what synaptic plasticity rules operate in-vivo to support learning? Read our new paper, combining computational modeling and analysis of place field trajectories during familiarization to novel environments. #BTSP #STDP #hippocampus #CA1 #CA3 #FirstBlueskyTweet