Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

📢 #FENS2026 giveaway! We're distributing 8 R2 system starter kits - including one with our new metal holder- for FENS attendees! Apply here: forms.gle/QFnUVZthhcfR...

Deadline day! We are almost full... www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/en/groupsite...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Interesting article on something I think is very relevant to open science: several teams analyzed the same ephys dataset and got quite different answers. Not because the analyses were bad, but because this kind of work involves many analysis choices, and those choices can change the result.

Someone asked me what makes us, humans, special. We were talking about the brain. I keep thinking about it, but so far the only special thing about us I could come up with is that we are the only animals who think they are special.

Fraud

Great… so no it will be impossible getting an animal licence to put pigeons in an fMRI. Yet another of my groundbreaking ideas killed by regulation…

So useful!

We have extended the deadline on this until June 8 when I'm back from holiday - please pass along to anyone you think would be interested! I've got email with me so drop me a line if you would like more details

Yep, let’s keep on dancing and farting around.

Book review 📚 How to breathe life back into brain theory go.nature.com/4dwswFt

The psychology of 'simps': "The fear of being single contributes significantly to the motivation behind male simping behaviors." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42178873/ 🫠

🧪 1/ Our review “The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity” is now out in The Neuroscientist. We explore the idea that astrocytes help determine when & where synaptic plasticity is permitted, reframing the credit assignment problem in biological circuits. doi.org/10.1177/1073...

I'm excited to share the new paper from the Cossart lab @inmed.bsky.social , a work I had the pleasure to share with Caroline Filippi and Manon Mantez, without forgetting all the people involved in this team effort. It's available in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

As part of this effort, we've just released three new atlases from v2 of the Allen mouse CCF - the brain atlas, fiber tract atlas and developmental brain atlas. Most pipelines have moved to CCFv3, but adding v2 allows atlas comparison and reproducing old analyses. brainglobe.info/blog/ccfv2-a...

The biblical diet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Hilarious. But not as much as Louis CK. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=220...

How does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊

Post-hoc rationalisation: the brain’s most reliable feature.

Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...

Pleased to share that I’ll be part of a fantastic lineup at the BARCCSYN FENS Satellite Meeting on “Multi-scale Dynamics in Decision Making,” taking place on July 5th at IDIBAPS in Barcelona. Details and registration here: lnkd.in/dZ68-Czd

"Major AI models converge as they model reality better... because there's only one reality to model!" towardsdatascience.com/how-major-re... Well, we are only training our AIs on one "reality", which is the human reality (more specifically the 21st century internet user reality 99% of the time...)

this saves soooo much time, thanks @guidomeijer.com

I'm very happy that fairness and reason has prevailed and the ERC has backtracked on this. Thanks to everyone who signed the open letter to the ERC for making this happen 🙏🏻 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/europ...

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Wait what? Is it really so simple?

Bloody hell! It’s the first time I feel envy for imaging vs ephys. Well done Simon and team!

For those interested in the history of psychedelic research… I wrote a narrative piece describing studies of psychedelic effects on serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe, from late 1960s to 1980s: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

Canvas: 5-HT receptor antibodies in mouse Does anyone know specific antibodies for 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b receptors shown to work for immunohistochemistry? What we tries were all crap. Any alternatives, e.g. genetically encoded fluorescent fusion proteins?

1/8. New preprint! ✨ How spontaneous is spontaneous behavior? 🧠🐭 We found that whole-brain fUSi signals predicted spontaneous behavioral transitions seconds in advance. Inhibiting one node of this transition-prone state, the medial septum, facilitated switching! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RA job alert. We are looking for a fearless experimentalist to join our experiments on cortical neuromodulators during visually guided learning, lead by @michael-lynn.bsky.social . Opportunity to learn 2p imaging, design and conduct experiments. RT plz. Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

A short story from Leó Szilárd, a Hungarian physicist, 1948. Want to kill science? Fund scientists—then force them out of the lab to write grants, review grants, and sit on panels. Tie funding to flashy papers, and everyone will chase fads. Done. www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~pierre.como...

Less than two weeks left to apply for the Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference! An exciting lineup of speakers and posters, and financial aid is available upon request. 🐙🦑 www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...

📣 PhD position in computational & systems neuroscience (Marseille, France). ⏰ Deadline 28 Jan. We are recruiting a PhD student to work on neuromodulatory control of predictive processing in mouse vision, jointly supervised by @ederancz.bsky.social (INMED) and @laurentperrinet.bsky.social (INT).

Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌

I’m speechless

Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)

Link to previous preprint thread with more details on the results: bsky.app/profile/alex... Overall, our findings highlight dendrites as a potential substrate for the cognitive rigidity that characterizes autism spectrum disorders. 5/6

Observed at an SfN poster session?

Interested in doing a PhD on how #psychedelics (or other psychoactive substances) impact psychological or social processes @durhampsych.bsky.social ? Have a look at the NINE DTP scheme, now open. DM me if interested.

Are you interested in visuo-motor mismatch and serotonin? Come see @norambr.bsky.social featuring mice spinning in VR at R16! #SfN2025 #vestibulo-VR #serotonin #predictive_processing

My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026): press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Armed and ready at C5 - @hughtakemoto.bsky.social on serotonin effects on pyramidal cells across V1 and V2. #SfN2025 #serotonin #visualcortex #theta_resonance

Our lab digs into how serotonin tunes prediction errors and eye movements — with custom tools and curious mice.We got 2 posters at #SfN2025, Tue AM (C5) and Wed PM (R16). Recruiting PhD students & postdocs in sunny Marseille. Come chat about neuromodulators, tinkering, or free will and intuition.

Great projects, great environment.

Independent NeuroScience Services INSS was registered as a company on 14th November 2016, which means it's our 9th birthday today! As a birthday present we've treated ourselves to an SfN exhibitor booth for the first time ever. Come and say hello at Booth #3327

Hear BrainGlobe core developer speak about the project in this keynote lecture. 16:00 EST

Can you guess grant deadlines and SfN dates from this graph?