Physics in action: a truly mesmerising #SolarFlare on the Sun last night, from the same region that produced strong flares and triggered widespread aurora back in mid-November. The flare gives a hypnotic example of how plasma and magnetic fields interact in the Sun’s atmosphere.

Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4i8eLO2 #Neuroskyence 🧪

“It’s giving mechanistic insight into how estrogen modulates reinforcement learning—all the way down to the molecular mechanism,” says Ilana Witten. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

Thalamus for vision BCIs Scientists have recorded single neurons in the human LGN for the first time, revealing how it links the retina to visual cortex. When one eye is closed, neurons tuned to that eye reduce their activity, while neurons tuned to the open eye increase in spikerate #neuroskyence

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻–𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 This looks like a major one! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #neuroskyence

“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”

🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship (This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)

Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation? In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵 #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813

The human brain responds to sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, says research in Nature. Findings improve our understanding of how speech is processed by the brain and might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation: #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 "𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲" (𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘀)? Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics Excellent short review. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroskyence

Missed that must-see lecture? The #SfN25 Virtual Component has you covered with on-demand access to livestreamed sessions. Plus explore virtual posters and join ongoing discussions. Don’t let scheduling conflicts limit your learning. 🔗 vist.ly/4f3m3 #neurosky #neuroskyence

👀 Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Delighted to see this finally out: rdcu.be/eO9oW We tested whether brief striatal dopamine release events influence the vigor of skilled movements. Despite popular belief, we did not find any evidence linking rapid dopamine dynamics to motor vigor on a moment-by-moment basis.

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

Connectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictions of activity in unrecorded neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.

I appreciate the work of these authors to show that this problem not only is still here but has grown: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... But it is also quite frustrating 🧵>>

Hidden Markov Models Speaking of HMMs, really enjoyed this paper on dynamics underlying resting state and other conditions. The idea of a baseline state from which excursions lead to more integrated states is really interesting. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroskyence

Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors @lucinauddin.bsky.social presenting at the University of Maryland

Just out! ✨ Using a novel machine learning approach, we identify a developmental pathway by which the early life gut microbiome may shape mental health at school age via effects on functional brain development. This work can help identify microbial biomarkers of later health issues. 👉 rdcu.be/eNsUK

Thank you @jhuartssciences.bsky.social magazine for featuring this work! This project — the largest ever study of inattentional blindness — was led by Makaela Nartker, in collaboration with Howard Egeth and (senior author) @ianbphillips.bsky.social

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here! The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets. 🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas #neuroskyence

Nature research paper: Mechanism of conductance control and neurosteroid binding in NMDA receptors go.nature.com/48QfMYq

Fascinating uncovering of celestial wayfinding systems: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

New preprint ↙️ Using 2 independent 7T fMRI datasets (HCP & our PNI dataset 🧲 💅 ), we found that intersubject synchronization 👯 during movies aligns closely with cortical gradients 🌈, especially along the visual-to-transmodal axis by Meaghan Smith & a terrific team ↙️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!

"human deep sleep has a unique way of facilitating CSF dynamics that are distinctive from arousal mechanisms." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧠 Excited to share the full program of our #NeuroAI workshop at the @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social (next Monday & Tuesday) 📍 Toronto + Online: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... 🎙️ Talks by VanRullen, @neurograce.bsky.social, Eliasmith, Pitkow, Kanai, Thompson & more.

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This looks super cool; by @jtheriault.bsky.social By the way congrats really!

Review of Dynamic Resting-State Methods in Neuroimaging: Applications to Depression and Rumination Human Brain Mapping | Neuroimaging Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

These cells could be a fresh target for treating Alzheimer's disease and memory conditions associated with PTSD go.nature.com/47uTJFq

The number of infections for this time of year is unusual and could seed outbreaks in countries that are heading into winter go.nature.com/4n8V616

For me, relating my drawings to scientific theories of drawing happens after drawing, not during ("what did I do?"), but it has really enriched my drawing practice and also inspired nearly all of my published research in the past 5 years. psyarxiv.com/pq8nb

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.

The best part of processing space telescopes' data is to discover new regions that I didn't even know existed in the first place! 🔭 This is G054.093+01.748, a star forming region in our galaxy, as seen by the JWST recently, located in the Outer Scutum–Centaurus spiral arm. HD: flic.kr/p/2rxLQyT

𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗫 By Mars and Passingham "Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition" Going to the top of the reading list! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence

A variant of CRISPR amps up expression of SCN2A, rescuing mice from seizures caused by haploinsufficiency. By @cqchoi.com www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/boo...

Last night, the JWST observed Uranus for calibration. Even like that the result is awesome, so here you go with my processed image of that observation! 🔭 HD: flic.kr/p/2ry78y3

Characteristic facial features in mice simultaneously encode not only currently used decision variables but also independent and unexpressed ones, and these features partially originate from neural activity in the secondary motor cortex @fannycazettes.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 This short book by Moreno and Pereto' looks very interesting. One more on the understanding of biological agency. And it's open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The JWST had a new look into the IC348 star forming region last year, and here's my processed image of that observation! 🔭 IC348 is located some 1,000 light years away from us and is made of hundreds of new stars born there. HD: flic.kr/p/2ruCvCz

🚨Our NeurIPS 2025 competition Mouse vs. AI is LIVE! We combine a visual navigation task + large-scale mouse neural data to test what makes visual RL agents robust and brain-like. Top teams: featured at NeurIPS + co-author our summary paper. Join the challenge! Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14446