Mice do play with humans: Our new study found that selective breeding makes mice more playful toward both humans and other mice. We also found that both mice and hamsters produce distinct vocalizations depending on the species of their interaction partner. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsK5_3oCG...

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

🚨New paper🚨 Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Replication game- Never have I ever…. failed to record a “place cell” from the hippocampus* *except all those times where I screwed up the experiment because I’m a human and my tetrodes got stuck, the ground was broken, the tetrodes snapped, I shorted the wires, I got my synchronization wrong, etc.

Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!

Camille Testard Named Branco Weiss Fellow for Trailblazing Research on Social Resilience to Ecological Disasters 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... ‪ @ctestard.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest. Video footage of the incident show a group of officers detaining three men. Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the use of a stun gun “funny”.

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Love this! Tooting my own horn here, but if you’re interested in some of the practical considerations mentioned at the end of the article, you can check out this perspective from earlier in my postdoc: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Unpopular (?) opinion: the scientific publication process is inherently discriminatory to people whose first language is not English. If people use LLMs to help them to express their own thoughts in clear, grammatically correct, English, there's nothing wrong with that.

🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us! Details 👇🏾 dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt @caixaresearch.bsky.social @fct_pt

Always a breath of fresh air. Literally and metaphorically.

...all due to passion and the enthusiasm of the wonderful TAs and lecturers that make TENSS happen (only some with handles here): @pgupta-cshl.bsky.social @open-ephys.org @antblot.bsky.social @brunopichler.bsky.social @mtkostecki.bsky.social @neuroetho.bsky.social @alecamera.bsky.social

Come visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!

Excited to share the first lab photo of our team of wonderful people. From January 2025 to now. neuroetho.com/our-team @upenn.edu #BioPond

Amazing work! Combination of expertise!

🧵New preprint from @tom-quetu.bsky.social and me, done in Dan Shulz’s lab @touchmovelab.bsky.social at @neuropsi.bsky.social : We uncover how a tactile code emerges in cortical layer 5a from temporal integration of thalamic input. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Let’s break it down 👇

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology & Evolution - apply by July 31. Supports US-based PhD programs No citizenship req, but non-US applicants responsible for obtaining appropriate Visa Spreading the word. Of course, would also love to host! :-) www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Epic Burn 😂

An unusual window into social behavior. In Uruguay we would the soccer analogy “The ball looks for the player”

This hasn’t been reported as much in the media, but this attack on international scholars at Harvard seems to also affect postdocs: ~40% (3/4 of international postdocs) are on J visas (based on FAS postdoc association data) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬 New study out: we report a chromosome-level assembly of the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus! A launching pad for chemosensory-evolution research. Read more 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's Final Exam day for my decision making class, and as usual I have a few bonus questions at the end. These include: Would you prefer: a. A 50% / 50% gamble, with a payout of +1 or 0 points. b. A 50% / 50% gamble, with a payout of +2 or -1 points.

Excited to read and for my lab to have as a foundation Nachum Ulanovsky’s book on “Natural Neuroscience” .

there has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊

Fantastic!! www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

Friends (esp. trainees) @brown.edu: I'm looking forward to spending the next few days with you, to hear your vision for the "Grand Plan" - especially in the context of your specialty (near and dear to me): Interactionist Neuroscience, doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... I'm here to listen (more than talk).

Last day of neuroethology class! We made a Krogh principle April animal model bracket, winner was the Argentinean Ant 🤷🏼‍♂️

La mirada de la gente que entró a bluesky sobre las redes sociales es super importante, se animan a completar una encuesta? 👉 reconectar.uy 👈

A nice, layperson writeup of my latest work, which is now out on eLife! TLDR: Using snRNA-seq, we find cell type abundance differences and sex-biased gene expression differences that may explain innate differences in mating + parenting behavior elifesciences.org/digests/1031...

I have no other reason to quote this other than it just makes me happy that a Pan European Duck symposium exists!! 🎊

The cover of our new book has been approved! Due out this August through MIT Press and the online version will be open access. #neuroskyence #ornithology 🪶🧠

Agouti town

Congrats Ali!

If you look close you can see the red led blink of an active tag 🏷️ These agoutis are making us work hard!

Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks (commonalities with speech-related motor cortices in humans found in budgerigar, but not in zebra finch, a songbird capable of more limited vocal learning) 🧪🧠🦜 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fun times!

FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!

Basking Agoutis, waiting for some fruits. 🍎 🍌

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more: #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

First Official Field Season trip of the Sanguinetti Lab! Spent a quick morning helping out @dinalab.bsky.social feed jungle critters in the conservation refuge.

Congrats my friend!

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 My first work as a last author is out! 🧵⬇️ We explore how the mouse retina responds to UV & green light and why achieving the right natural illumination is crucial for accurately studying color vision. By Filippo Castellani, Awen Louboutin & Tom Quétu doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Writing a paper be like spending 8 hours reading 6 papers to write one sentence citing 2 references—then deleting it the next morning. "A carpenter does not sit on his shavings. You have to be ruthless with your material! If it takes attention away from [the main message], throw it away at once."

Indeed academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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