It’s a real shame that folks with mental illness have to fight not only their symptoms but also concerted efforts to undermine their treatment. 😢 The @nytimes.com mag published a long piece entitled “rethinking adhd”. Here is a 🧵 highlighting its factual & logical errors 1/n

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄 @theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MyVivarium is an #opensource tool for animal colony management. It uses QR codes, IoT sensors, & allows for cloud-based tracking. Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...

One of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out FlexRig, an open-source platform for decision-making & cognitive flexibility studies. 🐁🧠 Olfactory, auditory, somatosensory cues, & more! Low-cost, fully customizable. #OpenSource #Neuroscience #ResearchTools @tspell.bsky.social edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...

Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊 Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs. Paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is excellent

Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

The author’s resolution is both obvious and endogenous

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, led by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) - a gastroenterologist with an MD from LSU, just released a report entitled NIH IN THE 21st CENTURY: ENSURING TRANSPARENCY AND AMERICAN BIOMEDICAL LEADERSHIP. Since he is the ranking Republican, 1/n

It does matter to continue to try to elicit shame to prevent the 'rhinoceros stampede' from 'destroying the habitat for democracy.' _________________________________________ ¹ Rhinocerization is Hungarian playwright Eugène Ionesco's term for losing your empathy and becoming a nationalist minion.

A wonderful paper from @tonyzador.bsky.social and colleagues: Encoding innate ability through a genomic bottleneck www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There are many nuances regarding the structural neural plasticity associated with antidepressant drugs. 💊🧠 We share our thoughts here in a Nature Reviews Neuroscience article, led by Clara Liao with co-authors from Conor Liston’s lab at Weill Cornell. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you see this coming? Abstract categorization in a so-called sensorimotor midbrain area. Primate superior colliculus is causally engaged in abstract higher-order cognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

“The posts that were removed were all actioned correctly,” says Joe Benarroch, head of business operations at X, adding that the posts violated the company’s “posting private information policy” for “outing the identity of an anonymous user.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

New Paper Alert! 🚨 "Testing methods of neural systems understanding" by me & David Bau is online now: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041723000906 We argue for an explicit test of the tools used to understand 'neural systems', i.e. brains and artificial neural networks.

New wave research? We’ve got some ‘splining to do! 〰 These oscillations are high-frequency: 130-160 Hz, at the peaks of theta rhythms in the retrosplenial cortex (part of the brain essential for successful navigation). https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)00822-1 🧪 #neuroscience

hi #neuroskyence, I’m emma! 👋🧠 I work on brain-machine interfaces in industry, first at neuralink (I wrote most of the software for the pig and monkey demos!), and more recently as cofounder + software lead at science corp. always looking for more neuro + bci friends, ❤️ if that’s you! 🧪

"Use the pool water to flood the server room to delete the surveillance footage" is the most Sierra adventure game solution to a problem I've ever heard