Ever wondered how the hippocampal cognitive map is read-out? @changmin-yu.bsky.social @zilong-ji.bsky.social with Jake & John, show that, during navigation, theta sweeps indicate remembered goal-directions (cf. current/next movements or perceptual targets) 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

🚨🚨 Our article is now finally out in SCAN! 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.1093/scan...

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Really interesting from the Burgess stable — theta sweeps in entorhinal cortex show a dorsoventral gradient, with different spatial scales coordinated at different frequencies. Nice work @zilong-ji.bsky.social @neilburgess10.bsky.social 👏 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2026.03.08.710351v1

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Many congratulations to @masudhusain.bsky.social for winning the @royalsociety.org book prize for his brilliant book ‘Our brains, our selves’. Loved the brain-themed dessert

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

From the original Swedish researchers.

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

𝖡𝗋𝗂𝖾𝖿 𝗋𝖾𝗏𝗂𝖾𝗐 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝖣𝖺𝗇 𝖡𝗎𝗌𝗁, 𝗈𝖿 𝗇𝖾𝗎𝗋𝖺𝗅 𝗌𝖾𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝖿𝗅𝗒𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖻𝖺𝗍𝗌 (𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬!) 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗐𝗈 𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗉𝖺𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗅𝗈 𝖥𝗈𝗋𝗅𝗂, 𝖶𝗎𝖽𝗂 𝖥𝖺𝗇, 𝖪𝖾𝗏𝗂𝗇 𝖰𝗂 & 𝖬𝗂𝖼𝗁𝖺𝖾𝗅 𝖸𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗌𝖾𝗏, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝖳𝖺𝗆𝗂𝗋 𝖤𝗅𝗂𝖺𝗏, 𝖲𝗁𝗂𝗋 𝖬𝖺𝗂𝗆𝗈𝗇, 𝖠𝗒𝖾𝗅𝖾𝗍 𝖲𝖺𝗋𝖾𝗅, 𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗄𝖾𝖽 𝖯𝖺𝗅𝗀𝗂, 𝖫𝗂𝗈𝗋𝖺 𝖫𝖺𝗌 & 𝖭𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗎𝗆 𝖴𝗅𝖺𝗇𝗈𝗏𝗌𝗄𝗒: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lpaB3QW8S...

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory. Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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!

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky

Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏 www.nature.com/naturecareer... More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc... #neuroskyence #neurojobs

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Going to #Cosyne2025? Check out our researchers’ posters and talks: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/... @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest paper: “Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells” together with Dr. Eleonora Lomi (co-first author) Prof. @katejj.bsky.social Prof. Anna Mitchell and Prof. @neilburgess10.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/hipo...

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

I really enjoyed reading this commentary of our recent paper about modeling left-right sweeps in grid cells: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... from Prof. Michael Hasselmo, Dr. Jennifer Robinson and Dr. Patrick LaChance.

See here for our paper: www.cell.com/current-biol.... It is a great pleasure to work on this model with Tianhao, Si Wu and @neilburgess10.bsky.social. Also, I highly recommend to first read the experimental paper by @azvollan.bsky.social and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

“We are deeply concerned about this causal act that toys with the accessibility of publicly funded research, coupled with a range of attacks on the public funding of science… and federal researchers. We see this as the government playing with truth, a 2025 digital equivalent of book burning”

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Very happy to see this out! Based on the microcircuit identified by Vollan et al., we made some interesting predictions about theta sweeps along the parasubiculum-MEC-HPC pathway, especially theta modulated head direction cells which direct the left-right sweeps in downstream grid cells.

This could be catastrophic. Consequences for US universities (and the world) may be beyond imagination.

As a computational neuroscientist I second this. We can supplement and maybe help accelerate animal research but we will never, ever replace it.

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it. You can donate to them here. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

From @jquinnlee.bsky.social and @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, evidence for consistent remapping in CA1 across animals that can be used to discriminate between models: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience 🧪

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

My friend and colleague, John Aggleton, has written a a popular science book on memory. If you're looking for a nerdy Christmas present, I'd recommend this (saw some early drafts and it's really very good). All author royalties go to a brain cancer charity, so buying it does some good. #NeuroSkyence

However, where I strongly agree is I think the move towards "big team" grants as a general strategy for funding neuroscience is a bad idea. Those should be reserved for very specific cases/goals. Otherwise, it should be small individual grants, with higher success rates and lower amounts.

Building egocentric models of local space from retinal input www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

If you haven’t read this yet, drop everything and do it. Thought provoking, based on fantastic & insightful examples (how much info do you need to solve Rubik’s cube?) In PhD, while training rats on a Y-maze, I could not help thinking that the outcome was just 1 bit (left/right). I now have answers

Hi all! We’ll be posting SWC news & events here on Bluesky now too. First up: our SWC Lecture 2024 ‘The computational roots of life and intelligence’ with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google VP & Fellow. We hope you can join us on 11 Dec! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-le...

So excited to see this preprint out - the cumulation of an ambitious project lead by the very talented @sjshipley.bsky.social Alzheimers models are a new direction for the lab and we'll be doing more in this direction. TLDR: AD > disordered HPC reactivations > less stable PCs > memory defects

Exciting new job opportunity at the IoN, UCL, London. The post is based at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience. It is a 70-30%research to teaching split. If anyone requires more information on the teaching part then please do get in contact with me. Please repost www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Registration open for our Neuroimaging summer school in Cambridge in September 2025: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Disordered Hippocampal Reactivations Predict Spatial Memory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625618v1