As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

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'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.

How much do y'all pay for syringe filters? I can't really find a supplier selling new sterile PES filters for less than ~$1/filter. Thoughts? Ideally 33mm, 0.22um, PES hydrophilic TYIA!!!

Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event. It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us! It's free. Register here.

We have written two reviews providing a practical guide and fundamentals of cell migration: (1) How to select an optimal cell migration assay, (2) How to analyze cell migration data. We also added a perspective on AI methods of analysis. Coming out soon in Nature Methods.

Applications are now open for the @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Deadline: December 16, 2025 bit.ly/KanzerFellows

So happy I have been able to witness the incredible growth and success of (now Dr.) Sozerko Yiandiev, who defended his PhD thesis with brio in Lyon this week! It was a true pleasure to co-mentor Sozerko with @jcourchet.bsky.social during the past 5 years 🍻👨‍🎓 #Thesis #BrainMetabolism

I'm Christmas shopping for my brother. Do you have any weird hyper local items that you'd like to pitch? My brother loves the strange, the weird, the esoteric, and the bizarre. One year I got him a single bowling pin. I've got weird, but expanding the catchment area of my weird is always useful.

Optogenetic stimulation of the infralimbic cortex prior to fear extinction learning rescues deficits in a preclinical model of comorbid PTSD and AUD link.springer.com/article/10.1...

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The neural circuits and signalling pathways of opioid use disorder — a Review by Victor P. Mathis, Aliza T. Ehrlich & Emmanuel Darcq #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ Exciting News! ✨ I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Guelph's Department of Psychology in Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science as an Assistant Professor, starting July 1, 2026. I will be returning to Canada on Canada Day!

Congratulations to Sheena Josselyn @sjo09.bsky.social, contributing editor at @thetransmitter.bsky.social, on winning the 2025 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize in recognition of her profound impact on memory research. #neuroskyence

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum. If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

Feeling so honoured to be a finalist for the Neuroscience Communicator Award at tonight's @womeninneurouk.bsky.social awards! I'm up for the Neuroscience Communicator Award, along with some other brilliant women 💪🏾 Today, I'd like to share some of my highlights from the year 😊

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era" 🧪

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Me, a neuroscience PhD, checking for the 747th time if DRG neurons are CNS or PNS

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections go.nature.com/4nLbCoC

Just received my BrainedGlass action potential (www.brainedglass.com) and it's even better than I hoped!! Science==art! Thanks so much @laurenatlas.bsky.social!

I can't believe it's November 5th already. We've got up to 5cm of snow forecast for tonight so I guess it's time... #ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

Honest Q: Other fields more readily embrace basic research than mood researchers, ie the need lay foundations absent obvious translational connections. Why? Is it: 1) Failures of basic mood research (like the rodent forced swim test) 2) Harder problems / unmet needs focus ”eyes on the prize” 3) ???

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

Dynamics of Dentate Gyrus Place Cells and Dentate Spikes Signal Spatial and Nonspatial Changes in Environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684382v1

KLF7 orchestrates hippocampal development through neurogenesis and Draxin-mediated neuronal migration Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Research Article by Yitong Liu, Song Qin and colleagues doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Hate to pile on when he just died, but hard to celebrate him too when he froze out a female colleague. “What has become clear is that [Rosalind Franklin’s] contribution was critical and essential, and she is now widely regarded as an equal contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA.”

Just channeling Stephen J Gould: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jowi...

At the ceremony, Director Bhattacharya called it “The most fun I’ve had in ten months” and “I feel like I’m at home.” He is in the wrong fucking job. NIH deserves some much better than this. 3/3

Astrocytes distress triggers brain pathology through induction of δ secretase in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Word of the day!

Proud to announce our paper ‘Transcriptomic Analysis of the Human Habenula in Schizophrenia’ from @lieberinstitute.bsky.social is the cover article for the November issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry! 🧠 #HabenulaLIBD #snRNAseq #Habenula doi.org/10.1176/appi...

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

☕Vanni et al. show a role for #microtubules in YAP/TAZ mechanosignalling. Mechanoresponsive microtubule reorganization into centrosomal arrays allows for AMOT delivery to pericentrosomal proteasomes and degradation, leading to YAP/TAZ activation. #mechanobiology #cytoskeleton bit.ly/4oS2Ju3

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Tonight!

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Meet the #MCCS25 speakers! Drs. Bianca Silva & Kay Tye will be giving talks at our Symposium on November 14. Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Manipulating Engram Histone Acetylation Alters Memory Consolidation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My team is recruiting a Study Engineer (IE) with experience in mammalian cell culture - ideally human iPSCs - to work on a project exploring the role of aneuploidy and centromere regulation in neuroblastoma initiation and progression. info and application here institut-curie.org/job/study-en....

Getting to yell both "just put a sweatshirt on" and "Turn off the damn lights" before 6:30am. #PeakDad #MyWorkTodayIsDone