Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.

Beautiful and clear results showing that temporal difference error calculation is hardwired in the dopamine/striatum mircocircuits: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

How does the brain fill in what's missing? Pattern completion pushes visual cortex into "seeing" what is not there. Great to see this out, congrats to the authors on this impressive work! #neuroskyence

become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716

isn't there some erie semblance between: "this question about whether my study is completely flawed hurts my trainees' feelings so i'm not gonna answer that" & "talking negatively about a dead person is rude so we must not discuss whether he was actually a misogynous liar" ?

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... my wife (2nd author) just published in Cell working from home is not without pressure you know? #neuroscience

International collaborations enable the sharing of resources and expertise, as well as more broadly applicable and reproducible results. But new U.S. federal funding restrictions are putting them in jeopardy, writes @lucinauddin.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/inte...

I bombed my first faculty job interview by riffing in my chalk talk about how the NAc shell/core distinction was a weak organizing principle in primates. I feel vindicated. bsky.app/profile/pras...

Here is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09737

"Sleep, like aging, may be an inescapable consequence of aerobic metabolism." Really enjoyed this thought-provoking paper 🧠💤🪰 - congrats to @rafsarnataro.bsky.social and team on this impressive work! No wonder the Krebs cycle always put me to sleep 😅 #neuroskyence

We’ve known for some time that air #pollution is bad for human #health. But the focus was mostly on the lungs and heart. Yet somewhere along the way, it became more mainstream to consider how air pollution might affects brains too. What I found surprising was the recency of that. #neuroskyence

Happy and proud to see @rjantonello.bsky.social’s work awarded by SNL!

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

By integrating the 'pinging' technique with fMRI-based multivariate pattern analysis, we provide evidence for a dual-format representation of attention during the preparatory period. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🇧🇷 Brazil's Supreme Court has sentenced firebrand ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for coup plotting at the end of a landmark trial that divided the nation and drew US fury. ➡️ u.afp.com/SPwb

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project ... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration 🧠📈

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. You can read 'Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits' here: spklr.io/63324ByKAr #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

🚨New pre-print out! 🍂 Using daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we found that reductions in both self- and decision-making confidence precede when people are likely to report experiencing symptoms of OCD. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

Engineers at @uofrbme.bsky.social have developed a silicon membrane microphysiological model of the human blood-brain barrier. This new platform can help scientists study acute peripheral inflammation and brain injury, and can be expanded with additional cell types. #neuroskyence #organonchips 🧪

Sleep might be an “inescapable consequence” of aerobic metabolism, new findings in fruit flies suggest. By @vcallier.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/mitoch...

Cortical-layer EEG-fMRI at 7T: experimental setup and analysis pipeline to elucidate generating mechanisms of alpha oscillations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.674189v1

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health www.cell.com/trends/neuro... insightful TINS commentary by @dalmaijer.bsky.social

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

We are screwed.

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Thanks! Preprint is here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📢 New preprint! How do humans learn from arbitrary, abstract goals? We show that, when goal spaces can be compressed, costly working-memory processes give way to internalized reward functions, enabling efficient goal-dependent reinforcement learning. @annecollins.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.06810

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Neurofeedback promises to teach people how to control their own brain activity and help manage anything and everything, from depression to ADHD. Of course, the scientific reality is a tad more complicated. #neurofeedback #neuroskyence #depression #therapy #nuance

TIL that in the 1950's Horace Barlow placed a drop of mercury on the eyeball of human subjects to record eye movements. Aww jeez.

Neural Subspaces Encode Sequential Working Memory, but Neural Sequences Do Not https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674385v1

🧠How can brains learn new tasks w/o forgetting old ones? Barry, Gerstner & Bellec propose #GateON, a neuro-inspired learning rule: neurons become context-selective & #plasticity can be frozen or unfrozen. Balances #memory & #flexibility, avoiding #CatastrophicForgetting in #AI models. #CompNeuro🧪

In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.

@ualberta.bsky.social’s Richard Sutton won the Turing Award — the Nobel Prize of computer science. 🧠💻 His work shapes how AI systems learn and reason — powering tools like chatbots — but he reminds us that AI is about “understanding humanity.” A big win for ethical, Canadian-led research.

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Our multi-sensory integration Neuro-AI paper is now published in J Neurosci www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Can self supervised learning help understand how the brain learns to see the world? Our latest study, led by Josephine Raugel (FAIR, ENS), is now out: 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18226 🧵 thread below

Brain–computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots #MLSky #CompNeuro #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Percentage of treatments tested on animals that get approved for humans: 5% Percentage of treatments for humans that were tested in animals: 100% www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I don't understand how this paper has under 200 citations. The implications are critical for our understanding of cross modal integration. This should be a whole area of research, exploring the time course, load effects, etc. There's a whole series of careers lined up like tee balls here.

Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Interoceptive Psychophysics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672360v1

This was such a fun conversation. Xaq is easily one of the smartest, most creative people that I’ve ever met and you can see that beautifully in this conversation.

Mice are always smarter that we expect, here guessing the trail ahead rather than just blind following. Cool work:

The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈