Check out @catrinahacker.bsky.social's #CCN2025 poster this afternoon! We've long worked with spikes. Here we ask: would we have made the same inferences about memory with the signals often recorded in human neurosci (iEEG, LFPs)? The answer surprised me. Not only yes! but with 3-fold *less* data.

Aaaand we have our final line-up for ESI-SyNC 2025! Check it out! :) Join us for two exciting days of figuring out what altered states of consciousness do to your brain! More info: esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/ Go register (100 Euro, free for junior researchers): survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/18...

I have the pleasure of speaking at ESI-SyNC this year about the neurophenomenology of breathwork and DMT 🧠✨ Do come if you can!

Does sensitivity to acute pain correlate with mental health? In our new paper led by @rebeccaboe.bsky.social & @francescafardo.bsky.social we analyzed thermal pain thresholds in 565 adults and found no link to mental health symptoms. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1061...

Delighted to be back to Ernst Strüngmann Institute to learn and present at what should be an amazing meeting on psychedelics and consciousness www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” doi.org/10.1038/s415... Small contribution in this piece by @frosas.bsky.social and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture in neuroscience. #neuroskyence

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A study of rhesus macaques in July found that those who communicated more clearly with their facial expressions made better leaders: phys.org/news/2024-07... Couldn't help but think of how this guy must be a great leader.

As highlighted by @altmetric.com, #Bluesky keeps trending up, regularly beating #X/Twitter for research sharing, all with just 36M users compared to X's claimed 600M. Imagine achieving that without the spam and toxic mess. Honestly, what are you waiting for? #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #SocialMedia

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

Super kick-ass talk by @anna-beyeler.bsky.social on dopamine signalling and anxiety just now at the 12th SBDM (Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making)! 😱🤯🥳

Did their own hand feel rubbery? #catchtrials #demandcharacteristics :-)

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com‬: Mice and monkeys spontaneously shift through comparable cognitive states - and it's written all over their faces! (1/7) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Eatsalotl and Eatsalitl

3/5) The real mechanism for credibility in science is simply the test of time: Can someone reproduce the results? Do others build on the findings? Real rigour in science comes from waiting to see whether a result holds and leads to new results. Period - that's it. It's not peer review.

Study finds that social media posts presenting scientific findings with more uncertainty are significantly less likely to be shared. This creates a challenge, since embracing uncertainty can actually boost accuracy and trust! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #ScienceSky #scicomm

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣 Our first seminar of the year by @damienfarine.bsky.social is coming up fast! 🐦 🎥 Check out this teaser! 📆 Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z... 💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!

I highly recommend this inspiring new book by Nahum Ulanovsky! A plea for neuroscientists to embrace “Natural Neuroscience”: use emerging technologies to uncover meaningful behavior and neural representations in free-roaming animals exposed to real-world stimuli. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

We have something special to share with you - our #Breathwork paper is out in the world! 🌍✨ We explored the mechanisms and effects of Breathwork-induced altered states of consciousness 🌬️🧠 Huge thanks to the wonderful Martha Havenith @zeronoiselab.bsky.social for bringing me into this project 🤗

Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Neuroethology at #cosyne2025 Beautiful talk by C. Noelle When animals move naturally vision is just different!

ICYMI

There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪

We've gone from climate change denial to climate change criminalization. First they defund the science, now the FBI is prosecuting groups like Habitat for Humanity for fraud. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

Bsky vs Twitter engagement difference now 50-fold...

Reviewer 2 really has us blushing (and slightly bragging ;) ) on this one! 🙏 If you want to check out the MOST WELL-WRITTEN AND WELL-VIDEOGRAPHED protocol on chronic electrode implants in mice, head over here: app.jove.com/t/66867/the-... @3dneuro.bsky.social @openbehavior.bsky.social

Excited to share the latest fresh-off-the-press results from this project at #MindBrainBody Symposium today 🧠🫀 Want to find out more about cardiac activity, voluntary actions and sense of agency? Come chat with me at poster B23 💬 #MBBS25

Excited for the last two sessions of our HEART study <3 this weekend - #Breathwork for psychotherapists and psychiatrists with Dr. Martha Havenith & team @zeronoiselab.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social #Psychotherapy #Research

The "Free Our Feeds" campaign aims to protect social media from billionaire control by establishing a public-interest foundation. The initiative aims to ensure that the AT Protocol, the underlying technology of Bluesky, remains open and accessible to all.

In this episode, of “Brain Inspired,” Paul Middlebrooks and David Krakauer discuss the historical foundations of complexity science over the past 100 years. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir... #neuroskyence

Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!

Interested in diffusion models, behavior forecasting, internal states, neuromechanical modeling, reservoir computing, joint neural/behavioral datasets? Missing the sunshine? We have multiple fully funded postdoc positions, come join us!

What papers do you like that demonstrate the use of 'orthogonal subspaces' for encoding information in neural populations? #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

I love this!! Also, I aspire to this level of thoughtful teaching. Definitely not there yet...

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

I dream of a future in which single neuron dynamics ➡️ circuit motifs ➡️ distributed computations are taught as part of the same curriculum and no one bats an eye and everyone is happy.

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread. #sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

Fully agree

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

I've been arguing that we will be able to train foundation models on neural data from different species, because I suspect that there are sufficiently preserved motifs in neural computation across the phylgenetic tree. This paper appears to support that idea! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... 🧠📈 🧪

Fresh out: a short review article where I give an overview of different ways that across-trial temporal structure is helpful in understanding cognitive models of decision-making osf.io/preprints/ps...

petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations' A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences! It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation

Whoa!! 🤯

Chaotic enthusiasm? I mean, where's the lie?🤩🥳🤯👻💥💃💃 blueskyroast.com/roast/zerono...

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience