Huge congrats to @snierwetberg.bsky.social , David (not on BSky), and @maxwellxchen.bsky.social for their paper! They developed a mouse task in which relational structure can be isolated from cue identity and reward statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧠📈🧪 #neuroskyence @uclnpp.bsky.social

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How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task “This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing … … Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioral levels”

FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis med-techinsights.com/2026/03/09/f... #Occular #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Rethinking self-awareness: insights and biases from self-recognition research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The origin of eukaryotic cells continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in biology. EMBL Grenoble is excited to welcome Florian Wollweber, who will use cutting-edge imaging techniques to study Asgard archaea — microbes closely related to our earliest ancestors. 🦠🔬 www.embl.org/news/people-...

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

'Across randomized trials, she preferred the bristled end but switched to the stick end when targeting softer lower-body areas....Our findings broaden the taxonomic scope of flexible tool use and invite a reassessment of livestock cognition.'

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

Fully funded PhD position between our lab in Göttingen and @tobiasackels.bsky.social in Bonn! Dual-color imaging 🔬🐁 in freely moving mice, behavioral analysis, olfactory 👃 and spatial coding in #hippocampus... It's a cool project in two fantastic labs. Reach out if interested! 🤙 #neuroskyence

We used rabies virus 👾 to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits 🧠, revealing network-specific reorganization that we didn’t expect. The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social Paper 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thread for a synopsis 👉 bsky.app/profile/alex...

**When are brain waves causal???** #neuroskyence arxiv.org/html/2511.06...

Online Now: How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs

my little take on whole-brain neurophysiology and what it tells us about global coordination of neural activity on behavioural timescales (I steered clear of tasteless analogies for this one...) authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7H5_LsQS...

Are you interested in visuo-motor mismatch and serotonin? Come see @norambr.bsky.social featuring mice spinning in VR at R16! #SfN2025 #vestibulo-VR #serotonin #predictive_processing

Our lab digs into how serotonin tunes prediction errors and eye movements — with custom tools and curious mice.We got 2 posters at #SfN2025, Tue AM (C5) and Wed PM (R16). Recruiting PhD students & postdocs in sunny Marseille. Come chat about neuromodulators, tinkering, or free will and intuition.

Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oxytocin modulates respiratory heart rate variability through a hypothalamus–brainstem–heart neuronal pathway @julie.buron.bsky.social @inmed.bsky.social @insermpacacorse.bsky.social [email protected] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Xaq Pitkow discusses how evolution's messy constraints shape optimal brain algorithms, from Bayesian inference to ecological affordances. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Premenstrual disorders, including PMS and PMDD, are associated with significantly reduced quality of life, particularly affecting anxiety, mood, and daily functioning in women of reproductive age. doi.org/g95bzk

Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Aeon enables: – Continuous Neuropixels recordings – Behavioural tracking – Modular, scalable design – Multi-modal data pipelines – Open-source hardware/software A new tool for neuroscience → aeon.swc.ucl.ac.uk

Fantastic to see Elusive Cures by @nicolecrust.bsky.social & How to Change a Memory by @okaysteve.bsky.social (on-sale: November 4) on @thetransmitter.bsky.social reading list:

We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Better version of the meme.

Super interview on the @ologies.bsky.social podcast with my fab colleague @abeba.bsky.social on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 👏 open.spotify.com/episode/5w6D... - how often is it just a bunch of poorly paid humans in a trenchcoat?

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

Curious about the global history of science? I talked to the @ri-science.bsky.social podcast about globalising our stories of the sciences. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vRS...

Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public). www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

🗓️ Join us on June 9th to learn about Dr. Crystal Schiller’s research in the Impact of Ovarian Steroids on Brain Function and Mood in Women Across the Reproductive Lifespan. Register today: cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Curious about past lectures? Visit us at: wbhi.ucsb.edu/events

What could large-scale AI do for neuroscience? What barriers prevent us from pursuing an AlphaFold for the brain? What are the limits of scale, and where will we need more tailored solutions? Eva ​​Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social ask nine neuroscientists to weigh in. bit.ly/4iXjK3q

Multiplexing of cognitive encoding by oculomotor networks leads to incidental gaze shifts doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

Excited to share a new preprint investigating whether functional specialisations of mouse higher visual areas (HVAs) depend on behaviour. With @amansaleem.bsky.social Thread below👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1) Some exciting science in turbulent times: How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question. Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

15 American scientists working in climate, health & astrophysics to be brought to the University of Aix-Marseille , under a 3-year "Safe Place for Science". Europe positions itself to reverse the decades-long transatlantic brain drain. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Asgard archaea are full of surprises, this time we found (tiny) microtubules (snapshots of microtubule evolution?!) - Check out our new paper on the cytoskeleton of Lokiarchaeum ossiferum: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

Proud of @univ-amu.fr response to the crisis in the US. Thinking of moving your research from the US to France? I’m happy to share my experience—DM me. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

Our university @univ-amu.fr has launch an initiative to welcome scientists from the US🇺🇸 See details below 👇 DM me if interested to join @inmed.bsky.social

ATTENTION If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately, PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78). 1/n

#internationalwomensday #8mars #Marseille

Stand up for Science in Marseille! We have to defend science and education everywhere!

I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 1/16 🧵

How does a neuron get its activity? 👀 Check out our latest preprint, where we tracked the activity of the same neurons throughout early postnatal development: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... see 🧵 (1/?)