Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. Jennifer Tudor‬ is an associate professor at St. Joseph's University. Her lab is interested in how sleep and disease affect the neural pathways critical for memory & learning. Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Check out the meeting lineup for #MCCS25! It's going to be an incredible day. Don't miss out, register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. @flubinlab.bsky.social is a distinguished professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her lab studies the molecular and genetic basis of learning & memory and related disorders. Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. @karynfrick.bsky.social‬ is a distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her lab seeks to understand how sex-steroid hormones, aging & the environment affect memory. Join us November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Important food for through here on #generativeAI in higher education. This forces us to fundamentally reevaluate how we conceive and practice university teaching and assessment.

Updated (final) preprint below: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet the #MCCS25 officers! Dr. @denisejcai.bsky.social is an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her lab studies the neural underpinnings of learning & memory and develops imaging tools 🧠 Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Wrote about watching the incredible Russian documentary My Undesirable Friends - Part I: Last Air in Moscow with an audience in New York, where a record of the recent past that speaks to an American future was processed in the present.

Delve into the developing brain at "Back to Basics: Components & Mechanisms of Memory Development." From infant fMRI to rodent studies on amnesia, this symposium explores how the memory network, especially the hippocampus, changes across the lifespan. Join us! #FluxCongress2025

Excited for MCCS this year! Join us in November 🤓🧠

Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate. Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts. Registration is open:

Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate. Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts. Registration is open:

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

I wrote another book & I'm very excited (& nervous) for it to be released into the world: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714593...

📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸 Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level. Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social Apply by early Sept. #PhD #Memory #Neuroscience

Her comprehensive review manuscript on Neuro-Immune Interactions in Memory was just published this month in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. Erika Stewart just left the Ryan Lab & @tcddublin.bsky.social to become a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dani Dumitriu at @columbiamed.bsky.social. A scientist who is always resilient, rigorous and adaptive - looking forward to seeing what she does next.

It’s not too late to register—Flux is packed with energy, innovation, and opportunities you won’t want to miss! Check out the latest email to learn more about this year’s amazing Flash Talks and more! 🔗 buff.ly/2hDMAIi #Flux2025 #FluxDublin2025 #2025FluxCongress

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

We are delighted to launch Global Talent Ireland - a programme to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. @researchireland.ie www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

The European Commission has made its opening play in what will be two years of haggling over the EU's next budget. As battle lines get drawn, here's our guide to the winners and losers in the initial spending plan.

Some good news: share.google/P2ZhcA3efpyn...

How and where we won.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

The bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project sounds promising, but "move fast and break things" isn't a strategy for trustworthy research. I write in @science.org about why we need acceleration that opens doors to participation and accountability. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

new voter registrations for the nyc mayoral primary shows just a wee bit more enthusiasm this time around:

This Thursday, 26 June, MEP Romana Jerković hosts ‘Advancing Brain Research in Europe’ at @europarl.europa.eu — a key event uniting leaders to push for stronger EU action on #BrainHealth & research. 🧠🔬 Discover the programme & learn more 👉 www.braincouncil.eu/event/advanc...

The first day of #FRM2025 was brilliant! Thank you to the Norwegian Neuroscience Society & Nordic Neuroscience for warmly welcoming 1,000+ attendees to share #Neuroscience research. Excited for the 2nd day! @fens.org @fkne-scholars.bsky.social @network-alba.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can. Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.

One of the best expositions of the origins of representational confusions from @blamlab.bsky.social (John Krakauer). It follows that (long-term) engrams are informational structures, not representations.

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

As scientists look for alternative homes for their research careers, will Ireland seize the opportunity? Perspective in @irishtimes.com today. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

As scientists look for alternative homes for their research careers, will Ireland seize the opportunity? Perspective in @irishtimes.com today. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

"We cannont make progress in #BrainResearch in Europe unless we allow for the ethical and regulated use of animals." @tjryan.bsky.social 💡 Learn more about the #BOARD25 compaign, led by @eara.eu: eara.eu/board25 🎥 Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Xr...

Even as Trump, Musk and MAGA wage a war on empathy, there are others who show us a different path "Decent, resolutely human, and only 44, Jacinda Ardern still believes modesty, kindness and compassion will win the day" www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities. Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.

Quick COVID update from me discussing latest variants and prospects for summer here. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence @tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social

Congratulations to Peter Gorman on being named 2025 valedictorian of General Studies at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Peter graduated from the TCD/Columbia Dual BA in Neuroscience & Behavior program. He was also named a Bancroft Research Scholar with @bendeskylab.com www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Had a great time in Dublin for the #EngramsandEnsembles2025 conference - this meeting struck a perfect balance of student, postdoc, and faculty presentations. Thanks to @tjryan.bsky.social, @drchristineannd.bsky.social, and Bruce Hope for organizing such a welcoming meeting.