Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy? What does the term 'representation' mean to you? We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM

Fintan O'Toole: Epstein and his pals were culture warriors. The war they waged was against women

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Fintan O'Toole: If Trump goes after Ireland, he will also destroy a lot of US wealth

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...

Video of the Minneapolis shooting on Reddit shows a group of ICE agents beating a man on the ground. One of the ICE agents then steps back and shoots the victim multiple times. A nearby witness says “they killed the guy.”

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

Blocking microglia activity in young mice prevents infantile amnesia and enhances memory, indicating these brain immune cells play a key role in early memory formation and forgetting. doi.org/hbkphs

Last week, Sarah Power (@sarahdpower.bsky.social) dazzled us with her unique research. Her research program is one of a kind: she combines precise mouse neuroscience with bold toddler behavioral methods to study infantile amnesia. Hire her!

One of the great speeches of history.

CARNEY: "The middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu."

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

talking about AI as a bubble doesn't make sense. AI/tech has become integrated into critical social/financial infrastructure means fall of AI = fall of these institutions. just like govnt's bailed banks during the financial crisis, they will do same with AI so long as AI remains social infrastrctr

Happy to see this! This is indeed a mission statement for us, so I am pleased to see we lived up to it. Congratulations on very nice work @tjryan.bsky.social and all of the team

Reporter: Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE Agent. Leavitt: Why was she killed? Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.

Step into a Europe-wide community of neuroscience leaders. Junior & mid-career group leaders: apply by 30 Jan to become a FENS-Kavli Network Scholar and connect, collaborate, and contribute to shaping neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

🌟 The Call for 2026–2030 #FENS-Kavli Scholars is open! Join a community of engaged #neuroscientists shaping the future of research in Europe. 🧠 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Jan 2026 👉 buff.ly/Byeo6Qu

Denmark and allied countries said today they will increase their military presence in Greenland as part of expanded exercises, amid intensifying pressure from Washington over the Arctic island’s sovereignty.

The great, visionary, and intellectual David Bowie warned back in 2002 about two rising forces in America: a culture where “dumb is cool” and the “America First” mindset. Together, they became the perfect storm that would one day make Trump possible.

#ListerFellow @tjryan.bsky.social on his fascinating research into memory engrams and the importance of forgetting 👇 🧠 Recommended easy listening for a long, winter walk (but hurry before that snow hits ❄️⛄️) Youtube: youtu.be/F7E9U55kxyE Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2mPB...

Starting 2026 with a thread a very recent manuscripts at Ryan Lab @tcddublin.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social "Extinction and subsequent updating of innate fear responses to a visual looming stimulus rely on hippocampus-dependent mechanisms" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @PLOSBiology

Starting 2026 with a thread a very recent manuscripts at Ryan Lab @tcddublin.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social "Extinction and subsequent updating of innate fear responses to a visual looming stimulus rely on hippocampus-dependent mechanisms" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @PLOSBiology

Recent discussion on Brain Ponderings with the singular Mark Mattson. We discussed current ideas on engrams, and the adaptive functions of forgetting. youtube.com/watch?v=F7E9...

Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting 📍 Barcelona, Spain 🗓️ May 11–12, 2026 Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor 🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki ‼️ Call for abstracts now open 🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/ #HippocampusGreen

#Bono apareció en #TheBusk2025, el concierto navideño callejero que se hace todos los años en vispera de Navidad 🎄 en Dublín, Irlanda 🇮🇪 Cantó "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" junto a Imelda May y la banda liderada por Glen Hansard. youtu.be/vqjBGKp6Asw?...

Happy Holidays from everyone at the Ryan Lab. Thanks to all of our alumni, collaborators, colleagues, and funders for helping us to continue to deliver science in turbulent times. Looking forward to a busy 2026 🧠🧬🔬🌐☘️ @tcddublin.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social

The 20 year anniversary reunion of the @tcddublin.bsky.social Genetics class of 2005. We had notions.

The 20 year anniversary reunion of the @tcddublin.bsky.social Genetics class of 2005. We had notions.

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland has two economies, one bourgeois, one proletarian. Both have problems

“Democratic governance allows a level of self-correction that authoritarianism does not.” We see that in the ongoing NIH Institute director searches. Historically these searches have been conducted by expert committees- distributing power, leaning into democratic principles. Now a director has 1/

Excellent analysis of the COVID response in the UK & Europe. Some questionable appraisal of Sweden, without considering comparisons with NZ, Australia - or indeed Finland, Denmark, & Norway. Many countries minimized COVID deaths AND minimized lockdown, by reducing infections.

Important analysis of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0x7Y...

People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.

Had the Irish government followed the UK response in the 1st COVID wave, we would have suffered about 2,500 further deaths (on top of the 1,635 people who died before May 31, 2020). Thankfully that didn't happen. Nevertheless, we will await Ireland's COVID-19 Evaluation...

Thank you to everyone who came out to #MCCS25 last week! It was great to hear all the exciting research happening in the field of molecular and cellular cognition 🧠 🤓 A special thank you to all our incredible speakers for sharing their work! Don't forget to join our mailing list: bit.ly/4r1YApk

ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is). For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Call for junior or mid-career group leaders in neuroscience! Apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network. We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars who are committed to exchanging scientific ideas & improve neuroscience in Europe. fenskavlinetwork.org/who-we-are/a...

Late breaking abstract at #SfN25 by Dr. Erika Stewart: LBP032.14 - Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia (1 PM - 5 PM Sunday Nov 16). @sfn.org @tcddublin.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

Final version published here in @cellpress.bsky.social: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

Don't miss talks from our selected speakers at #MCCS25! Come hear exciting research updates about all things neuroscience 🧠 There's still time to register! event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

📣 #MCCS25 starts TOMORROW! Check out our poster session tomorrow & our symposium on Friday to hear from the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. More information here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1

Come check out the #MCCS25 debate on November 14! Drs. André Fenton & Yaniv Ziv will be debating a hot topic: are memory stability and representational drift opposing or complementary processes? Moderated by Dr. @sarahrobins.bsky.social 🧠 Register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages