On the hantavirus outbreak, key info: 1. It usually spreads rodent droppings to humans. One strain (Andes) has previously reported human-to-human transmission, but we don't yet have sequencing of virus on the cruise ship (1/3)

Banksy signature on London statue of man marching blinded by flag

🌟 #FENS-#EJN Awards 2026: Meet the winners! FENS is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 FENS-EJN Award and FENS-EJN Young Investigator Prize, recognising excellent scientific work in neuroscience and outstanding contributions. 🧠 🔗 Read more about the winners here: buff.ly/1eFUuOb

Rescuing specific memories by rejuvenating engram cells. Commentary by Louisa Zielke at @tcddublin.bsky.social on a recent important paper from @graeffjohannes.bsky.social & Graff Lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

🎥 The European Brain Health Summit is now live! Tune in to hear MEP Angelika Winzig delivering the opening remarks and setting the stage for key discussions on brain health: buff.ly/l10yQjJ #EANeurology #BrainHealthMission #EuropeanBrainHealthSummit #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainHealthDay

🧠 A day dedicated to #BrainHealth in #Brussels! 🇪🇺 Today, as part of #BrainAwarenessWeek 2026, #FENS together with @ean.org, the Brain Health Mission and the European Brain Council hosted Brain Health Day: Prevention, Policy, Progress.

A lot of commentary going on about how @micheal-martin.bsky.social should use #StPatricksDay '26 today. The media seem to forget Enda Kenny's impressive intervention in 2017. The sky didn't fall. Words matter. youtube.com/watch?v=C9Ui...

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you? Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale. time.com/7380496/why-...

🧠 Join #FENS at Brain Health Day: Prevention, Policy, Progress! 🗓️ For #BrainAwarenessWeek 2026, FENS joins @ean.org Brain Health Mission & the European Brain Council, with support from MEP Angelika Winzig, in Brussels on 18 March! 🔗 buff.ly/CRdjh3S See below FENS programme highlights👇️

ICYMI - part of special issue of @phimisci.bsky.social on Representations in the Neurosciences and AI cc @tjryan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

The Fairmont Hotel, Dubai

To get a better sense of precisely when #memories are formed and forgotten, Sarah Power @mpib-berlin.bsky.social built a media room where she observed 400 toddlers: "We've been very surprised at their ability to encode and retain these episodic-like memories." time.com/7380496/why-... @time.com

Neuroscience undergrad abducted at 6:30am. No judicial warrant. ICE lied to gain entry into the residence. State-sanctioned kidnapping. And I’m supposed to somehow teach class this afternoon?

Breaking News: Immigration agents arrested a Columbia University student after misrepresenting themselves to access a building, the school said. nyti.ms/4u2Z0xw

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you? Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale. time.com/7380496/why-...

+1 though perhaps not so genuinely

U2 released a new song, “American Obituary,” about Renee Good and Minneapolis.

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

“Renée Good, born to die free American mother of three Seventh day, January A bullet for each child you see…” U2 are back with their most political release in years. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

I am genuinely sorry that since I retired I will no longer be participating in this recurring discussion.

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

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