Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Seriously, who comes up with these idiotic tests? Also, wait, is there anyone who doesn’t put water on toothbrush before paste?

AGI may arrive soon --- not because machines are getting smarter but because the bar set by humans keeps dropping!

Adam Kampff’s passion for understanding and explaining the world was unmatched. Living by example and not ever compromising on his dreams, Adam was uncanny in making people realize they can learn and understand anything and everything. Keep his dream alive! In his own words: tinyurl.com/ye29csw3

This is tough. Adam Kampff was one of the most brilliant people that I have had the privilege to know. He was a wonderful and generous friend and colleague, a remarkable teacher and a visionary who inspired hundreds of others. He was a shining example to us all, and we will miss him very much.

The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social: 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you for having me on BrainInspired, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social! It was such an honor to be on my favorite show—a rare place where we can leisurely talk about manifolds, latent circuits, power laws, and other esoteric ideas, and still be taken seriously in knowing they are all real.

Ever see a mouse stand on its hind legs and belt out a [email protected], @cliffscience.bsky.social, and @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social track this behavior in Alston’s singing mice. See what it might say about the origins of communication. cshl.edu/singing-mice-speak-volumes/

Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.

Good point and certainly helps! Instead of a linear progression from left to right which is clearly erroneous, now all I see is a gaussian with humans having the highest complexity, which is still erroneous! #EvolutionIsHard

(If you have no idea what we're talking about, you should read the paper anyways. And also you should join us at @braincoustics.bsky.social seminars) bsky.app/profile/brai...

How do you build a brain that lets mice sing? 🎤🐭 If you enjoyed @cliffscience.bsky.social's talk @braincoustics.bsky.social on this work, now you can read it in @currentbiology.bsky.social! (w / 1st author @xmikezheng20.bsky.social, @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social group) #prattle 💬 #neurosky

I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

As a longtime fan of cool papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social, I am really thrilled to see this out! This study sets the stage for understanding the origins of novel (vocal) behaviors. Big shout out to the main architects of this work @xmikezheng20.bsky.social and @cliffscience.bsky.social

Almost everyone from my lab is at #SfN25. Check out what we have been up to! Unfortunately I have to miss it due to a recent ankle surgery. #FOMO

If you are at #SfN2025, don't miss Huihui's poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning at MM6 (PSTR095.13)! He has developed methods for barcoded connectomics across many vertebrates, from frogs to NHPs, and is comparing the single-cell anatomy of the song systems of zebra finches and parrots!

Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award! Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.

Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social. 🪰⚡👻🎃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

One week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social Register here for the link! braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

Our latest study on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now posted as a preprint, led by UCSD PhD student Jo-Hsien Yu @anitajhyu.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @danionella.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks Anne for sharing! This seems like a fantastic resource 👇🏽

Do you plot transcriptomic data, coloring each cell by its cell type? ~ Don't use a default colormap! ~ Instead, use colormaps that capture biological meaning. If two cell types are very similar, their colors should be similar too. Read on 🧵 🧬💻

Congrats Felix @mollfw.bsky.social and team. Really interesting behavioral study setting the stage for subsequent neurobiological investigations! 👇🏽

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Excited for our new NiCE grant with @lauerlab.bsky.social @batwoman123.bsky.social 🎉We use a comparative approach, two-photon imaging & optogenetics to identify why bats🦇 and deer mice resist noise but lab mice don't. If you're interested, please DM or e-mail me!

Nice thread! I also use AI for coding on a regular basis. It increases efficiency only if you are already an expert. On the other hand, unlike grad students, it never gets tired and is always polite!

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very interesting thread! I really like “Principles of Neural Design” by Sterling and Laughlin. It doesn’t shy away from biological details but presents it in a form that is appearing to engineers and physicists.

If you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/

Really enjoyed this summer’s lab trip to fire island, NY!

Couldn’t agree more! Evolutionary perspective is a guiding principle for most projects in our lab.👇🏽

Mechanisms and control of a novel vocalization: The Alston singing mouse song is a whistle that depends on the inflation of the ventral pouch –an enlarged intralaryngeal air sac– laryngeal airflow, and cricothyroid muscle action By ⁦ @evolbrain.bsky.social et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come visit Calcutta in the last week of August and see some amazing neuroscientists talk about the neural basis of behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social With @neuroetho.bsky.social @danielavallentin.bsky.social @selmaan.bsky.social @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social and Michael Brecht!

Next-generation of barcoded projection mapping techniques: MAPseq2 and POINTseq! Congratulations @justuskebschull.bsky.social and team.

Delighted to receive the McKnight Scholar Award! Great to see many friends and colleagues on this year's list. It's a real privilege to be able to pursue an academic life probing nature's mysteries—huge thanks to my lab members and @cshlnews.bsky.social for making it all possible.

The Roland Garros final — Sinner vs. Alcaraz — is turning out to be real special!

ongoing...a new edition of TENSS (www.tenss.ro). thanks to the wonderful people that make it happen yet again!

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the collective effort of 12 labs, lead by my own at the Broad to target the range of cortical interneuron subtypes! These tools should be a game changer for all of you using NHP and other less genetically amenable species! Have at it! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Given all that is going on consider this quote from Bertram Russell's 1930 book The conquest of Happiness: “The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”

Very interesting use of X-rays for connectomics!

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

Cool! The motor patterning of a full singing mouse song (100 notes over 10 seconds) can be explained by a linear equation with 3 parameters! Why is a good question. How do neural circuits produce these accelerating rhythms in diverse animals? convergent evolution?

Our first look at midbrain PAG’s role in singing mouse vocal control. When near each other, these mice produce two divergent vocal modes. Same circuits for USVs and Songs—or different ones? Bets were made..some of us bought beers for others! Led by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social & Clifford Harpole. 👇🏽

Important study here from @katietschida.bsky.social et al on the transition from neonatal isolation calls to social vocalization in lab mice “juvenile mice begin producing social USVs earlier than previously reported, at ages P20-P24” #bioacoustics #prattle💬

I really enjoyed reading this paper! Thanks for sharing. It’s rare to be able to connect the genetic, developmental, and neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavioral evolution. Also who doesn’t like butterfly wing colors!

Another study to share, led by my grad student Nicole Pranic! Before diving in, I'll add that Nicole (who is clever, tenacious, and interested in neural changes that underlie developmental changes in social behaviors) is looking for a post-doc position! Please RT! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was a fun (side) project that ended up providing a satisfying answer to a common challenge faced by olfactory systems from flies to mammals. Let us know if you have any feedback.👇🏽