Bridging the gap with invasive imaging: promises and challenges of a new generation of ultrahigh resolution fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717824v1

Look at my friend, the phenom, @cllantz.bsky.social, how did I trick her into being my friend?!?!

Same same but different

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

In partnership with @fens.org and @ibroorg.bsky.social, the Dana Foundation commissioned a survey of past #BrainAwarenessWeek grantees and applicants to better understand how Brain Awareness Week advances its goals. Read the highlights from the survey in the latest President's Perspective. ⬇️

I’m so honoured to be featured in Stories of WIN this month - sharing my career journey and how storytelling changed everything for me! 🧪🎙️

Always awesome to work with you and your team Bryan!

Off to Sunposium tomorrow. Feel free to message me here, on the meeting app or just say hi if you want to chat about BRAIN or NIH.

The brain oscillates and we should figure out why. Development of new analytics will be key: Cross-population amplitude coupling in high-dimensional oscillatory neural time series www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #neuroscience

Have we reached the point where we should be taking Roko and their basalisk seriously?

Every year I made niche interest based Valentine's Day cards for my partner. They have ranged widely from video games, tv shows, animals. This year, they are Mat Armstrong.

#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain

Snowtime quilt. I like the pattern and color way. I tried a garland of neurons around the border, I don't think I like it but too late now. Gift for a 'retiring' colleague.

Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o... #neuroscience

I have finished my quilt x hardcore patch collection and I am proud.

“adoption of AI in science presents what seems to be a paradox: an expansion of individual scientists’ impact but a contraction in collective science’s reach, as AI-augmented work moves collectively towards areas richest in data...

More patches. I think I'll make like 2 or 3 more.

Researchers identify the neurons involved in the emotional distress associated with pain go.nature.com/4qIKkB8

Extremely excited & proud to share our new preprint - we provide for the first time a single cell map of the mouse brain across sex, the estrous cycle, and peripartum! Data are 🔥 👇 "Single-cell map of the female brain across reproductive transitions" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm working on a jumpsuit to wear to QuiltCon. I've decided to make patches for hardcore bands but make them quilting related. Today I finished the back patch. My partner thinks it's too niche and the overlap between vegan hardcore and quilting is just me.

First quilt of the year, starting with creation and hoping to maintain.

A @statnews.com exclusive from me: Walter Koroshetz, director of NIH's neurological disorders institute, has been ousted. Yet another example of NIH leadership churn. His departure means that 13 of the agency's 27 divisions will have interim leaders. www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

Happy Christmas from the farm. I am thankful for you.

Be like the turtles, close up shop, take a rest and do nothing.

New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A

This was such a great program!

New paper! Flexible cognition can arise when oscillatory activity organizes where information can be expressed in neuronal spiking. Oscillatory control of cortical space as a computational dimension www.cell.com/current-biol... @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social #neuroscience

It's time for a break.

Neuro grad students! Applications for the 6th annual - Rising Stars in Neuroscience - due Jan 9! Don’t miss this chance to present research, sharpen science communication skills and connect with peers & faculty. Plus you’ll get to experience stunning Utah! medicine.utah.edu/neurobiology...

🥳Excited to share our latest human multipatch paper, now out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧠 We studied the cellular and synaptic physiology of human L2–3 pyramidal neurons and identified subtype-specific local connectivity rules across individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Join us: penglab.de

If there's a better I had an awful day dinner than Lebanon bologna and saltines, I have yet to find it.

Y'all I am so tired.

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Please send in your nominees for this! It's an amazing opportunity and award!!

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience From the amazing @lauragrima.bsky.social and colleagues - definitely looking forward to reading this! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Incredible new altas of the developing human brain out now in @nature.com, funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative!

Happy streaming retirement to the best person I know @nickwan.bsky.social

Happy Halloween! Here is a spoooooky cell 👻 #FluorescenceFriday #Retina

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I am not a woodworker, but these were fun to make.

Today we make birdhouses.

The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

New paper from the lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread (1/10)

Be sure to join us this Wednesday from 6:30-8pm ET for a talk led by Nancy Kanwisher called "Face Value: How the Brain Shapes Human Connection". Register: bit.ly/3VRv33B

What a time to be alive

We’re so psyched for this - check out our amazing lineup of speakers!!! Spots are going fast - register today!!! 👇

A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew www.nature.com/articles/s41... - you can get representations of complex objects and features (even face specialisation) in a shallow hierarchy!

Early-mid career female @arvoinfo.bsky.social members! Apply for our Women's #LeadershipDevelopment Program to boost your leadership skills, expand your network and seize new opportunities. Deadline is Oct. 31: https://bit.ly/47oYoJC

microfabricated stamps, fresh off the printer :)