Will Sheeran
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MD/PhD student @ University of Colorado. Washed-up runner, fledgling neuroscientist. he/him
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Bryan Roth
13 days ago
My favorite from an
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scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
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Malu Murugan
about 1 month ago
Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by
@gordonberman.bsky.social
). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 .
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Mark Histed
21 days ago
Same for neuroscience. The lack of ability to measure many neurons’ activity, perturb them, and measure intracellular processes and connections is what limits understanding the brain. The key barriers are not algorithms or AI. 🧪#neuroscience 🧠🤖
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Single most incomprehensible result I’ve ever seen in my life. Rudisha’s record is in play for this kid. Incredible.
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Mazen Kheirbek
4 months ago
New paper from the lab, from Jeremy Biane and team, out today, characterizing the principles of stimulus feature coding in populations of ventral CA1 neurons.
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Veena Dubal
4 months ago
The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-and-united-states-resolution-agreement_July-30-2025.pdf
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Fiona
4 months ago
I loved Brown University. I flourished at Brown University. I met friends and my future spouse at Brown University. I stayed to get an extra degree. I played in the band at commencement. I raised $50k (most of it my own) to endow a UTAship for women in CS at Brown University. Fuck Brown University.
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Chris Hayes
4 months ago
Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out. "The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."
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Jason Climer
5 months ago
I’m excited to share my final co-first author paper from my postdoc in Dan Dombeck's lab! We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science
#research
#neuroscience
#hippocampus
#placecells
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Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments - Nature
Tracking of individual place cells in mouse CA1 shows that representational drift is not influenced by changes in environment or behaviour, and is lower for more excitable place cells.
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Moira Donegan
6 months ago
My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.
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BWJones
6 months ago
That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants. Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.
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Malu Murugan
6 months ago
A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference. Version of record - now available on
@elife.bsky.social
check it out
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference
Projection-specific optogenetic and chemogenetic experiments reveal a hippocampal-lateral septal pathway that potentially acts via the ventral tegmental area to regulate social novelty preference beha...
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97259.2
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Mari Sosa
8 months ago
Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience! The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵
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Jeremy Berg
9 months ago
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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Rytis Prekeris
9 months ago
Colorado out in force to support US science!
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Bit late to the game here, but had a really fun time writing this perspective piece with
@neurozoe.bsky.social
about a couple of fascinating papers now out in Science. Massive kudos to the Hong and Zhang groups for their work
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An innate drive to save a life
In mice, two brain regions drive the impulse to revive an unconscious companion
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv3731
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Weinan Sun
10 months ago
1/12 How do animals build an internal map? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of mouse CA1 neurons over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task.
@nspruston.bsky.social
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@johanwinn.bsky.social
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus
YouTube video by Weinan Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4uVurFCo
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Saikat Ray
10 months ago
How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? 🧠 🧪 🦇
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Colin Carlson
10 months ago
Oh hey, they're actually afraid of this messaging. Run with it
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