All the colors of the rainbow in tomorrow’s breakfast.

Updated model of the perforant path to dentate gyrus. More divergent… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧪🧠Now available open access in Hippocampus: “The Dentate Gyrus Grows Throughout Life Despite Turnover of Developmentally-Born Neurons” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @jsnsndr.bsky.social and team

Canadian little leaguers (with no filter) in an Arizona restaurant celebrating the Venezuela win over the USA in the world baseball classic. Locals are baffled.

Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Current standards for statistical rigor are a joke. In this high IF pub, purple and black are claimed to be different at 9 and 1 but...what does P=0.0468 even refer to? And is a posthoc result of p=0.07 good enough?

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

The dentate gyrus grows throughout life despite turnover of developmentally-born neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When people ask me what’s the best part of my job I tell them it’s making graphical abstracts.

@franklandlab.bsky.social yo what’s the dentus gurus?

I got a book from the library (for the first time in about 25 years. vt.tiktok.com/ZSa8d74jP/

Got manuscript reviews back in 5 weeks!!! From 3 reviewers and over the holidays no less. So fast that upon seeing the email in my inbox I assumed it was rejected outright. But only minor revisions. I’m flabbergasted. Good things can happen.

Our latest: A mouse model of early sporadic tau pathology induces neurogenic plasticity in the hippocampus journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

As a behavioral neuroscientist one of my most proud accomplishments is seeing my teenage son wash the dishes, unprompted.

UBC (at least part of it)

Still beta-testing the app that helps people plan science, make it super clear, design their todos, and write a first version of the paper. Feeling overwhelmed by the countless aspects of doing science? Try this (for free): planyourscience.com

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026! @ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

No barking.

Pepper of the day, graced with morning sunlight. Orion.

Didn’t thin my carrot seedlings this year. K winner takes all for carrots.

Yet another reason to move to Canada.

Pepper of the day: Zou Pi. This one will go by the sidewalk next year for passerbys to enjoy.

Brain strain pepper beginning to ripen.

Seattle

Red Russian (probably).

If @franklandlab.bsky.social was 10 years older and a mariners fan.

Pepper phenotypes lookin good.

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is how you know cabbage and broccoli are related

Intro is an easy and worthwhile read. I’m finding it harder to justify publishing/working for anything other than plos journals.

Capsicum flexuosum, a South American hot chilli pepper with berry-sized fruits that can survive Canadian winters. This one was only 8 months old when freezing temps arrived and it is sprouting new leaves. Planted on the sidewalk for the community to enjoy/suffer from.

Left: coffee from 6 months ago. Right: coffee from today.

Final test prep

Come to Canada, we have veggie corn dogs.

Bro I could get into birding just for the Latin names. Toxostoma, troglodytes, turdus…

Does anyone know of a study that has tested whether adult hippocampal neurogenesis contributes to behavior in aging? Despite all the theoretical significance, this has never even been tested to my knowledge. A recent review cites Montaron (2020) as evidence but that paper does nothing of the sort.

Inject an AAV into entorhinal cortex that expresses GFP and Tau. To study synaptic spread of Tau into the downstream dentate gyrus you look for cells that have Tau alone. Except all of the cells shown here in the dentate also express GFP, which means they were directly transduced.

An actual section heading from a journal that you have to pay over $5000 to publish in.

Hidden in a crawlspace underneath some stairs a man gets intimate with hundreds of chilli seedlings.

Third times a charm. Or at least charmy. #tadiq

Okay, this is very cool: evidence from Peter Jonas' group that human CA3 follows a different logic of synaptic connectivity than rodent CA3, focussing more on sparser, but highly reliable synapses. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... CC @dlevenstein.bsky.social & @repromancer.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪

Man I wasnt ready for this. I love sharing her stuff with students in class and in the back of my mind hoped it might lead to one of them working with her some day.

X cannot take a joke. vancouversun.com/news/cheeky-...