Calling aspiring group leaders! We've just opened applications for group leader fellowship sponsorship to start a lab in UCL NPP. Deadline 5 Jan. @uclnpp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3h33dvev

Together with Musk's$1 tn pay deal and nVidia's $5 tn valuation, this will define our absurd era. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l... Oh, and "Fifteen members of the Huwaitat tribe who protested against their eviction were sent to prison, some for up to 50 years, and three others were sentenced to death"

🗣️ Edward Chang | Hertie Foundation Plenary Lecture On 10 July at #FENS2026, Prof. Edward Chang (UCSF) will take us into the neural basis of speech, movement, emotion, and learning. Meet all the #FENS2026 speakers 👉 https://loom.ly/Q_m95o8

Choose France for Science! Moved my lab to France 4 years ago — one of my best decisions. Good life ✅ Strong talent pool ✅ Decent funding ✅ Byzantine bureaucracy ✅ (not much worse than UK/US, often better than Southern/Eastern EU) Check out the call & reach out if interested tinyurl.com/5n6u49uv

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

Many animal studies promise interventions for early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage, but treatments remain elusive. A possible reason? 40% of articles two data sleuths examined had evidence of duplicated/manipulated images. My latest: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/i...

Hundreds of animal studies about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage show signs of image manipulation or duplication, which may have stalled research into treatments. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/i...

At 500 W capacity per solar panel, that means China installed 512 million solar panels in 6 months! That's 85 million per month, 2.8 million per day (7 days/week), 120,000 per hour (24/7), 2,000 per minute, and 33 per second.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

This paper seems really interesting. I also love their author ordering policy

This is interesting. I wonder if some universities might be next. US philanthropists move hundreds of millions to UK to avoid Trump threats giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

PERSON OF THE DAY. 28 October 1914. American medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk was born in New York City. He created the 1st approved polio vaccine in 1955. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

First Neuralink patient at University College London Hospital. Great news for these patients. The initial technology was largely developed in universities, with public funds. I hope there will be competition in this space (but I worry that the market is small). www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/first-u...

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...

Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Bad news for mouse poker players: Their facial movements offer “tells” about decision-making variables that the animals track without always acting on them, according to a study published today in Nature Neuroscience. My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...

This one's on my list for this year: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. The treatment could improve the lives of an estimated one million people in the U.S. who lose their vision to the condition if it's approved for broader use.

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Want to collaborate with the International Brain Laboratory on your own project? They have funding to work with groups anywhere in the world on new projects and are looking for new partners! LOI deadline coming up (Nov 1). Learn more and apply: www.internationalbrainlab.com/ibl-core-apply

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

The @royalsociety.org should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/3VUUy3W via @financialtimes.com

RIP Jane Goodall. Sharing this photo of Skosha, one of the chimpanzees she studied. I took this photo in Gombe Stream, Tanzania, in November 2000. #goodall #photography

I'm an FRS and I want him out. The argument I heard (to keep him) is that in the 1930s a few FRSs were pro nazi Germany, and in the 1950s a few were pro Stalin; that none were expelled; and that expelling them would have been a slippery slope. But this is not an official position. I'd kick him out.

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Facial movements reflect a mouse’s decision-making patterns independent of their chosen action during a foraging task, per a new study. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...

Neuropixels Ultra! By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices in the eye, writes Anne Churchland. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

"Tesla sales continued to drop by more than 42%, cutting its market share to 1.2% from 2.1% last year." Electric vehicle sales surge across EU as overall car market stalls | Euronews www.euronews.com/business/202...

🔔 The #FENS2026 Preliminary Scientific Programme is live! Get ready for groundbreaking lectures, symposia and workshops featuring leading voices in #neuroscience. 🧠 👉 Check out the programme here: https://loom.ly/iyGpGSo

Fantastic line-up of speakers for the #FENS2026 Forum. See you in Barcelona! fensforum.org/meet-the-spe...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵 Preprint link 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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Is visual cortex more like chatGPT or a masked autoencoder? Come to my BCCN seminar tomorrow at 10am ET on zoom (or read the paper) to find out! #neuroscience Zoom: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This program was wildly successful. It made the combination of theory and experiment the norm in many labs. Nice article by @callimcflurry.bsky.social in @thetransmitter.bsky.social, with great some quotes. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

So, apparently big tech firms are telling employees to get back to the US before midnight eastern time tonight, or else avoid returning entirely until there is more clarity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉 Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!), 22-24th of October: Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software. Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded. More info and to register: www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...

For a reasonable person, it is hard to imagine how racist are the views of Elon Musk. In his view immigrants cause "rape and murder and the destruction of the country and dissolution of the entire way of life". His words are disgusting. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/elon...

Exciting opportunity here - if you have a dataset and want IBL staff to run pipelines, develop visualizations or websites, work on QC, etc - or if you want to work on the IBL dataset in a way that needs staff support - then this is for you! Check it out.