Cortical area remixes macaques’ knowledge blocks to solve new problems www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne... #neuroscience

“motor cortex that may have some specialization, ‘but it’s still integrating parts of the body in a way that probably promotes meaningful, ethologically relevant behavior patterns,’- Graziano said This is reminiscent of our and @katrinfranke.bsky.social findings in visual cortex.

Very much looking forward to taking part in the Comparative Brain meeting @pasteur.fr in Paris next week. Thanks @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @juliasliwa.bsky.social for putting together such a great program to think about brain evolution 🧪🧠 braintrees.github.io/ComparativeB...

🧠🐒🐼🐷🐭🐬🦁Last chance to register to the Comparative Brain Meeting, April 27–30 2026, @pasteur.fr and online. MRI, fossils, connectivity, behaviour Register: forms.gle/DekynBhj8YC4... Program: braintrees.github.io/ComparativeB... @k4tj4.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic would have been 89 years old today. Her work in the 1970s showed us on a molecular level how working memory functions through loop firing and local suppression. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 at just 66 years old. tinyurl.com/5n7evkh6 #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠

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🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us for a day of great science! "From boys to men: A journey through gender expectations" on April 2nd at the Paris Brain Institute #genderequity #gender #womeninleadership #alba #science #neuroskyence @institutducerveau.bsky.social

A sad reflection of the state of visiting the USA - Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the US this year.”

New paper hot off the (pre-)press! We dig into the evolutionary origins of neural computations for behavioral control across mice, monkeys, and humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... As our lab's first foray into comparative analysis of neural dynamics, I’m super excited about this work! 1/18

4/ Ida Henrietta Hyde developed one of the first intracellular microelectrodes for stimulating and recording single cells. She opened new ways of studying nervous and circulatory systems, and became the first woman to receive a PhD in physiology from the University of Heidelberg.

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers. 👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b... #Hiring #AI

📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

🔬 As part of the World Brain Health Forum 2026, the Paris Brain Institute had the honor of welcoming His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, for a visit highlighting the Institute’s scientific mission and the uniqueness of its model. #WBHF2026

🌍 The World Brain Health Forum 2026 continues today at the UNESCO House with its main conference, opened by Serge Weinberg, Jean Todt, Olivier Goy, Didier Samuel, and Stéphanie Debette, followed by inaugural speeches from Khaled El-Enany, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, and Dr. Tedros. #WBHF2026

1/6 And another article out in @commsphys.nature.com Sparse group interactions polarize…but dense group interactions moderate!! Polarization emerges as a structural effect of how groups are organized: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Facial expressions may involve an “everything, everywhere, all at once” type of coding in the brain, a new study suggests. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion-proc...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Sharing an amazing postdoc opportunity in Paris in the lab of Julia Sliwa (@juliasliwa.bsky.social) in NHP Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology on social vision and cognition! CNRS: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Paris Brain Institute: offres.institutducerveau-icm.org//fr/jobs/196...

Excited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.

What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗 How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested [email protected]

Mutual gaze and facial mimicry as drivers of shared engagement in macaque play fighting @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint on the neural mechanisms underlying helping behavior in mice! 🧠🐭 We show that dorsal hippocampal networks play a key role in rescuing a distressed peer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year! I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday

David Omer and lab, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates". Marmosets call each other by individually specific vocal labels, aka names, and they recognize and respond to their own name. 3/5 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I just heard a terrific talk by @marlenecohen.bsky.social about this preprint (MT/PFC comparison) - very relevant! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

To accommodate for the fact we started official registrations late and the early bird deadline was during school holidays for many, we have extended our early bird registration deadline to the 15th of May! The main website can guide you through registration : sbdm2025.github.io

Reminder to register for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until next week for early registration rates! (please retweet / share) sbdm2025.github.io

Registration for the 12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 in Lyon, France with early tarif now extended to May 15th: sbdm2025.github.io.

A putative neural correlate of mood! One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood). Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint, "Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵 🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/7 Alternatives for a complex mind Look at the image, it shows the proportion of neurons in the pallium (in blue) and in the cerebellum (red). Primates (including humans) have a rodent-like proportion (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @gallinaciega.bsky.social via @Raccoonologist

Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates! sbdm2025.github.io

Nature research paper: Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks https://go.nature.com/4iEIBsz

Like every year, our lab plans to attend the @sfn.org meeting in the US. But is it safe to go? This scientist was sent back (as confirmed by @lemonde.fr, no less). Other visitors were recently detained by ICE goons for days. It feels risky. See y'all at FENS in Barcelona? www.fens.org

A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access www.cell.com/cell-reports... by @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social et al.; "The connectome defines a unified, all-or-none network in association cortex"; #ignition #neuroscience

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

Grateful and proud to share my first-author paper as a grad student with @benhayden.bsky.social How does the human hippocampus keep track of multiple objects moving in space? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job alert! Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience. Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition. #neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics