Next-generation enhancer AAVs for selective interspecies targeting of midbrain dopaminergic neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.06.687071v1

Plateau potentials are instructive signals for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the neocortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.07.687250v1

How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1

Ephaptic-Axonal Interactions Shape Radial Biases DuringNeural Self-Organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686361v1

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are hiring 🎉 Brandeis Neuroscience is looking for an Assistant Professor. The search is in the broad area of cellular/circuit neuroscience. It’s a fantastic place to do research and train students.If you’re interested, apply and reach out with any questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab

Selective coupling and decoupling coordinate distributed brain networks for precise action https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.683309v1

Registration open: eveeno.com/applicationb... Under the theme “From Genes to Circuits and Behavior”, top neuroscientists - incl. Cori Bargmann, @edvardmoser.bsky.social, Rosa Paolicelli, Maude Baldwin & Zachary Knight - will meet at to explore how neural circuits drive behavior.

Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

Impact of serotonin transporter deficiency on parvalbumin- and neuropeptide Y-producing interneurons of the basolateral amygdala https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680627v1

👀“experience of a punished outcome generates a BLA representation that is selectively replayed when animals subsequently abort choice of the large/risky reward option.” ⚡️“… risk leads to the incorporation of newly encoding BLA neurons into the pre-choice representation”

🔬 Join us for the next iBehave Seminar Series 2025 lecture with Prof. Dr. Mark Schnitzer @Stanford on Oct 9, 11:00 DZNE Bonn. Host: @jangrundemann.bsky.social Title: Cell-type specific voltage imaging of neural spiking, oscillations, waves, and memory dynamics 📧 Zoom info: [email protected]

Sensory origin of visually evoked activity in auditory cortex www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

A couple of new preprints out from Kash Lab!

Using a new genetically-encoded voltage indicator in an all-optical approach to measure synaptic plasticity in awake behaving mice. Great work by @jacquescarolan.bsky.social and colleagues. Check out www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679721v1

Exploring the correspondence between gene expressionand thalamic nuclei using the THALMANAC resource https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679413v1

Wow!

Why early birds sing early www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

Astrocytic Activation Completely Corrects Memory Performancein an Alzheimer's Disease Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679133v1

The Reinstatement of a Forgotten Infantile Memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678956v1

We are hiring a postdoc to work @istaresearch.bsky.social on an @erc.europa.eu funded project, investigating the control of behavior and physiology by the hypothalamus. Please apply and share! ist.ac.at/en/job/postd...

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

CS - plasticity and behavioral-state integration in the posterior insula during auditory fear learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678609v1

Brain-wide representational drift: memory consolidation and entropic force https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.678547v1

Emergence of Functional Heart-Brain Circuits in a Vertebrate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677693v1

A mechanistic theory of planning in prefrontal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.677709v1

Neuronal detection of social actions directs collective escape behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678087v1

Cortex-Wide Substrates for Body Schema and Action Awareness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678085v1

Context rescales a social action code in a hormone-sensitive network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678271v1

Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al! PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spatial predictive coding in visual cortical neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676794v1

#Cosyne2026 is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠

Hippocampal spreading depolarization as a driver of postictal ambulation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨New preprint alert! The thalamus has long been seen as a relay of sensory signals to cortex. But could it also generate its own structured activity? Our study explores this question in the head-direction (HD) system. Some explanation 🧵👇 1/13 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

X Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON 2026 University of São Paulo, Brazil January 5-30, 2026 Application Deadline: October 4, 2025 sisne.org/en/lascon-x/

🌀 Join the Loop! 🌀 Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cycles, guest-edited by our own Loops crew @talking-bat.bsky.social , Markus Rothermal & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 ‼️ 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Submit now! 🧠🔁

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

After your SfN in San Diego, drift 130 km up the coast to Irvine for a bit more: cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2025-special... Go ahead and register now.

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

Come hear me talk about mice doing mouse stuff, at the birthplace of Beethoven and the gummy bear. Or three days later at the Gutenberg workshop gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/flexibility-...

Sensory thalamus function, plasticity and neuromodulation in health and disease. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MiniFAST: A sensitive and fast miniaturized microscope for in vivo neural recording. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New workshop! Just before SFN, join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a workshop on pynapple and NeMoS. Learn how to use these open-source packages to analyze and model neural data! Accommodation & meals provided. Link ⬇️