🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 "A State–Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making" is now available on biorxiv! Check it out below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this work we find that mice are not just static mindless decision makers.

They would've found something to weaponize regardless. One of the most admirable things about science is its commitment to self-criticism. The fact that bad actors may capitalize on our legitimate concerns should never stop us from being honest and reflective about what we do.

In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @liddelowsa.bsky.social explains how two papers from Ben Barres’ lab completely changed the way the field studies astrocytes and enabled everything discovered in glia research since. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

our "untangling the mind" tour has begun! #NationalGeographic come explore the foundations of thoughts, emotions, and memories - all the things that make you, you - through the lens of modern neuroscience 🧠 by learning and working together, we have the power to make an era of discovery flourish🔬

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

in our new lab work, we find that: natural forgetting & induced amnesia share common impaired neural dynamics this work was funded by multiple #NIH grants that supported students, postdocs, & the science, all with the goal of healing disorders of memory & the brain www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Coverage of our recent locust paper in @science.org by DW www.dw.com/en/scientist...

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

Boy, it’s a good thing science isn’t political

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.

It’s such a weird coincidence that Trump’s executive orders are mapping so closely onto Project 2025, something that Trump said he had nothing to do with & the media dutifully accepted as fact.

Wadman and Kaiser are on it, over at ScienceInsider at the glam mag Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

lots of folks saying things like, "the government won't be able to revoke your passport for no reason, that's against the law!" I help people fight unlawful government decisions for a living. please believe me when I say that the government routinely breaks the law and they mostly get away with it.

All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.

Posting this nice two-photon imagine of GCaMP8f in astrocytes for #fluoresencefriday 🧪 Credit - @astroantho.bsky.social

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Memory engram synapse 3D molecular architecture visualized by cryoCLEM-guided cryoET https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.09.632151v1

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to @christossourmpis.bsky.social, who finishes his PhD with this. He worked hard and I think he is brilliant 🏆 Many thanks to Wulfram Gerstner and Carl Petersen for the guidance and the support. Thanks to Fahid Esmailli for collecting the in-vivo data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 8/8

So we're just ignoring glia? 👍

In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Blake, the brain is not a collection of neurons, it's a highly structured multilevel system that is part of a living organism. I don't have a problem if applied math is used to generate astonishing feats of technology, but this kind of talk about neurons is completely naive to say the least.

Look mommy, I’m famous now! Exhibit A: I’m on a podcast 📻 If you’re eager to hear me ramble about open source software, autodiff, French pronunciation, and of course #JuliaLang, tune in below open.spotify.com/episode/20ml...

Interested in diffusion models, behavior forecasting, internal states, neuromechanical modeling, reservoir computing, joint neural/behavioral datasets? Missing the sunshine? We have multiple fully funded postdoc positions, come join us!

1) With our @neuripsconf.bsky.social poster happening tomorrow, it's about time to introduce our Spotlight paper 🔦, co-lead with @jkapoor.bsky.social: Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking data (LDNS), a latent variable model (LVM) which addresses 3 goals simultaneously:

Our next multi-agent behavior challenge launches in <2 months! Will share bits of info here in the meantime. First, the basics: - 226 hours of top-down video of socially interacting mice - 15 contributor labs - all vids fully manually scored for behavior - 45 unique behaviors across videos (!)

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

Pluto is an absolute masterpiece of scientific and educational software. It's like Jupyter notebooks without "rerun all". In fact, it's so good someone wrote a song about it!!! youtu.be/SyloWC8gheM?...

Didn't see one for Neuroscience yet; allow me to oblige

Hello @bsky.app from the #JuliaLang community! We're excited to start posting here on Bluesky in addition to our other social media, all of which can be found here: julialang.org We'll keep you updated on our fantastic community, our conferences, #JuliaLang updates, and more on this profile!