Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

If you knew Renee Nicole Good - the 37 year old killed by ICE in Minneapolis today - please text me at 202-510-1268. You can remain anonymous

A meta-analysis of studies using Tolman’s sunburst maze suggests poor replicability and little evidence for shortcutting. Ouch! Definitely relevant reading for anyone interested in cognitive maps! 👇

Given the popularity and centrality of neuronal calcium imaging to systems and cellular neuroscience, it is shockingly under-modelled. Makes me nervous about the conclusions from those studies. At least the fMRI BOLD interpretation gets routinely debated...

New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 We are recruiting a full-time Research Programmer to push forward several exciting machine learning projects in the lab! Work on computational behavior and joint neural/behavior models. Start date flexible, can be a pre-grad-school position or longer term. recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...

Are manifolds real? Are latent circuits real? Tatiana @engeltatiana.bsky.social uses one, infers the other, and says yes to both. Also, how timescales are different and the same across the entire brain... braininspired.co/podcast/226/

My baby #JuliaLang package got an award! DifferentiationInterface.jl just received a national prize for open-source research software and I couldn't be prouder. We started this from a vague dream with @adrianhill.de, and reached 1000 dependents and 100k downloads last month. Research != just papers.

Awesome to see the French government recognize our work on open-source software! @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social

Simulation-based inference has really become a commonly used tool for parameter inference across many fields and applications. We (finally...) got together to write a tutorial introduction and guide to (hopefully) help users get started and navigate the different methods and diagnostics!

Check out cool new work from the DePaq lab!

check out the @okaysteve.bsky.social lab’s posters (for both neuron and glia enthusiasts) at #SfN2025 on Saturday PM! especially say hello to @siriacoello.bsky.social who is applying to grad school this cycle✨

🚨🚨🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...

Boulder friends: if you’re into animal behavior or vision, come to The Language of Light: Bioluminescence in the Deep Sea with Sönke Johnsen (Duke)! Fri Nov 14, 4-5:30 pm, Benson Earth Sciences Auditorium, Room 180. Reception 5:30-6:30 at the Earth Sciences & Map Library Free and open to all!

Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work! Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠 tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4

On November 7th, DON'T MISS @bostonu.bsky.social's Dr. Rebecca Suthard when she JOINS #MSNSeminars. Hosted by Drs. Brian Kipp, Chloe Lopez-Lee and Rimjhim Tomar, Dr. Suthard will present “A hippocampal astrocytic sequence emerges during learning and memory". @mountsinainyc.bsky.social

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher on a fully funded 2-year contract. The topic is developing and implementing new parallel graph algorithms, with applications to data-driven transportation and logistics. Details and application procedure below ⬇️ Reach out if you have any questions!

JuliaCon Local Paris starts tomorrow 🤩 Which part of our amazing program are you most excited about? #JuliaLang @juliacon.bsky.social @julialang.org

🚨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...