Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Just 4 weeks until the abstract deadline for Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration - ciseconf.github.io/CISE_2025/ 🗓️ 30th Sept-1st Oct 📍 Brown University 👥 Romy Frömer, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Ohad Dan, Matt Nassar, Tali Sharot & Jacqueline Gottlieb 👇 Speakers Please submit & share!

Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈 Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London. "Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#neuroskyence #neuroscience community. What's a good figure to illustrate the exuberant anatomical connectivity of the brain (not just cortex). I use a few in talks but looking for new examples. This one is from Modha and Singh (2010) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Astrocytes have long been conceived as passive support player cells in the brain. But today @science.org (via 3 reports) they got a big upgrade for their active role in neuromodulation and control of brain function www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in #microglia? 🤔 This paper presents comprehensive insights into their heterogeneity and detailed cell-state annotation across development and neurodegenerative conditions. Check it out! #CNS #Immunology #Science #neuroskyence #neuroscience #compneurosky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

🧠✨ Symposia submissions are NOW OPEN for Dopamine Meeting 2026! @DopamineSociety 📍Sevilla, Spain 📅 Open: May 1, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: June 16, 2025 Spread the word — don’t miss out! #Dopamine2026 dopaminesociety.org

Wireless battery less unsupervised Optogenetic stimulation of an aversive pathway. Every time the animal enter the open arm they receive 5Hz still without any latency due to Bluetooth or Camera TTL. Animals are highly habituated to the elevated plus maze ... 2DNEURO

Great Spotlight ☀️ on @vgonzalez.bsky.social recent work on the role of ACC in sustained reward seeking, by Qiyue Zhang & Jingfeng Zhou www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Significant update: turns out international candidates **are eligible** in principle for this PhD position. Deadline imminent: 30th April. PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience available @psychologyuea.bsky.social Pls retweet. #neuroskyence #VisionScience #compneurosky

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...

is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians pls DM/email for informal inquiries 🧠📈 🧠💻

I am teaching a seminar on neural networks for psych students this semester. Does anyone know good *accessible* overviews of the original milestone papers that help students with minimal tech. training to follow? Readings are welcome! #compneurosky #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Three year postdoctoral position available in my lab @psychologyuea.bsky.social to work on neuroimaging and deep learning studies of multimodal material perception! with @timkietzmann.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk pls repost #compneurosky #neuroskyence

Recognize your outstanding colleagues and postdoctoral colleagues doing exciting work in the field and contributing to the neuroscience community inside and outside the lab. Nominate them for our “Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025: thetransmitter.org/risingstars #neuroskyence

A brave (and patient) group of neuroscientists have figured out how to do task-based fMRI in babies and toddlers. They aim to uncover how the infant mind takes shape—and the method has already provided new insight into infantile amnesia. My latest www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne... #neuroskyence

PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory. All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

This month’s “Liftoff” features @jocelynbreton.bsky.social discussing the importance of patience when opening a lab. And @vivianpaulun.bsky.social shares how she'll use a traditional German custom in her lab to foster a supportive and uplifting culture. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4hFNosx

Submit a nominee for our Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025 report. Selected nominees will be featured on our website and in our annual book! The deadline is 31 May 2025 #neuroskyence

This checks out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are many studies on cell types and then there is the gold standard. Beautiful work on the diversity of VIP interneurons by the Rudy lab! #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Really excited to contribute to this conference! Hope to see new and familiar faces there.

Menopause is a natural part of aging but often misunderstood. This week co-editor @neuromelody.bsky.social pushes back the stigma to uncover what really happens in the brain during and after menopause. pennneuroknow.com/2025/02/25/t... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪

Need to thank @melissajsharpe.bsky.social and @katewassum.bsky.social for letting me invade their spaces, get help from their team to learn optogenetics. This are much easier when you are surrounded by supportive women in science. And amazing to see the effect of ACC inhibition in 2 different tasks

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

Many factors can affect serotype choice, so whatever your experiment, we recommend diving into the literature, understanding your variables, and always experimentally validating your AAV of choice. blog.addgene.org/viral-vector...

Tetanus on demand! (not for bioweapons, but for neuroscience research) Tetanus toxin induces paralysis by using a protease to cleave VAMP2, a protein required for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. To harness this toxicity and use it as a beneficial tool for neuroscience,

Hey #neuroskyence! Make sure you submit your abstracts for the first-ever #SPAN2025! Check the line-up below 👇

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Grateful when people make open source resources so students don’t need to buy anything. To supplement short videos I made (youtube.com/playlist?lis...), assigning some chapters from this for my Vertebrate Neurophysiology course plus some from this online book nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...

An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪

'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.' pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Antibody reliability is a massive problem in research and many companies sell antibodies they know do not work. It is one of the main reasons of the reproducibility crisis. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Undergraduate research at UCLA is amazing. Consider applying. #glia #neuroscience #brain #CNS #UCLA 🧪

I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

Having a difficult day, but I'm glad to have microscopy to inspire me and hopefully inspire others as well. 💔 The brain keeps being amazing. These are neurons in the neocortex #FluorescenceFriday 🔬

Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...). Paper: A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Alien Planet. Utah's Bentonite Hills are a colorful landscape of banded hills that make you feel like you're walking on Mars. These were formed during the Jurassic period when mud, silt, sand, and volcanic ash were deposited in swamps and lakes. I am in this photo, btw!

Looking for an escape over the holiday? @meikeesther.bsky.social and I published a ViewPoint looking at the intersection of Developmental and Systems Neuroscience titled “More Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Development” www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

Excited to share our new publication, out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social . Project lead by the amazing @sophiepeterson.bsky.social 🧠 🔬🐀 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️