A sad day for Neuroscience in the Netherlands.

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited to share our new work with @engeltatiana.bsky.social! RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I finally watched Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) now everyone is mad at me for thinking it sucked

University of Arizona also rejects the Trump administration's "Compact" 💪 president.arizona.edu/news/update-...

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Seeing lots of reactions to this compelling paper - showing VTA dopamine is linked to cue and outcome induced behavioral reactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I have some thoughts…

Excited to hear the latest science updates from @czimmerman.bsky.social on Monday, 1-2 pm CST. You can join us too—either on Zoom or in person! bit.ly/3VOJrcy

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

Did you know that facial expressions reveal more than meets the eye? 🤯 Our new study shows that even a mouse's face 🐭 can reflect hidden neural computations🧠. Turns out, facial expressions are more than just emotions! We're so excited to see this paper out @natneuro.nature.com 🎉 🔗: rdcu.be/eIQzO

🛑 Attention researchers who train freely-moving rodents! Jess Breda and I developed a protocol for training center-port nose fixation 61% faster than a previous curriculum while keeping violation rates low. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's been amazing to watch this beautiful work come together over the last couple of years. Congrats @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social !

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents! Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes... 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I can't think of a single activity that brings out more neuroticism (in myself) than figure formatting

Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

Can anyone explain how we went to bed with two cats each in cones and woke up to one cat in two cones??

Check out our new multisensory decision study! We tackle a decades-old Q: does faster detection of bimodal targets come from a race or co-activation between modalities? And also a vital, orthogonal Q: is it one decision process or two? A1: co-activation A2: two! Read here: rdcu.be/eASYd

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We are expected just to sit back and watch two million people be starved to death—half of them children—while real estate investors eagerly plan to build oceanside condos. What’s happening is the most evil thing I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. PLEASE call your elected representatives and speak out:

Super excited to share our new article: “Dissociable cortical regions represent things and stuff in the human brain” with @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @rtpramod.bsky.social and @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social Video abstract: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0XR... Paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWxv3QW8S...

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social

(1/23) In addition to the new Lady Gaga album "Mayhem," my paper with Manuel Beiran, "Structure of activity in multiregion recurrent neural networks," has been published today. PNAS link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (see dclark.io for PDF) An explainer thread...

Out today in @nature.com: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Working in a wet lab in this summer heat is making me wish I had a pair of these

I just finished reading (listening to) @nicolecrust.bsky.social's new book. It's phenomenal. I highly recommend it to anyone who studies the brain, even if they think they're not interested in brain disorders.

How long has Princeton been negotiating with our postdoc union?

How can you know if gene delivery in a primate worked Typically through expensive scans or histology. With @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social and co-authors we made synthetic markers that monitor gene delivery and Cre-dependent expression with a blood test: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please re-post so we get more great stories in there!

#neuroskyence What are your favorite papers on the idea of redundancy in the brain? E.g. how a different neural circuit can step in when the "original" is damaged? Or just how the same function can be executed in different ways within the same brain?

Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices.

I really loved the finale of The Rehearsal, especially because my grandpa was a pilot who was probably on the spectrum

Fresh off the press - our latest publication on abstract choices with @siegellab.bsky.social @fsandhaeger.bsky.social @nimanoury.bsky.social @ezezelic.bsky.social at @commsbio.nature.com Link: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵below (1/7)

writing this K99 like it wont end up in the dumpster behind the NIH

‘Timestamp on our minds’: Philadelphia marks 1985 Move bombing that killed 11 Police bombing targeting Black liberation group ignited fire that killed 11, including five children, and burned 61 houses www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!

Stick valuation is highly dynamic

US faculty and anyone who cares about academic freedom: I urge you to check out @wearehighered.bsky.social * read through compelling letters signed by thousands of faculty * learn about upcoming actions in which you can participate * spread the word to encourage others to get involved, too !

I so aspire to reach the level of hater of this house in my neighborhood

Reasoning Algorithms: Online workshop open to all, with a bunch of speakers from cognitive development, primate cognition, neuroscience, and computational modeling 🧪🧠 obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...