This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience From the amazing @lauragrima.bsky.social and colleagues - definitely looking forward to reading this! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

A print of a neuron forest I made during my artist residency at Sitka. Cerebral Wilderness 6” x 8” Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint #printmaking #neurons #sciart

I think this is an exciting development: SIMA 2 Worth a read about what the clever people at Deepmind have been up to: deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-...

Moyamoya is a rare cerebrovascular disorder where arteries at the base of the brain narrow, blocking blood flow. It can be devastating in children. Lauren Harris, Charlotte Malcolm et al find metrics from neuroimaging help identify the neurocogntiive outcomes for these children: tinyurl.com/mrx3vhy9

Moyamoya is a rare cerebrovascular disorder where arteries at the base of the brain narrow, blocking blood flow. It can be devastating in children. Lauren Harris, Charlotte Malcolm et al find metrics from neuroimaging help identify the neurocogntiive outcomes for these children: tinyurl.com/mrx3vhy9

Here's the full lineup of the Art of Neuroscience exhibitors at #SfN25 in San Diego #sciart 🧠

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ @erinhecht.bsky.social about the diversity and evolution of canine brains. We've lived and worked with dogs for 15,000+ years, sculpting their brains and bodies along the way. What can we learn from their singular story? Listen: disi.org/of-breeds-an...

Hidden Markov Models Speaking of HMMs, really enjoyed this paper on dynamics underlying resting state and other conditions. The idea of a baseline state from which excursions lead to more integrated states is really interesting. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroskyence

what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Now that we have Hidden Markov Models do we still need correlation matrices?? 😀 For example, this looks cool. (I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...) doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #neuroskyence

A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered brain activity, pupil size and brain fluid movement. #neuroskyence 🧪

A bit of doom and gloom reading for the UK Science sector. There are all sorts of things happening outside big pharma, but for that area things look bleak. www.science.org/content/arti...

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

Francis Crick's book The astonishing Hypothesis drw me into the field of neuroscience. He made huge contributions. but worth remembering... 1/n

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This is a magnificent piece of research from @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social and @adekstreme.bsky.social labs: Newly trained navigation and verbal memory skills in humans elicit changes in task-related networks but not brain structure elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Francis Crick's book The astonishing Hypothesis drw me into the field of neuroscience. He made huge contributions. but worth remembering... 1/n

We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂 Info below - and get in touch to learn more! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

If you're interested in memory, engrams, hippocampal systems, this is a must read:

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Sometimes it can be a pain choosing the route, and toughest when two paths seem equivalent. Nice new article from Liz Crastil's lab explores what factors drive choices of route: Graph Properties Drive Navigational Selection between Equidistant Routes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How have monsters changed over history? Do they morph with shifting cultural anxieties? Or do they mostly stay the same, sprung from primal, timeless fears? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & Natalie Lawrence! Listen: disi.org/monsters-and...

A wonderful article on the new rare dementia support Centre at UCL. This will make such a huge difference to those with young onset and atypical forms of dementia. ‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients www.thetimes.com/article/7bc1...

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

Interesting article. “The key take-home points are that if you take action for biodiversity in cities (through tree planting, or enhancing habitat in parks, or creating greenways) these actions will also likely yield benefits to human health.” #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stress drives the hippocampus to prioritize statistical prediction over episodic encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.683838v1

Positive affective contagion in bumble bees This is impressive research in Science Magazine, but the word 'affect' feels like a stretch of what that word implies. Affect-like seems more consistent, in the way Nicky Clayton has used 'epsiodic-memory-like' in corvids www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... - another example where noise is exploited as a tunable resource to enable exploration

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

Impressive new mobile EEG study from a world-class team. Exciting to see how assumptions from desk-top studies do not translate into everyday real-world situations. Congrats Zak and colleagues. Cool work.

New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item. Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps! Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social

📣 New Paper Alert! My PhD student Hannah Ovadia and I wrote a concise update on “The Role of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in Aesthetic Appeal” to synthesize evidence, highlight issues, and most importantly, consider theoretical alternatives. Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lz-h8MqMi...

Love the figure Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

See you all in a bit more than an hour! today, 12pm eastern US

"Researchers and officials say it is too early to know what is driving the spike in applications." "[UKRI] success rates have nearly halved — from 36% in 2017–18 to 19% in 2024–25". Seems hard to believe that rates were that high!

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience

New preprint from Satoshi Kuroki & Sébastien Royer Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Contextual Fear Conditioning Induces Activity-Dependent Gene Expression in the Dorsal but not in the Ventral Hippocampus www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Join our next Science Luncheon with Dr. Steven Weisberg (UT Arlington)! He'll discuss how our brains support and enhance spatial navigation across the lifespan. 🔗 Event details: tinyurl.com/3kczxh2k #ScienceLuncheon #CVL #UTDallas #UTArlington #CognitiveHealth

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Fascinating uncovering of celestial wayfinding systems: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

New preprint from Satoshi Kuroki & Sébastien Royer Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

After 25+ years of being a @bpsofficial.bsky.social member it's truly amazing to open the @psychmag.bsky.social & see an interview on me, @eprg-surrey.bsky.social @surreypsychology.bsky.social & the research I've conducted. Article online, but lovely to also come home to a printed copy. Thanks BPS