1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

Proud to take on this challenge: building the new Centro de Neurociencias Cajal @institutocajal.bsky.social into a space where neuroscience crosses boundaries and transforms how we understand the 🧠!!

Going to open an escape room where hippocampus researchers have to solve riddles without using space as an explanation for everything

Our collaboration - from PhD work - examining input-specific (EC L3) contributions to rate and temporal coding in CA1 place cells is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🔬🧠 rdcu.be/evWtz

I know it’s popular to think of citations as attribution of credit, but a part of me also likes to think of them as a trail of fun breadcrumbs for someone 20 years in the future.

this heat map study of gender differences of walking through urban environments at night is not surprising, but still sort of incredible to see news.byu.edu/intellect/st...

It's so heartbreaking to see one of the 'three angry old men'* flirting w the idea of bombing a country so nonchalantly. Like 90million ppl are at the mercy of the 'noise' in his drift diffusion process--is it accumulating to this bound or that bound😞 *see this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social ! With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding. (1/13)

🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics? We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes. Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...

Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing? Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenScience

I made this figure panel size guide to avoid thinking about dimensions every time. Apparently this post is going to be a 🧵! So feel free to bookmark it and save some time of yours.

This is not to be missed. You’ll spend your day trying to make RNNs psychotic. And we’ll pay you for it!

Talk 17: @smikulovic.bsky.social talking about how he work led in her lab about neural mechanisms underlying #helping in mice. Such a unique research direction. looking forward to her talk. 🤓

Given all that is going on consider this quote from Bertram Russell's 1930 book The conquest of Happiness: “The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”

Great work by @c0rr34m.bsky.social, @smikulovic.bsky.social and colleagues.

📢 Still time to apply for our MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience @durhampsych.bsky.social ! 👉 durham.ac.uk/study/course... 🧠 Join a top Psychology department and kickstart your Neuroscience career. 🔍 Wide range of research groups: durham.ac.uk/departments/... 📩 DM me for any question

Join us this Monday and Tuesday 28 - 29 April 2025 for the 1st Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference on Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits at the @institutducerveau.bsky.social Limited spots available, so please register (it's free)! 14 invited speakers 8 contributed talks 32 posters www.paris-circuits.eu

Fantastic to be part of this unique conference in Pipa, Brazil. Great science, inspiring students and the weather wasn’t bad either. Massive thank you to @vitorlds.bsky.social @andressaradiske.bsky.social and @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social for organising. Onwards and upwards for the global south!

Very grateful to have organized the Meeting on Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Function in Northeast Brazil with Caro Gonzalez, @vitorlds.bsky.social, @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social. Unforgettable days of science and connection. Thanks to @ibroorg.bsky.social and the @simonsfoundation.org

How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint, "Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵 🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Function meeting in beautiful #Pipa has sadly come to an end, but this meeting has given me new faith that really fascinating and innovative science is fully compatible with a kind, considerate, and supportive atmosphere! #BeNiceAndEnjoyYourScience

It’s a wrap 🙇🏽‍♀️ I really enjoyed the 5 days of #discussion on #NeuralMechanismsOfCognitiveFunction. One of the most #inspiring #neuroscience meetings I’ve ever attended 😇 #neuroscience #inclusion #globalsouth

It was so incredible to hang out with @vitorlds.bsky.social @melgaby.bsky.social @smikulovic.bsky.social @acnavasolive.bsky.social @annaciaunica.bsky.social @jakefwatson.bsky.social @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social @tristan-geiller.bsky.social Manuel Andressa, Carolina and the other speakers 🫶

And finally talk 20 was @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social herself presenting beautiful data asking really insightful questions on how brain activity is linked to location and movement during memory tasks!

Talk 19: Next up is @acnavasolive.bsky.social talking about her impressive research on sharp wave ripple analysis across species in health and disease. Andrea is a phenomenal computational neuroscientist 🤩 and I am so excited to hear her speak for the first time!

Talk 18: Next up is @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social sharing his research about the #neuromodulatory architecture of neuronal #circuits and how are brain states implemented 👀 Check out his lab website: www.neuronaldynamics.eu/team/nikolas

Day 5 has an exciting lineup 🤩 @smikulovic.bsky.social talks about helping mice @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social neuromodulatory circuits @acnavasolive.bsky.social SWR across species And me 💁🏽‍♀️ about theta & movement #neuroscience #NeuralMechanismsofCognitiveFunction sites.google.com/isd.org.br/i...

Talk 16: Super proud and excited to hear the work of my friend and inspiring scientist Samira Abdulai-Saiku sharing her work on how parent-of-X origin affects #cognitive function in #female mice across the #lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Talk 14: Really excited to now hear Adriano Tort who is going to share the work of their lab on the #breathing cycle and how it can modulate global coordination of #brain activity #neuroskyence.

Talk 13: First up is Antonia Marin-Burgin from IBioBa Buenos Aires, Argentina sharing her work about interaction of learning, mixed-selectivity and associative encoding in the olfactory cortex 🤓 Check out their work here: ibioba-mpsp-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/en...

We are on for #Day4 at the #Neural Mechanisms of #cognitive Function at Pipa, Brazil 🇧🇷 Respecting local tradition the first session was ⚽️ 🏖️🏆🥇 Great to play with @melgaby.bsky.social after 8 years! (of course he’s as competitive as ever 😅) @jakefwatson.bsky.social @tristan-geiller.bsky.social ⭐️

Talk 11: Next up is Jake Watson @jakefwatson.bsky.social who will talk about their latest (& cool 😎) work on understanding the microcircuit mechanisms of #memory in mice and #human brains. #neuroscience 🧠

Talk 10: Freyja Ólafsdóttir from Donders Centre for Neuroscience talking about “What can development tell us about the hippocampal code for spatial memory?” It’s my first time listening her speak after reading many of her cool papers in phd and postdoc 🤓

Rested and back for #Day3 of #Neural Mechanisms of #Cognitive Function 🧠🤓 Kicking off with Mario Martin Fernandez talking about neural mechanisms of encoding emotional states 🔎 Exciting talks planned ahead! Check out the schedule here: sites.google.com/isd.org.br/i... #neuroskyence #neuro

Talk 8: so excited to hear Noelia Weisstaub from Universidad Buenos Aires on the episodic memories and how serotonin modulates memory interference. Starts with a big overview for all the possible functions that serotonin is thought to be involved in 🤓🧠

Talk 7: we are back with Sara Mederos from UCL London on Prethalamic mechanisms underlying flexible behavior in aversive contexts 🐭🦅 She talks about a paradigm for training mice to suppress fear responses (making courageous mice 💪🏽)

Talk 6: excited for the next talk by Herman Rey talking about their work on single cell recordings in humans and what they tell us about faces and memories. 📝 Recording from many brain regions 🤩

Talk 5: our philosopher in residence @annaciaunica.bsky.social starting an engaging session about how we sense and perceive the world. 👀

Talk 4: looking forward to the last talk of the day by Stefano Panzeri about Population codes for decision making. www.sfari.org/people/stefa...

Cont .. @melgaby.bsky.social talking about exciting results involving zero shot inference while learning complex tasks & how a key determinant of mPFC neurons are goal progress. Also discuss the concept of “primitives” 🤔! Check out his super new group 🎉 www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/min...

Talk 3: Lovely to hear @melgaby.bsky.social speak about cognitive maps and a cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure 🗺️🧭 😻

Talk 2: @tristan-geiller.bsky.social from Yale speaking about coordinated reactivation for effective memory transfer from the hippocampus 🤓

👏🏽 First talk by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga about unique coding of memory (concepts!) in human hippocampus! How they conclude if neuron actually codes for Jenifer Aniston or Haley Berry or even Rodrigo himself 😬

📣🏝️🏖️ Excited to kick off the Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Function meeting in Pipa, Brazil 🇧🇷 Beautiful venue 📸 sites.google.com/isd.org.br/i... Obrigada 🙏🏽 @simonsfoundation.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @thorlabs.bsky.social 💰 Also @network-alba.bsky.social for supporting my long travel here 🌎

Excited to be speaking at ‘Reasoning Algorithms Across Species, Diagnoses and Development’, upcoming online conference April 23rd 11:00am-5pm ET. obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

Check out my preprint on hippocampal ripple diversity, with @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret at the MRC BNDU, where we reveal that distinct CA1 laminar profiles of ripples are associated with different reactivation dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...