Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵

I just gave a short tutorial on what is a spiking neural network and how to train one. From zero to a trained network in one hour. Slides and code you can run in Colab at this repo: github.com/neural-recko... 🤖🧠🧪

Functional Logic of a Cognitive Brain System for Navigation A fascinating review of the Drosophila head-direction system by Gaby Maimon and Larry Abbott #neuroskyence #compneuro

Our lab is re-opening the search for a postdoc! The candidate we chose this round unfortunately had to withdraw (2-body problem). If you or someone you know is looking for a postdoc in ephys + spatial navigation + neurodegeneration, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io

@laurenmvetere.bsky.social's masterpiece on mEC & HPC theta in an #Alzheimer's model mouse is now out in Cell Report: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... So cool to see DG inhibitory loss yet again as an early impairment across models. Go check it out!

The latest result from a fun ongoing collaboration! @mbeyeler.bsky.social @michaelgoard.bsky.social @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Carmen Sandi is an inspiration - This is a really excellent article - essential reading for anyone interested in mitochondria within the central nervous system. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

We have a new preprint! By studying neuronal heterogeneity in CA3, we found a weird but powerful new feature in the hippocampal circuitry! 🧠 #neuroskyence 🧵.. Morse-Mora et al. | Hippocampal CA3 forms a two-layer network of molecularly distinct cell types in mice and humans doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to share our latest work, out today! We show that spatial representations and their dynamics differ across anatomical compartments of hippocampal CA3, and that these differences can be explained by the level of recurrent connectivity in each compartment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug. 2. Join us for our 7th annual celebration of Black excellence in neuroscience. 📣 #BINRollCall ⏳ #BlackInTime (NEW!) 🧠 #NeuroRacism 🌍 #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora 💼 #NeuroCareers ✨ #BlackInNeuroJoy 😌 #BlackRestInNeuro #BINW26 #BlackInNeuro

I’m excited to share our latest preprint, and the main work from my PhD, on the role of the direct entorhinal input in hippocampus CA1 spatial coding. 1/9

Hey you! 🧠🧪 Are you an early career neuroscientist? Do you want to learn more about publishing, share your perspectives, and strengthen the global neuroscience community? Come join the JNeuro ECR Board! Applications due July 17: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Really excited to share our new preprint. Here we use our holographic optogenetics to ask a key question about how neurons need to fire to drive movements. We find a bunch of interesting things about what does, and doesn't drive movements. Brief summary below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interesting to contrast this new optogenetic silencing of ECIII showing similarity between novel & familiar environment representations with an older lesion study (www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...) which found the opposite (perhaps due to reduced overall stability)

Our work on goal-directed theta sweeps is out! We found two different types of theta sweeps in the rat hippocampus. During random foraging, left-right alternating sweeps dominated (Vollan, 25). However, during memory-guided navigation sweeps pointing to hidden goal locations emerged with learning.

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Thank you Natalia Mesa at the @thetransmitter.bsky.social for highlighting our labs preprint on synaptic mechanisms of head direction learning!! 🪰🧭 Work from @markplitt.bsky.social in my lab in collaboration with the Jayaraman lab! www.thetransmitter.org/learning-and...

📜 Project Showcase 🛠️ pyControl: Open source, Python-based, behavioural experiment control. 👩‍💻 🧑‍💻 Developed by Thomas Akam 👀 To learn more about it: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/pyco... #OpenSoftware #OpenScience #OpenSource

The Moser Group is presenting our work on Wednesday afternoon at #FENS2026! •Mechanism for L-R sweeps •Attention modulation of sweeps •Grid/place remapping rules & dynamics •”Mega torus” as a hi-capacity memory space •Moving the grid bump •Development of tori & rings •RSC/HC pops. in a spatial task

Today we celebrated our lab's half birthday (and our tech Grace's birthday) with funfetti brain cake pops! Reflected on all the good and the bad from these first challenging 6 months over some Brut paired with chocolate hemispheres 🧠🧁🥂

Foraging success influences foraging motivation in 🐜. Unsuccessful foraging trips delay subsequent foraging trips by 25-time manifold. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

First behavior experiments in the lab are a go! Our pilot mouse Sully is an expert cricket hunter, catching his first cricket just seconds after it entered the arena 🐭🦗

Ever wondered how the hippocampal cognitive map is read-out? @changmin-yu.bsky.social @zilong-ji.bsky.social with Jake & John, show that, during navigation, theta sweeps indicate remembered goal-directions (cf. current/next movements or perceptual targets) 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Thrilled to share our recent work in @natneuro.nature.com. Using direct recordings from the human hippocampus and visual cortex, we asked how the brain prepares to encode information when upcoming events are unpredictable, and what ripples do in that process. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Ripple occurrence consistently tracked low arousal: rates were maximal in NREM sleep, small-pupil wake states, and slow heart rate periods across sleep and wake... ripple-like activity outside the hippocampus showed an opposite modulation, increasing with high arousal."

What does a multimodal electrode look like to you? This is what it looks like to us - it’s electrical⚡️, optical 💡 and fluidic💧. Amazing work by Xin Mu, Wesley Sacher and Homeira Moradi Chameh. We also made the cover 🥳! 🔗 to 📄 : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Primer explores a @plosbiology.org study showing that #neuronal firing is selectively tuned to oscillatory frequency, complementary to phase tuning, suggesting an additional dimension in how #brain rhythms may organize neural activity 🧪 Paper: plos.io/44odgVM Primer: plos.io/4eJ6bUI

Our paper on olfactory evidence accumulation is now officially published with the final clean version! With @luxorboero.bsky.social, Hao Wu, @josephdzak.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, Farhad Pashakhanloo, @siddjakes.bsky.social, @btolooshams.bsky.social & Demba Ba.

Looks like a very useful neuroscience funding searcher from the good folks @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Really excited about this work with the awesome Will de Cothi & @shipleysj.bsky.social, out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. We propose acetylcholine is an analogue of dopamine — tracking not reward prediction errors but state-transition prediction errors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-026-01058-w

This is the kind of almost magic-like payoff we get from decades of basic and applied research by thousands of scientists across the globe. This is why we do it.

Beautiful work. Translatome profiling reveals opposing alterations in inhibitory and excitatory neurons of fragile X mice and identifies EPAC2 as a therapeutic target: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

"Charles Darwin looked back on his early repugnance for mathematics ... ‘I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense’" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are hosting a "Comment-a-thon" Zoom workshop with Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi, former NIH Scientific Program Official. New OMB federal rule change would severely affect federal grant process. Written comments from UC faculty can still stop its adoption! Join us! members.cucfa.org/omb-comment-...

Want to submit your public comment about the OMB Grant Proposal but not sure how? Join us every Friday at 2 PM ET for advice on how to submit a public comment! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/wjx1j #OMB #Vought #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience

Major preprint update! 🎉 How can learned behaviors generalize across environments when the hippocampus remaps? Our original preprint showed that task-related latent structure persisted across contextual remapping. In this revision, we add the major finding that... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

🦇🍸 bat cocktail party problem 🍸🦇 Like humans at a party, echolocating bats must pick out the sound they're interested in while ignoring out many others This review highlights roles of not just auditory but also "cognitive" brain areas in solving this problem #neuroskyence #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

How do brains plan actions towards goals? To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵 Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

READ: My Public Comment on Proposed OMB Rule: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/my-public-...

Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Place cells respond to terrain geometry. Explicable as a generalisation of the BVC model. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... This is the kind of discovery which, I admit, makes me slightly miss my old job.

Representational drift - the change in cells' responses to the same stimulus over time - may be a feature rather than a bug. Thank you to @dianakwon.bsky.social for giving me a chance to talk about this fascinating topic. 🤯 The brain never ceases to amaze!

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

This is a very helpful resource from the former EiC of Science: a template for commenting on the proposed changes to OMB regulations that threaten the continued existence of US Science.

POINTseq, now out in Neuron after peer review. Read it. There are barcodes, viruses, and dopamine. Congrats to @hyopilkim.bsky.social on leading our lab's first published paper!