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!

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture

Last week, we finally submitted my first paper during my PhD (bioRXiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...). The paper is about change-of-mind (COM) behavior. You know when you're taking a test and switch your answer after second-guessing yourself? We studied what happens in the brain at that moment.

Check out this report on what happens when a journal pays reviewers for their work. Fast turnaround times and streamlined experience for authors. @biologyopen.bsky.social published by @biologists.bsky.social has now gone beyond the trial and show the results from a year of implementing Fast & Fair.

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Charmingly personal AND informative onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

🚨 New paper in @nature.com We asked why two hippocampal areas with very different anatomy, CA3 and CA1, often seem to code space so similarly? By recording bats flying up to 200m, we found that the difference was hidden by scale! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/11

Sparse-to-dense #coding transformation between #hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1 In bats! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

“The lesson was not that the article mattered more than what I knew. The lesson was that if I wanted to challenge the literature, I had to know the literature...Not so I could abandon what I knew, but so I could defend it...Your lived experience is not a shortcut…But it is also not a liability.”

This paper is absolutely wild and amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/ 🚨🚨Preprint alert! "Perfect" isn't always smart 🧠. Anyone can tell apart two stimuli (including our mice). But how do we extract rules that apply to new stimuli? 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @marius10p.bsky.social @computingnature.bsky.social #neuroAI #neuroscience #AI

New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience

This is a nice summary of recent studies on dendritic excitability in vivo.

I'm teaming up with two of my favorite neuroscience educators to present an @sfn.org webinar on best practices for statistics, reproducibility, and analytical workflows. 📈 Join us on June 18: neuronline.sfn.org/training/suc...

How does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊

New method for identifying the fine transcriptomic types of thousands of neurons recorded in vivo!

You know GABA as an inhibitor, but that’s not all! We found that tonic GABAergic signaling, mediated by SST-interneurons and alpha5-type receptors, paradoxically facilitates dendritic calcium signals! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hippocampal theta frequency as a readout of path-integration recalibration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723266v1

Retrosplenial PV and SST interneurons shape egocentric spatial precision and stability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.10.724096v1

Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

The Aery Jones lab is recruiting another postdoc! If you're interested in neural mechanisms of spatial memory, high-density recordings, cool tasks (like cricket hunting), and/or aging and Alzheimer's, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io. Please pass along to your friends :D

“Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse” Great new work by @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social E. Isco @cliffscience.bsky.social @xmikezheng20.bsky.social @tonyzador.bsky.social & colleagues on the neural basis of vocal dexterity, now out in @nature.com 🧪🧠

Run, don’t walk, to your closest local preprint server to see our latest 3D tracking results! I’m still tickled that our results show flies don’t exactly walk, they “ground run” everywhere. I bet they also talk fast and suffer no fools.

Excellent new review about the current state-of-the-art in large scale neural recordings from Josh Siegle and @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This work was just covered by Medical Xpress! Check it out: medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...

If you are interested in circuit development - Victor Vargas-Barroso‘s thorough work on CA3 is now online. He shows surprising synaptic properties and circuit arrangement in the early postnatal hippocampus! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our everyday “spontaneous” behavior is not random at all, but is organized as a chain of self-chosen tasks, each with its own goal. Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

Most assume implants fail slowly over months. The moment an electrode enters the brain, microglia rush toward it within seconds, like fingers reaching for a splinter. Blood vessels leak. The BBB breaks. Inflammation starts instantly. #BCI #NeuralEngineering #Neurotech

I am so proud to share @gritz122.bsky.social my first PhD student's first preprint! This #compneurosky #neuroscience study tackles a controversial question in hippocampal place cell research – do place fields require spatially tuned synaptic inhibition? (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

#Dentategyrus #interneurons modulate winner-take-all network #dynamics in freely #behaving #mice: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

study section more fun now that there is not discussed and sparkling not discussed

After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Dennis (Janelia Farm), it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Enjoy www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!

@braininspired.bsky.social talks with @lmprida.bsky.social about how her efforts to understand the varieties of sharp wave ripples in the hippocampus led to her discovery that specific types of neurons control the properties of neural manifolds. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them.

We had our first annual "Mishap Recap" lab meeting today. Everyone shared their mistakes, accidents, negative results, or anything else that went awry, and what they learned from it. It went super well! Best mishap won a trophy of our lab logo

1/n Good news everyone! I'm excited to announce the lab's first manuscript is accepted and (preliminarily) published at @plos.org Computational Biology! This is an absolutely surreal moment as a #NewPI 😀 #neuroskyence #compneuro #AcademicSky 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Thank you @sfnjournals.bsky.social for highlighting our recently shared open-source restraint system for awake fMRI in rats!

“Recognizing the scope and impact of heterogeneity in basic neuroscience is essential if we want to understand complex conditions and the brain in health and disease,” write @lindadouw.bsky.social, Klaus Eyer and Lara Keuck. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

🎓 How to Navigate Your First Year of Graduate School⁠ Join a panel of first-year doctoral students as they share their personal experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating graduate school. ⁠ 🗓️ When: Friday, April 24th at 11am ET⁠ 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-nav...

My final paper from grad school is out! Thank you to @marisosa.bsky.social @ellasay.bsky.social and my co-first author Konstantin Kaganovsky! We show that reward and novelty coding in the hippocampus requires a specific membrane fusion protein implicated in activity-dependent AMPAR mobilization!

Phenomenal work demonstrates that early hyperexcitability in CA3 & DG leads to later spatial memory deficits in apoE4-KI #Alzheimers mice, characterizes the cellular mechanism, and identifies a causative gene target. Congrats to the whole team!