The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

Today 1-2 pm CST bit.ly/3VOJrcy Join us!

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

Our next speaker is my friend @garrface.bsky.social , who will discuss my favorite topic: Mesolimbic DA --> Causal Learning! Tune in on Monday 9/22 from 1-2pm CST bit.ly/3VOJrcy

Excellent stuff, except that I disagree with #preprint. This is #postprint quality! Congrats to my superstar friend, and the team!

For-profit journals are like Uber, but for science. You do the work, they get rich cuz they provide the platform. Right?

Inaugural lecture of Brain Talks (on the isthmus). Excited to host Clifford Harpole cliff.science. @cliffscience.bsky.social Join us in person or on Zoom!

Our issue on Computational Properties of the Prefrontal Cortex is now: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... These articles capture some of the incandescence of the CPPC conferences... narayanan.lab.uiowa.edu/home/cppc2024 cppc.web.ox.ac.uk accl.psy.vanderbilt.edu/blog/2018/10...

We all know a man who will cheat and consolidate power and resources, and cross bodies, over the hope of winning a Nobel prize. Sure, peace. #Ezra-op-ed

I am beyond excited to host a stellar group of scientists for the first installation of our series: Brain Talks on The Isthmus. Thank you to everyone who contributed by spreading the news, submitting abstracts, reviewing the submissions, and offering kind words of support. I am grateful and smiling

Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠

One day everything will stop. And we will only write short stories. For computers to read, to know us. To decode who we were and the lives we lived. One day, everything will stop. And the music will keep playing

#Neuro4Pros 4ever 🧠🤓 Grateful for a week of learning from & being in community with fellow early career profs & amazing facilitators @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social Hannah Bayer 📸: @mohebial.bsky.social

Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer. Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Had a fabulous time at the gorgeous QUBS discussing science, mentorship, and community. Grateful to @kordinglab.bsky.social, @gunnarblohm.bsky.social ❤️ our facilitators, and everyone who made it so meaningful. Proud of the friendships we built. #wethepeople

NIH funding is becoming scarce. What else is also becoming scarce? Food, in a man-made famine. Why? "Israeli restrictions on aid, collapse of health care/sanitation, destruction of local agriculture & growing number of times people forced to flee for new shelters." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

Hey there! Just a quick reminder — tomorrow's the deadline! Submit your abstract and get ready to dazzle our students and scholars in biological psychology with your talk on Zoom :)

✨Normal science funding is broken but the showgirl must go on ✨ We are crowdfunding for our project to identify a next-gen preclinical OCD mouse model! 🔗 researchhub.com/referral/joi... #OCD #Neuroscience #CrowdfundingScience 🧪👩‍🔬 🧠 🧬 💸

🚀 Reminder: Just one week left! Share your science with us on Zoom—everyone worldwide is welcome! 🌍✨ Scientists of the world, UNITE!!! #ScienceSharing #GlobalScience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This". Until then, Mr. Netanyahu can drop bombs and snipe and starve down children: we are busy watching reality TV.

I want to laugh at the banality of the situation, but I am choked up. This is happening to real people... Masked employees of a government agency, hiding in a Penske truck, raiding a Home Depot parking lot to arrest folks looking for work. And this is called the Trojan Horse operation...

🚨Pre-print alert🚨 We stimulated serotonin with optogenetics while doing large-scale Neuropixel recordings across the mouse brain. We found strong widespread modulation of neural activity, but no effect on the choices of the mouse 🐭 How is this possible? Strap in! (1/9) 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A very good read if you want to learn everything there is to know about dopamine. Take a look at chapter 4! www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han...

📣 We are expanding! Repost 🙏🏽 - Postdoc (funded by @simonsfoundation.org grant on synchronisation between cognitive representations and stepping) - Project Associates - Create your role! (Reach out if you are keen on these topics and these roles do not define you 👀🤗) www.neuroact.in

PC principal best depicts our morally fluid leaders (maybe not leaders but more like admins, and C-suite occupants) in academia. This week, Columbia U got PC principaled.

Reading an excellent collection of short stories.... A bit dark though, by design.

If you are a student and postdoc interested in body-brain communication - check out Chris's lab!

🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)! (Ping me for Qs) forms.gle/zpSTGWczxjqJ...

It's inevitable, but still makes me sad to see bookstores closing. I noticed one in dt.madcity today. RIP, you church of knowledge and imagination. Your ashes have been scattered all around the weights of some LLM somewhere.

Terrible news: UW system agreed to double most profs’ teaching loads to get their budget. If fully implemented, it could halt research at UW–Madison. Could set a dangerous precedent. Kudos to UW admin. 🔗 www.chronicle.com/article/a-4-...

Textbook neuroscience teaches that anatomy dictates function. But which aspects of anatomy determine differences in function between species? We think neuroscience is now well-placed to tackle this question. Here is our attempt at one piece of the puzzle: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

If these boys are so proud, why do they cover their faces?

I'm NOT ready to go full Eisen and call for the abolishment/sanction of for-profit journals (yet). However, I believe that to protect taxpayer dollars, the NIH should negotiate a rate for open access fees that is NOT $12,690. Feds can do it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Grace to those who seek peace 🙏

We, the collaterals

Eventually, they will run out of bombs. Mr. Netanyahu and the Ayatollahs will die. Some of us will survive. And we will smile and laugh again. Smile and happiness is the only revenge I have, for these war criminals, ...for stealing the moments.

244 killed, so far. Me? Going through the existential crisis of wtf I'm doing when my old city is being evacuated, and friends are desperately searching for shelters.

My uncle, along with 14 other family members having a dinner party at his place, died in the 80s during the bombing of Tehran. So please forgive me if I care more about the bombing of my old neighborhood (two blocks from my mom's apartment) than cuts in indirect costs. Apocalypse, Now!

No kings (at least in Madison, WI).

- Look mummy there's an airplane up in the sky. - Don't worry kid. Mr. Bibi has a good track record of targeted assassination of militants and sparing us.

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...

Michael J. Sandel provides nuanced arguments on the ethics and morality at issue: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Don’t just ask for a $20B NIH budget boost. Advocate for reallocation of 2% of the defense budget to health research. Fewer bombs, more cures.

Not MAGA enough? O No

First pre-print from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Grateful to WARF for their continued support of science @ UW-Madison and looking forward to clamping some dopamine!

Undeportable, as of today. Quite grateful to those who helped me through this immigration chapter of my life. For some of us, immigration is a choice, I feel privileged to be among those.

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

If I may say. If I may say. If I may say: the trust that these students and scholars put in the stability of our institutions (and in us/US) is far more important than the "fiscal bottom line". Think about the anxiety they are going through rn, ok? If I may say: people >>> institutions. Thanks!

Our latest preprint on projection-specific tracing of prefrontal activity: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...