Cool basal ganglia preprints today! 2 on DA/ACh 1. @paulkramer.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2. @arifahamid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Motor learning @juangallego.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

"It was tailor-made to fit the valley’s technological and entrepreneurial ethos – endless workdays, relentless competition, the obsessive need to innovate. The drug traded hands as quickly as the latest packet-switching technology. IBM, Lockheed, Syntex, HP...." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Using AI to write code 👍👍👍 Not reading the code to understand what AI generated 👎👎👎

Thank you for the great summary, @thetransmitter.bsky.social, and the shout-outs from scientists we admire. There is so much we don’t know about how sex hormones modulate behavior and we’ll keep exploring!

I am revising our 'expectations document' in which I'm listing what I expect from lab members (at various stages of their career) and what they should expect from me. I would appreciate it if you could share yours with me. I will eventually share mine once completed.

As the Neuroscience 2025 meeting comes to a close, it's time for us to think about the future. Do you want to help us shape neuroscience research and future @sfn.org meetings? Consider nominating yourself or colleagues: www.sfn.org/about/volunt...

Goodbye to the beautiful friends I made and met again at #SfN2025. Community is everything. You are everything. Go back home and spread kindness, share a laughter with a friend and smile. Smile big. That's all that remains. All other glories will wash away, like your posters... Smiles will prevail.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

If you want to figure out what this poster says (or discover the secret of life) come and hang out at the dopamine dinner. Tomorrow Sunday 8pm-End. Waterfront bar & grill. Share with friends, even serotonin people will feel welcome.

SfN opening lecture: wine tasting as the most comprehensive cognitive workout at the age of digital content. Oh yeah? As the friend sitting next to me rightfully said: you can replace wine with cheese as the argument wouldn't change a bit.

Thought now was as good a time as ever to join bsky - Excited to share a big part of my PhD work is finally published- 7+ years of experiments from a great team of people. Wishing I could be at #sfn2025 to celebrate with you guys! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to see this finally out: rdcu.be/eO9oW We tested whether brief striatal dopamine release events influence the vigor of skilled movements. Despite popular belief, we did not find any evidence linking rapid dopamine dynamics to motor vigor on a moment-by-moment basis.

How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

Friedman once famously wrote: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits", which arguably changed the way most Americans started thinking about business... So I'm asking Cornell and others, what do you think the social responsibility of universities are?

What a great TV show...

Somehow missed this one. It appears to be yet another important study from the Kaeser group: "GRAB signals aren't pure; there is always cross-talk, and sometimes the cross-talks become problematic. And no, HEK cell measurements don't immediately translate in vivo..." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Your job is not to protect the institution. You have it backwards: it's the institution's job to protect you.

Nice! The newest version of my favorite figure-editing/poster-making software is now free! Give it a chance, shift+delete Adobe. www.affinity.studio (I don't know how to feel about the Canva acquisition thing going on. My gut feeling: I don't trust it, but I will give them a chance)

This is the end. Gotham is falling. Ra's al Ghul has won. Sad day for our democracy, if I may say so.

All canonical views are wrong, but some are useful.

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Nature manuscript adviser. Not too bad, I uploaded one of my previously published manuscripts and got some good feedback. I suppose it's just GPT, further trained on a corpus of manuscript peer reviews that Nature owns...

Thanks all for the feedback. Some slight updates on this version, along with some further explanation on my neglected Medium page here: medium.com/metascientif...

Powerful essay by Byung-chul Han: From a pathological standpoint, the incipient 21 century is determined neither by bacteria nor by viruses, but by neurons...

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Nice preprint from Veronica Alvarez's group on cortically-evoked DA mediated by ACh! I We observed something quite similar in birds, and interesting to see the sensory/prefrontal distinction

Goodbye ChatGPT wrappers. Hello, ChatGPT!

Did NIH cancel all the NOSIs? I first noticed that NOT-MH-24-100, which had a prior expiration date of May 2027, now shows as expired (as of September 9, 2025). I then realized there are no active NOSIs... . @rosalafersousa.bsky.social

Excited to hear the latest science updates from @czimmerman.bsky.social on Monday, 1-2 pm CST. You can join us too—either on Zoom or in person! bit.ly/3VOJrcy

I know the organizers, and I score them highly on the orthogonal axes of being great scientists and great human beings. They have put together a terrific one day symposium, the day before SfN in San Diego. Register if you're there early!

Join us today at 1 pm CST for a lecture by @mariedoyle.bsky.social Title: Alcohol abstinence precipitates increased alcohol seeking and compulsive intake in association with phenotypic BNST dynamics bit.ly/3VOJrcy

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 :)