Moisés dos Santos Corrêa

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later

The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA

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Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday

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Deadline to submit: Friday, February 20, 2026 11:59PM EST

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My buddy Nida wishes you all a great weekend! Life can only get better 😊

Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice dos Santos Correa et al. show that exposure to a stressful context promotes the acquisition of rescue behavior in mice and that the dorsal hippocampus is required for this learning. Calcium imaging re...

Thrilled to share that our first study on the hippocampus’ role in helping behavior in mice is now published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! This work was driven by an amazing team in my lab, and marks an important milestone for more exciting studies to come!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I am also excited to say that I am actively looking for new postdoc positions in the near future and would love to discuss more this paper and future ideas and collaborations. #neurojobs

This paper is the result of the work of many people, Anna Agafonova, Ada Braun, @esmeraldatafani.bsky.social, Charitha Omprakash, and others under the supervision of Dr. @smikulovic.bsky.social . I am very excited for the next steps this group will take over the years.

We also identified a subpopulation of neurons that respond specifically to different intervals of the liberation event. We also investigated which other regions could be future candidates to map out a brain region circuitry of the learning of rescue behavior.

We validated a previously reported rescue task in mice then observed that the dorsal, but not the ventral, hippocampus is necessary for the learning of this task. Using 1p-miniscope, we observed that the hippocampal network becomes more functionally connected each time the mouse successfully rescued

Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice Prosocial behaviors, such as rescuing individuals in need, are crucial for social cohesion across species. While key brain regions involved in rescue …

Exactly 3 years after moving to Germany to start my 1st postdoc, I am excited to share the published article describing the role of the dorsal hippocampus in the learning of prosocial rescue task in mice #neuroskyence #neuroscience #science #hippocampus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great critical review of the life of an individual who was a product of centuries of white, European supremacy. May these times never return and better times start.

Fantastic couple of days in the middle of Hungary, learning about all things neuroscience at the Cosmos2026 conference. Thank you for the invitation @smikulovic.bsky.social and Balazs, and all the amazing scientist who were presenting. It was a pleasure!

I wish I had attended. Do you have a list of all PIs that work with rodent models in Tübingen?

Loved hosting this symposium with @rungurselrun.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @eknapska.bsky.social, @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and Takashi Kitamura for coming all the way to Germany to share their amazing data — and to our own @c0rr34m.bsky.social and Jeimmy Gonzalez for their great contributions!

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🚨 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

Excited to share we’ve been awarded the ERC StG 🎉 for our project ProSocial, studying neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior in health & disease. Huge thanks to my group for their amazing work & to great colleagues for their support! Positions opening soon—reach out if interested!

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

Chile: Pioneering the protection of neurorights Chile is set to become the first country in the world to legislate on neurotechnologies and include “brain rights” in its constitution.

Currently, there are technologies that can directly read the brain, decipher thoughts and feelings, and implant feelings that are not one’s own

In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid.

#neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in hippocampal CA1 The phenomenon of representational drift (i.e., changing neuronal tuning during repeated exposure to the same stimuli), is a fundamental paradox in neuroscience that raises the question how stable beh...

Check our new manuscript on ‚Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in the hippocampal CA1’
by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

it was uplifiting and inspiring! I feel ecstatic with the future, full of possibilities.

🧠📈 I had the privilege to attend #IBNSConnect conference in Tromsoe last week and it was fantastic. I presented data with the rescue behavior task and the role dorsal hippocampus play in the learning of this behavior. My former PhD supervisor presented my PhD data. I watched the sun *not* set.

we should be better at writing papers, clearly be better at maths (I’m looking at you neuro community). We should engage locally and globally.

When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?

I think what irks me a bit is that PhD’s are expected to do SO many things these days.

We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…

This here

Now compare that to what works:

Mental health embedded into leadership development

Clear budget and ownership

Real cultural permission to talk about it

Metrics tracked over time

That’s where ROI lives.

Too many executives still treat mental health as an HR issue.
It’s not.
It’s a leadership issue.
It’s a business issue.
And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈
Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Rategory learning: antidromic systems consolidation. Not really, but it’s pithy. 🧠📈