Join us at TENSS 2026 to open black boxes, explain how things/brains work and debate the impact (or lack or it) of various new technologies on understanding of the brain and on society. tenss.ro Apply by: March 15th!
Excited to introduce ScaRCaMP — a highly blue-light resistant red GECI. 🔴
Now live on bioRxiv and marking my first PhD preprint (2nd for the Marko lab).
Would love feedback from the community!!
Attention-related modulation in the superior colliculus encodes perceptual sensitivity, but not perceptual choice @natcomms.nature.com
Differences between species should be treated as informative constraints that refine theory, not as inconsistencies to be explained away, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Trainees: check out the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Research Seminar that is taking place this summer in New Hampshire. The theme is "Cells, Circuits, and Computation".
www.grc.org/neurobiology...
Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy?
What does the term 'representation' mean to you?
We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields.
eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM
Big if true. Anyone know if human learning curves are also (mostly) trial count independent?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity, writes @lmprida.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/defining-cel...
Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2026 is one of a kind school where students delve into state of the art research on collective behavior.
Apply here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de
Baseline activity of V1 interneurons connects pupil-linked arousal to engaged behavioral state https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.05.704022v1
Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703800v1
Presynaptic control of top-down signaling in neocortical layer 1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703032v1
Notice of Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period by NIH: Investigators whose ESI end date was in Sept, Oct, or Nov 2025 will have ESI status extended through March 31, 2026
But what about if the end date was Dec 25 or Jan 26?
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Our work with @georgkeller.bsky.social on testing predictive processing (PP) models in cortex is out on biorvix now! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short thread on our findings and thoughts on where we should move on from PP below.
Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful #behavior @Nature.com
"NIH will provide a warning when the Common Forms are not used but will not withdraw applications that don’t comply with the use of the Common Forms. We expect the leniency to be in place through May 2026"
grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...
If you are a PhD student or post-doc who wants to learn everything about #electrophysiology or #imaging, consider registering to the Paris Spring school in optical imaging and electrophysiology, that will take place in the center of Paris 11-23 May 2026. Application deadline Feb 2nd
parisneuro.ovh
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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He is just like a big dog
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings. Behaviors arise from interactions, not central control.”
Essay by Luis @pessoabrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience #ComplexityScience #CognitiveScience
Purple white and yellow flowers
Riverside super bloom with desert wishbone, fiddlenecks and popcorn flowers #NativePlants
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Bridging Programme (7-week maths summer school) will open on 19 Jan and close on 16 Feb. Designed for students who wish to pursue a postgrad research degree in theoretical neuroscience or foundational machine learning but whose degree programme lacks a strong maths focus. Applications from students in underrepresented groups in STEM strongly encouraged. A small number of bursaries available. Register for the information webinar on 23 Jan.
📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field.
Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
It is also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb. This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring, and little finger.
That said, this part at the end of the chapter is pretty impressive. Moby-Dick was published in 1851; the Origin of Species in 1859. Melville probably didn't have much knowledge of the "correspondences" that anatomists were trying so hard to understand, but he's absolutely correct here. 🐋
Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research, writes Michael Halassa.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychiatry/c...
New preprint: visual attention may follow decisions more than it shapes them.
We identify behavioral signatures inconsistent with models in which attention affects value, instead pointing to a substantial post-decisional component.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Come join us. Western University invites applications from outstanding early career investigators for a full-time probationary faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of neural circuits in NHPs. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
YA sci-fi and fantasy writers, a children's fiction competition with a 10,000 GBP prize & publishing contract - deadline June 2026.
For a "completed full-length novel for readers aged 7-18" written in English.
#writingcommunity #SFF #YA #YoungAdult
www.chickenhousebooks.com/submissions/
