Inna Slutsky

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4
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New lab preprint! Can we study conscious perception of gut sensations in mice to reveal its neuronal basis? Can we train mice to report their gut sensations? Omer Rafael and Stav Shtiglitz in the lab teamed up to discover that…YES! Thread…1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Portrait of Dr Carla Shatz, a pioneer who mapped how the brain builds itself. A member of @nationalacademies.org, her work on neural circuits reveals how we become who we are.

More: explorers.com/carla-shatz/

#sciArt #NationalAcademies #Science #Neuroscience @nam.edu @nasonline.org

Warmest congratulations, Soyon!

Please check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.

Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Joshua Sanes, PhD, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, emeritus, and founding director of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science (CBS), has been awarded the […]

Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org

Congratulations to Josh Sanes, one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s contributing editors, on being awarded the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, SFN’s top prize, for his seminal contributions to our understanding of neural development.

Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.

Many of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs.

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#neuroskyence

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island.

doi.org/10.1126/sci...

With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

Muscle-derived miR-126 regulates TDP-43 axonal local synthesis and NMJ integrity in ALS models - Nature Neuroscience Ionescu, Ankol et al. show that, in ALS mouse and iPSC models, TDP-43 aggregation at NMJs stems from aberrant axonal translation, normally repressed by muscle EV-derived miR126. Loss of miR126 in ALS increases TDP-43 buildup, impairs local synthesis and triggers degeneration.

Intriguing new insights on axonal TDP-43 in ALS from @labperlson.bsky.social and colleagues

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warmest congratulations, Anita!

Beautiful work, warmest congratulations!

Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...

We are excited to share the Venkatesh Lab’s first publication in collaboration with @michellemonje.bsky.social team uncovering how neuronal activity influences the progression of small cell lung cancer #SCLC in the lung and brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakening The locus coeruleus has a specialized pathway to the brainstem that controls sound-evoked awakening from sleep.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6)

Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances

We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

BonnBrain 2026 is a go!
March 23–25, Bonn (DZNE, Bonn, Germany).
Apply now: www.bonnbrain.de
Limited slots. Presentations (posters/talks) selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynotes & invited speakers 👇

(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cult—the Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

This had me laughing to tears. The person sitting next to me on the flight must have thought I was nuts.

A must read for the FEP curious.

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Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level...

Exciting finding: Endogenous lithium is essential for brain health and its deficiency contributes to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease, by activating GSK3β—leading to impaired Aβ clearance and synapse loss
🧠 Led by Dr. Bruce Yankner @harvardmed.bsky.social
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Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology MCB researchers show GABA-based sedation in newborns speeds up brain development, confirming decades of animal research in a human cohort. A new longitudinal study led by MCB’s Takao […]

Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Increased excitatory synapse size in hippocampal place cells compared to silent cells | PNAS Neuronal activity in the hippocampus creates a cognitive map of space that is essential for navigation. In any given environment, a fraction of hip...

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Congratulations, Joris and the team! Very interesting and important work!

Postdoc opportunity in the heart of Europe! Check out the flyer below.
Join our team on an international project with Anthony Holtmaat exploring synaptic plasticity and specificity in cortical and thalamocortical circuits.

Repeat-element RNAs integrate a neuronal growth circuit SINEs of recovery: A subset of small RNAs encoded by repetitive genomic elements are induced by nerve lesion to regulate protein synthesis and enhance axonal growth.

Online now at @cp-cell.bsky.social , the culmination of a 12-year effort. 🧵 to follow later this evening

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Promotional graphic for a Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation event titled 'Neuromodulatory Adaptation and Plasticity in Changing Environments’ on Wednesday, May 14, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EDT. Features images of speakers Laura Duvall, PhD from Columbia University, Eve Marder, PhD from Brandeis University, and Jan-Erik Siemens, PhD from Heidelberg University.

Claim your spot now for the next webinar in partnership with @kavlifoundation.bsky.social!

Join the conversation as experts discuss mechanisms of neural adaptation in changing environments and recent advances in the field.

Register now: bit.ly/4k7h3MX

#NeuroSky

🧠 Registration is open for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Conference on Brain–Body Interactions!
📍 Bordeaux, Oct 1–3, 2025
🗓️ Submit abstracts by July 1
🔗 brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/en/

@mariocarta.bsky.social, @francoisgeorges.bsky.social, @cglangetas.bsky.social, E. Montalban @agnesnadjar.bsky.social.

We're bringing together leading researchers from top institutions worldwide to Split, Croatia this summer. If you're passionate about brain-inspired AI, computational neuroscience, or fundamental mathematical principles driving intelligence, this conference is the place to be!

Hiring! Postdoc position in Human Metabolism!
Join us to explore the metabolic underpinnings of human brain & behavior; focusing on anxiety & motivation
Outstanding interdisciplinary environment @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland
Info here: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

If intracellular hippocampal electrophysiology counts as well😉, would be happy to join

Warmest congratulations, Michelle! @michellemonje.bsky.social

Congratulations to these two outstanding physician-neuroscientists! Many people now are familiar with the fascinating fundamental research of @michellemonje.bsky.social but most people probably don't know she is a truly great physician. I'm fortunate to be inspired by her every day, in every way.