New paper hot off the (pre-)press! We dig into the evolutionary origins of neural computations for behavioral control across mice, monkeys, and humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
As our lab's first foray into comparative analysis of neural dynamics, Iβm super excited about this work! 1/18
"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know."
We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 ΞΌm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In @eLife: Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108420
Version of record of our ctenophore nerve-net connectome paper.
Excited to share newly minted PhD Anu Korukonda's tour de force thesis work describing the impact of pathogenic tau on #locuscoeruleus function in a mouse model of early #Alzheimers. A must for #BlueSpot researchers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Now in press one of my last PhD projects! We traced the neurobiological profile of fMRI BOLD signal variability, a measure that has been related to age, behaviour, disease status, but had not yet been fully contextualised within the brain's multiscale architecture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
For a full thread, see:
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Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that Iβve graduated π€ This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)!
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
Why do some worms graze on bacteria while others hunt and kill?
Our study, published today in Nature, reveals how predatory aggression evolved in nematodes.
Led by @gunizgozeeren.bsky.social and @leoboeger.bsky.social across the @jameslightfoot.bsky.social and @monikakscholz.bsky.social labs.
Excited to share our new preprint! We explore the link between the locus coeruleus (LC) and arousal for astrocytes, pyramidal cells, interneurons in the hippocampus. A fantastic collaboration with @sianduss.bsky.social @bohaceklab.bsky.social, and many others: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/5
What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A major part of our future health & prosperity lies in medical research. There are billions of available dollars that can be used for vital medical science. Please join the campaign for our government to act urgently to fully disperse these funds: aamri.org.au/mrff/
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Great to see this out, had read it as a preprint and thought it was really cool. Congrats!
Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Exciting announcement!
Our Institute is calling for applications for a EMCR 2-year fellowship .
Come and join a great team @turnerinstitute!
Details here:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...
Very normal. Totally normal. π
My very normal, by the book presentation from this years OHBM is now available. So if you weren't at OHBM, were there but happened to miss it, or if you did see it and just want to relive it all over again, here is your chance :)
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
Excellent read for a clear take on the current state of Australian scientific research funding
We used rabies virus πΎ to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits π§ , revealing network-specific reorganization that we didnβt expect.
The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social
Paper π www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Thread for a synopsis π
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Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: βIf there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?β With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of βadjuvant systemic chemotherapyβ, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patientsβ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)
π₯π₯The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! π₯π₯
We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!
Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.
Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
Rapid neocortical network modifications via dendritic plateau potential induced plasticity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689338v1
π We're hiring !
π΅οΈ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
π§ Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
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π₯π₯Great news!π₯π₯
The registration deadline for the Noosa Brain Workshop is extended to Nov 17.
Register by this date to guarantee accomodation:
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Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...
The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
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always liked mesolimbic DA as an activational construct, a gain control over behavioural output pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16977476/ cool to think of DA & NA complementing as gain control systems eg NA preserving selectivity/accuracy in the face of DA invigorating behav pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6709778/
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
