Amanda M. Buch, Ph.D.

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans Respiration has been shown to impact memory retrieval, yet the neural dynamics underlying this effect remain unclear. Here, we investigated how respiration shapes both behavioral and neural expression...

Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans

Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

Why is a cross-species spinal cord taxonomy important? 🧠📈

Join us on March 11 for an interactive webinar on this collaborative effort.

RSVP for link: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

Quote card featuring UCSF neurosurgeon Doris Wang, MD, PhD. Quote: This establishes a framework for future adaptive DBS systems that could adjust stimulation in response to a patient's activity state.

New in #ScienceAdvances: @doriswang.bsky.social's team shows for the first time that at-home recordings from fully implanted deep brain stimulation devices can be used to decode personalized neural biomarkers associated with gait in patients with #Parkinsons. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/02...
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Single gene sways caregiving circuits, behavior in male mice Brain levels of the agouti gene determine whether African striped mice are doting fathers—or infanticidal ones.

The one gene that makes mice good dads—or infanticidal parents.

By @natmesanash.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/social-behav...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁
Circuits and networks can shift "computations" quite dramatically.
Check this computational model of the role of neuromodulators.
#neuroskyence
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Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Check out our "Implementing Open Neuroscience Teaching Tools" workshop!

Join us on July 19 at North Central College to get hands-on practice with inquiry-based activities using real #OpenScience resources.

🔗 https://bit.ly/46A5j15

🧠📈 #iteachbio

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

Reading & writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds.

Engaging in intellectually stimulating activities throughout life was associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease & slower cognitive decline.

🧪🧠 @medsky.social #medsky #neuroskyence

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is figure 1, which shose psychedelics induce brain desynchronization.

A Review in Nature Medicine outlines the science behind psychedelic medicine and integrates mechanistic knowledge with clinical evidence across neuropsychiatric indications, highlighting challenges, controversies and opportunities. go.nature.com/4amcefC #medsky #Neuroskyence 🧪

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

New paper alert 📣 #Neuroskyence

"Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain" @natcomms.nature.com

together with @ycaoneuro.bsky.social @maryamtohidi.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social @ktsetsos.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure David Anderson’s 2013 paper revealed the sensory neurons involved in pleasurable touch and led Ishmail Abdus-Saboor down a new research path.

“I like to work on problems where there’s still room to make a big impact.” In “This paper changed my life,” @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social discusses how a 2013 paper from David Anderson inspired him to study the circuits of pain and pleasure.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Metadata, data documentation, and provenance Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 7, Part 8

Metadata, data documentation, and provenance
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/metadata-d... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.

For those of you who are interested, I just pushed a draft of the final chapter of Better Code, Better Science: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ - now I just have to go back and rewrite the AI coding chapter which is already outdated just five months after writing it!

📣February issue is live!

Cover: Intergenerational transmission of mental health

Also in this issue:
👁️Development of spatial perception with & without vision
📐➗Math anxiety in children
📋🌏Monitoring of public mental health
🙎🧕Intergroup contact in everyday settings

Read more: go.nature.com/4rSRByT

New paper alert! 🚨

We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales

1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit

This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.

Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP

Two jets, appearing red and violet, being ejected by a central protostar, hidden behind gas. The jets are extending to the left and right parts of the image. Two perpendicular thinner jets can be seen as well, coming from another protostar. Hundreds of stars can be seen in the background of the image, appearing like bright dots with the JWST trademark diffraction spikes.

This is one of my favorite JWST observation ever! 🔭 💙

This is HH288, a star heavier than the Sun being born in front of our eyes! The jets are the result of that process. There is even another star being born near it, as the perpendicular jets are showing.

HD: flic.kr/p/2rUKqvx

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

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

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

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This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.

Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory. n.pr/4kpKWtv

The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

A feature in Nature reports how research shows that ‘exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death. #medsky 🧪

PIEZO channels are opening the study of mechanosensation in unexpected places The force-activated ion channels underlie the senses of touch and proprioception. Now scientists are using them as a tool to explore molecular mechanisms at work in internal organs…

After sketching out how PIEZO channels contribute to touch and proprioception, scientists are now using the channels as a tool to study internal organs, including the heart, bladder, uterus and kidney.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity, not cytoarchitecture, organizes prefrontal function.

A study in Nature Neuroscience maps spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity, not cytoarchitecture, organizes prefrontal function. #Neuroskyence 🧪

The centre part of a spiral galaxy where the middle is extremely bright, where the supermassive black hole is located. The middle is surrounded by rings of gas, appearing in darker coulours (mostly red and orange). Some blue gas part can be seen drifting away from the middle as the galaxy is ejecting waves of gas because of its activity.

It has been a long time since I posted a picture here, so here's one to make it up! 🔭

This is the PGC 50779 galaxy, also known as the Circinus Galaxy, located some 13 million light-years away from us.

HD: flic.kr/p/2rS7tjZ

🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com!

How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims

fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

Wonderful work!

Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings - Nature Reviews Psychology The literature assumes that intergroup contact is naturally occurring, positive and consistently associated with positive outcomes, but these premises are inconsistent with everyday intergroup contact...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

(If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady)
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Perceptual clustering in auditory streaming Author summary Perceiving the world requires humans to organize perceptual stimuli according to the likely sources that generated them, requiring inference about these sources and their relationship w...

As we were celebrating psychophysics the other day, here is a fun example in the multi-source auditory domain. So beautiful. So clean. Bayes all the way. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The connection between viral infection and other apparently unrelated diseases — HPV ➡️ cervical cancer; Epstein-Barr Virus (mono) ➡️ multiple sclerosis (MS); and increasingly looking like herpes zoster (shingles) ➡️ dementia — is probably the most paradigm-shifting medical discovery of my lifetime. 🧪

Brain/MINDS Marmoset Brain Atlas 2.0: Population Cortical Parcellation With Multi-Modal Templates | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.