student interested in neuroscience
Student interested in/reposting systems and computational neuroscience papers
Interested in vision, navigation, neural circuit flexibility, neuromodulation, and dynamic coding
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- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceNeuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that, @austinacoley.bsky.social explains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscience🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceEvolutionary expansion of the corticospinal system is linked to dexterity in Peromyscus mice biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceExcited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Summary below...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscience“offers interpretable alternatives to deep-learning-based foundation models” Exploiting correlations across trials and behavioral sessions to improve neural decoding: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceHappy to share this Spotlight article, drawing attention to recent work by @borgkvistlab.bsky.social on the mechanisms of dopamine action in the SNr. Read our summary and then read their paper! Many cool implications! @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceThe brain is more than spiking neurons. Astrocytes, a large fraction of cells, propagate electrical influences without spiking. And cortical neurons spike only intermittently. Electrical signals are continuous and across all cells. #neuroscience www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceNeuroscience is evolving fast. At our January Presents event, three @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars — Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Marissa Scavuzzo, and Jie Zheng — reflected on how scientists are exploring the field and training the next generation. #neuroscience #science Credit: Sean Jamar
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceExcited to share the latest work from the lab—a true tour de force led by @nbaumgar.bsky.social. TLDR: We report a novel endogenous mechanism whereby cycling ovarian hormones alter threat memory expression through state-dependent recruitment of the lateral septum to the memory ensemble. 🧵⬇️
- The lateral septum orchestrates state-dependent modulation of associative threat memory dynamics across the ovarian hormone cycle biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWorking with rats, & not happy w MRI based brain atlases from adult males? We've got you! High resolution (2photon), 3D atlases (female rats) are now available in @brainglobe.info. Plz start using these atlases & let us know your feedback for the official release! brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem... 🐭🧠
- New blogpost outlining our work with @athenaakrami.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social to build light-microscopy based atlases of the rat brain. brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWe're partnering with @anthropic.com on the development of artificial intelligence tools for massive data analysis and exploration. This collaboration will explore how AI systems could expedite analysis and day-to-day scientific workflows. 🔗 bit.ly/4rsghh9
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWhile humans spontaneously dance to a beat, the evolutionary origins of this ability remain debated. Behavioral work has shown that primates can move to auditory rhythms after training. Our question was: How does this association emerge in the brain? www.biorxiv.org/content/10....
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceICYMI 2: Artificially ⬆️basal ganglia activity made birds learn to sing faster! Why? Interestingly, ⬆️activity also caused ⬆️variability. Moreover, the magnitude of ⬆️variability correlated with accelerated rates of learning, suggesting enhanced exploration facilitated learning!
- Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain? In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWe think cortex might function like a JEPA. It looks like prediction errors in layer 2/3 are not computed against input (as is the idea in predictive processing), but against a representation in latent space (i.e. like in a JEPA arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 or RPL doi.org/10.1101/2025...).
- 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.
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceOur 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.
- Reposted by student interested in neurosciencewww.neuroai.science/p/claude-cod... Why yes this is very helpful for me as an undergrad. I like the way the methods that Patrick laid, how to aid research using AI and its pros vs cons
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceHow does metabolic learning shape human behaviour? In our recent study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we found that it shapes flavour preferences but, surprisingly, not action. Thread 🧵
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceI’m thrilled to share our latest preprint from the lab, now available on BioRxiv! We investigated how early life adversity (ELA) shapes the adult brain, and the results are a stark reminder that sex isn't just a variable but leads to fundamentally different stress-induced mechanistic consequences
- Reposted by student interested in neurosciencewww.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful work from Stephen Liberles’ lab on neural mechanisms of sensing blood volume.
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceLove this. “Spontaneous” has always really meant “we don’t know why X is happening”, a perspective tied to the dominance of structured task paradigms for studying cognition, behavior, and brain activity.
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceCompletely agree! E.g: In this preprint, I co-expressed axon-GCaMP and inhibitory DREADD (H4) and showed that local CNO infusion attenuates terminal Ca2+ during singing. In my case, I wanted to validate the DREADD, but this can also be used the other way around (1/3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by student interested in neurosciencelook, we have a choice: artificial intelligence that consumes vast amounts of electricity or human intelligence that runs on widely available grilled cheese. there are already windmills producing so much grilled cheese that people are selling the excess back to utility companies.
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- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceThe 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... 🧵(1/6)
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWhat does it mean that facial expressions activate many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary movements—and how might that impact studies using “reflexive” facial expressions to measure pain? Read more from @natmesanash.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social bit.ly/4pMlqQd #PRF
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceStudying aspects of the brain’s emotion system that enable organisms to infer indirect threats and understand changing context can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis, writes @jojolab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscience*Multi-region computations in the brain* When two regions are better than one... doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence
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- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceIMO: NeuroAI approaches + models with rich stimuli/behavior, interactive environments, and ethnologically relevant tasks. But I'm curious to hear thoughts folks have about this... I'm sure there's a variety of interesting ones
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWhat happens when a neuroscientist realizes trauma rewired their own brain? ❤️🩹 I’ll be sharing that very personal story - the intersection of my research, insights it's brought me & the healing journey I've embarked on - LIVE & LIVESTREAMING on 1/26! Tickets 👇 www.storycollider.org/tickets/2026...
- On Jan 26, Do Not Miss UNSPOKEN, an @storycollider.bsky.social event @caveatnyc.bsky.social! JOIN Diana Li & @paulacroxson.bsky.social when they host @denisejcai.bsky.social & 4 other story tellers for an unforgettable evening of deeply personal stories.🎟️🎟️ 👉 www.storycollider.org/tickets/2026...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceThis one from @kepecslab.bsky.social and Song Hu lab is awesome: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceI’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward. Full text here: rdcu.be/eY5nh
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWas a honor to give this SfN Special Lecture & share 10 yrs of work from the lab on its 10th anniversary! Thankful to the incredible lab members, collaborators & participant volunteers who made this work possible. Link to video recording here👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceyes, my life was changed by a science paper about ants walking on stilts.
- A 2006 Science paper revealed how ants pull off extraordinary feats of navigation. In the latest “This paper changed my life,” @tuthill.bsky.social discusses how this paper inspired him to consider how other insects sense their own bodies. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
- Reposted by student interested in neurosciencethe convergence (both evolutionarily and socio-scientifically) of the head direction encoding systems in the zebrafish habenula and fly central complex is one of my favorite corners of neuroscience to watch right now 🍿
- My paper on the head direction neurons in the larval zebrafish is now published on Nature! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceI am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceFor decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by student interested in neurosciencethis is an absolutely fantastic review at the interface of emerging biological principles, neuronal/network computation, and statistical physics (among other disciplines). huge congrats to @rgast.bsky.social and co-authors for this great cross-disciplinary synthesis for the field
- At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscience🚨 New preprint! Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 (1/10) 🧠🟦 🧠💻
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceDelighted to share our first preprint of the year! A project that we're all really proud of in the lab led by @ossamaghenissa.bsky.social with @mathiasgua.bsky.social in which we set out to test the role of basolateral amygdala astrocytes in anxiety behaviour. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceFacial expressions may involve an “everything, everywhere, all at once” type of coding in the brain, a new study suggests. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion-proc...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceCan humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWith 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.
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️ The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA): 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828 💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast... I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉
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- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceWhich parcellation to use? The authors here propose to build theories on gradient-based, connectivity-based and population-level explanations instead of focusing solely on areas. True👏, but also cytoarchitectonic areas vary considerably between individuals, which limits how much we can rely on them.
- New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceThrilled 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...
- Reposted by student interested in neuroscienceRecent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
