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schreinerdrew.bsky.social
learning | neuroethology | basal ganglia | birdsong | decision-making | natural history | Current Postdoc Rich Mooney @Duke | PhD Christina Gremel @UC San Diego
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URGENT: Please share widely with your networks!! Very tight turnaround (12 pm today 6/27) 🧪

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Two unrelated vaccines are hugely effective against dementia. And the reason might be... the adjuvant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good news! After almost a year of development, we're so pleased to share SoundLab: An #openaccess tool for *seeing* & analyzing sounds. Intended as a teaching tool for middle school to college—introduce students to #bioacoustics & the science of sound 🧪🔊🐋🪶🎶🐦‍⬛ www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/dive-in...

Dear Team, In lieu of our Zoom meeting this afternoon, let’s all agree to wander beneath the trees tonight when the moon is high. Let’s sink our fingers into the soil and send messages via fungi and salamander. If that fails, let’s simply live on, having lost nothing at all.

Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @yaleneuro.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this Fall! My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵

1/N How do neural dynamics in motor cortex interact with those in subcortical networks to flexibly control movement? I’m beyond thrilled to share our work on this problem, led by Eric Kirk @eric-kirk.bsky.social with help from Kangjia Cai! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First full day of @rsaofficial.bsky.social 2025 meeting. Great seeing friends/colleagues last night. Starts with a NIAAA update from Dr. Koob. Most notable take-aways: no more NIAAA study sections... 25% reduction in staff.... no news on budget... 1/2

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Lovely work from my colleague @Cell Reports! He shows that mouse vocalizations activate posterior insula, and actvity onset precedes vocal production -even in deaf mice - indicative of a motor signal. Also, neurons that respond to conspecific vocalizations seem to multiplex voc. w/ social context!

Happy belated Father's Day to this handsome house finch (left) who just fledged his second clutch of adorable youngsters (right) #birds

Does the brain learn by gradient descent? It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD). The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!

San Diego #NoKings

thousands all the way up and down the streets of Durham NC! #NoKings #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

🚨New in @cellpress.bsky.social We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 👇🧵

Amazing study: @tamir-eliav.bsky.social from the Ulanovsky lab describes replay events in a large scale environment (200 m tunnel). 🦇 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Dr. Bhattacharya says he will invite signers of the #BethesdaDeclaration to a round table. (At about the 18 minute mark.) Planning to hold him to this public commitment. Will keep youbposted on whether he follows through. x.com/billackman/s...

Extension of K99/R00 submission dates. PDs check-in with your POs and discuss. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Insights into the genetics underlying differences between (closely related) domesticated and wild songbirds (known to produce different songs): Work led by Madza Farias-Virgens, Stephanie White, @kazuookanoya.bsky.social, Emilia Huerta-Sanzhez & collaborators www.nature.com/articles/s42...

When I tell my joke about Prometheus, it really brings the fire 🔥

Lots of changes happening at the NIH. In today's 6-hour podcast on "Improving Science and Restoring Trust in Public Health" we get unique insights from one of our most valuable and trusted sources: Satan. He, yes he, also has some great tips for cultivating your most alluring beard.

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Should be of interest to #bioacoustics and #neuroskyence folks!

Microtubule turnover…

www.nokings.org Find your Saturday protest event

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Nice dispatch on our and the Gadagkar lab's work from Jesse Goldberg and colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

if you are curious about - Computational neuroscience - Neurotechnology - Neuro-inspired AI consider attending our 7-day ISRC CN3 summer school @ulsteruni.bsky.social in the great city of Derry, Northern Ireland, UK from 25th Aug-1st Sep 2025. In-person or online. www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/i...

This morning, courageous NIH workers shared a document they are calling the “Bethesda Declaration” with Dr. Bhattacharya, urging him to reverse some of the actions that are badly misaligned with progress toward the NIH mission. 1/3

A soon-to-be classic: Madhavan et al, Social environment affects vocal individuality in a non-learning species 🔊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

lovely walk in the woods today w/ some common milkweed

Who is Leon Trotsky? Was pretty surprised when I first learned this

Thinking about "brittleness" of scientific insight. Say I study behavior X, how much of my learning transfers to X + delta? To Y? How do you design a neuro experiment, say a foraging assay or the IBL task, so that the constraints baked into it do not make insights fail to generalize?

Excited to share our Science paper on HaloDA1.0-the first genetically encoded far-red dopamine sensor! 🥳It enables powerful multiplex imaging in neurons, brain slices, and live animals.🧠🔬 #GRABsensors #Dopamine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

oh my god thank you!

Thank you @sfn.org for providing some normalcy during these trying times. 😏 #SFN2025

defenitely