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Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

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Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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My undergraduate thesis is now available online: rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources...

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Registration is open for a few more weeks but if you’re a trainee and want to be considered for one of the four talking slots please register before this weekend. We are selecting speakers on Monday. www.eventbrite.ca/e/neural-cir...

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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

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After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results! We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in the visual cortex of a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy. nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html

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But somehow NIH must be cut to $20 billion

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Okay, #aurora watchers, all of Canada is in the red zone predicted for tonight. Northern US in the west and midwest also has a shot:

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Our first paper on altered states of consciousness induced by #breathwork is officially out now! It addresses four big questions: (1) Can simple breathing alter your consciousness? Most definitely! And in very similar ways to psychedelics! (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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🧪 The Sjöström Lab in Montreal is looking for a postdoc! We study cortical circuits, synaptic plasticity, and NMDAR signalling using custom 2-photon microscopy and optogenetics. We seek candidates with strong patch-clamp and/or 2-photon imaging expertise, and a relevant publication track record.

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This thread asks the question on everyone’s mind: What’s the deal with chitons? First, some of them are really lovely. (1/11) Pics: © Wendy Feltham © anjadocke © Anne Hoggett © Matt Tank CC BY-NC #addOcean

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Eugene Library book sale today

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Awhile back we started a Slack group for psychedelic science. Researchers used it to organize meetups and panels at conferences. We discuss papers, including a lively discussion now of the Lu et al. preprint. DM @mikaelpalner.bsky.social or I if you work in academia and want to join

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How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

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I'm building a Starter Pack for Neurodivergent Biologists! Please recommend others to add (or yourself). Also please only recommend people that you know are public about being neurodivergent, don't accidentally out someone! ❤️ go.bsky.app/UJrQ2EU

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Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Talk recordings from our COSYNE Workshop on Neuro-foundation Models 🌐🧠 are now up on the workshop website! neurofm-workshop.github.io

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Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪 Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov 📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/12

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Big news- new Center for Advanced Studies @univie.ac.at, first call for fellowships in May. #UniVienna #Vienna #UniWien #academia medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/rec...

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11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...

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Don't forget to come to my #Cosyne2025 workshop talk on Tuesday at 11:30 am in the session "Collectively emerged timescales"

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Wouldn't it be cool to be able to stimulate deep w/in the brain w/o the need for brain surgery, and without actually making a physical lesion in the brain (i.e. FUS or pallidotomy)? This paper provides 'proof of concept' that a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) approach may be achievable.

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Line attractors for the win! Attack behavior by D. Anderson at #cosyne2025

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Serotonergic and noradrenergic interactions in pupil-linked arousal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.644382v1

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Hi from Montreal...

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How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

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Super excited about our 2-day @cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshop on learning that pays tribute to the diversity of timescales, teaching signals and circuits that work together to shape adaptive behaviors, and where we hope to bridge insights from behavior, dynamics, and learning rules! #cosyne2025

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Now seems like a great time to share a starter pack I made when I joined BlueSky! Let me know if you'd like to be added: go.bsky.app/6aMSMpy

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You’re welcome…

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Come see my Cosyne 2025 Workshop talk, "Compositionality of latent dynamics over multiple timescales underlies whole-brain neural activity during spontaneous behavior"

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Check out my preprint on hippocampal ripple diversity, with @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret at the MRC BNDU, where we reveal that distinct CA1 laminar profiles of ripples are associated with different reactivation dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I’ve already had two offers to move my lab out of the country. This is real. Not hyperbole. The risk for an American brain drain is real.

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Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

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Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...

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U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months. Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move. #Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪 record.umich.edu/articles/uni...

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Historians - I have a question. We are bombarded with examples of societies failing to prevent authoritarian takeovers. But are there examples of societies that succeeded that might be instructive right now?

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#neuroskyence 🧪

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UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

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“They love hearing from early career scientists because that’s who they want to help be the next generation of scientists to make the world a better place” Diane Lipscombe, PhD, Past SfN President and current Chair of Government and Public Affairs Committee #SfNHillDay #NeuroSky

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There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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