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Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

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If I may say. If I may say. If I may say: the trust that these students and scholars put in the stability of our institutions (and in us/US) is far more important than the "fiscal bottom line". Think about the anxiety they are going through rn, ok? If I may say: people >>> institutions. Thanks!

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Our latest preprint on projection-specific tracing of prefrontal activity: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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🚨Very excited to share a new paper from our lab in Neuron (@cp-neuron.bsky.social) on the influence of the estrous cycle on structural and functional plasticity in the hippocampus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread below 🧠🧪🧵:

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

🧠✨ Symposia submissions are NOW OPEN for Dopamine Meeting 2026! @DopamineSociety 📍Sevilla, Spain 📅 Open: May 1, 2025 ⏳ Deadline: June 16, 2025 Spread the word — don’t miss out! #Dopamine2026 dopaminesociety.org

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There’s plenty to gripe about in academia these days, but one thing I’ll never take for granted: the chance to dive into deep conversations about cognition and neuroscience with brilliant minds every semester. Wouldn’t trade it for anything. :: Final session for our Psych 711 class

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Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience! The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 50 comments

My first author paper is officially out!! Thank you to all of my co-authors for their help & support. So proud of the final product 😄😄

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Thrilled to see this part of my PhD work with @rcbagot.bsky.social now out in @natcomms.nature.com! (1/14) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇 @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social #TinkleMagazine

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How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...

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Homebrew pumps and boards are ready for the next 16 training boxes! Long live open science

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AI can spit out established facts better than you and I. My people (university professors) are not glorified textbooks, regurgitating old and often wrong knowledge (Go/NoGo pathway, I am looking at you). 1/2

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

The new class of multi-million dollar university C-suite never believed in your ideals. It was all performance art. Conformists believed in them, perhaps too much.

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Exciting new results from the lab -- visual receptive fields in motor and cingulate cortex! Great work from Tony Lien 🧠🧪

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This is an excellent piece of science, with a lot of prospective value. Congrats to Emerson and co!

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March 24 issue

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Thrilled to share the latest paper from the lab! Huge congrats to first author Dr. Celine Drieu and the amazing team of Ziyi Zhu, Sarah Elnozahy, Joy Wang, Aaron Wang, and Kylie Fuller! Lots of fun stuff in the paper so check it out - and let us know what you think :)

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If you're a brilliant scientist with a successful research program, admin roles might not seem appealing. But if you don't step up, someone else will — and their objective function might not align with ours. Sometimes, growth means stepping outside your comfort zone. youtube.com/shorts/zSaji...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

My favorite GRC!!! (Ok, to be fair, I ❤️ the basal Ganglia too!)

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Test effects of behavior/events at every trial timepoint in photometry analyses! Paper with Erjia Cui, Dave Lovinger, Francisco Pereira. “A Statistical Framework for Analysis of Trial-Level Temporal Dynamics in Fiber Photometry Experiments.” Python+R packages! elifesciences.org/articles/95802. 1/13

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Folks. What kind of lickometer would you recommend for head-fixed npx recording. We are using capacitive and aren't happy with the noise level. Optical was also not fun with dual port and returns a lot of false negatives... Anything out there you like?

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)

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How much analgesia is needed to manage pain levels in mice after brain surgeries? A single dose of meloxicam seems to be enough. Even the addition of opioids cannot provide a clear benefit. (in line with recent work from others, see cites in our preprint): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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March for Science!

submitted 78 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote an opinion column for the local newspaper in southern NH where I am from. Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration! Please consider doing this in your hometown! #SciAdvocate 🧪👩‍🔬 www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

Novel idea that agents can underweight time spent outside versus inside reward pursuit, still obeying a reward maximization rule (i.e., not suboptimal). Maybe we should rethink what it means to be impulsive? New reviewed preprint in eLife by @hushulab.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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I'm not sure if AI is the solution, but I'm almost pretty sure that paying $51M to a CONsulting firm is not... www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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If you're 'pausing' grad school admissions, does it mean that you are not obligated to return the application fees?

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Universities were closed down for three years... to align them with the revolutionary and political Islam.

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