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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling. Story by Ben Mueller. Gift link: nyti.ms/435szDm

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Great PhD opportunity at Donders in the Netherlands where we will be involved in supervising the modelling part :-)

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We have a very exciting 4-year PhD position available at the @dondersinst.bsky.social, to better understand how neuronal populations generate magnetic fields and how to measure those intracranially, with Corette Wierenga & @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social. For more info: neuronanotech.eu/phd-projects...

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Here it is finally: Our mathematical methods book for life scientists! Aimed at advanced undergrads and beginning grad students, plus all those who want a deeper look at the math behind quantitative biology. @portugueslab.bsky.social. 1/3

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Pro tip: when explaining the NIH cuts to friends and family, use "research infrastructure" rather than "indirect costs" or, godforbid, "overhead." DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure. It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."

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Science Whale song shows language-like statistical structure www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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What is happening in US politics? Ezra Klein has an insightful 14 min take. Don’t fall for “muzzle velocity.” (Available w/out paywall on podcast platforms) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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JFC In addition to the patients at the clinical center, the NIH is home to many nonhuman animals who play critical roles in medical science. And they need to eat.

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Trying to decide on the best form of uplift to engage in tomorrow? If you (like me) find doing uplifting, consider a bit of much needed Science Advocacy, perhaps something from this list: www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy Bonus: tell me about it and I’ll send you one of these fabulous pins ⬇️

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Lack of context modulation in human single neuron responses in the medial temporal lobe: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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We are still taking applications!

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience The curious case of dopaminergic prediction errors and learning associative information beyond value idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

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"Keep your eyes on the donut, not the hole" RIP David Lynch This interview of his is etched into my brain: Where do ideas come from? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr-...

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Excited to share my first first-author paper out now in PNAS! By comparing retinotopically-defined visual areas in macaques and humans, we found that evolutionary expansion is reflected in the size, not number, of visual areas. #neuroskyence #neuroscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Interested in understanding how things work? In particular the tools you use to study the brain? Join us at TENSS 2025 where we brainstorm ideas, build and debug microscopes, electrophysiology and behavior rigs amidst the picturesque Transylvanian hills! tenss.ro Apply by: February 16th!

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🚨🚨🚨 New Dataset out! Today we release the THINGS Ventral-stream Spiking Dataset (TVSD) to become part of @martinhebart.bsky.social's THINGS initiative! In a @cp-neuron.bsky.social paper out today with Feng Wang, Matthew Self and Pieter Roelfsema, we describe the dataset in detail. More info 👇

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Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior. w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social

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We value things differently depending on the situation. A fascinating paper shows that the hippocampus feeds contextual information to the prefrontal cortex by altering theta wave phase alignment, enabling the PFC to adjust value judgments accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

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Quite impressive that mech interp has gone from “Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex” to “What is the other 85% of V1 doing?” in only a matter of years.

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Space acquires Time. Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab. “The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kom bij ons werken! Wij zoeken een docent/coördinator voor de nieuwe bachelor-opleiding Humane Neurowetenschappen (www.ru.nl/opleidingen/...) die van start zal gaan in 2026. Voor sollicitaties, volg: www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

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My inaugural lecture of last week "Visual Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the fuzzy boundary between seeing and thinking" is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6Q...

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Applications to the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience (AKA the Paris Neuro Course) are now open. Deadline on the 1st of February. The course will run 14-27 May 2025. parisneuro.ovh

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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

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All the films from my favourite film director (joint with David Lynch) free online? Incredible.

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Who is the best professor at managing their lab that you know?

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I made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🤭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ry

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"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

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🎉Ach, calretinin+, and more (-) expression in Rh🐒means we can start to connect functional cell groups like here doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... to “omics” cell types, and selectively manipulate circuits! It’s a big deal for understanding population dynamics. Thanks to authors and funders: Brain Initiative!

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Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity www.nature.com/articles/s44... "we applied rhythmic visual and auditory sensory stimulation at 4 Hz and 7 Hz, aiming to modulate vWM capacity". Look ma, no #tACS! #neuroscience

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