Canadian little leaguers (with no filter) in an Arizona restaurant celebrating the Venezuela win over the USA in the world baseball classic. Locals are baffled.

Cortical regulation of collective social dynamics during environmental challenge - Nature Neuroscience Raam, Li, Gu and colleagues identify neural mechanisms underlying group huddling in mice during cold exposure. They find that the prefrontal cortex encodes decisions to huddle and that silencing neura...

Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today!

We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ :

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The journal requires certain stats details but clearly dont check to see if you actually provide them. Given how profitable these journals are I think a stats editor should be on their payroll. Though the sexiness of their articles would surely decline.

Current standards for statistical rigor are a joke.

In this high IF pub, purple and black are claimed to be different at 9 and 1 but...what does P=0.0468 even refer to? And is a posthoc result of p=0.07 good enough?

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later

The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA

about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

The dentate gyrus grows throughout life despite turnover of developmentally-born neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m at the finish line and now I have to draw pictures.

When people ask me what’s the best part of my job I tell them it’s making graphical abstracts.

I’ve had this as a bullet point for my 3rd year neuro course for like a decade. They should have just asked me.

A couple months ago I tried bubble gum from a pack of 1987 Topps baseball cards. It was terrible.

So true. They can give you a good lead sometimes but never trust their output.

@franklandlab.bsky.social yo what’s the dentus gurus?

I got a book from the library (for the first time in about 25 years.

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Got manuscript reviews back in 5 weeks!!! From 3 reviewers and over the holidays no less. So fast that upon seeing the email in my inbox I assumed it was rejected outright. But only minor revisions. I’m flabbergasted. Good things can happen.

Haha, currently in Agra. Couple more days to wrap up our 2w in India.

@amarsahay.bsky.social

A hippocampal slice showing adult-born neurons expressing RFP and the lateral perforant path expressing Tau and GFP.

Our latest: A mouse model of early sporadic tau pathology induces neurogenic plasticity in the hippocampus

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

i just reviewed a grant where a lot of the references were completely off. I dont think it was AI but more that people dont always read the papers they cite.

As a behavioral neuroscientist one of my most proud accomplishments is seeing my teenage son wash the dishes, unprompted.

100%. It was acronyms that drove me away from synaptic biology too (ras, src, shc…). I perked up when I saw “cognitive resilience“ though.

OMG WTF PSMN the acronyms here are outta control

Yeah but when we moved a few years ago I found it stressful too. I mean, in the long run it was worth it, but I’m not a giraffe.

UBC (at least part of it)

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Ok, cool. But, animals.

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
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