Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply.
I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.
🪰 In the 1930s, USDA paid scientists to study the sex life of the screwworm fly. Congress called it waste. Result: a $250K investment that eradicated a flesh-eating parasite from an entire continent, saved ranchers billions, and cut beef prices 5%. Still in use today.
Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:
"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II"
It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
A little widget to play around with the various inputs and outputs that go into soft money research lab finances on a 10-year outlook.
sashagusev.github.io/PISim/
Excited to share a new paper from our lab, just in time for Easter, where we characterize how arousal modulates different excitatory cell-types in the auditory cortex! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cortisol is a helluva drug.
"Now there’s a guy who owns a real tool chest. It’s definitely not a shoebox that he stores in his armoire next to the cat food."
Just a reminder to non-scientists that NIH funds are used for studies for prevention & cures to pretty much all the diseases you can think of, including cancer, heart disease, rare diseases, pregnancy-related conditions like pre-eclampsia, diabetes, childhood development disorders, and so more.
Congrats to all who were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), including @alexchesler.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social! www.aaas.org/page/2025-fe...
Picture of Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health
The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape.
What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
A dollar a cherry isn’t so bad in the era of $20+ bar cocktails. (And the leftover syrup is a bonus ice cream topping)
Shame can be good sometimes.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Are mice not a model organism anymore? Have we just given up and admitted that the whole scientific enterprise is really for their benefit?
Hey folks, CSR has undergone a massive reorganization. The macro framework is in place and can be viewed online, and the micro details will come in the next couple of rounds. The new framework will structure your application review starting next (summer) round. Worth a peak for applicants!
New preprint: our lab’s first Alzheimer’s paper! “Loss of neuronal population organization links pathology to behavior in a model of Alzheimer's disease”
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵1/
Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields.
It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Here's a (daily updated) NIH grant listing that doesn't suck:
sashagusev.github.io/nih-grants-f...
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Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Looks like I need to add yet another slide to the reviewer training deck…
Psychophysics in a moving car - gold standard science?
What's My JND? 0.0065
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Seriously people. Don't make me have to blow up your figures on my huge screen to try to read your data when I'm reviewing it. This keeps happening. I'm not superhuman, I don't have super human vision. Be reasonable. Small figures save space in grants but they really piss off reviewers!!!
Funded by NIH + NSF. No private investor funds a 16-week mouse study on OL gene biology.
Federal science builds the foundation industry stands on. Neurological disease costs the U.S. $800B/year. This is what the return on that investment looks like.
#NIH #NSF #TaxpayerInvestment #Neurotech
UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!
As NIH moves to parent NOFOs another resource for finding out what topics are of interest. grants.nih.gov/funding/find...