Congratulations to UC Santa Barbara's David Gross, who just won the 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics—from the strong force to string theory.

Full story: https://ow.ly/ZzyO50YMjzv

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Postdoctoral Researcher-- Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome (2 Positions) University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Please share widely! We are hiring *two* postdocs (one ASAP, one Oct '26) using models and data to identify pathways involving the gut-brain axis that link the infant microbiome with neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st review date: April 24!

recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03089

NSF GRFP results are out!
Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

(Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.)

#NSF #GRFP

The Lippi lab is hiring a postdoctoral associate! We built new technologies to study post-transcriptional regulation in the healthy and diseased brain. We are recruiting motivated and talented scientists who will use these tools to discover new biology and new therapies.

Thanks again for visiting @kei-m-igarashi.bsky.social!

Kei in a seminar room

Excellent talk from Kei Igarashi in the @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social PBS Neuroscience and Behavior seminar series today. Covered olfactiory circuits, associative learning, and Alzheimer's disease. Awesome data! @ucirvine.bsky.social

My main postdoc work is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...! We (myself, Isabel Low, Frances Cho, and @lgiocomo.bsky.social) discovered task-relevant remote representations in entorhinal cortex independent of CA1. #paperthread below! 1/13

As a survivor (barely) of conversion therapy....I feel like crawling under my desk and crying. All the more reason to support organizations for homeless LGBTQIA+ youth, the Trevor Project, etc., with your $$$ and time and whatever you can give.

Hey everyone! 
Do you remember this post from your fav blogger? labrigger.com/blog/2025/11...


Not super easy to use - I know. Well, spring break has sprung here at ucsb and we decided to bring that activation energy down a notch.
 I guess welcome to my first bsky thread? letsgo (1/5)

Ecological visual processing in the mouse | Bionic Vision Lab We review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception.

New @annualreviews.bsky.social #neuroscience article 👁️🧠:
bionicvisionlab.org/publications...

w/ @crisniell.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social

Grateful to be part of this collaboration & learn from such a sharp group while rethinking vision in natural settings!

Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Excited to be at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems for @cpalconf.bsky.social in Tübingen, Germany! A beautiful setting for a great 3 days ahead!

Huge field-of-view, fast, high res. two-photon imaging. This technology (paper link below) is available now, in the Ventana products.

Sold as complete turnkey systems, or components. pacificoptica.com/ventana/
Installations are happening now at some of the best labs in the world.

mice use their eyes.

Come join us at @ucsbengineering.bsky.social !

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference:

Things in US science are far, far worse than people know.

Far worse than even other scientists know.

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Noticeably a lot more dynamical systems stuff at COSYNE this year 👍 love to see it 😎

Its my first Cosyne but the posters have been incredibly cool.

Frontiers | Learned adaptive properties for mitigation of weight perturbations in embedded spiking networks Recent years have seen an increased importance of neural network inference in edge-based scenarios, which impose size and power constraints requiring novel c...

Full open access paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

New paper is out! Analog neural networks have the potential for highly efficient computation at the edge, but show decreasing accuracy with sources of noise. We show that biologically motivated “context” enables recurrent neural networks to adaptively change their dynamics to mitigate these effects.

@rdgao.bsky.social told me he's just glad I'm finally doing something cool.

Right!? Wishful thinking or jet lag?

[1-213] Control of electrically evoked neural activity in human visual cortex using deep learning. Thursday, March 12, 20:30 - 23:30

[1-132] Predictive models trained on natural behavior recover cell- and state-dependent tuning in mouse V1. Thursday, March 12, 20:30 - 23:30

En route to #Cosyne2026! 🧠🧪🇵🇹

@bionicvisionlab.org is represented with 2 projects:
- control of electrically evoked activity in human V1
- predictive model of mouse V1 recovers cell- and state-dependent tuning

Check out our posters on Thursday!

#CompNeuroSky #NeuroSkyence

Looking forward to the poster session tonight at #cosyne2026!

Poster [1-132] – Session 1 (Thu, Mar 12, 20:30)
We trained a predictive digital twin of mouse V1 on freely moving visual experience and use it for in-silico physiology to test how active behavioral states reshape visual tuning.

For this year's Neuromatch Computation Neuroscience course, the Curriculum Team is adding a new Day 🥁🥁🥁

Time series analysis and signal processing!

We're looking for 5-10 content contributors with relevant neuro+DSP experience for various tasks: co-Day Lead, video, slides, code tutorials, etc.

Super excited about this work and to have gotten a chance to work with @andyalexander.bsky.social @fatihdinc.bsky.social @xiaoxiao-lin.bsky.social and May Chan on predictive pursuit in RNNs and mice!

#cosyne2026

Here we explore mouse and RNN representations, dynamics, and behavior during target chasing. If you aren't at Cosyne keep your eyes peeled for a preprint coming soon. I'm at the meeting if anyone wants to chat!