Example forelimb reaching movements of a mouse, and simultaneous recording of the membrane potential in the primary motor cortex.

▶️ In our new @plosbiology.org study with James Poulet, we show somatosensory contributions to M1 Vm in a forelimb reaching task.

▶️ Surgical removal of somatosensation impacted movement encoding, Vm regulation and its transition to active state, and more!

▶️ Learn more: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:

Nature-inspired neuroscience

We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨

tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.

We're proud to be a launch partner for OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind, a new model designed to support life sciences research.

This collaboration is part of our broader effort to explore how AI can accelerate scientific discovery.

🔗 https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/

Request for Proposals: DIBS Dream Teams | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences We are looking for visionary collectives of scholars who aspire to integrate ideas across disciplines to foster a new, energetic community in a field of brain studies. Co

Duke colleagues: is there a new development in your field of brain studies that captivates you, but you feel alone in your excitement? Do you want to grow a community at Duke to explore it?

DIBS wants to help you! Announcing the new, 3-yr DIBS Dream Team awards:
dibs.duke.edu/request-prop...

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/

This is a great opportunity for grad students and postdocs to get hands-on experience with modern neural data analysis tools in Python

Olea europaea: 'Arbequina' (Olive)

Extremely cool.
We haven’t known very much about how localized neuromodulator signaling is.
This data — made possible by new molecular sensor tools — is revealing that it’s quite local, just a few cell-widths in extent.
#neuroscience 🧪

Come join us at University of Michigan!

The School of Dentistry is inviting applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (dual PhD and clinical dental degree required).
Any area of biomedical research welcome!

Please share widely!
apply.interfolio.com/183598

Cosyne 2026 - Cosyne Tutorial: Comparative Analysis of Neural Population Codes YouTube video by Cosyne Talks

Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc.

The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...

Vision guides directed orienting movements during obstacle avoidance in mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Xiaoqin Wang will be kicking off Session 6: Sensory Processing and Perception, with an enthralling comparative analysis between humans and a highly social non-human primate species, the common marmoset.

See you all at #COSYNE2026 at 8:45!

Come by and discuss our contribution on whichever timescale you like, within reason. : )

Tomorrow, Friday 3/13 afternoon at poster session #2, at #cosyne 2026 in Lisbon.

See you there!

I do want to make sure we're being clear about this:

The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

A neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway for reformatting aversive memories during recall Tan et al. identify a neuromodulatory circuit-to-molecular pathway in rats that updates aversive memories when they are recalled. Noradrenaline from the locus coeruleus triggers synapse-to-nuclear tra...

Excited to share our new paper:
We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory.
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Wow recruiting up to 16 people! Take a look if you're on the job market. I was here last fall and was really impressed by the people and environment, and all the new buildings.

Going to #COSYNE2026? Don't miss our tutorial on our open neural dynamics data resources.

🗓️ March 12, 9:15-10:15am
🧑‍🏫 Presented by @sejdevries.bsky.social
🔗 More info: https://www.cosyne.org/tutorials

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social

learningfromscratch march 16th, workshop day 1 @ cosyne 2026

Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k

Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

#hiring
Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness!

18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France.

⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁
Circuits and networks can shift "computations" quite dramatically.
Check this computational model of the role of neuromodulators.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1162/Neco...

Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576 The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

Link in quoted post and here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New to using Jupyter notebooks for the Allen Brain Cell Atlas?

Join us on Feb. 11 for a beginner-friendly webinar focusing on installation, set-up, and common questions.

Register for the meeting link and recording: alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0sJ...

Vigilance state dissociation induced by 5-MeO-DMT in mice - Communications Biology Administration of 5-MeO-DMT produces a dissociated brain state in mice, characterized by global slow-wave activity alongside behavioral wakefulness and marked pupil dilation.

Our paper with @vyazovskiy.bsky.social showcasing research conducted at @ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social is out!

We describe the effects of the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT on brain states and sleep via EEG, LFP & freely moving oculometry.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#EEG #neuroskyence

Wishing you a restful weekend - from Sleepy Neuron 🧠 💤 😴

#neuroscience