Yup this is painful. Solidarity from someone who just submitted their first in the fall and got a B.

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years.

Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*.

Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥

Deadline May 3, please help by sharing:
aspp.school

So cool... 😞

How children remember time changes dramatically as they grow up & understanding that shift matters more than you might think.

Two new papers from the lab's newest PhD, Dr. Owen Friend, explore what that difference looks like & what it tells us about the developing brain 🧠

TDLM-Resting-State Simulation How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results.

we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...

The nontraditional model organism renaissance Each month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci...

Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social's new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges.

#neuroskyence

www.linkedin.com/pulse/nontra...

Reactivation during sleep segregates the neural representations of episodic memories www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence

By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics

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

1/N: Dear colleagues, I would like to share a new paper on the subiculum, part of my PhD with the Neural Computation Group @andrejbicanski.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social . We present “A theory of subicular function and generalized vector coding” that we call Disco. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very psyched about this work!

Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

That's awesome!! Congrats and very well deserved :)

Repeated Viewing of a Film Clip Changes Event Timescales in The Brain Many everyday experiences share a recurring structure: routines, familiar routes, rewatched films, and replayed songs. How do repeated encounters with such structure alter the brain’s representations ...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.

Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

#hotspot

Thank you #BonnBrain26 for selecting me to present my work. I had a blast and it is so much fun being back home!

And thank you to all the people who voted my talk (second) best! I will dedicate todays speaker dinner to you.

Today, come around for a chat at my poster A13.

#BonnBrain

Wow, impressive output and very interesting stuff! Several of these on my to read list

Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

More new results, this time from the amazing Lily Kramer! 🎉
“Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex” doi.org/10.64898/202...
Visual experience unfolds in time. We asked how temporal structure reshapes population activity in visual cortex.
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Really cool modelling paper: ultraslow MEC oscillations drift grid fields, messing up path integration but generating new spatial memories in the process. A feature, not a bug? https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.711323

#BonnBrain26
Opening now with the Young Investigator Symposium!

13:05
Martin Pofahl (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway)

13:20
Samuel Eckmann (University of Cambridge, UK)

13:35
Nicole Hoffmann (University of Bonn, Germany)

13:50
Carlo Castoldi (Université Cote d'Azur, France)

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...

Narrative “twist” shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Cool work from @csavasegal.bsky.social @esfinn.bsky.social & Clare Grall!

#neuroskyence

New in PLOS Biology: Manoj Thapa, Anuradha Kumari, et al. provide evidence in mice that gut bacteria can reach the brain via the vagus nerve.

Not via the bloodstream or widespread systemic spread.

Instead: a possible gut → vagus → brain pathway, especially under high-fat diet conditions.

🧵 1/5

Seal and sea lion brains have evolved to support volitional control of vocal behavior and learning Seals and sea lions have highly developed volitional breathing control, to which the phocid seals add vocal production learning, including mimicry. In this work, using histology and ex vivo diffusion ...

Vocal production learning is a key ability enabling spoken language, but is not itself unique to humans, having been documented in (e.g.) some bird, bat, & seal species. A new study of pinnipeds in @science.org 👇 finds they have neural adaptations supporting voluntary control of vocalizations.
🦭💬🧪

Poster tonight at #cosyne26 (1-079)!

@wanqingjiang.bsky.social & @noehamou.bsky.social show that mice learn hidden community structure in a 15-odour graph even when transition statistics are flat.

Fun collaboration with @saxelab.bsky.social that started with East London coffees ☕!

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be starting my lab as a SNSF starting grant professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics in Lausanne! I'm looking for PhD students who are fascinated about the neuronal basis of behaviour across species @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before.

In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵