Four people seated on stage in front of a projection of a woman and a chimpanzee

Thanks to our panel for a fascinating discussion, City of Science: Jane Goodall & Her Legacy – feat. Mark E. Hauber (exec. dir. of @asrc-gc.bsky.social) @kristinandrews.bsky.social, David Lahti, and Jessica Rothman. Video coming soon! (Photo: Paula Vlodkowsky)

Editorial | Penn has an AI problem The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 

"The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise."

www.thedp.com/article/2026...

🎉 Join us on Monday for the best party of the year!

The Cai-Tye Collective is throwing a bash at #SfN25 and everyone is invited!

🎉 November 17, 9pm at Parq Nightclub in San Diego. See you all there!

I can’t stop replaying the #memories from our first-ever New York Memory Hub conference! So grateful to everyone who made it a success and inspired us with their research 🧠

Let’s go Dr.Tahilia!! 👏👏

Celebrating the end of another summer of undergraduate research @asrc-gc.bsky.social

📣 REGISTRATION IS OPEN for first annual New York Memory Hub conference! Join @denisejcai.bsky.social @susanamingote.bsky.social & @tristanshuman.bsky.social on Sept 26 for a day of talks & discussion about all things learning & memory 🧠 Learn More | Register Here: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-m...

Congratulations!!!

Change-of-mind neuroeconomic decision-making is modulated by LINC00473 in medial prefrontal cortex in a sex-dependent manner Long non-coding RNA LINC00473 in mPFC alters change-of-mind re-evaluative decision-making behavior related to negative rumination.

New paper alert!🚨📝

Paper: tinyurl.com/2cycsy6d
Press release: tinyurl.com/yur3j2n8

How the brain 🧠 engages in change-of-mind decisions taps into cognitive biases that depend on sensitivity to sunk costs & regret - both of which may contribute to negative rumination…however…🧵👇1/6 #ScienceAdvances

This took me a second.. 😂

For your Sunday enjoyment, a 110-hour dataset of mice solving puzzle boxes: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15408 I got to see some of these videos during a visit to the Sprekeler lab; a very cute task.

Have you submitted your abstract yet for #Dopamine2026? Less than one month left to submit!

Submit today! dopaminesociety.org/abstract-sub...

Congrats to all ASRC Student Travel Grant recipients, especially our own Jackie Tomaio from @susanamingote.bsky.social Lab, who will be presenting her work at the Gordon Research Conference this summer!

A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis - Nature HARE5, a human accelerated region enhancer, modulates cortical development by influencing neural progenitor cell behaviour, leading to an enlarged neocortex with increased functional independence betw...

Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A photo of Professor Rene Hen and text about their upcoming talk.

Mark your calendars! Professor @susanamingote.bsky.social is hosting a talk with Professor Rene Hen on Thursday, June 5. The talk, a part of @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social's Spring seminar series, is titled “The neural circuits underlying overgeneralization.” bit.ly/3Zo029p

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

We're going cell by cell to uncover the root of #Alzheimers disease and sharing our #openscience data, methods, and resources.

Browse the SEA-AD Brain Cell Atlas, made in collaboration with @uwmedicine.bsky.social and Kaiser Permanente: portal.brain-map.org/explore/seat...

🧠📈 #BrainAwarenessWeek

New York City rallied to defend science (📷 @luckytran.com ) #3E #USprotests #March7Science #StandUpForScience #Mar7

A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function...

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've collated some ideas for the @standupforscience.bsky.social signs!
Your favorites?

1. Science does not give a fuck what you believe
2. Got Polio? Me Neither, Thanks Science
3. Science: It's like Magic, but REAL
4. This is my EVIDENCE BASED OUTRAGE
5. Fund Science, Not Billionaires

Simons Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Fourth Class of Pivot Fellows The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International are now accepting applications for the 2026 class of Pivot Fellows.

Are you a PI interested in redirecting to something new? @simonsfoundation.org is now accepting applications for their Pivot Fellowships.

I'm grateful to be a Simons Pivot Fellow (I'm pivoting from memory to mood). Very few mechanisms like this exist.

www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/03/s...

🔥 PAVLOVIAN 2025 UPDATE 🔥

Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪

We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!

Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

Untangling dopamine and glutamate in the ventral tegmental area Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons are of great interest for their central roles in motivation, learning, and psychiatric disorders. While hypotheses of VTA dopamine neuron function posit a...

New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

All those asking about a Stand Up For Science event in NYC, here you go!

www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

What is happening in US politics? Ezra Klein has an insightful 14 min take. Don’t fall for “muzzle velocity.”

(Available w/out paywall on podcast platforms)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

🧠📈 Now available on the Allen Brain Cell Atlas - aging mouse brain data!

Explore the most comprehensive and detailed single-cell dataset of the aged and young adult mouse brain. Contains 1.2 million high-quality, single-cell transcriptomes.

🔭 Explore: knowledge.brain-map.org/abcatlas?def...

Human hippocampal CA3 uses specific functional connectivity rules for efficient associative memory Human hippocampal CA3 networks use sparse and broad synaptic connectivity, and their recurrent synapses employ reliability, precision, and long integration times to enhance memory capacity. Thus, the human hippocampus is distinct from both rodent counterparts and human neocortical circuits.

Is neuroscience research really working to understand the human brain? Or do we get lost in mouse cognition? I’ve asked myself this a lot since starting to work with human tissue. Our first Jonas Lab foray into untangling human hippocampal circuits is now online! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 1/a few

Mnemonology (MEMORY) Part 1 with Dr. Michael Yassa — alie ward How are memories made? Where are they stored? Where do they go? What was I just talking about? Neurobiologist, professor, researcher, and Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learnin...

an episode on MEMORY!

why is yours bad?
where are mems stored?

also childbirth amnesia, movie myths, aging, cramming, hormones and memory, how to let go of the past, and more.

Mnemonology w/ Dr. Michael Yassa is avail for you here:

www.alieward.com/ologies/mnem...

🚨SAVE THE DATE‼️

Happy to announce that #DopamineMeeting2026 will be held in
S E V I L L A🧠.

May, 17-21, 2026