There are lots of good reasons why replacing traditional closed book exams with open book ones is a good idea. Framing it to be about “reducing attainment gaps” doesn’t help anyone. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/2…

When Big American tech does it, they argue gobbling gigabytes of proprietary data is “fair use”, when someone else does it “against the terms of service”.

As Elon Musk was reportedly slashing Education Department contracts, SpaceX secured a multimillion-dollar “supplemental” deal from NASA. buff.ly/4hBiNxo

Step 1: Fire all of the government employees who make air travel safe. Step 2: Let America see the consequences of those actions. Step 3: Outsource the safety jobs he eliminated to his own company. Step 4: Profit. How very expected.

Want to hear more about hippocampus-to-cortex feedback circuit? Our paper with the Basu lab is out in Nat Neuro! rdcu.be/eak1k . Well done Tanvi Butola!

Congratulations to Unit postdoctoral researcher Dr Vitor Lopes dos Santos on winning the Director’s Award for Open Research for 2024! mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/news/vitor-lop… Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Medical Sciences University of Oxford Medical Research Council

❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES📷 We're hiring for an ambitious Wellcome project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠 Multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks. 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀

New preprint about SWRs, this time in HUMANS! 🤩 With Anna Maslarova & JiyunShin, we’ve (i) developed a pipeline to analyze SWRs in intracranial EEG, and (ii) created ripmap, an open-source toolbox that allows versatile inspection and curation of events 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out my preprint on hippocampal ripple diversity, with Vítor LdS and David Dupret at MRC BNDU, Oxford, where we reveal that distinct CA1 laminar profiles of ripples are associated with different reactivation dynamics: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… #hippocampus

Very grateful to have organized the Meeting on Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Function in Northeast Brazil🇧🇷 with Carolina Gonzalez, Vítor LdS & @RhythmicSpikes. Unforgettable days of science and connection. Thanks to IBRO - International Brain Research Organization and the #SimonsFoundation

Fantastic to be part of this unique conference in Pipa, Brazil. Great science, inspiring students and the weather wasn’t bad either. Massive thank you to Vítor LdS Andressa Radiske, Caro Gonzalez and @RhythmicSpikes for organising. Onwards and upwards for the global south!

Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint on the neural mechanisms underlying helping behavior in mice! 🧠🐭 We show that dorsal hippocampal networks play a key role in rescuing a distressed peer: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies nature.com/articles/d4158…

This marks my first-author contribution as part of the Maren Lab team! Our findings shed new light on the mechanisms underlying context-dependent extinction of learned fear. Huge thanks to Steve Maren 🐀🧠💭😨 , Tuğçe Tuna , and Michael Totty for teamwork. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sign up for this webinar with Olavo Amaral about the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative!

🧵 1/8 The Illusion of Thinking: Are reasoning models like o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet really "thinking"? 🤔 Or are they just throwing more compute towards pattern matching? The new Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) show promising gains on math and coding benchmarks,

Excited to share we’ve been awarded the ERC StG 🎉 for our project ProSocial, on neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior in health & disease. Huge thanks to my group for their amazing work & to great colleagues for their support! Positions opening soon—reach out if interested!