Have you ever read a paper (or seen a talk) where you feel the author is reading your mind? Like any concern is immediately addressed right after it crosses your mind? I think that is a hallmark of great writing, and I have a theory about it. A thread... 1/12

The call on the European Commission to phase out use of animals in science does not recognize that modern medicine builds on animal studies. Banning animal studies would put an end to medical research in Europe. #Pledge4Science European Brain Council Kavli Neuroscience May-Britt Moser European Research Council (ERC)

Excited to post the lab's next paper where we developed an open-source and relatively low-cost behavior controller for associative learning and memory (i.e., B-CALM). Work led by Mingkang Zhou Brenda and helped by Huijeong Jeong and Dennis Burke link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Interested in studying speech neuroscience using time-resolved neural measurements, and machine learning methods? I'm recruiting PhD students thru Stanford's Neuroscience and Psychology programs this fall! Find me at CogCompNeuro (Aug) and SNL Annual Meeting (Oct)- very happy to chat!

I'm happy to announce the start of a new free and open online course on neuroscience for people with a machine learning or similar background, co-developed by Marcus Ghosh. YouTube Videos and Jupyter-based exercises will be released weekly. There is a Discord for discussions.

This is finally out online! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator discusses what drew him to study the brain and his current work at the University of California, San Francisco. By Brady Huggett Listen now: thetransmitter.org/synaptic/the-v…

To everyone who has been shocked and depressed by the staggering 40% cut to the BRAIN Initiative: we have a voice! Outside Witness Testimony (aka written testimony) for the FY 2025 appropriations cycle is ongoing. Deadline for the House side is Friday May 3 and the Senate side

Humans can choose to remember specific past events. Can animals do the same? We used neurofeedback in rats to answer this question. Check out our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #tweeprint below

📢Special issue on Consciousness, brought to you by Christina Konen & Mariela Zirlinger. This issue includes reviews and commentaries, each addressing a different area of consciousness research, and Q&As with Koch and Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social . Find this all here cell.com/neuron/issue?p…

Thrilled to announce that I will start my lab at Northwestern University Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern Neuroscience NUIN in January 2025!! My lab will study circuit mechanisms for active vision and dream perception, using behaving/sleeping mice. sites.northwestern.edu/senzailab/

New preprint post! We show that motor commands in the superior colliculus shift the internal representation of heading during REM sleep despite the immobility of sleeping mice. Thus, the brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep.🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

An evidence that a context could affect even early visual processing!

We are excited to have Dr Abhilasha Joshi on our campus! We look forward to the contributions from her lab! Check out more about her work at: neuroact.in

This is a preprint from Frank lab! Alison did an awesome job of analyzing how the content of generative place representations in the rat hippocampus correlates with behavior during a foraging task.

Do you work with text data for your job or research? We’d love to talk to you! We're running a paid user study at CMU to understand how people explore and visualize text data while programming—and to gather feedback on our new open-source visualization tool. Details below 👇

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Check out our new paper in nature “Goal specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning”: nature.com/articles/s4158… By Jeong Nuri♥, Xiao Zheng, Abby Paulson, @StephmPrince and colleagues.

We're excited to announce the Brain-to-Text '25 competition, with a new intracortical speech neuroscience dataset and $9,000 in prizes generously provided by Blackrock Neurotech!. Can you do better than us at decoding speech-related neural activity into text? kaggle.com/competitions/b…

We’re thrilled to see our advanced ML models and EMG hardware — that transform neural signals controlling muscles at the wrist into commands that seamlessly drive computer interactions — appearing in the latest edition of nature. Read the story: nature.com/articles/s4158… Find