Steve Ramirez

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Audiobook cover of How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez, read by the author.

@okaysteve.bsky.social's How to Change a Memory is a disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation.

The #audiobook, read by the author himself, arrives 4 November.

Preorder it today: press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

#Neuroscience #Science #Memory

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez

A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field.

@okaysteve.bsky.social's How to Change a Memory arrives 4 November. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Neuroscience #Memory #Science

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez

Next week, October 25th at 7:30 pm MDT, @okaysteve.bsky.social, author of How to Change a Memory, will be at The Lincoln Center as a part of the National Geographic Live Speaker series. Hear him discuss his groundbreaking research in person!

Buy tickets here: www.lctix.com/shows-ticket...

How to Change a Memory A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field

Guess what y'all - the great @okaysteve.bsky.social has a book coming out November 4th: "How to Change a Memory"! Steve is a genius, and this book is no doubt going to be an awesome read. Pre-order it now if you know what's good for you!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

In 2016, the first Opto GRC was created to bring together scientists pushing the boundaries of optogenetics research 🧠🌟

Join us to celebrate 10 incredible years of collaboration and discovery—applications for #OptoGRC2026 are now open!

Apply now: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez. A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field.

In How to Change a Memory, neuroscientist @okaysteve.bsky.social draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited, and even constructed from nothing.

Available 4 November. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Neuroscience

our "Untangling the Mind" tour with NatGeo is ready for liftoff again this Fall and throughout Spring '26!

this show is meant for anyone interested in science and the brain because neuroscience belongs to everyone 🧠

info + tour dates 👇🏽!

live.nationalgeographic.org/event/untang...

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez

Next week, on October 8th at 6:30 pm CDT, @okaysteve.bsky.social will be delivering a sold-out talk on his book, How to Change a Memory, at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science as a part of the National Geographic Live Speaker Series!

Learn more about the event here: buff.ly/NTEWGMA

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

The brain is so much more powerful and so much more beautiful than we may think 📚. Thank you all for the endless support! It truly means the world to me 💛.

If you’ve ever wondered about all the wonderfully weird ways our memories define us—or wished you could reshape one to then take with you into tomorrow—then this book has a story to tell!

The book is built from the experiences I’ve had in science, the memories I’ve studied within the brain, and the timeless moments from the past that I’ll always carry with me, especially those shared with my late friend Xu, to whom this book is dedicated.

and it’s a personal story about friendship, family, grief, and healing, told through the science of how memories are made, broken, and rewritten.

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Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

The Transmitter’s reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025 Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.

In The Transmitter's reading list, we highlight the most anticipated upcoming neuroscience books and other notable 2025 releases. Featuring titles by @okaysteve.bsky.social, @dr-brein.bsky.social, @nicolecrust.bsky.social,‬ Xiao-Jing Wang and many more.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
bit.ly/45MvK41

Abstract neural art with event date and location

📍 Register now for #MCCS25 on November 13 & 14!

Join us for talks & networking with the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. #Neuroskyence

Check out the link for more information and to register & submit an abstract 👉 event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting.

Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social

Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

This made my day 💜✨

"I’ve recommended Stellate to hundreds of colleagues... If you're running a lab, organizing a conference, or just looking to make your science shine — Stellate is the move. It’s like having a tech-savvy lab member who knows everything that you don't." - @okaysteve.bsky.social

Screenshot of the top of the article, including the title, authors, and abstract.

What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!

Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.

Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Daniel Cardozo Pinto, soon to be appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, represents a compelling new voice in systems neuroscience. His research, grounded in a profound curiosity about the […]

Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social

A State-Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making Understanding how animals shift between different decision-making strategies is critical for bridging normative models with naturalistic behavior. While drift diffusion models (DDMs) provide a powerfu...

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨

"A State–Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making" is now available on biorxiv! Check it out below 👇

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

In this work we find that mice are not just static mindless decision makers.

I called my senators about the NIH and NSF cuts this morning (made easy with @5calls.org)! I'll be calling every day this week and encouraging friends & family to do the same

Check out our latest! Studies led by the amazing Megan Brickner - she finds really interesting patterns of dopamine signaling in the basolateral amygdala that report the emotional salience of sensory state transitions. These are largely non-associative, value-free signals, in contrast to classic DA.

Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear Molecular Psychiatry - Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!

📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026!

We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues.

More details coming soon👇🏽
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I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence

@tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social

Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

rdcu.be/el18q

A short thread follows for those interested.

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New paper out! Huge thanks as always to my mentor @drchristineannd.bsky.social and the rest of the team!