Jonna Singh

What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...

lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We used rabies virus 👾 to map how #psilocybin modifies long-range circuits 🧠, revealing network-specific reorganization that we didn’t expect.

The full study is now online at Cell. @cp-cell.bsky.social

Paper 👉 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Thread for a synopsis 👉
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In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience.

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Gracias Carlos!! Nos vemos en opto GRC o neuromodulation GRC estos años?

thank you Anne, I miss Duke but at least i still have like 10 neurobio Dukies here (:

great to hear from you Cam! come visit us

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Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social and to my lab for brightening my week with this rising stars in neuroscience award!! Wish I could be in #sfn to celebrate in the sun.

Wonderful list of people: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Woulda guessed 50%, glass half full kinda person

Seems we have to lean on operationalizing for a lot of animal work.

How would you propose to improve on this e.g for the rodent attention or fly sleep task you mentioned?

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You also haven’t heard of those famous giant voxel axon recordings

huzzah!!

Awesome Kiah!! Congrats and I’m looking forward to reading this

being wrong is ok

Hah If it makes you feel better comp sci and theory people are just as guilty of these mistakes

Each of the types of papers
in this list are useful in their own right, just a tongue in cheek comment :)

the explosion of any technique inevitably brings an avalanche of papers that misuse, over-claim, or rediscover things.

4. I don’t give a shit what it is, we sequenced it and splattered it on a umap, nothing changed but now we have art

Wonderful congrats Anna!

How can one be so bad at their job and more generally at reading the room scientifically at so many levels. @_@

graphical abstract goes hard

State them clearly and in direct response to pre selected RFK quotes, preferably ones that have been repeated many times.

Second half should be about making NIHs financial payoff (dollar in vs dollar out) extremely clear to the public

Reach out to the top 25 scientists in the main “contention” areas (vaccines / autism / chronic diseases / cancer / neurodegeneration) and collect the list of findings/citations that most clearly contradict RFKs previous statements and policies (there is a wealth of these that are widely agreed upon)

to what degree are people *actually* excited about a copy paste approach to learning from these connectors?

Most of the interest I see is the high level interest you mention, or neuroscientists excited about modeling the brain more accurately.

Wild!

Stephen, Praneel and their team use fluorescence lifetime imaging and various manipulations to show that, in male mice, both mating drive and hypothalamic tonic dopamine release drop after a successful mating and gradually recover over the next week, paralleling the recovery in sperm count.

Featuring 2p FLIM to track DA levels over days, and a demonstration that a neurons molecular identity is pretty labile @stephen-zhang.bsky.social @markandermann.bsky.social

P.S: Praneel will be applying to MD PhD and is an absolute beast. Systems neuro labs don’t miss out!!

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URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!

The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.

Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

I know it's not very helpful, but I find myself thinking about those who criticized Nature's and Scientific American's Harris endorsement on the grounds that "science should stay out of politics." I think about those people quite a lot.

It’s is practically guaranteed that what is happening to Harvard WILL happen to your favorite R1 institution if we don’t continue to engage our local representatives.