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Claude, an American alligator with albinism, lounging on his favorite heated rock.

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

Survey: Which sources fund your neuroscience research? Government sources are the main contributors to neuroscience labs, but funding breakdown varies across labs, career stages and neuroscience subfields.

33 neuroscience researchers from across the world shared how their labs our funded, providing insight into the current state of funding and how that might shift.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/whic...

Thanks! And check out our new review on mixed selectivity, please and thanks.
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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction. Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste, gender, and global imagination with universal storytelling.

By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states Ährlund-Richter et al. show that in mice, discrete subregions of the prefrontal cortex send distinct feedback signals to the primary visual cortex. These pathways differentially modulate visual proces...

Distinct roles of prefrontal subregion feedback to the primary visual cortex across behavioral states
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

For those in the early stages of their careers—who have not yet served on an NIH study section or held an R01-equivalent PI role—register as an Early Career Reviewer.

More information is available on the CSR website: public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers...

Announcing the Inaugural Fluorescence Advanced Imaging Research Workshop
sites.uci.edu/aimlfdworksh... A joint effort between UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, bringing together the cutting edge talks of AIM and the intensive hands-on experience of the LFD Workshop. #microscopy #fluorescence

SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience Full list of Exhibitors

All the artists showing work at #SfN25, now with pictures! #sciart

I think I missed when you first posted this, and what a beautiful and important piece!

Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event.

It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us!

It's free. Register here.

Apply | leadingedgesymposium Apply. The 2026 Leading Edge cohort application is now open! This cohort is named the Zara Weinberg Cohort, in honor of 2021 Leading Edge Fellow, Zara Weinberg. Applications are due February 2, 2026.

Applications are open for the 2026 Zara Weinberg cohort of Leading Edge, named in honor of the incredible, brilliant, fearless @weinberz.witchlab.org.

The LE community has been truly transformative for my scientific journey and my happiness. Please apply!! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Flyer with our pictures, a brain, and event details: 2-3:30p Saturday November 15th, Buena Vist Branch Library

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word!

On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research.

It's free! Register here:
burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

These videos of a rat hunting and eating bats will haunt my dreams.

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Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding Perceptual experience depends on recurrent interactions between lower and higher cortices. One theory, predictive coding, posits that feedback from higher to lower brain regions decreases neuronal activity predicted by higher-level representations. Despite the widespread adoption of predictive coding in neuroscience, the correspondence to neurophysiological findings in sensory cortices remains elusive. Here, we review how the canonical patterns of intra- and inter-cortical interactions that occur during perception and shifts of attention deviate from those predicted by predictive coding. We argue that these circuit interactions are better captured by alternative theories, which we summarize under the umbrella term BELIEF. We review how BELIEF theories account for the inter-areal interactions during attentive perception.

Online Now: Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding

Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

Cartoon of two investigators looking at a brain with magnifying glasses

I wonder if researchers who study attention and researchers who study emotion are aware about the strong parallel controversies regarding the theoretical targets?

Let me describe them.

Mentor Registration Form — GRFP Workshop Are you interested in helping students write a stronger NSF GRFP application? We hope you will join us as a mentor in this BSA-organized GRFP workshop, where you will work with 4-6 applicants to help ...

🌱 Calling all mentors!
The BSA Early Career Committee is bringing back the NSF GRFP Workshop. Sign up to be a mentor if you are a:

✅ Grad student who already received a GRFP or
✅ PI, postdoc, senior researcher

Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/sQUwhVryYHJK...

#NSFGRFP #botany

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Excited to share this update to our paper investigating the role of superior colliculus inputs to the ventral midbrain in learning and movement. Studies led by the amazing Dr. @carlipoisson.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters.

Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill

Flyer for the Boston College and Marginalia Science 2025 event on Oct 24. Applications are due Sept 10, and participation is free. Follow the link in post for more info.

Call for submissions: Boston College and Marginalia Science will be hosting a one-day conference highlighting diverse perspectives in psychology and social science research. Apply for a featured talk (with travel award), data blitz, or poster presentation! More info: forms.gle/TdB2esuePVN3...

Re-terminating the Mass v Kennedy/APHA vs NIH grants will further damage trust in NIH that Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are currently decimating.

"DEI-linked grants" can be cancelled by a new administration = if you are a marginalized scientist we can and will just destroy your life's work / and if anyone's work dares to care about specific inequities in our society, we can and will destroy it

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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate $783 million in NIH grants linked to DEI initiatives By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to allow the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to […]

SCOTUSBlog story about NIH Grant Termination case

www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/supr...

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources Di Bello et al. reveal that some neural resources in lateral PFC are shared between motor and attentional systems, enabling focus to flexibly shift in response to internal goals or external demands.

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources CurrentBiology