Evan D Vickers @evandvickers1

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Circuits and networks can shift "computations" quite dramatically.
Check this computational model of the role of neuromodulators.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1162/Neco...

18.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0

Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576 The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

Link in quoted post and here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

18.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

12.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 96 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 2

New to using Jupyter notebooks for the Allen Brain Cell Atlas?

Join us on Feb. 11 for a beginner-friendly webinar focusing on installation, set-up, and common questions.

Register for the meeting link and recording: https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0sJzndpRbSZWjrSGblu6A#/

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Vigilance state dissociation induced by 5-MeO-DMT in mice - Communications Biology Administration of 5-MeO-DMT produces a dissociated brain state in mice, characterized by global slow-wave activity alongside behavioral wakefulness and marked pupil dilation.

Our paper with @vyazovskiy.bsky.social showcasing research conducted at @ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social is out!

We describe the effects of the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT on brain states and sleep via EEG, LFP & freely moving oculometry.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#EEG #neuroskyence

06.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Wishing you a restful weekend - from Sleepy Neuron 🧠 💤 😴

#neuroscience

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Potentiation of active locomotor state by spinal-projecting serotonergic neurons Fenstermacher et al. map the structure and activity of spinal-projecting serotonergic neurons and show that 5-HT populations are engaged in a context-dependent manner during locomotion. Activation of ventrally projecting 5-HT neurons enhances the speed and endurance of ongoing locomotion, revealing serotonergic neurons can potentiate motor output over extended time scales.

06.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

New Neuroscience Masters Degree at Johns Hopkins
The M.S. degree in Neuroscience is a full-time in-person program consisting of intensive coursework followed by 12 months of laboratory research. The application deadline is May 15, and more information is available at neuroscience.jhu.edu/graduate/51

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Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit Spatial attention supports navigation by prioritizing information from selected locations. A candidate neural mechanism is provided by theta-paced sweeps in grid- and place-cell population activity, which sample nearby space in a left-right-alternating pattern coordinated by parasubicular direction signals. During exploration, this alternation promotes uniform spatial coverage, but whether sweeps can be flexibly tuned to locations of particular interest remains unclear. Using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in freely-behaving rats, we show that sweeps and direction signals are rapidly and dynamically modulated: they track moving targets during pursuit, precede orienting responses during immobility, and reverse during backward locomotion — without prior spatial learning. Similar modulation occurs during REM sleep. Canonical head-direction signals remain head-aligned. These findings identify sweeps as a flexible, attention-like mechanism for selectively sampling allocentric cognitive maps. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, Synergy Grant 951319 (EIM) The Research Council of Norway, Centre of Neural Computation 223262 (EIM, MBM), Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex 332640 (EIM, MBM), National Infrastructure grant (NORBRAIN, 295721 and 350201) The Kavli Foundation, https://ror.org/00kztt736 Ministry of Science and Education, Norway (EIM, MBM) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; NTNU, Norway (AZV)

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2026 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference. The preliminary program is now live: www.grc.org/neural-mecha...

We invite everyone to apply! See you @ Sunday River, Maine, May 31-June 5, 2026.

27.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 18 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2

We don't even understand how psilocybin works in complex neuronal networks, yet we've known about it for decades.

This is something clearly different. Does it work via the same mechanisms of psilocybin? It is a variant of psilocybin? A new compound entirely? Does it work via serotonergic action?

22.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0

How to collaborate with AI To make the best use of LLMs in research, turn your scientific question into a set of concrete, checkable proposals, wire up an automatic scoring loop, and let the AI iterate.

The creativity is still mostly human, writes @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. The AI’s strength is relentless, moderately clever trial-and-error in the space of technical solutions.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

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Allegory recapitulates phylogeny

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Sexually dimorphic plasticity of PV inhibition in sensory neocortex during learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698814v1

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Department Chair, Duke Neurobiology - Duke University, Durham job with Duke University - School of Medicine | 12852576 The Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) seeks a distinguished neuroscientist to serve as the next Chair of the Department of Neurobiology.

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

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I made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/

It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.

11.01.2026 05:47 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

YouTube video by Earl Miller Earl K. Miller - Society for Neuroscience Presidential Lecture 2025

Cognition Emerges from Neural Dynamics.
If you like, you can watch the not-bootlegged video of my Society for Neuroscience Presidential Lecture.
youtu.be/ie58Ujqy0vA?...
#neuroscience

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Presumed Glomerular Neuropils in the Central Nervous Systems of Spiders (Araneae) Spiders sense chemicals in their environment with particular sensory hairs (sensilla) on their legs and feelers. Chemosensory neurons inside these sensilla send their axons into the central nervous s...

Cool. Smell in the spider brain. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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My leaflets now show on my personal blog Publish On PDS, Syndicate To Any Reader

I can now credibly call my personal blog an Atmospheric website, because my leaflets now show up there

Here's an overview of how I did it

www.pfrazee.com/leaflets/3mb...

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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...

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How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain No two neurons are the same, yet models often treat neural populations as pools of identical and interchangeable elements. Here, Dahmen et al. highlight recent theoretical advances that reveal the imp...

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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A new comparative study of seven lizard species, including chameleons and bearded dragons, finds an ancient sleep rhythm conserved over millennia.

By Lauren Schenkman

www.thetransmitter.org/sleep/snoozi...

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Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...

⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.

Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8

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Postdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC
Please RT

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Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology - Nature Neuroscience Psychedelic science is growing rapidly and offers great promise for exciting new therapies, but this rapid growth has brought growing pains. These include a lack of appreciation of the history of the ...

Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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