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‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find Brain activity suggests newborns can detect and predict patterns relating to rhythm, study says Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights into a fundamental human trait. Babies in the womb begin to respond to music by about eight or nine months, as shown by changes in their heart rate and body movements, said Dr Roberta Bianco, the first author of the research who is based at the Italian Institute of Technology in Rome. Continue reading...

‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find

Top left: Experimental paradigm. The authors analyzed EEG data recorded from 49 sleeping human newborns while being exposed to monophonic piano melodies composed by J. S. Bach (real condition) and control stimuli (shuffled condition). Top right: Surprise and entropy. Surprise and entropy associated with each note’s timing (green, St and Et, respectively) and pitch (yellow, Sp and Ep, respectively) were estimated using an unsupervised statistical learning model trained on all stimuli. Dot plots display mean surprise and entropy associated with real and shuffled music, averaged across melodies (left panel), and separately for each melody (right panel). Bottom: Analytical approach. Multivariate Temporal Response Function (mTRF) models were fit to describe the forward relationship between multiple stimulus features and the EEG signal. The full TRF model (leftmost panel) included acoustic low-level features (spectral flux, acoustic onset, IOI, and IPI) and high-level features (surprise and entropy of pitch and timing).

Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg

A Common Iba1 Antibody Labels Vasopressin Neurons in Mice There are a wide variety of commercially available antibodies for labeling microglial cells based on different protein targets, as well as antibodies for the same protein target made in different spec...

PSA for all #microglia lovers: certain Iba1 antibodies (see our new paper below for details) label not only microglia, but also vasopressin neurons, at least in mice. Brain region and species matter. A friendly reminder to always validate your antibodies! 🔬

www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...

Europe loves to lecture the world about values, but morals without power is just vibes. We regulate AI we don’t build, sell handbags instead of hardware, and rely on others for our security and energy.

If we really believe in liberal democracy, we’d better be willing to back it up.

What's the relation between voltage and calcium in dendrites? Xiang Wu studied this in CA2 hippocampal pyramidal cells in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD! Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...

Tekenen, tenzij je gekke Henkie bent.

I’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature

Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.

Full text here:
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Excited to be giving the van Vreeswijk Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar this Wednesday, Jan 14, where I'll talk about "Computation Through Neuronal-Synaptic Dynamics"!
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Distinct endocannabinoids specifically signal to astrocytes or neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience Distinct endocannabinoids signal to either astrocytes or neurons, evoking contrasting regulation of synaptic function. This works reveals the high degree of complexity of neuronal and astrocytic signa...

Distinct endocannabinoids specifically signal to astrocytes or neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ultrafast Frame-Free Imaging of Neural Activity with Event Cameras Frame-based fluorescence imaging has long defined how neural activity is optically measured. This approach requires acquiring all pixels within an image, regardless of whether they carry meaningful ne...

For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off:
Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast.

We break that rule

Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Astrocytes control oxytocin-based maternal behavior via connexin 30 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698569v1

Violence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado | Claudia Ignacio Álvarez Behind the west’s huge appetite for the fruit lies the dark reality of environmental destruction and Indigenous exploitation in Mexico

Violence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado | Claudia Ignacio Álvarez

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Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates - Nature Methods iGluSnFR4f and iGluSnFR4s are the latest generation of genetically encoded glutamate sensors. They are advantageous for detecting rapid dynamics and large population activity, respectively, as demonst...

iGluSnFR4 is now available @natmethods.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates 🧪

Astrocytes distress triggers brain pathology through induction of δ secretase in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Communications The role of astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease pathology remains insufficiently characterized. Here, the authors show that aggravated astrocyte response to Aβ causes brain inflammation, and amyloid and...

Members of WarsawGliaComm Publish 🔬🧬🧪
Proud to highlight the new study from Anna Malik Lab in NatComm! Brilliant insights into how astrocyte distress triggers brain pathology via δ-secretase. Check it out!
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #glia #Warsaw

YouTube video by PSL-Qlife Qrieux, la série - Épisode 5 - Mieux dormir grâce aux astrocytes

New episode alert!
Discover episode 5 of Qrieux: #Sleep better thanks to #astrocytes.
Featuring Félix Bellier, Léana Razaghi & Armelle Rancillac.

Available in FR with FR/GB subtitles.
Watch now 👉 youtu.be/nHTbSGvEpGM?...

#Neuroscience #Qrieux @psl-univ.bsky.social @inserm.fr @cirbcdf.bsky.social

The fruit fly visual system gets a glow-up during pupal development. A new study reveals how non-neuronal calcium activity fine-tunes the boundaries between each portion of the compound eye.

By @lauren-schneider.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/developmenta...

Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe

In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered emails from Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer.

Now, the paper has been retracted. https://scim.ag/4iG55KO

The temperature in central the Netherlands over the past 320 years. Clearly shows that we're already well over 2 degrees of warming here. This year is heading for 11.5°C again.
This coming Monday and Tuesday, we'll even have that average, in December...

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Le «corbeau» du Collège de France, sa caméra dans les toilettes et l’enquête qui patine Il y a près de trois ans, «Libération» révélait qu’un agent du CNRS était suspecté d’avoir harcelé une neurobiologiste et dissimulé une caméra dans les toilettes pour femmes. Les victimes dénoncent depuis l’extrême lenteur de l’enquête.

Il y a près de trois ans, Libération révélait qu’un agent du CNRS était suspecté d’avoir harcelé une neurobiologiste et d’avoir dissimulé une caméra dans les toilettes pour femmes. Les victimes dénoncent depuis l’extrême lenteur de l’enquête malgré les nombreuses preuves matérielles.

We look forward to seeing you Tomorrow Nov 26 at 2PM for the 2nd IGN SYMPOSIUM. A time for Glia related Science, with open and live discussion with the Italian glia community. See you Tomorrow!!! 
unipd.zoom.us/j/83647074227?…

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Verander de toekomstplannen van Schiphol Schiphol heeft enorme groeiplannen tot 2050 (https://nieuws.schiphol.nl/schiphol-kiest-in-toekomstplannen-voor-kwaliteit-en-balans/). Deze petitie is een reactie erop, want een pas op de plaats is gep...

Schiphol heeft enorme groeiplannen tot 2050. Deze petitie is een reactie erop, want een pas op de plaats is gepast: de planeet warmt op, de overlast groeit steeds verder en de natuur is toe aan herstel. Zeg daarom NEE tegen de groei van Schiphol.

toekomstschiphol.petities.nl

I guess journals will always have to ask for the original images and check if there is the metadata? Are there any other ways to verify authenticity? Maybe look if there is typical noise for that type of microscope? I assume AI generated images would be too smooth?

Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.

First page of Opinion piece: "Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism"

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.

Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

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Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT)

Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science'

Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience

www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...