This one focuses on modern art, not interdisciplinary connections, but it’s a classic (and, I think, graphically excellent).
06.03.2026 03:35 —
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First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
05.03.2026 09:47 —
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fly circuit diagram
When a fly lands on your arm, how does your nervous system decide where to swat?
By reconstructing tactile axons in a Drosophila connectome, we found a leg somatotopic map and downstream circuits that sample the map to initiate targeted grooming
Led by Leila Elabbady, PhD
doi.org/10.64898/202...
03.03.2026 19:20 —
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Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
16.02.2026 16:22 —
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A remarkable discovery: motor sequences in zebra finch song are generated intrinsically within HVC. Beautiful!
14.02.2026 18:05 —
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🔬🧠 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 —
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Some scientists used to think that birds are just kind of stupid. In the 1960s, the neuroanatomist Harvey Karten’s research into avian neural circuits changed how the field viewed bird intelligence. www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence...
13.02.2026 16:46 —
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Primate dexterous hand movements are controlled by functionally distinct premotoneuronal systems
Distinct spinal and cortical pathways coordinate muscle synergies and fine control to support primate dexterous hand movements.
Our paper is out in Science Advances!
What makes primate hands so dexterous?
We show that evolutionarily distinct spinal and cortical pathways work together to balance stability and flexibility, supporting remarkable primate hand control.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
12.02.2026 00:40 —
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New paper alert! 🚨
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
11.02.2026 17:52 —
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From Chand: “of potential interest”. Our lab’s first dataset! Tian and friends used Neuropixels to record from 7,500 units across DLPFC and PMd to show how contextual decision making (specifically, XOR computation) occurs and how this differs by location in DLPFC and between areas.
10.02.2026 19:15 —
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This is a catastrophic unforced error.
It was quite something to hear @ohsunews.bsky.social President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ.
“Teammates” don’t support rivals.
10.02.2026 04:24 —
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“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality”
Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
10.02.2026 02:55 —
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We have updated this preprint. I think the deeper dive that @mkashefi.bsky.social has done on the 'shift' condition-independent signal is particularly interesting. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
03.02.2026 00:28 —
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Beautiful work - congrats!!!
21.01.2026 16:42 —
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A synaptic locus of song learning
Learning by imitation is the foundation for verbal and musical expression, but its underlying neural basis remains obscure. A juvenile male zebra finch imitates the multisyllabic song of an adult tutor in a process that depends on a song-specialized cortico-basal ganglia circuit, affording a powerful system to identify the synaptic substrates of imitative motor learning. Plasticity at a particular set of cortico-basal ganglia synapses is hypothesized to drive rapid learning-related changes in song before these changes are subsequently consolidated in downstream circuits. Nevertheless, this hypothesis is untested and the synaptic locus where learning initially occurs is unknown. By combining a computational framework to quantify song learning with synapse-specific optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and directly downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit, we identified the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapses that drive the acquisition and expression of rapid vocal changes during juvenile song learning and characterized the hours-long timescale over which these changes consolidate. Furthermore, transiently augmenting postsynaptic activity in the basal ganglia briefly accelerates learning rates and persistently alters song, demonstrating a direct link between basal ganglia activity and rapid learning. These results localize the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapses that enable a juvenile songbird to learn to sing and reveal the circuit logic and behavioral timescales of this imitative learning paradigm. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Institutes of Health, K99 NS144525 (DCS), F32 MH132152 (DCS), F31 HD098772 (SB), R01 NS099288 (RM), RF1 NS118424 (RM and JP)
Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain?
In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)
21.01.2026 16:39 —
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The lab comedians wanted some natural light. @eric-kirk.bsky.social
14.01.2026 23:27 —
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The Neural Control and Computation Lab is seeking a skilled part-time software engineer in Toronto to lead the development of ATHENA (Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations), our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless tracking!
www.yorku.ca/health/resea...
13.01.2026 14:52 —
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Congrats @danielavallentin.bsky.social happy to see this out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
12.01.2026 22:08 —
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Thanks, Juan!
09.01.2026 15:32 —
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Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...
Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org
This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
08.01.2026 19:59 —
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Here's another, showing raw voltage throughout the dendritic tree, the virtual reality location of the animal, the mouse-eye view, and the voltage at the neuron's soma.
04.01.2026 06:17 —
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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...
04.01.2026 06:17 —
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Ruskin on generative AI.
31.12.2025 01:40 —
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Glad to see this out - very cool.
28.12.2025 02:53 —
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This would be a disaster for science and medicine.
23.12.2025 01:54 —
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