Drew Schreiner

A drawing on the cover of the journal Neuron. Each section of the fan has a drawing of a mouse. Each mouse has a slightly different pose. The tassel of the fan resembles a neuron.

My first cover of 2026
"Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroskyence

We made a highly blue-light resistant red-fluorescent genetically encoded calcium sensor GECI) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

BluePrint™ 🗺️ below:

Few are this solution-oriented

As NIH moves to parent NOFOs another resource for finding out what topics are of interest. grants.nih.gov/funding/find...

See also, Hartgood's law. A metric initially uncorrelated with quality later becomes correlated. Often a prelude to Goodhart's law

E.g. A selective conference is not necessarily better in any real sense initially but once that becomes a prestige signal it attracts better reviewers/submissions/etc

A blizzard of snow geese

I mean, talk about a prediction error!

You know those moments when you see research that so well aligns with your personal interests that ask yourself if you went into the wrong scientific field... yeah, that's this for me. 😜

a raccoon is holding a piece of paper in its mouth Alt: a raccoon tries to wash some cotton candy before eating it but it immediately disappears

still waiting for someone to study racoon cotton-candy-washing disappointment

An optogenetics-compatible red fluorescent calcium indicator with negligible blue light photoactivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.28.708321v1

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.

Nature research paper: Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites

go.nature.com/3MPQwsG

SWEBAGS Webinar March 2026 – SWEBAGS Swedish Basal Ganglia Society

Join us on Friday, March 20th at 16:00 CET for our next SWEBAGS webinar:
“Striatal activity in natural behavior” with Henry Yin & Eric Yttri.
We’ll dive into how basal ganglia circuits support real-world behavior.
More info & Zoom link: swebags.ebrains.se/events/sweba...
#BasalGanglia #Neuroscience

The emergence of the language system in the toddler brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

They are going from 10 to 15 study sections (surprising) - public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...

NAL is dead

NMB is dead

ARM is dead

I know I’m a good reviewer because authors always thank me for my helpful comments.

Research Technician Research Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is...

We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment.
brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

Million dollar idea: The cowbird cake. Instead of hiding a fake baby like a King Cake, hide a small fake egg. Whoever finds it has to raise the egg to adulthood (i.e., buy the next cake)

Congrats to Mac Chamberlain, soon-to-be Dr. Mac @ UIUC.

rad as hell

Experimenting with an AI-curated neuroscience feed. It scans the entire firehose in real time, prefilters for neuro/cogsci keywords, then a local LLM scores each post for scientific substance. A ranking algorithm blends that quality score with engagement to surface the best discussion. Try it out!

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hey now, don't disparage their feelings...
Transmitters diffusing, transiently binding to GPCRs like ships passing in the night, causing conformational changes...

the sun rising through a leafless forest

here comes the sun

Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias Krakauer et al take the view that current neuroscience places too much emphasis on techniques and causal accounts of explanation. They argue that detailed study of behavior and its algorithmic composi...

I'd throw this into the list

I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.).

I’d like to crowdsource recommendations.

Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?

Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday

Who do you think you are? I AM

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇