My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...
The elusive nature of consciousness
A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...
Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Joshua Sanes, PhD, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, emeritus, and founding director of Harvard’s Center for Brain Science (CBS), has been awarded the […]
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November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org
Gorgeous November light captured by UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience's Dr Helena Paterson! 🍂 🤩
Happy Friday everyone! 💙
Happy Friday everyone! 💙
November 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Gorgeous November light captured by UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience's Dr Helena Paterson! 🍂 🤩
Happy Friday everyone! 💙
Happy Friday everyone! 💙
Very excited to have another paper accepted in Oxford Open Neuroscience’s special collection on the Neurobiology of Associative Learning! This one from the Shansky lab!
A novel role for the infralimbic cortex in conditioned fear responding
academic.oup.com/oons/advance...
academic.oup.com/oons/advance...
A novel role for the infralimbic cortex in conditioned fear responding
Abstract. Freezing during Pavlovian fear conditioning is the most commonly used indicator of learned fear in rodents. Although freezing and its neural unde
academic.oup.com
August 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Very excited to have another paper accepted in Oxford Open Neuroscience’s special collection on the Neurobiology of Associative Learning! This one from the Shansky lab!
The paper argues that two major puzzles, how the brain creates a unified experience and maintains an “edge-of-chaos” state, may be explained by continuous electromagnetic fields generated by neural activity.
doi.org/10.3389/fnco...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.3389/fnco...
#neuroscience
Frontiers | The goo that binds us: how field resonance solves neuroscience’s binding and criticality problems
The binding problem and the criticality problem represent two of neuroscience’s most persistent challenges: how do distributed neural processes create unifie...
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July 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
The paper argues that two major puzzles, how the brain creates a unified experience and maintains an “edge-of-chaos” state, may be explained by continuous electromagnetic fields generated by neural activity.
doi.org/10.3389/fnco...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.3389/fnco...
#neuroscience
Bahar Gholipour reflects on the legacy of Yves Frégnac, the French neuroscientist who built his career by meeting neuroscience’s complexity straight on.
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/in-me...
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/in-me...
In memoriam: Yves Frégnac, influential and visionary French neuroscientist
Frégnac, who died on 18 October at the age of 73, built his career by meeting neuroscience’s complexity straight on.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Bahar Gholipour reflects on the legacy of Yves Frégnac, the French neuroscientist who built his career by meeting neuroscience’s complexity straight on.
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/in-me...
www.thetransmitter.org/vision/in-me...
Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets
June 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Janelia is built for this moment. Starting today, we're taking on 2 big bets: cracking how a vertebrate brain generates behavior, & building AI-in-the-Loop Discovery — a new way of doing biology. Tiny transparent fish + one of neuroscience’s biggest questions? Let's go: hhmi.news/2BigBets
Ned Block’s review of Michael Pollan’s new book | The elusive nature of consciousness: A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...
The elusive nature of consciousness
A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Ned Block’s review of Michael Pollan’s new book | The elusive nature of consciousness: A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...
Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models…
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models…
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
I fear that placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating dimensionality as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may lead us down the wrong path, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I fear that placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating dimensionality as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may lead us down the wrong path, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Dimensionality - neuroscience’s red herring? www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam... "Activity can be simultaneously 'high dimensional' and 'low dimensional'... because there is not one universal definition of dimensionality"
Big 'd' energy.
Big 'd' energy.
September 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Dimensionality - neuroscience’s red herring? www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam... "Activity can be simultaneously 'high dimensional' and 'low dimensional'... because there is not one universal definition of dimensionality"
Big 'd' energy.
Big 'd' energy.
The neuroscience field is fueled by its people. Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's stories from the past year about some of the scientists driving neuroscience forward.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
Neuroscience’s leaders, legacies and rising stars of 2025
Here are seven stories from the past year about some of the field’s most engaging figures.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The neuroscience field is fueled by its people. Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's stories from the past year about some of the scientists driving neuroscience forward.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
Applications open to the University of Sussex Neuroscience's Sep 2025 PhD program, fully-funded, +UKRI rate stipend 🧠
📅 Apply by Jan 13
Research themes incl:
- Sensory neuroscience
- Neural circuits of behavior
- Learning & memory
- Neurodegeneration
- Computational neuroscience & AI
- & more!
📅 Apply by Jan 13
Research themes incl:
- Sensory neuroscience
- Neural circuits of behavior
- Learning & memory
- Neurodegeneration
- Computational neuroscience & AI
- & more!
December 15, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Applications open to the University of Sussex Neuroscience's Sep 2025 PhD program, fully-funded, +UKRI rate stipend 🧠
📅 Apply by Jan 13
Research themes incl:
- Sensory neuroscience
- Neural circuits of behavior
- Learning & memory
- Neurodegeneration
- Computational neuroscience & AI
- & more!
📅 Apply by Jan 13
Research themes incl:
- Sensory neuroscience
- Neural circuits of behavior
- Learning & memory
- Neurodegeneration
- Computational neuroscience & AI
- & more!
.@sergiuppasca.bsky.social is one of neuroscience's most remarkable young investigators. His assembloids, organized clusters of brain cells that form recognizable regions and connections, have solved an old problem. More: explorers.com/sergiu-p-pas...
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
.@sergiuppasca.bsky.social is one of neuroscience's most remarkable young investigators. His assembloids, organized clusters of brain cells that form recognizable regions and connections, have solved an old problem. More: explorers.com/sergiu-p-pas...
Can an adult brain make new neurons? I break down how an AI-powered study may finally settle one of neuroscience’s longest-running debates & what questions still remain for @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Genetic evidence that our brains make new neurons in adulthood may close a century-old debate
Cells from human brain tissue have genetic hallmarks of neural progenitors, AI-aided study finds
www.science.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Can an adult brain make new neurons? I break down how an AI-powered study may finally settle one of neuroscience’s longest-running debates & what questions still remain for @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
The #MCCS26 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED to align with the Society for Neuroscience's Late-Breaking Abstract deadline! Submit your abstracts by September 15!
event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
📣 Submit your #MCCS26 abstract by Aug 21 for a chance to be selected to present at this year’s symposium!
Plus, every abstract submission earns a raffle entry to win a VIP bracelet for the Cai-Tye Collective Dance Party on Nov 16 💃🕺
Submit here: event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
Plus, every abstract submission earns a raffle entry to win a VIP bracelet for the Cai-Tye Collective Dance Party on Nov 16 💃🕺
Submit here: event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
August 24, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The #MCCS26 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED to align with the Society for Neuroscience's Late-Breaking Abstract deadline! Submit your abstracts by September 15!
event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
event.fourwaves.com/4599d6d4-273...
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s0...
Neuroscience’s Case Against Free Will Is Falling Apart
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15s0...
So happy to see people taking this issue seriously. I wrote about this months ago on Synergies.
synergies.substack.com/p/the-potent...
synergies.substack.com/p/the-potent...
August 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So happy to see people taking this issue seriously. I wrote about this months ago on Synergies.
synergies.substack.com/p/the-potent...
synergies.substack.com/p/the-potent...
Mapping how neurons connect across the brain is one of neuroscience’s biggest challenges. MouseLight (a Janelia Research Campus project) is building a dataset of fully traced neurons — available to researchers everywhere, & helping to reveal how brain circuits work & what goes wrong in disease.
April 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Mapping how neurons connect across the brain is one of neuroscience’s biggest challenges. MouseLight (a Janelia Research Campus project) is building a dataset of fully traced neurons — available to researchers everywhere, & helping to reveal how brain circuits work & what goes wrong in disease.
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! For its 11th year, we’re celebrating eight women neuroscientists working toward gender equality in the field.
By Paige Miranda
#WomeninScience #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...
By Paige Miranda
#WomeninScience #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...
How eight initiatives are tackling neuroscience’s gender gap
In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women working to bolster their ranks in the field.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! For its 11th year, we’re celebrating eight women neuroscientists working toward gender equality in the field.
By Paige Miranda
#WomeninScience #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...
By Paige Miranda
#WomeninScience #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...
Terrific piece from @mattperich.bsky.social on how to think about the dimensionality of neural activity
Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy…
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy…
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 8, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Terrific piece from @mattperich.bsky.social on how to think about the dimensionality of neural activity
Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy…
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Will be borrowing the excellent folding paper analogy…
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
so Ned Block just wrote an excellent review on a book, by a journalist, on consciousness, partly based on interviews w/ "gurus, novelists, and cultural figures", w/ some "eccentric arguments" & views
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
i suppose Ned was invited to do it. but why should Science care??
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
i suppose Ned was invited to do it. but why should Science care??
The elusive nature of consciousness
A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM
so Ned Block just wrote an excellent review on a book, by a journalist, on consciousness, partly based on interviews w/ "gurus, novelists, and cultural figures", w/ some "eccentric arguments" & views
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
i suppose Ned was invited to do it. but why should Science care??
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
i suppose Ned was invited to do it. but why should Science care??
"the human mind is afforded less complexity than is owed, and the computer is afforded more wisdom than is due"
arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042
arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042
July 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
"the human mind is afforded less complexity than is owed, and the computer is afforded more wisdom than is due"
arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042
arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042
