Tim Behrens
@behrenstimb.bsky.social
Slowly becoming a neuroscientist.
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Tim Behrens
@behrenstimb.bsky.social
· Dec 1
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
It’s great that the bbc celebrates lives at the end of the year, but surely something is off when any numbers of actors or singers are highlighted, but in order to be highlighted for anything else you need to be pope, or discover the structure of DNA.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who died in 2025? Notable deaths 2025
Pope Francis, Ozzy Osbourne and Diane Keaton are among those who died this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s great that the bbc celebrates lives at the end of the year, but surely something is off when any numbers of actors or singers are highlighted, but in order to be highlighted for anything else you need to be pope, or discover the structure of DNA.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
December 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December.
By Lauren Schneider
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
By Lauren Schneider
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher
Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December.
By Lauren Schneider
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
By Lauren Schneider
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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Sleep dependent consolidation and replay that doesn’t require the hippocampus?
Very beautiful work by Marcus Stephenson-Jones’ lab on sleep driven sequential skill consolidation in the striatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very beautiful work by Marcus Stephenson-Jones’ lab on sleep driven sequential skill consolidation in the striatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Sleep dependent consolidation and replay that doesn’t require the hippocampus?
Very beautiful work by Marcus Stephenson-Jones’ lab on sleep driven sequential skill consolidation in the striatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very beautiful work by Marcus Stephenson-Jones’ lab on sleep driven sequential skill consolidation in the striatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For the 20th consecutive year, Cosyne reviewers have failed. Not a single comparison to Einstein or Newton in the reviews. Not even Darwin.
Can’t wait for Cosyne to continue the tradition of returning reviews on Christmas Eve. Nothing jollier than the anger of a Cosyne reviewer with your mince pie.
December 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
For the 20th consecutive year, Cosyne reviewers have failed. Not a single comparison to Einstein or Newton in the reviews. Not even Darwin.
This paper I have a conflict on since Mathias now works in my lab, but it is so beautiful, claiming that shape processing in humans is not done like modern neural nets, but instead uses a symbolic representation of a program to generate the shape.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This paper I have a conflict on since Mathias now works in my lab, but it is so beautiful, claiming that shape processing in humans is not done like modern neural nets, but instead uses a symbolic representation of a program to generate the shape.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
This paper presents exquisite evidence about specialised vs distributive nature of function subregions in the sensorimotor cortex
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
December 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This paper presents exquisite evidence about specialised vs distributive nature of function subregions in the sensorimotor cortex
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
This paper completely nails an age old theory, leading to a clear law describing the strength of conditioned associations.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This paper completely nails an age old theory, leading to a clear law describing the strength of conditioned associations.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
I really love this model which brings real mechanistic insight to the barcode data which I had previously found interesting but mysterious!
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I really love this model which brings real mechanistic insight to the barcode data which I had previously found interesting but mysterious!
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.
Can’t wait for Cosyne to continue the tradition of returning reviews on Christmas Eve. Nothing jollier than the anger of a Cosyne reviewer with your mince pie.
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can’t wait for Cosyne to continue the tradition of returning reviews on Christmas Eve. Nothing jollier than the anger of a Cosyne reviewer with your mince pie.
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Thanks @elife.bsky.social for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!
Strikingly different neurotransmitter release strategies in dopaminergic subclasses.
buff.ly/Jr3RdzA
buff.ly/Jr3RdzA
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Thanks @elife.bsky.social for highlighting the paper with our favourite picture!
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Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/3nawFDr
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/3nawFDr
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/3nawFDr
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/3nawFDr
Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...
pbs.jhu.edu
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
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buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
🔗
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
🔗
(and an immigrant)
Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
(and an immigrant)
Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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How about that elife review model for making what would otherwise be a provocative paper with a good but flawed argument into a genuinely useful discussion about the meaning of its results and implications for the field
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How about that elife review model for making what would otherwise be a provocative paper with a good but flawed argument into a genuinely useful discussion about the meaning of its results and implications for the field