Moisés dos Santos Corrêa
@c0rr34m.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Humboldtian. Postdoc at the Cognition and Emotion research group, at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology - Magdeburg. RT not endorsement. Opinions here solely my own. 🏳️🌈🇧🇷
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Hey all! I’m a neuroscientist at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology investigating how mice learn to help one another, and what happens in their brains as they do it. I’m here to meet fellow neuronerds and chat about all things neuroscience. Also will post jokes along the way. #neuroscience
Great critical review of the life of an individual who was a product of centuries of white, European supremacy. May these times never return and better times start.
I wrote a review of James Watson's obituary by CSHL: liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/r...
Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson
James Watson, who described himself as “not a racist in a conventional way”, has died at the age of 97. Below is a review of an obituary for Dr. James Watson published by Cold Spring Ha…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great critical review of the life of an individual who was a product of centuries of white, European supremacy. May these times never return and better times start.
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Fantastic couple of days in the middle of Hungary, learning about all things neuroscience at the Cosmos2026 conference. Thank you for the invitation @smikulovic.bsky.social and Balazs, and all the amazing scientist who were presenting. It was a pleasure!
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fantastic couple of days in the middle of Hungary, learning about all things neuroscience at the Cosmos2026 conference. Thank you for the invitation @smikulovic.bsky.social and Balazs, and all the amazing scientist who were presenting. It was a pleasure!
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Loved hosting this symposium with @rungurselrun.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @eknapska.bsky.social, @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and Takashi Kitamura for coming all the way to Germany to share their amazing data — and to our own @c0rr34m.bsky.social and Jeimmy Gonzalez for their great contributions!
October 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Loved hosting this symposium with @rungurselrun.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @eknapska.bsky.social, @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and Takashi Kitamura for coming all the way to Germany to share their amazing data — and to our own @c0rr34m.bsky.social and Jeimmy Gonzalez for their great contributions!
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
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Excited to share we’ve been awarded the ERC StG 🎉 for our project ProSocial, studying neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior in health & disease. Huge thanks to my group for their amazing work & to great colleagues for their support! Positions opening soon—reach out if interested!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Excited to share we’ve been awarded the ERC StG 🎉 for our project ProSocial, studying neural mechanisms of prosocial behavior in health & disease. Huge thanks to my group for their amazing work & to great colleagues for their support! Positions opening soon—reach out if interested!
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
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Currently, there are technologies that can directly read the brain, decipher thoughts and feelings, and implant feelings that are not one’s own
In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid.
#neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...
In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid.
#neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Chile: Pioneering the protection of neurorights
Chile is set to become the first country in the world to legislate on neurotechnologies and include “brain rights” in its constitution.
courier.unesco.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Currently, there are technologies that can directly read the brain, decipher thoughts and feelings, and implant feelings that are not one’s own
In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid.
#neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...
In this era of surveillance capitalism, Be aware, not afraid.
#neuroskyence #science #BrainGames #booksky #WomeninSTEM
courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Check our new manuscript on ‚Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in the hippocampal CA1’
by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in hippocampal CA1
The phenomenon of representational drift (i.e., changing neuronal tuning during repeated exposure to the same stimuli), is a fundamental paradox in neuroscience that raises the question how stable beh...
www.biorxiv.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Check our new manuscript on ‚Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in the hippocampal CA1’
by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
by Ole Sylte, Antje Kilias, Marlene Bartos and Jonas Sauer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 I had the privilege to attend #IBNSConnect conference in Tromsoe last week and it was fantastic. I presented data with the rescue behavior task and the role dorsal hippocampus play in the learning of this behavior. My former PhD supervisor presented my PhD data. I watched the sun *not* set.
June 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🧠📈 I had the privilege to attend #IBNSConnect conference in Tromsoe last week and it was fantastic. I presented data with the rescue behavior task and the role dorsal hippocampus play in the learning of this behavior. My former PhD supervisor presented my PhD data. I watched the sun *not* set.
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we should be better at writing papers, clearly be better at maths (I’m looking at you neuro community). We should engage locally and globally.
When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?
When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?
May 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
we should be better at writing papers, clearly be better at maths (I’m looking at you neuro community). We should engage locally and globally.
When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?
When are we good enough? When can we rest? Could we just accept that it’s okay we’re not trained in, and expertly navigate it all?
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I think what irks me a bit is that PhD’s are expected to do SO many things these days.
We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…
We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…
May 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I think what irks me a bit is that PhD’s are expected to do SO many things these days.
We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…
We should be better communicators, better teachers, experimentally cutting-edge while wielding the state-of-the-art computational methods…
This here
If someone asks a PhD student why society should pay them, I would turn it around to ask why we tolerate CEOs (and uni presidents) making multi-million dollar salaries every year.
Are their individual contributions to society really 1000x more important than even the most obscure thesis?
Are their individual contributions to society really 1000x more important than even the most obscure thesis?
May 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This here
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Now compare that to what works:
Mental health embedded into leadership development
Clear budget and ownership
Real cultural permission to talk about it
Metrics tracked over time
That’s where ROI lives.
Mental health embedded into leadership development
Clear budget and ownership
Real cultural permission to talk about it
Metrics tracked over time
That’s where ROI lives.
May 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Now compare that to what works:
Mental health embedded into leadership development
Clear budget and ownership
Real cultural permission to talk about it
Metrics tracked over time
That’s where ROI lives.
Mental health embedded into leadership development
Clear budget and ownership
Real cultural permission to talk about it
Metrics tracked over time
That’s where ROI lives.
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Too many executives still treat mental health as an HR issue.
It’s not.
It’s a leadership issue.
It’s a business issue.
And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈
Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
It’s not.
It’s a leadership issue.
It’s a business issue.
And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈
Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
May 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Too many executives still treat mental health as an HR issue.
It’s not.
It’s a leadership issue.
It’s a business issue.
And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈
Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
It’s not.
It’s a leadership issue.
It’s a business issue.
And it’s a strategic investment that pays off in real, measurable ways. 🧠📈
Let’s talk ROI. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.
We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
April 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.
We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
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Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.08.647754v1
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧠📈
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Rategory learning: antidromic systems consolidation. Not really, but it’s pithy. 🧠📈
Interactions between the medial prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial striatum, and dorsal hippocampus that support rat category learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.21.649785v1
April 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Rategory learning: antidromic systems consolidation. Not really, but it’s pithy. 🧠📈
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Mark Solms talks about a Patient W he had who had basically his entire frontal lobes (apart from Broca's area) surgically removed as a teenager, due to repeated post-operational infections. This patient was fully conscious (in the responsiveness sense) and reported having mental imagery.
April 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mark Solms talks about a Patient W he had who had basically his entire frontal lobes (apart from Broca's area) surgically removed as a teenager, due to repeated post-operational infections. This patient was fully conscious (in the responsiveness sense) and reported having mental imagery.
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Brain activity during decision-making tasks can be grouped into categories with unique neural signals, highlighting the importance of variability in neuroimaging studies, new work finds.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...
During decision-making, brain shows multiple distinct subtypes of activity
Person-to-person variability in brain activity might represent meaningful differences in cognitive processes, rather than random noise.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Brain activity during decision-making tasks can be grouped into categories with unique neural signals, highlighting the importance of variability in neuroimaging studies, new work finds.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/behavior/dur...
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🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories
Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...
rdcu.be
April 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
How do bats tell navigation from social calls?
Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives.
Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
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🌟We are delighted to announce
🏆Mid-Career Award: Congratulations to Felix Leroy, Principal Investigator at the Cognition and Social Interactions Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (Spain) for his outstanding contributions to Neurosciences
🎉Join us in celebrating his achievement @leroyfelix.bsky.social
🏆Mid-Career Award: Congratulations to Felix Leroy, Principal Investigator at the Cognition and Social Interactions Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (Spain) for his outstanding contributions to Neurosciences
🎉Join us in celebrating his achievement @leroyfelix.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌟We are delighted to announce
🏆Mid-Career Award: Congratulations to Felix Leroy, Principal Investigator at the Cognition and Social Interactions Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (Spain) for his outstanding contributions to Neurosciences
🎉Join us in celebrating his achievement @leroyfelix.bsky.social
🏆Mid-Career Award: Congratulations to Felix Leroy, Principal Investigator at the Cognition and Social Interactions Lab, Instituto de Neurociencias (Spain) for his outstanding contributions to Neurosciences
🎉Join us in celebrating his achievement @leroyfelix.bsky.social
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Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪
Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao
Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov
📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao
Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov
📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors - Nature
A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪
Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao
Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov
📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao
Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov
📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus
Memory engrams are formed through experience-dependent plasticity of neural circuits, but their detailed architectures remain unresolved. Using three-dimensional electron microscopy, we performed nano...
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
The language used is monstrous, this is crazy!
My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.
March 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The language used is monstrous, this is crazy!
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🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n