Marcello Solinas
@msolinas.bsky.social
CNRS Researcher at the University of Poitiers, Inserm, Neuroscience of Addiction, Brain
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
Since the Namboodiri lab isn’t on Bluesky (I think?), I’d like to amplify this cool paper which I and others in the Janak lab made a small contribution to.
Memory erasure by dopamine-gated retrospective learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700100v1
January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since the Namboodiri lab isn’t on Bluesky (I think?), I’d like to amplify this cool paper which I and others in the Janak lab made a small contribution to.
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Excited to share our new publication: Neurochemical and Behavioral Evidence of High Abuse Liability of 3F-NEB, a Novel Synthetic Cathinone
Grateful for the support and teamwork during this journey. @msolinas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Grateful for the support and teamwork during this journey. @msolinas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neurochemical and Behavioral Evidence of High Abuse Liability of 3F-NEB, a Novel Synthetic Cathinone
Synthetic cathinones constitute a major class of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) with significant abuse potential. Within this class, 3F-N-ethylbuph…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Excited to share our new publication: Neurochemical and Behavioral Evidence of High Abuse Liability of 3F-NEB, a Novel Synthetic Cathinone
Grateful for the support and teamwork during this journey. @msolinas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Grateful for the support and teamwork during this journey. @msolinas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
Matthias Michel, Consciousness doesn't do that - PhilPapers
The question of which mental functions require consciousness has recently come to the forefront because of its relevance for investigating animal consciousness. Finding out that an animal can perform ...
philpapers.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
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I’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature
Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.
Full text here:
rdcu.be/eY5nh
Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.
Full text here:
rdcu.be/eY5nh
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I’m very happy to share the latest from my lab published in @Nature
Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.
Full text here:
rdcu.be/eY5nh
Hippocampal neurons that initially encode reward shift their tuning over the course of days to precede or predict reward.
Full text here:
rdcu.be/eY5nh
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
According to Podcast Jay, he can silence anyone or anything as long as he calls it “DEI.”
It’s his magic censorship phrase.
It’s his magic censorship phrase.
January 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
According to Podcast Jay, he can silence anyone or anything as long as he calls it “DEI.”
It’s his magic censorship phrase.
It’s his magic censorship phrase.
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New Element in the #PhilBio series by Varga, Latham & @edouardmachery.bsky.social—free to download until Jan 26! If you are looking for a nice introduction to experimental #philmedicine, with an overview of debates & challenges, this book is for you! www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #HPS
January 12, 2026 at 3:51 PM
New Element in the #PhilBio series by Varga, Latham & @edouardmachery.bsky.social—free to download until Jan 26! If you are looking for a nice introduction to experimental #philmedicine, with an overview of debates & challenges, this book is for you! www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #HPS
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Reposted by Marcello Solinas
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How does your favorite gene respond to stress? Check out our updated “Stressome-app”!
In a new @natcomms.nature.com paper we vastly extend our interactive app with loads of bulk and single-cell transcriptomics after acute and chronic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll walk you through👇
In a new @natcomms.nature.com paper we vastly extend our interactive app with loads of bulk and single-cell transcriptomics after acute and chronic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll walk you through👇
January 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
How does your favorite gene respond to stress? Check out our updated “Stressome-app”!
In a new @natcomms.nature.com paper we vastly extend our interactive app with loads of bulk and single-cell transcriptomics after acute and chronic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll walk you through👇
In a new @natcomms.nature.com paper we vastly extend our interactive app with loads of bulk and single-cell transcriptomics after acute and chronic stress. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll walk you through👇
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The feeling of dread upon reading the news is overwhelming. As a child of the 1980s I could never have imagined I'd live to see the collapse of our civilization
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The feeling of dread upon reading the news is overwhelming. As a child of the 1980s I could never have imagined I'd live to see the collapse of our civilization
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#ESR bilan 2025 : l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France décrochent sévèrement du peloton de tête, y compris en Europe. Dans de nombreux domaines nous sommes désormais derrière l'Espagne, l'Italie et surtout les Pays-Bas. A lire universites2024.fr/esr-la-franc...
ESR : la France accentue son décrochage en 2025 - Universités 2024
Au-delà des péripéties politiques (changements de gouvernement, budgets en attente), que retenir de cette année 2025 ? S’il ne fallait retenir qu’une chose, c’est l’absence quasi totale dans les débat...
universites2024.fr
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
#ESR bilan 2025 : l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France décrochent sévèrement du peloton de tête, y compris en Europe. Dans de nombreux domaines nous sommes désormais derrière l'Espagne, l'Italie et surtout les Pays-Bas. A lire universites2024.fr/esr-la-franc...
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Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Enlightening the brain
medium.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
medium.com/the-spike/20...
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
The Entangled Brain
Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
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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...
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Are you an international Master’s student interested in pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience in Paris?
DIM C-BRAINS has opened a call for applications (deadline Feb 1, 2026!).
👉 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
We propose the project “Body-brain mechanisms regulating positive & negative valence”.
DIM C-BRAINS has opened a call for applications (deadline Feb 1, 2026!).
👉 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
We propose the project “Body-brain mechanisms regulating positive & negative valence”.
DIM C-BRAINS
Cognition and Brain Revolutions: Artificial Intelligence, Neurogenomics, Society
dim-cbrains.fr
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Are you an international Master’s student interested in pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience in Paris?
DIM C-BRAINS has opened a call for applications (deadline Feb 1, 2026!).
👉 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
We propose the project “Body-brain mechanisms regulating positive & negative valence”.
DIM C-BRAINS has opened a call for applications (deadline Feb 1, 2026!).
👉 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
We propose the project “Body-brain mechanisms regulating positive & negative valence”.
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
Explore the first seven parts of American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Explore the first seven parts of American Science, Shattered
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
Reposted by Marcello Solinas
New review out! 🔥🧊
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The thermosensory system across insects and mammals has shared principles of neuronal wiring and encoding. In this Review, Carta, Vestergaard and Poulet discuss how the nervous systems of insects and ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
New review out! 🔥🧊
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1
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All reviewers should read this 👇
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time
I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
All reviewers should read this 👇
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🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif