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Rebecca Horne
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Art director @thetransmitter.bsky.social, Artist @rebeccahornephotography.com
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Lush art by @Merijn Hos for today's essay about the importance of primates in neuroscience by Cory Miller, J. Anthony Movshon, Doris Tsao: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/witho... for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Clear cut illustration from Alonso Guzmán Barone: A searchable online repository can restore trust in federally funded basic science: Check out U.S. Public Research Benefits: publicusaresearchbenefits.com via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Original art Ibrahim Rayintakath for today's @thetransmitter.bsky.social article on neuroscience and AI. "Original" is high praise--the art uses a fresh visual metaphor for AI and algorithms, and the heat-map palette references science research: www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear... #sciart
How neuroscientists are using AI
Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Architectural art by Matthieu Bourel for today's essay: Neuroscience needs engineers—Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities, by
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Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Sci-Fi art by Jun Cen for The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory: Bifurcations can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to novel functions. By Xiao-Jing Wang for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
Ice turns to water in a cascading waterfall
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Brisk art by Julien Posture for today's "This paper changed my life": Sandra Jurado marvels at the first-ever 3D model of a synaptic vesicle via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
This paper changed my life: Sandra Jurado marvels at the first-ever 3D model of a synaptic vesicle
In this 2006 Cell paper, Shigeo Takamori and his colleagues showcased the molecular machinery of synaptic vesicles in outstanding detail. Their work taught me that these aren’t just passive containers...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Neuroscience needs worms! Spirited art by Kathleen Fu for today's essay by Ed Boyden and Konrad Kording: Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
a mechanical worm made out of various imaging techniques and shapes.
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Real time bat and man portraits by Ronen Goldman for today's profile: Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky. The neuroscientist creates microcosms of the natural world to understand behavior, including in a bat study published today.
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Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior, including in a bat study published today.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Supple art by Ariel Davis for today's article by David Adam: New questions around motor neurons and plasticity, A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit: from @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Brainy art by Yihui Chang for Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration. You need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.
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Reproducibility is a team sport
Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Retraction stories can be a challenge to illustrate, so I'm working with photographer Richard Drury to concept images that fit the bill: Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication:
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Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication
The 2009 Neurobiology of Disease paper touted gelsolin’s ability to reduce amyloid burden.
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September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Check out Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators by Michele Rosenthal on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators
We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Marvelous art by Ibrahim Rayintakath graces today's essay: Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality.
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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Dynamic, compact art from Maria Cortez for today's article: International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever by @lucinauddin.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/inte... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever
These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Fresh collage by Lucie Wimetz featuring Patricia Bath and Herman Branson: Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education. By @jheannellejohnson.bsky.social for @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Patricia Bath and Herman Branson portraits with buildings from various historically black colleges, a microscope and brain imaging.
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A few weeks ago, illustrator Yihui Chang sent me an excellent cold email pitch. Showcasing her first illo @thetransmitter.bsky.social: "Emotion research has a communication conundrum @nicolecrust.bsky.social unpacks the different rationales and invites experts to chime in." bit.ly/4ng6BnU #sciart
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
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September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Juicy art @ Ariel Davis for today's essay: Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? @ Ben Dichter
lnkd.in/dxcKG6Rf from @thetransmitter.bsky.social Transmitter. A classic editor vs AD dilemma: I wanted vibes and they wanted code. We met in the middle: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca... #Sciart
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Fauvist vibes from Eoin Ryan for @elvisha.bsky.social essay: Deleting data will erase years of valuable brain research
Open datasets have pushed science forward, but new federal restrictions put research in jeopardy @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc... #SciArt
Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research
An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…
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August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Taylor Roades portraits shine for "Up and out with Peggy Mason" by Sydney Wyatt. Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course: www.thetransmitter.org/empathy/up-a... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Up and out with Peggy Mason
Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Graceful art from Sunnu Rebecca Choi for today's news from Katie Moisse: The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/the... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes
Grouping people with autism based on shared features, genetics and co-occurring conditions may improve clinical trial outcomes, researchers say.
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August 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Joyous art by Julien Posture for today's essay This paper changed my life: Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
By Abigail Person for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
This 2002 Nature paper by Michael Fee and colleagues revealed elegant neural mechanisms controlling the timing of naturally learned behavior.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Impressionistic art by Enigmatriz: Babies, bees and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness to truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems. Tim Bayne for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes... #sciart
August 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Sharp art by Jon Han for today's essay: The challenge of defining a neural population: Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics. By Mark Humphries for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #sciart
The challenge of defining a neural population
Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Architectural and biological shapes mix in Kathleen Fu illustration for Megan Peters and Bradley Roberts essay via @thetransmitter.bsky.social: How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
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How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this…
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July 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Savory art Julien Posture for today's essay by Victoria Abraira for The Transmitter: This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior: www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior
The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM