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Rebecca Horne
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Art director @thetransmitter.bsky.social, Artist @rebeccahornephotography.com
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Refreshingly crisp art by Chris Gash for today's essay from Tim Requarth for "Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind" for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... #sciart
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Super cool by art Kai Gietzen for today's article by Lauren Schneider: Neuro’s ark: Understanding fast foraging with star-nosed moles. With MacArthur genius Kenneth Catania for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/n... #sciart
Star nosed mole in a cave surrounded by traces of its hunting process, foraging for worms.
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Fetching art by Michela Buttignol for todays article: BRAIN Initiative researchers ‘dream big’ amid shifts in leadership, funding--but whether it is feasible remains an open question. Words by Claudia Lopez Lloreda for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/brain... #sciart
BRAIN Initiative researchers ‘dream big’ amid shifts in leadership, funding
But whether the initiative’s road map for the next decade is feasible remains an open question.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Lucious art @Ibrahim Rayintakath @Kenneth Harris's essay "How to collaborate with AI": Turn your scientific question into a set of concrete, checkable proposals, wire up an automatic scoring loop, and let the AI iterate. @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscienti... #sciart
How to collaborate with AI
To make the best use of LLMs in research, turn your scientific question into a set of concrete, checkable proposals, wire up an automatic scoring loop, and let the AI iterate.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Lively portrait art Michela Buttignol for Katie Moisse's Frameshift: Ubadah Sabbagh embraces the world outside academia: As chief of staff at Arcadia, he gets to push the boundaries of how science gets done. For @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Ubadah Sabbagh on thinking outside the box at a biotech firm
As chief of staff at Arcadia, Ubadah Sabbagh finds creative fulfillment in mixing science and business.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Rich art by Harol Bustos for Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience by Michael Halassa @thetransmitter.bsky.social: Dissecting parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms: www.thetransmitter.org/psychiatry/c... #sciart
Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Original, fresh and smart: today's art Yihui Chang for @thetransmitter.bsky.social's series, This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood: www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
three rows of ants progressing under the watchful eye of a researcher.
January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Electric art from Kai Gietzen for @callimcflurry.bsky.social's latest: How goats can model neurodegeneration. Debunking an urban legend that headbutting animals don’t get brain damage, Nicole Ackermans studies related neurodegeneration. @thetransmitter.bsky.social Transmitter #sciart bit.ly/4aOvi8e
January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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So happy with today's art by Maria Corte for The 1,000 neuron challenge by Tom Stafford: www.thetransmitter.org/computationa... #sciart via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
The 1,000 neuron challenge
A competition to design small, efficient neural models may provide new insight into real brains—and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Sweet art by Adam Parata for AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor by Russell Poldrack for @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... #sciart
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Lively portrait art by Michela Buttignol for Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her career pivot
As chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Wiseman applies skills she learned in the lab to manage the journal. by Katie Moisse @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/f...
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
As chief editor of Nature Neuroscience, Wiseman applies critical-thinking skills she learned in the lab to manage the journal’s day-to-day operations.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Spectacular art from Harol Bustos for today's essay: Basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs: zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines. Alex Kwan for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop... #sciart
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Bold photo by Richard Drury for today's Exclusive @callimcflurry.bsky.social: Shredded results: The Transmitter identified at least 90 publications that cite a version of the questionable dataset. www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... from @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Uncanny art by Sandro Rybak lights up today's article: Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience by Nedah Nemati, Matt Whiteway via @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/behavioral-n... #sciart
Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
Machine learning should not be a replacement for human judgment but rather help us embrace the various assumptions and interpretations that shape behavioral research.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Neuron illustration by Julien Posture for today's This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on population coding. The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons play a key role in cognition. for @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
A single neuron in pink and red projects multiple neuron shadows on the wall behind it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Fave illo by @vahrammuradyan.bsky.social: What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
Respondents pointed to computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neuroimaging, among other subfields. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #sciart
Survey: What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
Respondents pointed to computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neuroimmunology and neuroimaging, among other subfields.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Psyched to share the beautiful art in @thetransmitter.bsky.social State of Neuroscience Special Report by Eoin Ryan and Vahram Muradyan www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu... #SciArt
The State of Neuroscience 2025
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Cerebral mouse brain art by Yihui Chang for Community-designed experiments: More than 50 scientists came together to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models. By Jérôme Lecoq for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
A community-designed experiment on predictive processing
More than 50 scientists came together to identify the key missing data needed to rigorously test theoretical models.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Delicate collage from Michela Buttignol for: Going against the gut: Q&A with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
A new review of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread errors @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...
Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell
A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Rich textures in this brain art by Maria Cortes for Perimenopause: An important transition for the brain. We still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research is essential. by Marija Kundakovic via @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones... #sciart
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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
Timothy O'Leary for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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