Abhilasha Joshi, PhD
@rhythmicspikes.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying interactions between cognition, action & timing
Lab website: neuroact.in
Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
Lab website: neuroact.in
Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
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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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📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance
Working memory (WM), the active retention of information over short periods, is a fundamental cognitive function, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. In rodents, cue-selective "time c...
www.biorxiv.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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In 2021, Sama Ahmed received our Fellows-to-Faculty Award to establish his lab at @uwpsychology.bsky.social, where he focuses on the neurobiology of multitasking: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-sama-ahmed-studies-the-neuroscience-of-multitasking/ #science #neuroscience
Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Sama Ahmed Studies the Neuroscience of Multitasking
Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty alumnus Sama Ahmed spoke with the foundation about his experiences with the fellowship.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM
In 2021, Sama Ahmed received our Fellows-to-Faculty Award to establish his lab at @uwpsychology.bsky.social, where he focuses on the neurobiology of multitasking: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-sama-ahmed-studies-the-neuroscience-of-multitasking/ #science #neuroscience
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Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
Long-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repair
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or...
rdcu.be
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
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Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons facilitate orbitofrontal cortex remapping and behavioral flexibility
Ogg et al. use in vivo imaging techniques to record activity in the locus coeruleus
(LC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) during a reversal learning task in freely
moving rodents. They show that man...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thrilled this is out, led by former PD Cameron Ogg (now with her own lab at @rhodescollege.bsky.social!). It was a driven by a desire to see, in real-time, how LC activity/NE release influences downstream targets in behaving animals. SO hard to do, but Cameron did it! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Excited to share our book chapter on method development advances in integrative structural modeling in Springer Handbooks now online! @shreyasarvindekar.bsky.social @kartikmajila.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Recent Methods from Statistical Inference for Integrative Structural Modeling
Integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies allows for structural characterization of large assemblies that are recalcitrant to direct experimental observation. A Bayesian inference approach fac...
doi.org
January 2, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Excited to share our book chapter on method development advances in integrative structural modeling in Springer Handbooks now online! @shreyasarvindekar.bsky.social @kartikmajila.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Fellows-to-Faculty awardee Abhilasha Joshi used her award establish her lab at the National Center for Biological Sciences. Read more about her work: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-abhilasha-joshi-maps-cognitive-motor-flexibility-across-the-aging-brain/ #neuroscience
Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Abhilasha Joshi Maps Cognitive-Motor Flexibility Across the Aging Brain
Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Abhilasha Joshi Maps Cognitive-Motor Flexibility Across the Aging Brain on Simons Foundation
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December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Fellows-to-Faculty awardee Abhilasha Joshi used her award establish her lab at the National Center for Biological Sciences. Read more about her work: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/fellows-to-faculty-awardee-abhilasha-joshi-maps-cognitive-motor-flexibility-across-the-aging-brain/ #neuroscience
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This month’s newsletter features the debut of “Frameshift,” a new series in which neuroscientists with careers outside the lab discuss their work and how they made the transition. Sign up for the newsletter: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence
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December 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This month’s newsletter features the debut of “Frameshift,” a new series in which neuroscientists with careers outside the lab discuss their work and how they made the transition. Sign up for the newsletter: www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence
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🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
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Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science
Fellows-to-Faculty Award
The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science
Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Discovery
experts.deakin.edu.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.
Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.
Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
share.google
share.google
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
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Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
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Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
(1/N)
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
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Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@antoinecomite.bsky.social
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@antoinecomite.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
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What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
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New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study - Brain Structure and Function
Artificial selection for behavioural traits can significantly affect the anatomy of brain regions related to the behaviour under selection. The homing pigeon (Columba livia) is a prime example of how ...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy