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Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social.

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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 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.

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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Congratulations to @sciwithrach.bsky.social winner of @womeninneurouk.bsky.social's Communicator of the Year Award, sponsored by @thetransmitter.bsky.sociall. This award celebrates Honeyghan-Williams’ unwavering commitment to translating neuroscience to diverse audiences.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social is a proud sponsor of the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social Awards 2025, celebrating exceptional women in neuroscience and the people driving more inclusive research, at every career stage. This year, The Transmitter will present the Neuroscience Communicator of the Year Award.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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@okaysteve.bsky.social sat down with @franciscorr25.bsky.social to discuss the inspiration behind the book, why he decided to write it partly as a memoir, and what he wants readers to take away from reading it.

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November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Frontiers in Public Health retracted two papers touting the benefits of an ADHD intervention; one for its “unacceptable level of similarity” to another paper and the other over concerns about its “scientific validity.”

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Journal retracts two papers evaluating ADHD interventions
Frontiers in Public Health retracted one paper for its “unacceptable level of similarity” to another paper, and the other over concerns with its “scientific validity.”…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A set of 12 papers published in Nature journals offers new atlases of brain development and hints at the varied evolutionary origins of different cell types.

By Holly Barker

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Constellation of studies charts brain development, offers ‘dramatic revision’
The atlases could pinpoint pathways that determine the fate of cells linked to neurodevelopmental conditions.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.

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Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science
Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Congratulations to Sheena Josselyn @sjo09.bsky.social, contributing editor at @thetransmitter.bsky.social, on winning the 2025 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize in recognition of her profound impact on memory research.

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November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others.

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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 4:07 PM
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Congratulations to Josh Sanes, one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s contributing editors, on being awarded the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, SFN’s top prize, for his seminal contributions to our understanding of neural development.
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Many of our big insights into brain function come from trying to mimic it, writes @timothyoleary.bsky.social. This lesson should guide how we organize research programs.

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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 2:22 PM
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Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europe’s biggest facilities. Neuroscientists are worried.

By Lauren Schenkman

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Nonhuman primate research to lose federal funding at major European facility
The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Hundreds of animal studies about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage show signs of image manipulation or duplication, which may have stalled research into treatments.

By @lauren-schneider.com

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Image integrity issues create new headache for subarachnoid hemorrhage research
First-time sleuths found potentially problematic images in hundreds of papers about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Over-active excitatory neurons in the cortex in infant mice lead to social deficits, according to a new preprint that study researchers claim can sway the debate over how signaling imbalances contribute to autism.

By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social

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Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice
The findings add fuel to the long-running debate over how an imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory signaling contributes to the autism.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.

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Psychedelics muddy fMRI results: Q&A with Adam Bauer and Jonah Padawer-Curry
The drugs disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” Sandra Jurado explains how a 2006 Cell paper taught her that synaptic vesicles aren’t passive containers for neurotransmitters but dynamic, precision-built nanomachines.

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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 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Cracking the worm would provide a test bed for how molecular recipes generate neural physiology. And it would allow us to understand how neurons work together to yield emergent brain functions, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social.

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Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now
Applying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology and how neurons work together to generate…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The first Pan-African neuroscience journal, the African Brain Journal, prepares to launch.

By Lauren Schenkman

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First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch
The new journal hopes to give African neuroscience research much-needed international visibility.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.

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The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick.

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Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Congratulations to @callimcflurry.bsky.social for winning a 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications. Read Calli’s award-winning work:
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Why do human synapses take so much longer to form than those in other mammals? Chimeric mice transplanted with human neurons are beginning to provide some answers.

By Holly Barker

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Protein tug-of-war controls pace of synaptic development, sets human brains apart
Human-specific duplicates of SRGAP2 prolong cortical development by manipulating SYNGAP, an autism-linked protein that slows synaptic growth.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In the amygdala, noradrenergic signaling in astrocytes could prime their response to nearby neurons that helps stabilize fear memories.

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Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify memories
Disrupting the astrocyte-neuronal dynamic in mice destabilizes their memory of fear conditioning.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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How is it that some nociceptors—the sensory neurons that detect heat, chemical irritants and toxins—can withstand a lifespan’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli, whereas others die? New findings reveal how they do it.

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Neurons modulate sensitivity via electron transport chain
Some nociceptors can survive a lifetime’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli by reducing their mitochondria’s production of reactive oxygen species.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM