Vitor Lopes dos Santos
@vitorlds.bsky.social
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Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Division of Neuroscience at @manchester.ac.uk as a Lecturer in Feb '26!
The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭
The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Division of Neuroscience at @manchester.ac.uk as a Lecturer in Feb '26!
The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭
The DuLab will explore how the brain integrates sensory streams into internal maps 🌐 using the rodent head-direction circuit, the 'neural compass', as a starting point for the journey 🧭
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Spread the word! 🗣️🎙️
Together with @azulsilva.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Magdalena Miranda, supported by @elife.bsky.social, we’re organizing a webinar bringing together people working in science communication and outreach.
Please, feel free to share the flyer with anyone who might be interested!
Together with @azulsilva.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Magdalena Miranda, supported by @elife.bsky.social, we’re organizing a webinar bringing together people working in science communication and outreach.
Please, feel free to share the flyer with anyone who might be interested!
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Spread the word! 🗣️🎙️
Together with @azulsilva.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Magdalena Miranda, supported by @elife.bsky.social, we’re organizing a webinar bringing together people working in science communication and outreach.
Please, feel free to share the flyer with anyone who might be interested!
Together with @azulsilva.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Magdalena Miranda, supported by @elife.bsky.social, we’re organizing a webinar bringing together people working in science communication and outreach.
Please, feel free to share the flyer with anyone who might be interested!
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This is beautiful work and quite the discovery. This also plays nicely with the idea that superficial place cells are rigid and deep are flexible. Seems to suggest that the flexibility is more about past rep's integrating with newer rep's, than the opposite.
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is beautiful work and quite the discovery. This also plays nicely with the idea that superficial place cells are rigid and deep are flexible. Seems to suggest that the flexibility is more about past rep's integrating with newer rep's, than the opposite.
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The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS
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I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics
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The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
Sosa Lab
www.sosaneurolab.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
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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
September 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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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Proud to take on this challenge: building the new Centro de Neurociencias Cajal @institutocajal.bsky.social into a space where neuroscience crosses boundaries and transforms how we understand the 🧠!!
🚨 La neurocientífica 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗻é𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘇 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 (@lmprida.bsky.social) es la nueva directora del 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗹 (𝗖𝗡𝗖) del @csic.es
👉 Su reto: situar a España en la vanguardia internacional con proyectos que transformen cómo entendemos el cerebro.
Más info: bit.ly/3I2QVFL
👉 Su reto: situar a España en la vanguardia internacional con proyectos que transformen cómo entendemos el cerebro.
Más info: bit.ly/3I2QVFL
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Proud to take on this challenge: building the new Centro de Neurociencias Cajal @institutocajal.bsky.social into a space where neuroscience crosses boundaries and transforms how we understand the 🧠!!
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Going to open an escape room where hippocampus researchers have to solve riddles without using space as an explanation for everything
July 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Going to open an escape room where hippocampus researchers have to solve riddles without using space as an explanation for everything
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Our collaboration - from PhD work - examining input-specific (EC L3) contributions to rate and temporal coding in CA1 place cells is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🔬🧠
rdcu.be/evWtz
rdcu.be/evWtz
Direct entorhinal control of CA1 temporal coding
Nature Communications - Temporal coding in the hippocampus is thought to be key for memory and predictions. Here, the authors show that blocking one entorhinal input affects two aspects of...
rdcu.be
July 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our collaboration - from PhD work - examining input-specific (EC L3) contributions to rate and temporal coding in CA1 place cells is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🔬🧠
rdcu.be/evWtz
rdcu.be/evWtz
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I know it’s popular to think of citations as attribution of credit, but a part of me also likes to think of them as a trail of fun breadcrumbs for someone 20 years in the future.
July 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I know it’s popular to think of citations as attribution of credit, but a part of me also likes to think of them as a trail of fun breadcrumbs for someone 20 years in the future.
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this heat map study of gender differences of walking through urban environments at night is not surprising, but still sort of incredible to see
news.byu.edu/intellect/st...
news.byu.edu/intellect/st...
Study visually captures hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for women
An eye-catching new BYU study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.
news.byu.edu
June 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
this heat map study of gender differences of walking through urban environments at night is not surprising, but still sort of incredible to see
news.byu.edu/intellect/st...
news.byu.edu/intellect/st...
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It's so heartbreaking to see one of the 'three angry old men'* flirting w the idea of bombing a country so nonchalantly.
Like 90million ppl are at the mercy of the 'noise' in his drift diffusion process--is it accumulating to this bound or that bound😞
*see this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Like 90million ppl are at the mercy of the 'noise' in his drift diffusion process--is it accumulating to this bound or that bound😞
*see this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
June 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's so heartbreaking to see one of the 'three angry old men'* flirting w the idea of bombing a country so nonchalantly.
Like 90million ppl are at the mercy of the 'noise' in his drift diffusion process--is it accumulating to this bound or that bound😞
*see this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Like 90million ppl are at the mercy of the 'noise' in his drift diffusion process--is it accumulating to this bound or that bound😞
*see this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.
(1/13)
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.
(1/13)
June 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social !
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.
(1/13)
With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding.
(1/13)
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🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics?
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.
Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.
Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
May 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics?
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.
Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes.
Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...
Laboratory Research Assistant (Contractual)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
umb.taleo.net
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm hiring a lab tech! If you know any talented college seniors or recent grads who'd enjoy doing cool neuroscience in Baltimore, please encourage them to consider applying: umb.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing?
Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenScience
Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenScience
May 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing?
Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenScience
Damian Pattinson and I (@elife.bsky.social) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OpenScience
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I made this figure panel size guide to avoid thinking about dimensions every time. Apparently this post is going to be a 🧵! So feel free to bookmark it and save some time of yours.
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I made this figure panel size guide to avoid thinking about dimensions every time. Apparently this post is going to be a 🧵! So feel free to bookmark it and save some time of yours.
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This is not to be missed. You’ll spend your day trying to make RNNs psychotic. And we’ll pay you for it!
📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th.
This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is not to be missed. You’ll spend your day trying to make RNNs psychotic. And we’ll pay you for it!
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Talk 17:
@smikulovic.bsky.social talking about how he work led in her lab about neural mechanisms underlying #helping in mice.
Such a unique research direction. looking forward to her talk. 🤓
@smikulovic.bsky.social talking about how he work led in her lab about neural mechanisms underlying #helping in mice.
Such a unique research direction. looking forward to her talk. 🤓
April 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Talk 17:
@smikulovic.bsky.social talking about how he work led in her lab about neural mechanisms underlying #helping in mice.
Such a unique research direction. looking forward to her talk. 🤓
@smikulovic.bsky.social talking about how he work led in her lab about neural mechanisms underlying #helping in mice.
Such a unique research direction. looking forward to her talk. 🤓
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Given all that is going on consider this quote from Bertram Russell's 1930 book The conquest of Happiness:
“The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”
“The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”
May 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Given all that is going on consider this quote from Bertram Russell's 1930 book The conquest of Happiness:
“The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”
“The man who can be interested in the structure of atoms or the way in which a beetle navigates, is likely to get a joy in life which no amount of success in the pursuit of power can give. ”
Great work by @c0rr34m.bsky.social, @smikulovic.bsky.social and colleagues.
Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.08.647754v1
April 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Great work by @c0rr34m.bsky.social, @smikulovic.bsky.social and colleagues.