Emily A. Aery Jones
@emilyaeryjones.bsky.social
Postdoc studying spatial memory 🐭🧠 at Stanford
Incoming Asst Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore starting Jan 2026
NINDS Alzheimers K99 awardee
interneuron enthusiast, sharp-wave ripple lover & code monkey
https://aeryjoneslab.github.io
she/her
Incoming Asst Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore starting Jan 2026
NINDS Alzheimers K99 awardee
interneuron enthusiast, sharp-wave ripple lover & code monkey
https://aeryjoneslab.github.io
she/her
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We are so excited to announce that Emily Aery Jones, PhD, will be joining us this January as an Assistant Professor in UM-MIND and the Department of Neurobiology!
Emily's work explores the dynamics of hippocampal inputs in learning and Alzheimer's disease. Welcome, @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social!
Emily's work explores the dynamics of hippocampal inputs in learning and Alzheimer's disease. Welcome, @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social!
I am thrilled to announce that the Aery Jones lab will be starting in January 2026 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore!
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Thanks, Adrian! I’m excited to be starting a lab at the University of Utah (theluolab.org)!
We’re recruiting at all levels.
If you’re excited about neural computation, large-scale multi-region recordings, and machine learning, let’s talk!
And yes, the mountains are as incredible as they say!
We’re recruiting at all levels.
If you’re excited about neural computation, large-scale multi-region recordings, and machine learning, let’s talk!
And yes, the mountains are as incredible as they say!
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thanks, Adrian! I’m excited to be starting a lab at the University of Utah (theluolab.org)!
We’re recruiting at all levels.
If you’re excited about neural computation, large-scale multi-region recordings, and machine learning, let’s talk!
And yes, the mountains are as incredible as they say!
We’re recruiting at all levels.
If you’re excited about neural computation, large-scale multi-region recordings, and machine learning, let’s talk!
And yes, the mountains are as incredible as they say!
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Now that we're all back from SFN, let's chat about @thetransmitter.bsky.social "State of Neuroscience" report. It's huge! So much to discuss!
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
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.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Now that we're all back from SFN, let's chat about @thetransmitter.bsky.social "State of Neuroscience" report. It's huge! So much to discuss!
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Let me share what I see. I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.
Let's start with the semantic map /1
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Big shoutout to my K99/R00 PO, who dove into her 6 week backlog of emails to respond to my R00 application mere hours after the government re-opened. And then she responded to my reply, 1 hour later. Her email speed skills are legendary.
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Big shoutout to my K99/R00 PO, who dove into her 6 week backlog of emails to respond to my R00 application mere hours after the government re-opened. And then she responded to my reply, 1 hour later. Her email speed skills are legendary.
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🧠 The Cai Lab will be at #SfN25!
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🧠 The Cai Lab will be at #SfN25!
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
Be sure to stop by the poster sessions to check out Hailey's work on decision-making, @zachtpennington.bsky.social's work on stress, @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social's work on seizures, Alexa's work on cocaine seeking, and Sandra's work on context representations 🤓
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SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Very cool new research from the Mellor lab continuing the BTSP story: CA1 OL-M neurons decrease their activity in novel environments, ungating EC inputs and enabling formation of new place fields.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hippocampal OLM interneurons regulate CA1 place cell plasticity and remapping - Nature Communications
Stability and flexibility are important, if antagonistic, features of memory. Here the authors show that a class of inhibitory neurons regulate plasticity and therefore the stability of memory represe...
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Very cool new research from the Mellor lab continuing the BTSP story: CA1 OL-M neurons decrease their activity in novel environments, ungating EC inputs and enabling formation of new place fields.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another masterpiece from the Conant lab! Hapln2 is elevated in ApoE4 mice, yet another example of perineuronal net dysfunction in #Alzheimers
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Increased levels of HAPLN2, which anchors dense extracellular matrix, in the hippocampus of APOE4 targeted replacement mice
Hyaluronan and proteoglycan link protein 2 (HAPLN2) / Brain link protein-1 (Bral1) is important for the binding of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) to hyaluronan and thus for the formation of...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another masterpiece from the Conant lab! Hapln2 is elevated in ApoE4 mice, yet another example of perineuronal net dysfunction in #Alzheimers
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Power Pixels pipeline just keeps getting better! The latest update comes with:
- OpenEphys support
- AP_Histology support
- automatic high-frequency noise reduction
- NWB format export option
- zarr compression of raw data
And, most importantly: a cool new logo!
github.com/NeuroNetMem/...
- OpenEphys support
- AP_Histology support
- automatic high-frequency noise reduction
- NWB format export option
- zarr compression of raw data
And, most importantly: a cool new logo!
github.com/NeuroNetMem/...
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Power Pixels pipeline just keeps getting better! The latest update comes with:
- OpenEphys support
- AP_Histology support
- automatic high-frequency noise reduction
- NWB format export option
- zarr compression of raw data
And, most importantly: a cool new logo!
github.com/NeuroNetMem/...
- OpenEphys support
- AP_Histology support
- automatic high-frequency noise reduction
- NWB format export option
- zarr compression of raw data
And, most importantly: a cool new logo!
github.com/NeuroNetMem/...
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#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#SfN25 attendees - make sure to head to the posters when you get to the meeting on Saturday afternoon (V7-V11: Gretchen, Megan, Margaret, Louisa, Bella) and Sunday morning (KK17: Micaela) to hear about our work. We're printing the posters now and they look rad.
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SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
artologica.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning in naturalistic environments are not fully understood. Here authors show that reinforcement learning (RL) agents with hippocampal-like recurrence, u...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
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My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience
Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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When the Black Lives Matter protests broke out around the nation, I was one of those who was challenged to look at my own life and what I could do to change the system. I wrote this piece, and every word remains as true today as it did in 2021
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
🧪
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
🧪
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
When the Black Lives Matter protests broke out around the nation, I was one of those who was challenged to look at my own life and what I could do to change the system. I wrote this piece, and every word remains as true today as it did in 2021
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
🧪
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
🧪
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@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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Of all the amazing things that I've heard these past 2 days, I want to amplify this one in hopes that if there is a trainee out there that needs to hear this, it will reach them.
Viviana is among the best minds of this era. Her story is telling. She said (and I endorse):
Viviana is among the best minds of this era. Her story is telling. She said (and I endorse):
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Of all the amazing things that I've heard these past 2 days, I want to amplify this one in hopes that if there is a trainee out there that needs to hear this, it will reach them.
Viviana is among the best minds of this era. Her story is telling. She said (and I endorse):
Viviana is among the best minds of this era. Her story is telling. She said (and I endorse):
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This recent survey by Nature reveals the happiest PhDs in the world👇
Brazil, Australia, and Italy report the highest PhD satisfaction, though for very different reasons.
Brazil, Australia, and Italy report the highest PhD satisfaction, though for very different reasons.
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This recent survey by Nature reveals the happiest PhDs in the world👇
Brazil, Australia, and Italy report the highest PhD satisfaction, though for very different reasons.
Brazil, Australia, and Italy report the highest PhD satisfaction, though for very different reasons.
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Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
Bat Island: The New Era of Science
YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...
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In this month’s “Liftoff,” @neurojacob.bsky.social talks about how there is no one “holy” method in neuroscience, and @izzynchristie.bsky.social reflects on her mentor’s advice and the value of persistence.
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @neurojacob.bsky.social talks about how there is no one “holy” method in neuroscience, and @izzynchristie.bsky.social reflects on her mentor’s advice and the value of persistence.
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
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Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)
The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex
The organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)
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Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
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Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory
How does the brain access stored knowledge? It has been proposed that conceptual search engages neurocognitive processes similar to foraging in physical space. We tested this idea using intracranial E...
www.biorxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Distinct neocortical and entorhinal networks for time, space, and reward https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682150v1
October 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Distinct neocortical and entorhinal networks for time, space, and reward https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682150v1
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New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122
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Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).