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Yessenia M.C
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~ 🌷 Neuroscientist + Glia enthusiast 🦋 Writer ~ 📚 Music ~ Dark Academia and
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lyndie.bsky.social
Good morning from the moon...
A sliver of a moon in an orange sky. A lone silhouette of a tree on a mountain.
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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urbandragons.com
Crystal clear
The night sky framed by the silhouettes of trees with stars showing, the constellation the Big Dipper is visible in the center top
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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squirlykat.bsky.social
Don’t forget to look up
Moon with a Gaussian blur
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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markolas.bsky.social
Interested in how cortex and striatum contribute to trained vs spontaneous behavior??

If you're at #sfn25, check out @braininspired.bsky.social talk Sunday at 1

#neuroskyence
braininspired.bsky.social Paul Middlebrooks @braininspired.bsky.social · Nov 14
If you're at SfN, stop by my teeny tiny nano talk Sunday at 1:

"Neural population dynamics during naturalistic versus task-related behavior"

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@yttrilab.bsky.social
@markolas.bsky.social
@adeneagle.bsky.social

NANO017.01
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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crowtherlab.bsky.social
Excited to share insights of spinal circuit architecture at #SfN25! Big thanks to the @lifecanvastech.bsky.social team—Chris Tsang, Leah Chesnut, Brenna Fearey, and Zachary Woods—and the VCU Imaging Core's Dr. Tytus Bernas and Terry Smith for their excellent technical support. 🔬
#Neuroscience #SfN
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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glendunlap.bsky.social
Here's how the #Moon looks tonight from #SantaBarbara at about 95% full.
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/10
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO: 800
Close up photo of the Moon at about 95% full
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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neurogut.bsky.social
Glia feed neurons upon starvation: our 2022 Nature Metabolism paper revealed a glia-to-neuron ketone body shuttle 💪
#Memories #EnergyMetabolism #Glia @naturemetabolism.bsky.social ky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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ertrunnell.bsky.social
This new miBrain model from MIT has it all:

🧠 Neurons, microglia, oligodendroglia, astrocytes, pericytes, & brain microvascular endothelial cells
⚙️ Key features & functions of the human brain
👩‍👦 Specificity to individual donors
🧬 Customizability via gene editing
📈 Scalability for large projects
Image from the MIT Picower article, "MIT invents human brain model with six major cell types to enable personalized disease research, drug discovery" with the following caption: “Cyan staining shows each of the six major cell types [pericytes, astrocytes, endothelial cells, neurons, oligodendrocytes, and microglia] integrated in a miBrain culture.” The original image appeared in Figure 1 of the PNAS article, “Engineered 3D immuno-glial-neurovascular human miBrain model” (10.1073/pnas.2511596122) by Stanton et al.
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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mlbbot.bsky.social
The start
The finish
The #CHAMPS
Top: Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki and Yoshinobu Yamamoto pose for a photo on the field during the Tokyo Series. They wear home white Dodgers uniforms with blue and red lettering. Bottom: Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki and Yoshinobu Yamamoto pose for a photo with the World Series trophy in the clubhouse after winning the World Series.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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sgrella.bsky.social
First lab paper out today! Student authors: Mikayla Cutler and Abhi Thati 🎉🤩

Hippocampus | Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Drug‐Related Engrams and Their Role in the Persistence and Recurrence of Drug‐Related Behaviors
Memory is a cornerstone of human behavior, and addiction offers a compelling model of its persistence and plasticity. The scope of engram research has rapidly expanded to include addiction-related ph....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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soroushmirjalili.bsky.social
🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?

In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference
The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...
www.biorxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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samillingworth.com
🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social
Online now: Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor signaling in oligodendrocytes increases the weight-loss action of GLP-1R agonism
Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor signaling in oligodendrocytes increases the weight-loss action of GLP-1R agonism
Hansford et al. show that GIPR, a target of new weight-loss drugs, is found in brain cells called oligodendrocytes. GIPR helps these drugs access the brain and boosts weight loss. Without GIPR in these cells, the drugs are less effective, revealing a new mechanism behind their action.
dlvr.it
August 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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sfn.org
Join SfN and @kavlifoundation.org‬ for an upcoming webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field and get all of your questions answered related to neural adaptation.

Register now 🔗 vist.ly/32mnu

#neurosky
Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments,' happening Wednesday, August 20, from 12–1 p.m. EDT. Features logos of the Society for Neuroscience and The Kavli Foundation, with speaker photos and affiliations: Hans Hofmann (UT Austin), Kimberly Rosvall (Indiana University), and Alison Bell (University of Illinois).
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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dailybunnies.bsky.social
A bunny in a captain's hat with a star emblem lies on a reflective surface.
August 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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natneuro.nature.com
Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals - Nature Neuroscience
The relative contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic factors to astrocyte heterogeneity is unknown. Using heterotropic transplantation of septal astrocytes with distinct lineage origins, we show that ...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
Overcast skies? Find a hummingbird… male Costa’s 🪶☀️🌵
Male Costa’s Hummingbird
August 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun
An artist’s rendition of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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instascience.bsky.social
A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station.

Credits: NASA
June 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Day 15, #30DaysWild. A walk round Little Downham Nature Reserve and some beautiful Hedge woundwort in flower. #WildflowerHour
Dark red and white flowers of Hedge woundwort against a dark green background.
June 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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natneuro.nature.com
Multiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases, and suggests novel mechanisms of hippocampal memory formation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Formation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Multiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases and suggests novel me...
www.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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11hr11min.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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sfn.org
New results show that anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) neurons influence our perception of time.

So how can we use that knowledge to restructure our daily routines and reduce burnout?

#NeuroSky
Illustration of a brain designed as a clock, with highlighted areas and clock hands pointing at 7 and 2.
April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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barnesandnoble.com
It’s all fun and games until you lose your bookmark.
April 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM