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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    A 1940s fly paper’s influence on Bradley Dickerson

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    How neuroscience advocacy groups are navigating DEI cuts

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    Q&A with Black In Neuro co-founder Clíona Kelly

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    How to be a multidisciplinary neuroscientist

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    Striking a pose with Aya Osman

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    Celebrating Black History Month in Neuroscience

    First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch

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    Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs

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Featured

Mouse father with pups.
Social behavior

Single gene sways caregiving circuits, behavior in male mice

By Natalia Mesa
18 February 2026 | 6 min read

Latest

Animal models

Neuroscience has a species problem

This paper changed my life

This paper changed my life: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure

Spectrum

Sex bias in autism drops as age at diagnosis rises

Spectrum

Microglia implicated in infantile amnesia

Myelin

Oligodendrocytes need mechanical cues to myelinate axons correctly

Brain Inspired

Modern AI is simply no match for the complexity likely required for harboring consciousness, says Jaan Aru

Aging

Aging neurons outsource garbage disposal, clog microglia

Community

Oregon primate research center to negotiate with NIH on possible transition to sanctuary

Today’s action potentials

SUMMER COURSE
The Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme is holding a course on “Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality” in Lisbon, Portugal from 7-26 June. Applications are open until 3 March. (The course is sponsored by the Simons Foundation, The Transmitter’s parent organization.)
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Single-synapse studies would enable the field to revisit studies of synaptic transmission and plasticity of the past 70 years at single-synapse resolution. — SETH GRANT, PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

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PLAY PRETEND
In Science, Amalia P.M. Bastos and Christopher Krupenye find that a language-train bonobo named Kanzi is able to understand and identify pretend objects, suggesting that the cognitive ability to form secondary representations may have emerged as far back as 9 million years ago.
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Perspectives

Illustration with silhouettes of a human, bat and nonhuman primate.
Animal models

Neuroscience has a species problem

By Nanthia Suthana
16 February 2026 | 7 min read
Gloved hand reaches out to touch a mouse.
This paper changed my life

This paper changed my life: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure

By Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
13 February 2026 | 7 min read
Illustration of flocking birds.
Defining cell types Microphone

From genes to dynamics: Examining brain cell types in action may reveal the logic of brain function

By Liset M. de la Prida
9 February 2026 | 6 min read
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Artificial intelligence Microphone

Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind

By Tim Requarth
2 February 2026 | 11 min read
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Spectrum logo
A boy and girl run in a field.
Spectrum

Sex bias in autism drops as age at diagnosis rises

By Helena Kudiabor
13 February 2026 | 4 min read
Spectrum

New insights on sex bias in autism, and more

Spectrum

Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted

Research image of the mouse dentate gyrus.
Spectrum

Microglia implicated in infantile amnesia

By Lauren Schneider
12 February 2026 | 5 min read
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Funding and policy

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Community Microphone

Oregon primate research center to negotiate with NIH on possible transition to sanctuary

By Calli McMurray
9 February 2026 | 6 min read
Walter Koroshetz.
Science and society

‘Peer review is our strength’: Q&A with Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director

By Angie Voyles Askham
27 January 2026 | 7 min read
Curvy lines link brain scans and a world map.
Policy

BRAIN Initiative researchers ‘dream big’ amid shifts in leadership, funding

By Claudia López Lloreda
23 January 2026 | 6 min read
Two piggy banks whose slots form a plus symbol and a minus symbol.
Funding

Neuroscience, BRAIN Initiative gain budget in ‘bad’ NIH funding bill

By Angie Voyles Askham
22 January 2026 | 4 min read
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Craft and careers

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Craft and careers

Frameshift: At a biotech firm, Ubadah Sabbagh embraces the expansive world outside academia

By Katie Moisse
20 January 2026 | 7 min read
Overlapping speech bubbles.
Top quotes

Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
Collage illustration of Shari Wiseman.
Frameshift

Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing

By Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 min read
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Features

Researcher Russell Poldrack's face closeup, with a scanner seen out of focus behind him.
Brain imaging

A brief history of precision self-scanning

When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.

By Lauren Gravitz
21 January 2026 | 13 min read
Illustration of two hands holding an abstract geometric object that resembles a human brain.
Neuroscience

The state of neuroscience in 2025: An overview

The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.

By The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 4 min read
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This paper changed my life

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This paper changed my life Microphone

This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood

By John Tuthill
12 January 2026 | 7 min read
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This paper changed my life

The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
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This paper changed my life Microphone

This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding

By Nancy Padilla-Coreano
1 December 2025 | 5 min read
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Publishing

Books.
Books

The Transmitter’s most-read neuroscience book excerpts of 2025

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
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Top news

The Transmitter’s top news articles of 2025

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 3 min read
A stack of papers topped by many paper shreddings against a red background.
Retraction Microphone

Exclusive: Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset

By Calli McMurray
8 December 2025 | 5 min read
Kevin B Marvel.
Teaching

A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego

By Natalia Mesa
16 November 2025 | 6 min read
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PROFILES

Stars shooting upward.
Early-career researchers

The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read
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Community

The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 21 min read
Nachum Ulanovsky sits against a black background with one bat in his hands and another with its wings spread above his head.
Neuroethology Microphone

Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky

By Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min read
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Systems neuroscience

A network of connected dots of light hovers inside a translucent human head, with figures in lab coats pointing to it from the foreground.
Psychiatry Microphone

Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience

By Michael Halassa
13 January 2026 | 7 min read
Mouse on top of drinking water spout in crowded cage.
Systems neuroscience Microphone

Cracking the neural code for emotional states

By Natalia Mesa
8 January 2026 | 8 min read
Adam Kampff.
Systems neuroscience Microphone

Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher

By Lauren Schneider
24 December 2025 | 6 min read
Psychedelics Microphone

Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways

By Siddhant Pusdekar
5 December 2025 | 0 min watch
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Books

A see-through human brain with circuits inside it.
Language

‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt

By Gregory Hickok
2 December 2025 | 8 min read
Colorful drawing of a human brain.
Organoids

‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt

By Walter Glannon
11 November 2025 | 7 min read
Colored outlines form the silhouette of a human brain in profile.
Memory

‘How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past,’ an excerpt

By Steve Ramirez
7 November 2025 | 9 min read
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The big picture

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The big picture

The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked 10 neuroscientists what experimental and conceptual methods they think we’re missing.

By Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
A drosophila connectome.
The big picture Microphone

One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research

We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
7 October 2025 | 17 min read
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