The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Null and Noteworthy: Neurons tracking sequences don’t fire in order
Astrocytes sense neuromodulators to orchestrate neuronal activity and shape behavior
Today’s action potentials
”There's an entire level of regulation of the brain that we have been, for the most part, ignoring. We need to step back and think more about how astrocytes are inserting themselves into the equation. — MARC FREEMAN, SENIOR SCIENTIST AT OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease
On the importance of reading (just not too much)
INSAR takes ‘intentional break’ from annual summer webinar series
Upcoming Online Seminars
NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training
NIH autism database announcement raises concerns among researchers
FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations
Multisite connectome teams lose federal funding as result of Harvard cuts
Sounding the alarm on pseudoreplication: Q&A with Constantinos Eleftheriou and Peter Kind
How to communicate the value of curiosity-driven research
Neuroscience Ph.D. programs adjust admissions in response to U.S. funding uncertainty
Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight from the octopus brain.
The last two-author neuroscience paper?
Author lists on papers have ballooned, and it’s getting hard to discern contribution.
Why the 21st-century neuroscientist needs to be neuroethically engaged
Thinking about thinking: AI offers theoretical insights into human memory
Keeping it personal: How to preserve your voice when using AI
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
The big idea with Diego Bohórquez
His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication.
Neuroscientist Gerry Fischbach, in his own words
Amina Abubakar translates autism research and care for Kenya
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A README for open neuroscience
‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
‘Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors,’ an excerpt
‘Bioethics and Brains: A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics,’ an excerpt
Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, training large models on vast amounts of information. We asked nine experts on computational neuroscience and neural data analysis to weigh in.
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
Teasing out how different subfields conceptualize central terms might help move this long-standing debate forward. I asked eight scientists to weigh in.