The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Nonhuman primate research to lose federal funding at major European facility
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Lauren Schenkman
30 October 2025 | 4 min read
Publishing
Image integrity issues create new headache for subarachnoid hemorrhage research
By
Lauren Schneider
30 October 2025 | 5 min read
Spectrum
Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice
By
Sarah DeWeerdt
30 October 2025 | 6 min read
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“When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly”
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Megan Hastings Hagenauer et al. in PLOS Biology
”Sometimes imposing constraints on a system is actually harder than relaxing those assumptions. We have to squeeze everything into this box to make sure that fMRI is measuring neuronal activity. — JONAH PADAWER-CURRY, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
“Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience”
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Laura L. Grima et al. in Trends in Neurosciences
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Seeing Through Memory Systems
Caroline E. Robertson | Dartmouth College
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
By
Xiao-Jing Wang
27 October 2025 | 9 min listen
This paper changed my life: Sandra Jurado marvels at the first-ever 3D model of a synaptic vesicle
By
Sandra Jurado
21 October 2025 | 6 min listen
Computational neuroscience
Whole-brain, bottom-up neuroscience: The time for it is now
By
Edward Boyden, Konrad Körding
20 October 2025 | 9 min read
The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
By
Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 5 min read
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Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice
By
Sarah DeWeerdt
30 October 2025 | 6 min read
First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch
By
Lauren Schenkman
28 October 2025 | 5 min listen
Community
Fly database secures funding for another year, but future remains in flux
By
Calli McMurray
17 October 2025 | 3 min read
Spectrum
Meet the Autism Data Science Initiative grantees
By
Calli McMurray
3 October 2025 | 2 min read
Spectrum
Autism researchers ‘pleasantly surprised’ by list of NIH data project grantees, despite initial concerns
By
Calli McMurray
2 October 2025 | 10 min read
Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’?
By
Benjamin Dichter
25 August 2025 | 9 min listen
What U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers
By
Joshua R. Sanes
28 July 2025 | 7 min listen
How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
By
Megan Peters, Bradley Roberts
23 July 2025 | 9 min listen
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
By
David Adam
10 October 2025 | 11 min listen
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.
By
Calli McMurray
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27 May 2025 | 14 min listen
This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks
By
Dan Goodman
17 September 2025 | 5 min listen
This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior
By
Victoria Abraira
22 July 2025 | 5 min listen
Retraction
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
By
Calli McMurray
25 September 2025 | 6 min read
Publishing
Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication
By
Lauren Schneider
23 September 2025 | 4 min read
Paper by memory institute director garners expression of concern over image integrity
By
Lauren Schneider
16 September 2025 | 6 min listen
Publishing
Alzheimer’s scientist forced to retract paper during his own replication effort
By
Brendan Borrell
18 July 2025 | 4 min read
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist, who has a new study about bats out today, creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior.
By
Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min listen
Motor behavior
Facial movements telegraph cognition in mice
By
Lauren Schneider
30 September 2025 | 0 min watch
Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales
By
Paul Middlebrooks
10 September 2025 | 1 min read
Decision-making
Everything everywhere all at once: Decision-making signals engage entire brain
By
Claudia López Lloreda
3 September 2025 | 5 min read
The Transmitter’s reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
27 August 2025 | 10 min listen
‘What Is Intelligence?’: An excerpt
By
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
23 September 2025 | 9 min read
‘Bird Brains and Behavior,’ an excerpt
By
Andrew Iwaniuk, Georg Striedter
5 August 2025 | 9 min read
‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
By
Nicole Rust
10 June 2025 | 9 min read
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 | 19 min listen
Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
By
Luiz Pessoa
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22 September 2025 | 25 min listen