The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
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Cory Miller, J. Anthony Movshon, Doris Tsao
10 November 2025 | 5 min read
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
Retraction
Journal retracts two papers evaluating ADHD interventions
By
Calli McMurray
6 November 2025 | 5 min read
Today’s action potentials
Alexandre Pouget wins the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience for his work applying Bayesian inference to the brain and for developing theoretical models for perception, decision-making and reasoning.
”It’s breathtaking when science works. Now we really had to start playing detective. — STEVE RAMIREZ, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
“Learning to program ‘recycles’ preexisting frontoparietal population codes of logical algorithms”
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Yun-Fei Liu and Marina Bedny in The Journal of Neuroscience
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Craft and careers
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
By
Stephen David
10 November 2025 | 7 min read
Publishing
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 3 min read
Community
The buzziest neuroscience papers of 2023, 2024
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Calli McMurray, Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
10 November 2025 | 18 min read
Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science
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Adam Charles
5 November 2025 | 6 min listen
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Constellation of studies charts brain development, offers ‘dramatic revision’
By
Holly Barker
5 November 2025 | 6 min read
Funding
Establishing a baseline: Trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024
By
Natalia Mesa
10 November 2025 | 8 min read
Industry
How will the field’s relationship to industry change over the next decade? Will a larger neurotechnology sector emerge?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 10 min read
Funding
How have funding cuts affected early-career scientists’ futures?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 9 min read
Funding
How do you anticipate the field changing in the wake of recent funding cuts?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 11 min read
How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 11 min read
The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
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Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
10 November 2025 | 23 min read
Is neuroscience a coherent field? Or is it becoming more fragmented?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 8 min read
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.
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 4 min read
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
By
David Adam
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10 October 2025 | 11 min listen
This paper changed my life: Sandra Jurado marvels at the first-ever 3D model of a synaptic vesicle
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Sandra Jurado
21 October 2025 | 6 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
Publishing
What are the most-cited neuroscience papers from the past 30 years?
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The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 11 min read
Publishing
Image integrity issues create new headache for subarachnoid hemorrhage research
By
Lauren Schneider
30 October 2025 | 5 min read
First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch
By
Lauren Schenkman
28 October 2025 | 5 min listen
Retraction
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
By
Calli McMurray
25 September 2025 | 6 min read
Community
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Learn about neuroscience labs launched in the past two years, plus a few opening their doors in 2026.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
10 November 2025 | 21 min read
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
By
Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min listen
Neuroscience
What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
By
The Transmitter
10 November 2025 | 6 min read
Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
By
Timothy O’Leary
3 November 2025 | 9 min listen
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
By
Xiao-Jing Wang
27 October 2025 | 9 min listen
The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
By
Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
‘What Is Intelligence?’: An excerpt
By
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
23 September 2025 | 9 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
‘Bird Brains and Behavior,’ an excerpt
By
Andrew Iwaniuk, Georg Striedter
5 August 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