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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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Aging Microphone

Aging as adaptation: Learning the brain’s recipe for resilience

By Dana Rubi Levy, Kevin Mastro, Michael Ryan
14 November 2025 | 6 min listen
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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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Funding

How have funding cuts affected early-career scientists’ futures?

By The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 9 min read
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Community

The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 21 min read

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Early-career researcher action potentials

JOB OPPORTUNITY
The University of Maryland, College Park, has an opening for an assistant research scientist with experience in neurophysiological measurement techniques, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalography
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JOB OPPORTUNITY
Ann Kennedy at the Scripps Research Institute has an open position for a research programmer to work on developing computational methods to understand how animals, humans and virtual agents gather information about their sensory environment.
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Western University solicits applications for an assistant professor of systems neuroscience in higher-order cognitive circuits, with a focus on nonhuman primates.
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News and perspectives

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Science and society

Neuroscience’s leaders, legacies and rising stars of 2025

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

Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
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Neuroscience

The state of neuroscience in 2025: An overview

By The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 4 min read
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Publishing Microphone

First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch

By Lauren Schenkman
28 October 2025 | 4 min read
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Community Microphone

Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs

By Jheannelle Johnson
8 September 2025 | 6 min read
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Policy Microphone

What U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

By Joshua R. Sanes
28 July 2025 | 6 min read
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Education Microphone

How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community

By Megan Peters, Bradley Roberts
23 July 2025 | 7 min read
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Early-career researchers

What kinds of support do early-career researchers need?

By The Transmitter, Neuromatch
18 July 2025 | 1 min read
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Spectrum

INSAR takes ‘intentional break’ from annual summer webinar series

The International Society for Autism Research cited a need to “thoughtfully reimagine” its popular online program before resuming it in 2026.

By Lauren Schenkman
30 June 2025 | 4 min read
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Craft and careers Microphone

On the importance of reading (just not too much)

The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.

By Sheena Josselyn
9 June 2025 | 8 min read
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Funding

Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.

By Dan Goodman
26 May 2025 | 7 min read
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Funding Microphone

NIDA shutters diversity fellowship program, axes active awards

It’s unclear if the cancellation at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse extends to the fellowships awarded by other institutes within the National Institutes of Health.

By Calli McMurray
14 May 2025 | 4 min read
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Spectrum

Federal funding cuts imperil next generation of autism researchers

As the International Society for Autism Research’s annual meeting begins, its next president reflects on a brewing crisis.

By Brian Boyd
30 April 2025 | 5 min read

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Books

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

Books by Nachum Ulanovsky, Nicole Rust, and Andrew Iwaniuk and Georg Striedter made the list of some of the year's most engaging neuroscience titles.

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

The Transmitter’s top news articles of 2025

Check out some of our most-read stories, covering neuroscience funding and policy changes in the United States, and methodological issues in high-profile neuroscience papers.

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 3 min read
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Spectrum

Spectrum 2025: Year in review

Revisit some of the conversations and debates—on topics from leucovorin to the gut microbiome—that have shaped autism research in the past 12 months.

By The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read

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