Abhilasha Joshi, PhD
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD
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Neuroscientist studying interactions between cognition, action & timing

Lab website: neuroact.in

Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence
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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science
Fellows-to-Faculty Award
The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
😭 Rest in power and peace Zara 🤍
November 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🥺 whut?!

So sad to hear this 💔 Zara was such a beautiful and special person. She embodied power and purpose like few others can. My thoughts are with her friends and loved ones :(
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025

Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽

experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...

Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Discovery
experts.deakin.edu.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.

Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽

Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎

www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽

www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.

www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!

➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.

So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.

Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
XLIII Annual meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN-2025)
www.rgcb.res.in
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️

@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
share.google
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October 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk

More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
www.cosyne.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.

Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...

I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)

THREAD 🧵

Please RT.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I know. Dream work 😻
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@antoinecomite.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?

Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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We are really excited about what comes next in this system. We think it opens the door to ask, "why does neuron number matter?" i.e., - what does adding more neurons to a circuit do to affect behavior?

And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Congratulations 🥳 @kelseytea.bsky.social
So happy to see the work in this format 🦾

Is there a bodysize difference between the two mice?
October 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?

The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!

🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍

Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM