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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Sep 11

Stoked to see this paper finally out!

It answers two big questions: where visual objects are encoded in the brain, and how head-direction cells get oriented using visual landmarks.

Super fun collaboration with @mace-lab.bsky.social and Stuart Trenholm.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past

Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Spencer LaVere Smith @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · Sep 7

After your SfN in San Diego, drift 130 km up the coast to Irvine for a bit more: cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2025-special... Go ahead and register now.

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out the meeting lineup for #MCCS25! It's going to be an incredible day.

Don't miss out, register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature

Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.

www.nature.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Aug 27

News from Canada: The Toronto Blue Jays have broken their single-game dollar hot-dog sales record.

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Aug 21

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors

www.nature.com

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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mine too!

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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · Aug 16

Such a cool technique! Activity history tracing!

Taro Kitazawa @kitazawa-taro.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please RP.
We are thrilled to announce that our lab’s first preprint is out!
”Whole-genome single-cell multimodal history tracing to reveal cell identity transition”

We report HisTrac-seq, a multiomic single-cell molecular recording platform.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Asaf Gilboa @agilboa.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby
#neuroskyence #psychscisky

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and Intention Representation in Prospective Memory

Prospective memory (PM) consists of (i) a retrospective component, comprised of memory for intentions and for the cues that should trigger an action, …

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Hadley Bergstrom @hadleybergstrom.bsky.social · Jul 17

Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely!

vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...

Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track

Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 16

This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ

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Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social · Jul 15

Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉
Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 13

My favorite account of the early history is this one:

www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

ALSO: AWARD BRENDA MILNER THE NOBEL PRIZE (for work with H.M. and the discovery that the hippocampus the structure that stores memories) - SHE'S 106!)
www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25635

Heroes of the Engram
In 1904, Richard Semon introduced the term “engram” to describe the neural substrate responsible for (or at least important in) storing and recalling memories (i.e., a memory trace). The recent introduction of a vast array of powerful new tools to probe and manipulate memory function at the cell and neuronal circuit level has spurred an explosion of interest in studying the engram. However, the present “engram renaissance” was not borne in isolation but rather builds on a long tradition of memory research. We believe it is important to acknowledge the debts our current generation of scientists owes to those scientists who have offered key ideas, persevered through failed experiments and made important discoveries before us. Examining the past can also offer a fresh perspective on the present state and future promise of the field. Given the large amount of empirical advances made in recent years, it seems particularly timely to look back and review the scientists who introduced the seminal terminology, concepts, methodological approaches, and initial data pertaining to engrams. Rather than simply list their many accomplishments, here we color in some details of the lives and milestone contributions of our seven personal heroes of the engram (Richard Semon, Karl Lashley, Donald Hebb, Wilder Penfield, Brenda Milner, James McConnell, and Richard Thompson). In reviewing their historic role, we also illustrate how their work remains relevant to today’s studies.

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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yeah Andrew!!!! Félicitations

Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · Jul 2

Une étude d'Andrew Mocle permet de mieux comprendre comment les ensembles de neurones sont recrutés dans la formation de la mémoire can-acn.org/fr/andrew-mo...

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · Jun 26

If you missed out on a spot at the other neuroscience/psychoactive drug GRCs this summer, we still have spots open at the Cannabinoid GRC with an exciting program ranging from clinical to pre-clinical to big data to society! Register today! grc.org/cannabinoid-... RT please!

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Jun 13

Call for an Assistant / Associate Prof. just opened at the @crchum.bsky.social in the Neuroscience Axis !

www.chumontreal.qc.ca/en/emplois/a...

Assistant or associate professor-researcher in Neuroscience related to neurological disorders and/or neural regeneration and precision health

Description The Neuroscience Research Axis of the CRCHUM and the Department of Neuroscience of the UdeM are inviting applications for a position of assistant or associate professor-researcher in neur...

www.chumontreal.qc.ca

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Ali Salahpour @salahpourali.bsky.social · Jun 13

We have a new faculty position in our Dept. Please kindly share and repost jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · Jun 3

The 2025 GRC on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS: Cannabinoid Neurobiology: Bridging Basic Science, Big Data, Biomarkers and Bedside Applications Across the Lifespan final program is here! Spots are going fast! Register soon for trainee talks! Reshare please! grc.org/cannabinoid-...

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Iva Zovkic @ivazovkic.bsky.social · Jun 2

New preprint! In 2014, we showed that histone variants are new regulators of memory and ever since, we wondered if histone H2A.Z contributes to Alzheimer's. Using human brains and 5xFAD mice, we found that it depends on if you're male or female. Summary below. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Opposing effects of H2A.Z on memory, transcription and pathology in male and female Alzheimer's disease mice and patients

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that disproportionately impacts women, but underlying mechanisms for sex-divergent outcomes are unknown. Here, we show that the hist...

www.biorxiv.org

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John Rubinstein @johnrubinstein.bsky.social · May 31

🇨🇦🚨Job Alert🚨🇨🇦
Canada Excellence Research Chair (C$5 or C$10M, 8 yr budget)
U Toronto, Dept of Biochem/LabMedPath
*Was just told they're looking for a structural biologist using cryoEM* (related to infectious disease?)
Are you an established PI ready to move to 🇨🇦?
research.utoronto.ca/funding-oppo...

2026 Canada Excellence Research Chair Opportunities | Research & Innovation

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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · May 23

Meeting chair Matt Hill presenting keynote lecturer Paul Frankland happening now

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mark cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social · May 22

fantastic day at the 2025 Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite meeting! great talks by trainees Xin Zhao, Govind Peringod, Luca Pancotti, and Peiying Wen, and congrats to Govind for his top trainee talk award! so cool to see all the great circuits and behaviour work across the country

The room of attendees at the 2025 CAN Neural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite Meeting.

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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · May 14

cracker paper! congrats all!

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ALT: a television with a purple screen and the numbers 5678 on the bottom

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SJo @sjo09.bsky.social · May 13

Thanks Nicole! Fun story behind this one. Content was originally in another review we had been invited to write. But the journal didnt like any personal details of scientists. So we rolled it into another paper.

Title was riff on "The Heroes of CRISPR" paper many had "feelings" about at the time.

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