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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 9h

Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute!

WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors.

If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!

Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

A little backstory on this one: sometime during the pandemic @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social and I were chatting in the servery at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social about how to encourage interactions between people working on foraging (+ neuroscience) across different species and perspectives... 1/n

Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

Wow exciting! Congrats on the big move Juan! Look forward to following what you accomplish in the coming years

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

I should have started with the obvious- this is awesome, and thank you for doing it!

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

Curious how this timing aligns with large-scale efforts to focus on foraging, eg. Allen Inst for Neural Dynamics. Did you help drive this effort? Or learn from those developing it? Feels like foraging got trendy in the last 5 years (from my own silo)

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 1d

#goals

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

I also strongly endorse this one in particular.

Q: is it ever useful to ask things out of interest if you explicitly state that the authors can ignore it, or do you still risk delaying/jeopardizing publication?

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

Can you explain the last bit? I would think 2002 Cian would be mind-blown with 2025 findings, and that you're surprise drops over time due to exposure.

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, I'll be there!

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 6d

This looks great! Do you also find a shift from replaying prior memory to recent memory over time, such that you build on your prior? Would be especially interesting if that varied based on how similar the new experience was to the prior

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manfredic.bsky.social @manfredic.bsky.social · 6d

I’m pleased to share our new paper, “Hippocampal ripple diversity organizes neuronal reactivation dynamics in the offline brain”, out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !

With @vitorlds.bsky.social and David Dupret, we show that diversity in ripple current profiles shapes reactivation dynamics

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats Ann!! Enjoy your victory tour 😎

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Matteo Guardamagna @matteoguardamagna.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to be part of this work and amazing team. A deep dive into remapping dynamics🗺️! Thread below 👇

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 13d

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells

A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 12d

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries.

Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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May-Britt Moser @m-bmoser.bsky.social · 13d

So proud🤩: Beautiful work by @clykken.bsky.social 💃🏻 et al: finally we understand how the hippocampus can express multiple maps even though grid cell inputs are universal metrics.
E.g. hippocampal global remapping was induced when different grid modules anchored independently to environments. See 👇🏽

clykken.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social · 13d

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How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

and after a postdoc you've figured out how to make meaningful progress in the face of all the know-nothingness? 🤞

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 13d

Check out this new preprint from @clykken.bsky.social and the Moser Group:
Independent phase-shifts across MEC grid modules can generate a vast diversity of hippocampal codes — revealing the mechanism that enables episodic memory.
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clykken.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social · 13d

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How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience @kavlintnu.bsky.social · 13d

🔁 Fascinating new preprint from the Moser Group!
How does the hippocampus achieve its vast memory capacity? 🧠 The answer lies in the flexible combinatorics of grid cells.
📄 Read more in the thread by @edvardmoser.bsky.social 👇

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 13d

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells

A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social · 13d

I know they won the Nobel Prize and all, but I still think the discovery of how spatial awareness is assembled in vertebrate brains is underrated - the most exciting thing in neuroscience in the last 50 years. Literally seeing the brain build a map and use it to navigate, the basis of all behaviour.

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 13d

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells

A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

On a personal note, it's been amazing to work on this with my wife @clykken.bsky.social and watch her develop this story over the last 5+ years. So many hexagons 😅

Ben Kanter @beneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

So happy to release this to the world!! A big one that's been cooking for years.

If you like #Memory #GridCells #PlaceCells #Theory #Attractors #Neuropixels or just anything exciting in #Neuroscience, this is a must read 👇

Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 13d

1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells

A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...

www.biorxiv.org

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clykken.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social · 13d

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How can the brain create countless unique memories using a single, universal metric of space? We’ve been waiting for the answer to this for two decades!
Read it here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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