New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Simen Hagen, Jacques Jonas, et al:

Intracranial EEG referencing for large-scale category-selective mapping in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

"To me, this looks very much like a behavior that's driven by what I would call the altruistic impulse," says James Burkett, a neuroscientist at the University of Toledo.
www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

Neuroscientist Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools in Florida 🌴. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research. 🧪🏠
@srheilbronner.bsky.social
www.tcpalm.com/story/opinio...

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast
FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

Here are some nice mushrooms

a wonderful reminder from @earthliberationart.bsky.social 🖤

some new fungal microscope pics i’m obsessed with 🖤
#mycology #microscope #mold

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.

It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

A little intro for all the new followers who have joined me 🥰:
I’m a neuro (10 years!) fiber (50 years!) artist who exhibits annually at the Society for Neuroscience conference selling pins, prints, original art, jewelry. All brains all the time!

Okay, this is very cool: evidence from Peter Jonas' group that human CA3 follows a different logic of synaptic connectivity than rodent CA3, focussing more on sparser, but highly reliable synapses.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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#neuroscience 🧪

Political fear, media polarization, and identity-driven politics have fueled exhaustion and learned helplessness in Americans, leading many to disengage from political news. #Politics #PoliticalNews #MediaPolarization #Neuroscience #Exhaustion

Fuck it starting a youtube channel of my cats solving puzzles to pay for my hobby of running a formerly federally funded neuroscience lab

For #FluorescenceFriday, microtubules (magenta) are shown with tau in a primary hippocampal neuron 🔬 #Neuroscience #Microscopy