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Emily A. Aery Jones
@emilyaeryjones.bsky.social
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Postdoc studying spatial memory 🐭🧠 at Stanford Incoming Asst Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore starting Jan 2026 NINDS Alzheimers K99 awardee interneuron enthusiast, sharp-wave ripple lover & code monkey https://aeryjoneslab.github.io she/her
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · May 1
I am thrilled to announce that the Aery Jones lab will be starting in January 2026 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore!
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UM-MIND - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery @um-mind.bsky.social · May 1
We are so excited to announce that Emily Aery Jones, PhD, will be joining us this January as an Assistant Professor in UM-MIND and the Department of Neurobiology!

Emily's work explores the dynamics of hippocampal inputs in learning and Alzheimer's disease. Welcome, @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social!
headshot of Emily Aery Jones announcing her as a new faculty member in UM-MIND & the Department of Neurobiology
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Weijia Z @weijiazh.bsky.social · 1d
🚀 New Preprint from our team: comparing place cells across species!
Disentangling methods from biology provides a roadmap for cross-species insights into spatial coding 🌍
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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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MM @phdeez.bsky.social · 7d
Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding (as of October 1, 2025) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
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clykken.bsky.social @clykken.bsky.social · 14d
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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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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 21d
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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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Zoé Christenson Wick @zoechristensonwick.bsky.social · 27d
🚨New preprint alert🚨
We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)
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Brielle Ferguson @brielleryan.bsky.social · 28d
@blackinneuro.bsky.social Good morning, and happy #BINW25 🎉

If you're joining on-line, check your inbox for your link to join the #BINW25 zoom. You can also follow along with livestream here: www.youtube.com/blackinneuro...

If you're joining in person, can't wait to meet you! 🤩
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · Sep 5
Working with trainees is a highlight of my own research and a main goal of the New York Memory Hub. I'm looking forward to a great afternoon of discussion with a group of brilliant trainees. Space is limited, register soon!
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social · Sep 4
🤔 Did you know we're hosting a trainee event the day before the first annual New York Memory Hub conference?

Trainees, join us in the afternoon of September 25 for lively discussion about learning and memory geared toward YOU!

Space is limited, so register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-m...
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Sep 5
Jewish High Holidays are coming up, so time for my annual PSA! Please consider avoiding scheduling major, unmissable events for:

🍎Tuesday, September 23 (Rosh HaShanah)
📯Thursday, October 2 (Yom Kippur)

Many folks don't work those days, myself included.
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Herbert Wu @herbertwu.bsky.social · Sep 4
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · Sep 4
There's a very cool Buzsaki #neuroskyence paper out in Science this week, looking at hippocampal spatial information encoding by multiple interneuron subtypes in parallel. The brilliant @agonru.bsky.social and I wrote a wee perspective to go alongside it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do inhibitory interneurons encode information or just keep the rhythm?
Inhibitory interneurons may help encode the brain’s internal representation of space
www.science.org
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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · Sep 5
Cool new findings on interneurons and spatial coding. Nice!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code
Identifying the computational roles of different neuron families is crucial for understanding neural networks. Most neural diversity is embodied in various types of γ-aminobutyric acid–mediated (GABAe...
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Aug 28
A cell type is defined as the minimal unit to make a developmental biologist mad about a conversation
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 25
A great opportunity to work on stellar science with a magnificent mentor!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · Aug 25
We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠

More details 👇
Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM
Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf
Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq

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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 14
Feeling like a real PI this week:
✅submit my first >$1M grant
✅apply for a DEA license
✅buy my first roll of @parafilmm.bsky.social
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 11
This paper has everything:
- a predator avoidance task with an eagle puppet 🦅
- rigid place coding and behavior in an #Alzheimer's model
- another predator avoidance task, with a taxidermied weasel 👀

Run, don't walk, to read one of my favorite papers this year: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Disruption of hippocampal-prefrontal neural dynamics and risky decision-making in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Kim et al. show that 5XFAD mice exhibit persistent risk-taking and reduced behavioral flexibility in naturalistic “approach food-avoid predator” foraging paradigms. Simultaneous neural recordings reve...
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 8
The @flatironinstitute.org is hosting a 2-day workshop on Python packages for neural data analysis ( @pynapple.bsky.social NoMoS) prior to #SfN2025: neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/.... Apps due Sept 8. And best of all, it's free, including meals and lodging! Go check it out!
SfN 2025
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Anna Gillespie @akgillespie.bsky.social · Aug 5
this reminded me to post my 2-year reflections on starting a lab - perhaps useful? of course it's early days still so take all with a grain of salt 😬 www.gillespie-lab.com/year2reflect... (also tagging @marisosa.bsky.social and @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social )
Gillespie Lab - Reflections after 2 years
Year 2 reflections
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 7
👇Gold mine of advice for new PIs!
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Aug 5
So, #AcademicSky PIs, a few completely random questions for you:

What’s something you wish you had known/did when you started your own lab?

-or-

What’s something you did when you started your lab that worked out well?

Asking for a friend...
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · Aug 7
Thank you so much for writing this and tagging me! Still learning so much from you after all these years :D
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Cody Siciliano @codysiciliano.bsky.social · Aug 4
Thanks @avaskham.bsky.social & @thetransmitter.bsky.social for including me in this discussion of why individual differences matter. My work & others show that tracking individual behavior can reveal circuits & mechanisms that group averages miss #neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain
Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…
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Jens-Bastian Eppler @j-b-eppler.bsky.social · Aug 4
Great new review on neural manifolds by @juangallego.bsky.social and @mattperich.bsky.social.

Amazing read. Lots of intuition and examples. Great synthesis of why manifold structure pops up everywhere in neuroscience, from motor control to cognitive tasks.

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

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A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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Miriam Janssen @mimijanssen.bsky.social · Aug 4
Hung-tu Chen, Nicolas Tritsch, Matt van der Meer, and I have submitted a new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...) in which we use simultaneous hippocampal ephys and ventral striatal (VS) fiber photometry to establish a link between sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) and VS dopamine (DA) in mice. (1/9)
Ventral Striatal Dopamine Increases following Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples
Leading theories suggest that hippocampal replay drives offline learning through coupling with an internal teaching signal such as ventral striatal dopamine (DA); however, the relationship between hip...
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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · Jul 30
📢 Calling all senior neuro postdocs: SYNAPSES brings postdocs from around the world to Yale to share their work during an in-person symposium on October 23, 2025. Apply today to present your research, talk with faculty members in 1:1s, & interact with Yale postdocs! 🧠🧪 Deadline Sept 7. #neuroskyence
Flyer of the SYNAPSES symposium call for applications.
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