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Francisco Rivera Rosario
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Associate editor, opinion and community @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Posts about neuroscience, TV shows, Bad Bunny and the Knicks. Educado en la 804 en 🇵🇷. Views expressed are my own. https://www.thetransmitter.org/contributor/francisco-j-rivera-rosario
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 13h
CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

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CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”
Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.
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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 1d
I love this piece!

It shows the many ways a connectome can be put to use, AND the many complementary modalities that are needed, beyond the connectome, to answer real questions.

And it makes me feel good about having helped to generate the thing. :)
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 1d
To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics.

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How FlyWire is redefining Drosophila research, one year in
Nine Drosophila researchers share how the connectome transformed the field and what additional new tools they would like to see.
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Francisco Rivera Rosario @franciscorr25.bsky.social · 1d
Check out our FlyWire anniversary piece to learn how @crezaval.bsky.social, @anitadevineni.bsky.social, Pelin Volkan, and six other researchers are using connectome data in their labs, and to read their thoughts on what new tools Drosophila neuroscience needs to move forward!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 1d
To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of FlyWire, we asked nine neuroscientists to share how they are using connectome data in their research and what they hope is in store for the future of fly connectomics.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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How FlyWire is redefining Drosophila research, one year in
Nine Drosophila researchers share how the connectome transformed the field and what additional new tools they would like to see.
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Emily Singer @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social · 8d
Congrats to @bucklr01.bsky.social on being selected as a finalist in the NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards, for her piece "Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research"! www.nasw.org/article/anno...
Announcing the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners
The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes i...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5d
The FDA wants to expand the use of leucovorin to treat autism traits, based on an analysis of the scientific research. @thetransmitter.bsky.social has obtained the list of 23 studies.

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Exclusive: The 23 studies the FDA based its expanded leucovorin label on
The studies include 46 people, mostly toddlers, who have cerebral folate deficiency due to variants in a folate transporter.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 6d
“I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that the list did not include multiple studies on why vaccines cause autism,” says Brian Lee about the newly awarded Autism Data Science Initiative projects.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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Autism researchers remain concerned about NIH data project
An atypical funding mechanism, short timeline and opaque review process had generated concern over the quality of projects that would be selected.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 7d
@deffinger.bsky.social and @melissaherman.bsky.social argue that, though many human psychedelic clinical trials are underway, preclinical studies remain our best bet to answer fundamental questions about the neurobiology of psychedelics.

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Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics
Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don’t know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering…
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Melissa Herman @melissaherman.bsky.social · 7d
So excited for this piece by me and @deffinger.bsky.social to be out! It was inspired by science and discussion from many venues from @sfn.org to #GRCPsychedelics 🧠
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 7d
@deffinger.bsky.social and @melissaherman.bsky.social argue that, though many human psychedelic clinical trials are underway, preclinical studies remain our best bet to answer fundamental questions about the neurobiology of psychedelics.

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Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics
Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don’t know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering…
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations to Rachel Buckley @bucklr01.bsky.social on being a finalist for a National Association of Science Writers @sciencewriters.org award. Read Rachel's essay,
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Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d
Facial movements reflect a mouse’s decision-making patterns independent of their chosen action during a foraging task, per a new study.

By @lauren-schneider.com

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d
Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top neuroscience meetings and events through April 2027.

Are you organizing a conference? Share it with us at [email protected].

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 9d
“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By Natalia Mesa

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NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years
But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 9d
Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices in the eye, writes Anne Churchland.

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Reproducibility is a team sport
Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 12d
That's a wrap! So many incredible talks at our Memory Hub Conference today! 🧠
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Claudia Lopez Lloreda @claudia-lopez.bsky.social · 14d
Hi everyone! We are taking a look at the state of funding in the neuroscience field so we are looking for PIs to answer this survey. Please feel free to fill out and share with colleagues.

Ty!
Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs
We want to hear from you about the sources of funding for your research.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13d
A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 13d
Hii! Last week Quanta published a project I've been working on all year — a special issue about climate science, or what research into climate change is revealing about how our planet works www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d
Flies fly thanks to local circuits of sensory and effector neurons that control specific body parts and enable behaviors such as feeding and walking, new work shows.

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Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new ‘embodied’ connectome reveals
The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15d
In his new book, published today, artificial-intelligence researcher @blaiseaguera.bsky.social draws from computer science, machine learning and neuroscience to provide a nuanced examination of the fundamental aspects of intelligence.

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‘What Is Intelligence?’: An excerpt
In his new book, published today, Blaise Agüera y Arcas examines the fundamental aspects of intelligence in biological and artificial systems. In this excerpt from Chapter 4…
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16d
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 19d
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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Robots marry natural neuroscience, experimental control to probe animal interactions
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21d
This month’s newsletter features @jheannellejohnson.bsky.social on @blackinneuro.bsky.social’s new initiative and Q&As with @kmcostalab.com and @matthiasnau.bsky.social about their new labs. Plus, the latest neuroscience funding and job opportunities. Sign up for the newsletter. bit.ly/4pAlyU3
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 21d
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @franciscorr25.bsky.social for featuring my lab in the "Liftoff" series!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21d
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @matthiasnau.bsky.social talks about the importance of making quick decisions as a PI, and @kmcostalab.com shares how lab members being mad at a PI can sometimes be a good thing.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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Kauê Machado Costa @kmcostalab.com · 21d
I'm super happy to have the lab featured on @thetransmitter.bsky.social, my favorite place for neuroscience news!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21d
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @matthiasnau.bsky.social talks about the importance of making quick decisions as a PI, and @kmcostalab.com shares how lab members being mad at a PI can sometimes be a good thing.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 21d
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @matthiasnau.bsky.social talks about the importance of making quick decisions as a PI, and @kmcostalab.com shares how lab members being mad at a PI can sometimes be a good thing.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Liftoff: New lab alerts
Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.
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