Nicole Rust
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - on leave as a Simons Pivot Fellow. Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Here we were talking about a special set of tasks (these ones); not sensory coding writ large. I suspect there's a lot of apples-versus-oranges cross talk happening in this space.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Here we were talking about a special set of tasks (these ones); not sensory coding writ large. I suspect there's a lot of apples-versus-oranges cross talk happening in this space.
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Sounds like there's a considerable amount of confusion even among the gurus! I'd love to see someone like @jmxpearson.bsky.social do a "what's what" on it, perhaps in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
Here's what @marlenecohen.bsky.social and I had to say about it. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's what @marlenecohen.bsky.social and I had to say about it. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Sounds like there's a considerable amount of confusion even among the gurus! I'd love to see someone like @jmxpearson.bsky.social do a "what's what" on it, perhaps in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
Here's what @marlenecohen.bsky.social and I had to say about it. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's what @marlenecohen.bsky.social and I had to say about it. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And belated congrats to @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for the very distinguished ASCB Public Service Award in 2023! Awardees are a very distinguished list, including Anthony Fauci, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and many others.
www.ascb.org/award/public...
www.ascb.org/award/public...
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And belated congrats to @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for the very distinguished ASCB Public Service Award in 2023! Awardees are a very distinguished list, including Anthony Fauci, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and many others.
www.ascb.org/award/public...
www.ascb.org/award/public...
Excited to settle in to watch this talk by @sarahmackattack.bsky.social. The @pennmindcore.bsky.social seminars are always delivered by highly respected scientists and they are typically research talks. I'm so happy to see one devoted to scicomm (and learn from this guru).
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Excited to settle in to watch this talk by @sarahmackattack.bsky.social. The @pennmindcore.bsky.social seminars are always delivered by highly respected scientists and they are typically research talks. I'm so happy to see one devoted to scicomm (and learn from this guru).
And so much more (check it out)!
One thing I'm walking away with: How little emphasis basic emotion & mood research is getting proportional to how much it matters (e.g. for understanding mental conditions). A goal for the next decade: to see it better reflected in the 2035 report.
One thing I'm walking away with: How little emphasis basic emotion & mood research is getting proportional to how much it matters (e.g. for understanding mental conditions). A goal for the next decade: to see it better reflected in the 2035 report.
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And so much more (check it out)!
One thing I'm walking away with: How little emphasis basic emotion & mood research is getting proportional to how much it matters (e.g. for understanding mental conditions). A goal for the next decade: to see it better reflected in the 2035 report.
One thing I'm walking away with: How little emphasis basic emotion & mood research is getting proportional to how much it matters (e.g. for understanding mental conditions). A goal for the next decade: to see it better reflected in the 2035 report.
Most transformative technologies? All important! My prediction: 1 and 3 will be the genius of our era 😊.
www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...
www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Most transformative technologies? All important! My prediction: 1 and 3 will be the genius of our era 😊.
www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...
www.thetransmitter.org/methods/what...
What should the field prioritize over the next 10 years? I agree with all 4 of these!!
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
What should the field prioritize over the next 10 years? I agree with all 4 of these!!
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Here I've labeled the peaks.
You can search for your favorite terms! Let's see ... oh, sigh; there's no mood 😢 - just mood disorders (and that's just 428 pubs in total, 0.097% in 2024).
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org/map/
You can search for your favorite terms! Let's see ... oh, sigh; there's no mood 😢 - just mood disorders (and that's just 428 pubs in total, 0.097% in 2024).
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org/map/
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Here I've labeled the peaks.
You can search for your favorite terms! Let's see ... oh, sigh; there's no mood 😢 - just mood disorders (and that's just 428 pubs in total, 0.097% in 2024).
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org/map/
You can search for your favorite terms! Let's see ... oh, sigh; there's no mood 😢 - just mood disorders (and that's just 428 pubs in total, 0.097% in 2024).
stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org/map/
As I describe in Elusive Cures, my relationship with SFN is complex. Across years, it's morphed from overwhelm to thrilling to disenchantment — and then, after writing the book, thrilling again (excerpt here).
Returning from my 1st SFN since writing it, I'm buzzing. The progress is real.
Returning from my 1st SFN since writing it, I'm buzzing. The progress is real.
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As I describe in Elusive Cures, my relationship with SFN is complex. Across years, it's morphed from overwhelm to thrilling to disenchantment — and then, after writing the book, thrilling again (excerpt here).
Returning from my 1st SFN since writing it, I'm buzzing. The progress is real.
Returning from my 1st SFN since writing it, I'm buzzing. The progress is real.
When we started this study in the hippocampus (years ago), we scrutinized @johnsakon.bsky.social‘s paper line by line to figure out where & how. So wonderful to have him drop by Simon Bohn’s poster to see how it all turned out!
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
When we started this study in the hippocampus (years ago), we scrutinized @johnsakon.bsky.social‘s paper line by line to figure out where & how. So wonderful to have him drop by Simon Bohn’s poster to see how it all turned out!
Friends at #SFN25: Want to know more about how seeing is transformed into familiarity? Check out Simon Bohn's poster this afternoon (Board P9; PSTR224.03).
There, he'll tell you about a pardox and its resolution - along with a previously undescribed computation in the medial temporal lobe.
There, he'll tell you about a pardox and its resolution - along with a previously undescribed computation in the medial temporal lobe.
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Friends at #SFN25: Want to know more about how seeing is transformed into familiarity? Check out Simon Bohn's poster this afternoon (Board P9; PSTR224.03).
There, he'll tell you about a pardox and its resolution - along with a previously undescribed computation in the medial temporal lobe.
There, he'll tell you about a pardox and its resolution - along with a previously undescribed computation in the medial temporal lobe.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sunday was a great day for the members of the @brainfacts.org team at #SFN25!
By day we met to discuss ways to combat disinformation; by night we held a public event.
brainfacts.org specializes in *reliable* info about the brain. Please spread the word about this wonderful resource!
By day we met to discuss ways to combat disinformation; by night we held a public event.
brainfacts.org specializes in *reliable* info about the brain. Please spread the word about this wonderful resource!
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Sunday was a great day for the members of the @brainfacts.org team at #SFN25!
By day we met to discuss ways to combat disinformation; by night we held a public event.
brainfacts.org specializes in *reliable* info about the brain. Please spread the word about this wonderful resource!
By day we met to discuss ways to combat disinformation; by night we held a public event.
brainfacts.org specializes in *reliable* info about the brain. Please spread the word about this wonderful resource!
Look who I ran into - @malu-murugan.bsky.social (Emory) - winner of this year's SFN Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award 🤩. Malu studies the neuroscience of social interations.
I've been watching her work for some years now, and it's impressive. Recommended follow!
In addition ...
I've been watching her work for some years now, and it's impressive. Recommended follow!
In addition ...
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Look who I ran into - @malu-murugan.bsky.social (Emory) - winner of this year's SFN Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award 🤩. Malu studies the neuroscience of social interations.
I've been watching her work for some years now, and it's impressive. Recommended follow!
In addition ...
I've been watching her work for some years now, and it's impressive. Recommended follow!
In addition ...
Next up, a special lecture by Rony Paz, introduced by @stevewcchang.bsky.social. I’m really excited for this one!
Emotional Learning and the Primate Amygdala: From Adaptive Behaviors to Psychopathologies.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Emotional Learning and the Primate Amygdala: From Adaptive Behaviors to Psychopathologies.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Next up, a special lecture by Rony Paz, introduced by @stevewcchang.bsky.social. I’m really excited for this one!
Emotional Learning and the Primate Amygdala: From Adaptive Behaviors to Psychopathologies.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Emotional Learning and the Primate Amygdala: From Adaptive Behaviors to Psychopathologies.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Now @lizsiefert.bsky.social probing the mystery about what hippocampal ripples are all about by probing when they occur relative to sleep. It depends on where in the hippocampus you are looking and if it’s REM sleep. And the amygdala has ripples too (TIL)!
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Now @lizsiefert.bsky.social probing the mystery about what hippocampal ripples are all about by probing when they occur relative to sleep. It depends on where in the hippocampus you are looking and if it’s REM sleep. And the amygdala has ripples too (TIL)!
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Next up, @pinchen.bsky.social (who I’m now following), a postdoc from Oxford, posing the question: Do the hippocampal ripples found in animals exist in humans? Takes advantage of recordings from humans with electrodes for clinical purposes. Answer: Yes!
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Next up, @pinchen.bsky.social (who I’m now following), a postdoc from Oxford, posing the question: Do the hippocampal ripples found in animals exist in humans? Takes advantage of recordings from humans with electrodes for clinical purposes. Answer: Yes!
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
First up, @catrinahacker.bsky.social reports on the need to understand how the high resolution measures recorded from human brains align with spikes. Her proposal is that it depends on the underlying coding scheme.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
First up, @catrinahacker.bsky.social reports on the need to understand how the high resolution measures recorded from human brains align with spikes. Her proposal is that it depends on the underlying coding scheme.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Made it to SD just in time for a late birthday party, crashed, found coffee, and made it to this terrific symposium on basic translational neuroscience & memory.
Meet our PhD student organizers, @lizsiefert.bsky.social and @catrinahacker.bsky.social (recommended follow on both).
Meet our PhD student organizers, @lizsiefert.bsky.social and @catrinahacker.bsky.social (recommended follow on both).
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Made it to SD just in time for a late birthday party, crashed, found coffee, and made it to this terrific symposium on basic translational neuroscience & memory.
Meet our PhD student organizers, @lizsiefert.bsky.social and @catrinahacker.bsky.social (recommended follow on both).
Meet our PhD student organizers, @lizsiefert.bsky.social and @catrinahacker.bsky.social (recommended follow on both).
Now he’s talking about some work I really love: how anesthesia works. Earl holds up the example of his “reductionist colleagues” who propose that 3 anesthetics have 3 diff molecular mechanisms. But! all have the same effects on consciousness. How do you explain that? You guessed it, brainwaves!
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Now he’s talking about some work I really love: how anesthesia works. Earl holds up the example of his “reductionist colleagues” who propose that 3 anesthetics have 3 diff molecular mechanisms. But! all have the same effects on consciousness. How do you explain that? You guessed it, brainwaves!
Emphasizes it’s not spikes versus fields!
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Emphasizes it’s not spikes versus fields!
Watching @earlkmiller.bsky.social’s SFN talk on the train to San Diego. I understand that I’m not missing anything b/c they stop letting people in when the seats were all full. Go Earl!
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Watching @earlkmiller.bsky.social’s SFN talk on the train to San Diego. I understand that I’m not missing anything b/c they stop letting people in when the seats were all full. Go Earl!