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Steve Ramirez
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18h
In How to Change a Memory, neuroscientist @okaysteve.bsky.social draws on his own memories to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited, and even constructed from nothing.

Available 4 November. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Neuroscience
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez. A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field.
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · 2d
our "Untangling the Mind" tour with NatGeo is ready for liftoff again this Fall and throughout Spring '26!

this show is meant for anyone interested in science and the brain because neuroscience belongs to everyone 🧠

info + tour dates 👇🏽!

live.nationalgeographic.org/event/untang...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d
Next week, on October 8th at 6:30 pm CDT, @okaysteve.bsky.social will be delivering a sold-out talk on his book, How to Change a Memory, at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science as a part of the National Geographic Live Speaker Series!

Learn more about the event here: buff.ly/NTEWGMA
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 8d
New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...
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Ofer Yizhar @oyiz.bsky.social · 26d
Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
The brain is so much more powerful and so much more beautiful than we may think 📚. Thank you all for the endless support! It truly means the world to me 💛.
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
If you’ve ever wondered about all the wonderfully weird ways our memories define us—or wished you could reshape one to then take with you into tomorrow—then this book has a story to tell!
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
The book is built from the experiences I’ve had in science, the memories I’ve studied within the brain, and the timeless moments from the past that I’ll always carry with me, especially those shared with my late friend Xu, to whom this book is dedicated.
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
and it’s a personal story about friendship, family, grief, and healing, told through the science of how memories are made, broken, and rewritten.
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Steve Ramirez @okaysteve.bsky.social · Sep 8
Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
www.amazon.com
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 27
In The Transmitter's reading list, we highlight the most anticipated upcoming neuroscience books and other notable 2025 releases. Featuring titles by @okaysteve.bsky.social, @dr-brein.bsky.social, @nicolecrust.bsky.social,‬ Xiao-Jing Wang and many more.

By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
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The Transmitter’s reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025
Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.
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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · Aug 11
📍 Register now for #MCCS25 on November 13 & 14!

Join us for talks & networking with the best and brightest in molecular and cellular cognition. #Neuroskyence

Check out the link for more information and to register & submit an abstract 👉 event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Aug 15
The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting.

Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social

Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting
The retention and use of long-term memories is crucial for adaptive behavior. While stable memories help organisms anticipate outcomes, they may become maladaptive if not updated to reflect new condit...
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Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD @caitvw.bsky.social · Jul 31
This made my day 💜✨

"I’ve recommended Stellate to hundreds of colleagues... If you're running a lab, organizing a conference, or just looking to make your science shine — Stellate is the move. It’s like having a tech-savvy lab member who knows everything that you don't." - @okaysteve.bsky.social
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · Jul 14
What’s better than a one-channel #Miniscope? 🥁 A TWO-CHANNEL Miniscope!

Our new Miniscope2C is a dual-channel, open-source Miniscope that lets you record 2 fluorescent signals simultaneously in freely moving animals.

Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Harvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · Jun 30
Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning 🧠🧪 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dcardozopinto.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social
Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Daniel Cardozo Pinto, soon to be appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, represents a compelling new voice in systems neuroscience. His research, grounded in a profound curiosity about the […]
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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · Jun 10
🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨

"A State–Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making" is now available on biorxiv! Check it out below 👇

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

In this work we find that mice are not just static mindless decision makers.
A State-Dependent Drift Diffusion Model Reveals Mice Actively Explore A Speed–Accuracy Continuum During Decision-Making
Understanding how animals shift between different decision-making strategies is critical for bridging normative models with naturalistic behavior. While drift diffusion models (DDMs) provide a powerfu...
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · Jun 2
I called my senators about the NIH and NSF cuts this morning (made easy with @5calls.org)! I'll be calling every day this week and encouraging friends & family to do the same
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 31
Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · May 17
Check out our latest! Studies led by the amazing Megan Brickner - she finds really interesting patterns of dopamine signaling in the basolateral amygdala that report the emotional salience of sensory state transitions. These are largely non-associative, value-free signals, in contrast to classic DA.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 17
Basolateral amygdala dopamine transmits a nonassociative emotional salience signal https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654323v1
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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · May 24
🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!
Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear
Molecular Psychiatry - Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear
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Optogenetics Gordon Research Conference @optogrc.bsky.social · May 23
📆 Mark your calendars: #OptoGRC2026 is headed back to Tuscany, May 10-15, 2026!

We look forward to reuniting with our amazing community for a week of great science, thoughtful discussions & shared time with colleagues.

More details coming soon👇🏽
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · May 22
I'm delighted to be in Verona for this year's Spring Hippocampal Research Conference. So many inspiring talks and exciting #Neuroscience research being done! I have some pretty cool colleagues 🧠 #Neuroskyence

@tjryan.bsky.social, @okaysteve.bsky.social, @gisellavetere.bsky.social
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · May 14
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

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A short thread follows for those interested.

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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
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Dr. Briana Chen @brikchen.bsky.social · Apr 29
New paper out! Huge thanks as always to my mentor @drchristineannd.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · Apr 29
#ThisWeekInNPP

New work from @drchristineannd.bsky.social & @brikchen.bsky.social finds that chronic combinatorial administration of ketamine + the 5HT4R agonist prucalopride exerts potential therapeutic effects in multiple 🐭 models of stress

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chronic, combinatorial targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs exerts extended behavioral effects against stress-induced perseverative behavior and hyponeophagia - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Chronic, combinatorial targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs exerts extended behavioral effects against stress-induced perseverative behavior and hyponeophagia
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Apr 22
My lab has several postdoctoral fellow and software engineering positions available. Please email me if you’re interested.
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