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Rebecca Horne
@rebeccasky.bsky.social
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Art director @thetransmitter.bsky.social, Artist @rebeccahornephotography.com
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 9d
Brainy art by Yihui Chang for Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration. You need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.
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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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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 16d
Retraction stories can be a challenge to illustrate, so I'm working with photographer Richard Drury to concept images that fit the bill: Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication:
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Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication
The 2009 Neurobiology of Disease paper touted gelsolin’s ability to reduce amyloid burden.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 17d
Check out Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators by Michele Rosenthal on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators
We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 18d
Fab cover, is that art by Matthieu Bourel?
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 18d
Marvelous art by Ibrahim Rayintakath graces today's essay: Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality.
Words by Luiz Pessoa: www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict... @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
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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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 24d
Dynamic, compact art from Maria Cortez for today's article: International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever by @lucinauddin.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/inte... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever
These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in...
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Sep 9
Thank you, @nicolecrust.bsky.social! Its always a pleasure to art direct for your articles.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Sep 9
Fresh collage by Lucie Wimetz featuring Patricia Bath and Herman Branson: Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education. By @jheannellejohnson.bsky.social for @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Patricia Bath and Herman Branson portraits with buildings from various historically black colleges, a microscope and brain imaging.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Sep 5
A few weeks ago, illustrator Yihui Chang sent me an excellent cold email pitch. Showcasing her first illo @thetransmitter.bsky.social: "Emotion research has a communication conundrum @nicolecrust.bsky.social unpacks the different rationales and invites experts to chime in." bit.ly/4ng6BnU #sciart
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 25
Juicy art @ Ariel Davis for today's essay: Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? @ Ben Dichter
lnkd.in/dxcKG6Rf from @thetransmitter.bsky.social Transmitter. A classic editor vs AD dilemma: I wanted vibes and they wanted code. We met in the middle: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca... #Sciart
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 18
Fauvist vibes from Eoin Ryan for @elvisha.bsky.social essay: Deleting data will erase years of valuable brain research
Open datasets have pushed science forward, but new federal restrictions put research in jeopardy @thetransmitter.bsky.social : www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc... #SciArt
Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research
An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 15
Taylor Roades portraits shine for "Up and out with Peggy Mason" by Sydney Wyatt. Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course: www.thetransmitter.org/empathy/up-a... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Up and out with Peggy Mason
Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 14
Lovely work!
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 14
Graceful art from Sunnu Rebecca Choi for today's news from Katie Moisse: The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/the... via @thetransmitter.bsky.social #sciart
The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes
Grouping people with autism based on shared features, genetics and co-occurring conditions may improve clinical trial outcomes, researchers say.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 12
@minouette.bsky.social I love this portrait but can't read the credit--can you share name of the artist?
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 12
Joyous art by Julien Posture for today's essay This paper changed my life: Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
By Abigail Person for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
This 2002 Nature paper by Michael Fee and colleagues revealed elegant neural mechanisms controlling the timing of naturally learned behavior.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 11
Impressionistic art by Enigmatriz: Babies, bees and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness to truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems. Tim Bayne for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes... #sciart
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Aug 11
Sharp art by Jon Han for today's essay: The challenge of defining a neural population: Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics. By Mark Humphries for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #sciart
The challenge of defining a neural population
Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 24
oh, yeah! I love that reference. TY
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 24
Architectural and biological shapes mix in Kathleen Fu illustration for Megan Peters and Bradley Roberts essay via @thetransmitter.bsky.social: How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
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How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this…
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 22
Savory art Julien Posture for today's essay by Victoria Abraira for The Transmitter: This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior: www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #sciart
This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior
The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 21
Trippy art with AI assist from photographer Danielle Ezzo for today's essay by Bing Wen Brunton and John Tuthill: Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea... for @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 16
Splendid illustration by Eoin Ryan for today's essay @thetransmitter.bsky.social: Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective by Karl Farrow and Katja Reinhard: www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur... #sciart
Fish, bird and insect connected by fine lines on a colorful horizontal pattern of rectangles reminiscent of genetic sequencing.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 14
Dramatic collage art by Julien Pacaud for today's essay; Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca... @thetransmitter.bsky.social by John Tuthill
Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jul 9
I love the wobbly lines in Daniel Barreto's art for Ben Dichter's essay: "Neuroscience’s open-data revolution is just getting started" Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science and reduce costs via @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
Colorful columns made of stacked data wheels on a bright blue background surround researchers, who are selecting some of the data.
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