🧠📈 Do neurons of a feather flock together? Not quite.

New evidence shows that neurons of the same specific type tend to avoid each other in space, supporting the mosaic hypothesis in the cortex.

📄 Read the @cp-cellreports.bsky.social study: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

My hometown. No hope for NE Ohio.

Really proud to share this w/ @francimandi.bsky.social from the Lake lab: we applied fingerprinting in a simultaneous wide-field fluorescence Ca2+ imaging and BOLD-fMRI dataset in mice!

w/ @toddc.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation

🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀

Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...

me watching the guardians lose another playoff game

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Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

my neighborhood. the school my kids attend. nobody should have to experience what we and our community have gone through the past three weeks. period.

ban assault rifles. ban high-capacity mags. ban bump stocks.

“Assault rifles turn survivable injuries into fatal ones. They turn small tragedies into mass tragedies.”

It’s that simple.

www.startribune.com/several-annu...

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f

Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience

➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?

Check out what we found!
🧵1/n

In all its formatted glory: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.

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

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

New work with @shiyanliang.bsky.social‬, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina. We uncover the principles that organize single-neuron timescales across the entire brain, unifying regional specialization with universal brain-wide dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 PhD opening in our lab @HU_Berlin!
Work on NeuroGeneConnect: genetics 🧬 + neuroimaging 🧠 of brain networks.
Closing date: 17/09/25
Details & apply 👉 hu.berlin/mpphd
Ref: DR/180/25
PostDoc call coming soon too!

Tackling gun violence shouldn’t be a Democrat or Republican issue. We should work together as Americans to stop another act of terror from happening again.

That starts with a ban on assault weapons.

Our children deserve to grow up without the fear and trauma of gun violence.

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Your network won’t work without gap junctions that comprise at least in some neuronal cell classes, 25% of the potential synaptic signaling.

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Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Awesome write up!