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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 4d

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

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European Brain Council (EBC) @braincouncil.eu · 6d

🧠 Wrapping up #BrainDays at #UNGA80!

From borderless research to brain capital & governance, 25–26 Sept brought global leaders together to push brain health to the center of policy, science & society.

🔗 Highlights: www.braincouncil.eu/event-highli...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 9d

How do we balance innate responses & adaptive learning when reacting to threats? @tjryan.bsky.social &co show that repeated exposure to looming stimuli reduces innate defensive responses via #hippocampal modulation, revealing a vCA1 engram needed for learned #fear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pNSnNp

Patterns of c-Fos expression in the SC, PAG, and HPC reveal a loss of activity in the SC and PAG following extinction-updating but persistent activity of the vCA1. Top left: Engram labeling strategy. Bottom: TRAP2xAi32 mice underwent one of three types of behavioral paradigms; re-exposure (n = 6 mice) vs. no re-exposure (n = 6 mice), extinction (n = 7 mice) vs. innate (n = 8 mice), or updating (n = 11 mice) vs. innate (n = 8 mice). Mice were injected with 4-OHT to transiently induce c-Fos dependent EYFP upon first exposure to the looming stimulus, and later perfused 60 min following stimulus presentation at the end of the behavioral paradigm. Tolp right: Example histology from the SC, with an EYFP+c-Fos+ cell highlighted by the white arrow.

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European Brain Council (EBC) @braincouncil.eu · 23d

🧠 Day 2 of the 2025 Brain Days: From Lifespan to the Future of #BrainHealth Policy

Building on Day 1's momentum, Sept 26th explores brain health across all life stages and charts the path toward coordinated global policy action beyond #UNGA80.

👉 braincouncil.eu/programme-un...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 13d

How do we balance innate responses & adaptive learning when reacting to threats? @tjryan.bsky.social &co show that repeated exposure to looming stimuli reduces innate defensive responses via #hippocampal modulation, revealing a vCA1 engram needed for learned #fear @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4pNSnNp

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · 22d

Meet the #MCCS25 officers!

Dr. Jennifer Tudor‬ is an associate professor at St. Joseph's University. Her lab is interested in how sleep and disease affect the neural pathways critical for memory & learning.

Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Check out the meeting lineup for #MCCS25! It's going to be an incredible day.

Don't miss out, register now: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · 28d

Meet the #MCCS25 officers!

Dr. @flubinlab.bsky.social is a distinguished professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her lab studies the molecular and genetic basis of learning & memory and related disorders.

Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Meet the #MCCS25 officers!

Dr. @karynfrick.bsky.social‬ is a distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her lab seeks to understand how sex-steroid hormones, aging & the environment affect memory.

Join us November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Important food for through here on #generativeAI in higher education.

This forces us to fundamentally reevaluate how we conceive and practice university teaching and assessment.

Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Updated (final) preprint below:

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

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Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society @molcellcog.bsky.social · Aug 25

Meet the #MCCS25 officers!

Dr. @denisejcai.bsky.social is an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her lab studies the neural underpinnings of learning & memory and develops imaging tools 🧠

Join us on November 13 & 14. Register here: event.fourwaves.com/MCCS25/pages

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wrote about watching the incredible Russian documentary My Undesirable Friends - Part I: Last Air in Moscow with an audience in New York, where a record of the recent past that speaks to an American future was processed in the present.

Una Mullally: In Trump’s America, daily life goes on amid a sense of foreboding creep

People say ‘who knows what will happen?’ while knowing exactly what is going to happen

www.irishtimes.com

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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · Aug 24

Delve into the developing brain at "Back to Basics: Components & Mechanisms of Memory Development." From infant fMRI to rodent studies on amnesia, this symposium explores how the memory network, especially the hippocampus, changes across the lifespan. Join us! #FluxCongress2025

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited for MCCS this year! Join us in November 🤓🧠

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

Abstract neural art with event date and location

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate.

Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Registration is open:

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 20

Including invited speakers: @briandias.bsky.social, @karynfrick.bsky.social, @sjo09.bsky.social, Satoshi Kida, Priya Rajasethupathy, @crezaval.bsky.social, @biancasilvalab.bsky.social, & Kay Tye.

Also @andrefenton.bsky.social & Yaniv Ziv for the MCCS debate.

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us in San Diego this November for #MCCS25, including 16 X research talks and the MCCS debate.

Invited faculty speakers are announced below. Half of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Registration is open:

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...

www.cell.com

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Gonzalo Urcelay @gurcelay.bsky.social · Aug 13

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Aug 9

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

www.irishtimes.com

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Aug 8

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

A GPT-5 generated diagram of US presidents since Franklin D. “Roesevelt” to “Goorge W Bush”, “Baruck Obama” and Donald Trump. No George HW Bush (though Ronald Reagan looks a fair bit like him), LBJ, or Joe Biden.

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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · Aug 5

irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/05/gaza-is-also-a-war-on-the-human-instinct-for-compassion/

Fintan O'Toole: Gaza is also a war on the human instinct for compassion

When we learn to shut down pity, we summon the pitiless to power

irishtimes.com

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote another book & I'm very excited (& nervous) for it to be released into the world: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714593...

Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden: 9780593447628 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An intellectually daring and deeply intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment and moral responsibility—from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Clara Ortega-de San Luis @clrar.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Recruiting a PhD Student! 🇪🇸

Join our new lab at @universidadjaen.bsky.social to study how memories are regulated at the molecular level.

Collaborative team, southern Spain, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social
Apply by early Sept.

#PhD #Memory #Neuroscience

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