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I am very proud of lead author Tara Arbab for completing this most recent manuscript from the lab! --> Intracranial electrophysiological biomarkers of compulsivity in OCD. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

I'm hiring a postdoc to start in summer/fall 2027! My lab uses computational social & cognitive science methods to explore how tech shapes knowledge & power: www.crockettlab.org You can submit an application here: apply.interfolio.com/195297. Review of apps starts Nov 20. Please share!

Dopaminergic Medication Improves Force Control and Modifies Motor Unit Activity During the Steadiest and Least Steady Periods in Parkinsons Disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.16.758033v1

Oh, oh my. I need to go through this closely, and as noted earlier NN has a history. But my first read is wow www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📸 Looking back on the #BernsteinConference 2026 The conference photo gallery is now online! Take a look and relive the highlights 👉 buff.ly/Mv2PKVI #BernsteinNetwork #Neuroskyence 🧠 📈

⚠️ Final chance to apply for Brain Awareness Week grants! The applications will close TOMORROW! 📢 Organise your own outreach event 🧠 Facilitate public engagement with neuroscience 💶 Funding of up to EUR 1,000 for projects based in Europe 🔗 Apply today: buff.ly/gr0x8hp @danafoundation.bsky.social

China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power go.nature.com/4yT9FwA

Faculty job opening in Neurodevelopment / Neuroregeneration at UT - San Antonio Please spread the word! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

mCranberry: A rationally engineered monomeric red fluorescent protein with 85% quantum yield by Premashis Manna and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For this new series, @thetransmitter.bsky.social evaluated whether neuroscience still needs nonhuman primates & if alternative models are ready to replace them. Over the next few weeks, four articles will detail what we found—and what the loss of nonhuman primate research would mean. bit.ly/4AWPX4l

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Thank you to @tpatriarchi.bsky.social for introducing my keynote talk, and thanks to @willuhnlab.bsky.social & Paul Phillips for inviting me and for organizing a thoughtful & energizing meeting. Looking forward to MMiN 2028!

Large-effect OCD risk genes! Exciting to see this paper published. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

🥳 Super excited to share our lab's first preprint, led by @hungyun.bsky.social "Distinct tasks engage shared neural subspaces in human hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/9)

New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if we could detect ahead of time when MH symptoms will escalate? In our newest paper led by @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social we show that drops in confidence precede #OCD symptoms! Our findings suggest: Momentary cognitive task assessments could change when and how we deliver interventions! Details 👇🏼👇🏼

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

light-activated tetanus neurotoxin (LATeNT) by the @aliceyting.bsky.social lab. Includes a comparison with the light-switchable PdCO (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), showing a long lasting inhibition for 1h hour post illumination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dopamine dips during unrewarded actions promote punishment-resistant reward seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.01.742224v1

Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741478v1

Dorsomedial striatal dopamine ramps down during interval timing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.01.742215v1

Computational and causal dissociation in primate striatum during value-guided decision-making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741388v1

Planning to join the 52nd EBBS Meeting in Dublin (29 June–2 July 2027)? More details are coming soon! Meanwhile, you can already meet our outstanding plenary speakers on the official meeting website. 🔗https://ebbs2027.azuleon.org/welcome See you in Dublin!

Methylphenidate enhances or impairs the cognitive control of Pavlovian bias depending on working memory capacity

Artificial intelligence is a democratizing force for those without graphic-design experience, as long as it is used conscientiously go.nature.com/3RtnKQM

I am happy to announce my very first senior author paper! Serotonin is known to abolish UP-DOWN state dynamics, which occur during sleep and anesthesia. There are several outstanding questions: What happens at short latencies? How widespread across the brain is it? 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ventral tegmental area dopamine neuron activity mediates multi-valent outcomes during decision making under risk of punishment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.14.738459v1

Distinct Orbitofrontal Feedback Signals Shape Sensory Behavioral Strategies during Flexible Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.15.737076v1

Can we trust subthalamic local field potential? Geometrical and dynamical factors constraining the interpretability of extracellular recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.08.737284v1

The unique value of zero prediction errors in reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.13.738284v1

Nature research paper: Fourier pixels for bidirectional light control go.nature.com/4ao2xOG

⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork

Congratulations to Felice Veen from the @willuhnlab.bsky.social on receiving the Carl Storm Fellowship to attend the Gordon Research Conference on the Frontal Cortex this August! We are so excited! #neuroscience #GRC-FrontalCortex

Excited to share our first red ACh sensor! 🔴 We developed GRAB_rACh1h, the first genetically encoded red fluorescent sensor for recording acetylcholine dynamics in vivo. (1/3)

Save the date: the 3rd biennial #engramsandensembles conference will be held from May 12 - 14, 2027 at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🪉🧠🌐📈

Mu opioid receptor neurons in the habenula drive naloxone-induced aversion and withdrawal in mice, and pharmacological blockade of the co-localized orphan receptor GPR139 attenuates both somatic and affective withdrawal symptoms.

We're hiring a PhD Student! Under supervision of @sergedumoulin.net, you will investigate whether individual brain folding patterns reflect computational principles that optimize neural communication and brain organization. Learn more and apply on our website: nin.nl/vacancies/ph...

Want your mice to learn your task faster? 🐭 According to this paper giving a huge reward (10x typical size) in a subset of trials strongly shortens training times: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔥 Our latest work is state of the art 3D pose estimation, with video analysis from a single camera! 🎥 Just train with 3D data, and then only 1 camera is needed! 🖤 Presented this week at #CVPR2026 by lead author Ti Wang! Please repost🩵🙏🏼 xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/ arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755

The @thetransmitter.bsky.social featured an awareness campaign by the Oregon Voices for Biomedical Research, alerting to the impact that the closure of the #ONPRC could have on biomedical research, amid negotiations to transform the facility into an animal sanctuary. 🔗 shorturl.at/IGBYA #NHP #US

At #EICSummit2026, Prof. Amunts showcased how the HBP legacy continues through EBRAINS: SpiNNaker, The Virtual Brain, brainfm on JUPITER, NEST Simulator. From frontier research to lasting impact in neuroscience, healthcare, AI and next-generation computing. More: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

🏆 Congratulations to the Early Career Training Programme awardees for #FENS2026! 🧠 #FENS is excited to share the researchers selected to visit and work in a host laboratory in Spain or Portugal ahead of the #FENSForum. 👉 buff.ly/grSyhzx @ibroorg.bsky.social @senc-neurociencia.bsky.social

Last Call! The individual-abstract deadline for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) is tomorrow! Get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and symposia speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/speakers/. Please repost!

If LLMs are increasingly used for data analysis, should we worry that they might encourage p-hacking? A recent preprint suggests that the answer may be yes, at least in relatively complex analytical pipelines. I share some personal experience here 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...

A huge effort and a new take on what constitutes the "feedforward pass" across the visual system. Make sure to check out our new preprint:

Burnout is a systemic problem, but individuals can take steps to cope with it and pave a path forward go.nature.com/4u38kku