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Kevin J Miller @kevinjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Excited to share our recent review, which highlights algorithmic and implementational degeneracy in studies of cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Addressing degeneracy in rodent studies of cognition

In order to relate neural dynamics to cognitive computations, it is critical to determine whether subjects are employing behavioral strategies that ac…

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving

Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 24/03/2026

A study from Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social finds that ants continually update their sense of nestmate identity and tolerance for outsiders, a discovery that opens the door to studying the neural circuits behind social recognition. 🔗:https://bit.ly/4sukQIR

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Want to match neural representations from different days and get more trials for analyses? Interested in multi-scale neural dynamics in decision variability? Visit our #cosyne2026 poster today afternoon (Sat)! 3-161: Dynamics-based alignment across sessions reveals latent neural computation

Cosyne schedule, Saturday, March 14, 1.15pm to 4.15pm, Poster number 3-161, Dynamics-based alignment across sessions reveals latent neural computation

Recurrent circuit with spiking measurements on two days. On the left, a 2D flowfield shows bistable dynamics and sample latent trajectories underlying the population activity.

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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074

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Carla Golden @goldenneurons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thank you for the great summary, @thetransmitter.bsky.social, and the shout-outs from scientists we admire. There is so much we don’t know about how sex hormones modulate behavior and we’ll keep exploring!

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Who wore it better? Our new paper shows that rat OFC supports Bayesian inference of hidden states! With neural correlates of inferred state transitions at the level of single neurons and population-level latent factors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rob Johnson @blobology.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾 To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning! [Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks. #SfN2025

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Come say hello and check out some cool science from folks in the lab!

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Carla Golden @goldenneurons.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

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Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience

Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Ecstatic to announce our exciting new paper! Rat-mon y Cajal found a new friend to help him learn. Introducing, Dr. Tutor-us!

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Sophie Caron @thecaronlab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

1/ Hello Drosophila-philists and braino-maniacs! 👋🪰🧠🧪 The Caron lab has a new preprint, and it is about 🥁🥁🥁 democracy! Neuro-democracy, to be precise. So: drop EVERYTHING and listen up — a 🧶! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!

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Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics

Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

'Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience' by @LauraGrima.bsky.social, @Hannah-Haberkern.bsky.social, Rishika Mohanta, @MaimMorimoto.bsky.social @adiraj95.bsky.social @EmmavScholey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Mai Morimoto @maimmorimoto.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Had a lot of fun co-writing to this review! Discussing #foraging through the lens of neuroscience.

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Emma Scholey @emmavscholey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Really excited to share a review I contributed to, out now in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. We explore how foraging can offer a framework for studying brain and behaviour in natural contexts. It’s been a pleasure working with colleagues across species and disciplines on this. Check it out! 👇

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Plus, there's now a related conference organized by some wonderful people @unibirmingham.bsky.social in the UK, including @brainapps.bsky.social, @markdhumphries.bsky.social, and others. (Registration for this conference is still open until the 20th October!) uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A little backstory on this one: sometime during the pandemic @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social and I were chatting in the servery at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social about how to encourage interactions between people working on foraging (+ neuroscience) across different species and perspectives... 1/n

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Hannah Haberkern @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Years ago @lauragrima.bsky.social talked about what a pity it is when scientists who work on #foraging miss out on fruitful interactions because they work with different animals. Together with collegues we started a virtual seminar series, which grew into a conference and now a review!

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Inspired by discussions at several recent foraging-related seminar series and conferences, our review in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social explores an expanded role for foraging as a framework in neuroscience and discusses future directions for the field. Do check it out. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Do register for what is going to be a very exciting conference! uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Rat-mon y Cajal, our lab mascot, is a pro at our task because he went to kindergarten first. His nemesis, Le Chat GPT, just copied off everyone else’s homework. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

David Hocker’s paper about compositional pretraining for RNNs that efficiently produces animal-like behaviors! Modeling cognitive tasks in RNNs requires thinking about latent abilities that animals bring to an experiment. Funded by NIH/CRCNS. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behaviour on complex tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence

Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...

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Constantinople lab @constantinoplelab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

During Q&A, whenever someone asks a question about our "mice."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions. They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looking forward to this!

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Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The whiplash that I feel traveling between India and US is hard to explain. When I’m in one place, I blend into life there, it doesn’t feel alien. Family/childhood memories in one place. Career/folks that I love in another. Each time I travel, it’s an opportunity to question my identity.

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Shruti Muralidhar @polybiotique.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Anybody from the Hindustan Times here? An article written by Ishita Singh Rajput has fabricated a quote that I never provided for this article. I was not approached for it and have no comments. I know they will drag their feet in issuing a correction 😒 www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurug...

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Rahul Siddharthan @rsidd120.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My thoughts on the "one nation, one subscription" plan. I started writing this at the request of Nature India but withdrew when they said they wanted it for free, despite Springer-Nature being one of the richest and most profitable publishers. horadecubitus.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/o...

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One nation, one subscription: A good first step

A version of this piece was originally written at the request of Nature India. Due to various points of friction, both on content and on remuneration, I withdrew the piece. (They informed me that t…

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It was nice to take a break from project-related OFC/amygdala papers & read a fun fly study from the Parnas lab this morning: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Exciting to see potentially distinct pathways for cue- & action- outcome learning in the fly, drawing parallels between the MB & striatum.

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Neuronal circuit mechanisms of competitive interaction between action-based and coincidence learning

Parallel and interfering neuronal circuits are responsible for operant and classical learning.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Question for all you blueskyers (is that the equivalent of tweeps?). Can someone point me to a book that has a brooding non-male protagonist. Brooding heros tend to be my favorite to read about - think Batman or Edmond Dantes - but thinking about it, I'm wondering if only men are written this way.

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Adithya Rajagopalan @adiraj95.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Sharing this wonderful collaboration led by @yashsmehta.bsky.social and @janfunkey.bsky.social seems like a great way to introduce myself to bluesky. So check it out! It was a pleasure to work with this amazing team of scientists!

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