Reposted by Tim BehrensEric Denovellis @eric-denovellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I wanted to highlight the work of Alison Comrie et al. that recently came out in Neuron and I don’t think it is getting enough attention: paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00674-4 #neuroskyence 24221
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I once went to the Vatican with some fellow scientists to debate free will with some cardinals, even meeting the pope (Benedict). It seemed to me that the Catholic Church doesn’t even believe non-human animals are conscious (“have a soul”) so they have a very high bar! 0100
Reposted by Tim BehrensISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We’re excited to introduce Karla Miller, Ph.D., the 2027 Lauterbur Lecturer! Join us in Vancouver for the 2027 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition. LEARN MORE: ow.ly/JzSi50ZMNaX #ISMRM2027 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MRI #MagneticResonance #Radiology #MedicalImaging #MRTechnologists #Radiographer 087
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Authors of an affected Nature paper also claim to have used the correct antibody. Not clear if this is evidenced or not, but I think in general, it is most likely that the error is made at writing time and the science is sound. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 050
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This made a social media buzz earlier this year, including an eLife paper. I am now pointing to the eLife correction. The authors used the correct antibody,but referred to the wrong one in the paper. They supplied the original receipts during the correction. elifesciences.org/articles/112...elifesciences.orgCorrection: p16 deficiency attenuates intervertebral disc degeneration by adjusting oxidative stress and nucleus pulposus cell cycle 132
Reposted by Tim BehrensErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Oh. my. god. The biggest scientific publishers are collecting nearly $4 BILLION A YEAR in author fees. This is absurd. We've got to break free of this system. If everyone would just agree to it, we could just post all our new papers on bsky and it wouldn't cost anything. Or something. But not this. 24319
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I just posted a few of the awesome recent things we have published in @elife.bsky.social. You can browse them all here elifesciences.org/browse. You can filter whether you just want to see the ones the reviewers raved about, or whether you want to ignore the reviewers and judge for yourselves. 150
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If I were reviewing it, it would have got a "Landmark" :) 060
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Such beautiful experimental logic to test some of the most important ideas about basic cortical processing. 030
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a really really beautiful thing. One of my favourite papers of the year. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1162
Reposted by Tim BehrensEric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm 6179148
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Is a simpler explanation not also possible/plausible: that the memories have been consolidated into cortex and the hippocampal synapses reform because the memories reactivate the same pairs of neurons? 170
Reposted by Tim BehrensNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Reverse engineering neural circuits - @wiringthebrain.bsky.social talks to @behrenstimb.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...thetransmitter.orgSuccess stories from computational neuroscienceKevin Mitchell talks with Timothy Behrens about ring attractors, the role of innate structure, and an expanded view of cognitive maps. 0155
Reposted by Tim BehrensLaura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.nature.comThe compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature NeuroscienceCompositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar... 212043
Reposted by Tim BehrensThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social talks to Timothy Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social about which neural systems the field has genuinely cracked. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/computationa...thetransmitter.orgSuccess stories from computational neuroscienceKevin Mitchell talks with Timothy Behrens about ring attractors, the role of innate structure, and an expanded view of cognitive maps. 03815
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This was a fun chat about getting to mechanisms in cognition… 0294
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Have @ukri.org published the reasoning behind this decision? It seems like such an extraordinary decision on the surface that surely it should be defended in public. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained. 061
Reposted by Tim BehrensPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :) 02221
Reposted by Tim BehrensHelen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 10/07/2026New perspective paper from our lab: “The hippocampus as a generative model” out now !! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... The traditional view of the hippocampus is that it creates a cognitive map. Here we extend this view to conceptualise the hippocampus as a “generative model”.royalsocietypublishing.orgThe hippocampus as a generative modelAbstract. A generative model can be defined as a model of the latent causes of sensory input that can be used to generate new data samples. By examining em 15522
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is one of my favourite things. Direct replication of MEG and fMRI findings in intracranial recordings and a demonstration that cortical representations update in the right direction around hippocampal ripples. 04110
Reposted by Tim BehrensBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026For a long time I felt like there was a hesitation in neuroscience to ascribe anything like a planning function to the various "replay" events we see in the hippocampus, but I think this is rapidly changing. Here's another new entry in human epilepsy patients: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪nature.comHuman hippocampal ripples coordinate planning sequences and compositional representations in neocortex - Nature NeuroscienceHuman hippocampal ripples and replay interact with the prefrontal cortex to update mental representations online, letting the brain compositionally combine familiar elements in new ways for flexible p... 06112
Reposted by Tim BehrensMohamady El-Gaby @melgaby.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It wouldn’t be FENS if there wasn’t some sort of clash - definitely check out awesome work by @aryabhomick.bsky.social in Friday morning’s poster session tracking learning dynamics of abstract task structure in the PFC as well as evidence for complex hierarchical learning in rodents! 172
Reposted by Tim BehrensMohamady El-Gaby @melgaby.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Same session contains this exciting new work from friends: Athena Apostolelli @sandra-neuro.bsky.social @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social showing PFC learning dynamics in a spontaneously emerging type of abstraction behaviour in mice 032
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Similarly everyone who argues against representation should be forced to organise a wedding seating plan without a representation of the guests. 210
Reposted by Tim BehrensAdrian Roggenbach @a-roggenbach.bsky.social · 05/07/2026#FENS2026 poster alert: "Combining flexible electrode recordings with two-photon imaging to investigate brain-wide network coupling" Come to our poster PS01-07AM-375 on Tuesday morning to chat with Linus Meienberg and me, how we use ultra-flexible electrodes together with optical recordings. 092
Reposted by Tim BehrensEdvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 318152
Reposted by Tim BehrensNeil Burgess @neilburgess10.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Ever wondered how the hippocampal cognitive map is read-out? @changmin-yu.bsky.social @zilong-ji.bsky.social with Jake & John, show that, during navigation, theta sweeps indicate remembered goal-directions (cf. current/next movements or perceptual targets) 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 710047
Reposted by Tim BehrensAnna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this! 510532
Reposted by Tim BehrensJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/06/2026I feel like she, specifically, should know better 92700445
Reposted by Tim BehrensAlon Baram @alonbaram.bsky.social · 29/06/2026How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... 211640
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thin you might be thinking about a different paper. Sounds like the Wojkic and Stokes study that came out in NN yesterday? 100
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Slightly surprised that @kordinglab.bsky.social are still printing their simulations out on paper to be honest. 4364
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This paper is an absolutely beautiful combination of a deep set of cognitive ideas, a super creative task, a surprisingly impressive behaviour, and an elegant modelling framework. One of my favourite things in the last year. 15715
Reposted by Tim BehrensSeán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Great to see Mark Stokes getting acknowledged , and also the author senior authors who stepped in, but I’d like to highlight 1st author Michał Wojcik who completed this excellent work from his PhD under such difficult circumstances. He‘s got more good stuff in the pipeline - one to watch 2526
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I’m grateful that we at least had 2 years of a government trying to fix things apart from their own image, but I wish they had got to universities before the “let’s actually govern” strategy imploded. 050
Reposted by Tim BehrensOxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026One more week to apply for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Deadline 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost! 077
Reposted by Tim BehrensSeán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is such a great opportunity for early career neuroimaging researchers in the Global South and for our centre. Come join our @oxcin.bsky.social community! 032
