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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join our upcoming MDJC: “Artificial hibernation reveals synaptic engram architecture associated with memory retention” (Lin et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Sep 1, 3pm PT. carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Join our MDJC: “Protein synthesis blockade prevents fear memory reactivation via inhibition of engram synapse strengthening” (Hong et al.) w/ Dr. Ken Hayworth — Today at 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join our MDJC: “Protein synthesis blockade prevents fear memory reactivation via inhibition of engram synapse strengthening” (Hong et al.) w/ Dr. Ken Hayworth — Tue, Aug 4, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memory

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Join our MDJC: “Investigation of synaptic connectivity in functional in vitro neuronal assemblies” (Zaccaria et al.) w/ Dr. Randal Koene — Tue, Jul 21, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #connectivity

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Join our MDJC: “Prediction of neural activity in connectome-constrained recurrent networks” (Beiran & Litwin-Kumar) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Jun 23, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #connectomics #memory

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join our MDJC: “Synaptic interactions between stellate cells and parvalbumin interneurons in layer 2 of the medial entorhinal cortex are organized at the scale of grid cell clusters” w/ Dr. Randal Koene—Tue May 26, 3pm PT. carboncopies.org/aspirational...

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

CSE Journal Club update: “Dissolving the Self” has been moved to Sun, May 24 at 5pm PST due to sudden technical difficulties. Thanks for understanding. Join here: carboncopies.org/cortex #consciousness

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Join our Consciousness & Subjective Experience Journal Club: “Dissolving the Self” w/ Dr. Randal A. Koene — Sun, May 17, 5pm PST. Explore psychedelics, ego dissolution, self-models & personal identity. carboncopies.org/cortex #consciousness

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Join our MDJC: “Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx accompanies memory consolidation” (Baltruschat et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, May 12, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational...

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Join our MDJC: “Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx…” (Baltruschat et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, May 12, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit...

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Did you know the Carboncopies Foundation has a Substack? Our latest article covers the latest Memory Decoding Journal Club discussion on a recent study about grid cells, path integration, and dynamic spatial reference frames. Read the article here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join our MDJC: “Grid cells track movement despite switching reference frames” (Peng et al.) w/ Dr. Randal Koene — Tue, Apr 28, 3pm PT. Video: carboncopies.org/aspirational... RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Want to work on the science of mind uploading this summer? The Carboncopies Foundation has open remote internships in software engineering, machine learning, web development, data science, and LLM infrastructure. Unpaid but meaningful work. Apply here: carboncopies.org/Internships/

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Join our MDJC: “Grid cells track movement during path integration despite switching reference frames” (Peng et al.) w/ Dr. Randal Koene — Tue, Apr 28, 3pm PT. Video: meet.google.com/xqd-zgjv-hag RSVP: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

MDJC: “Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level” (Chen et al.). Presented by Dr. Ken Hayworth — Tue Apr 14, 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Join: carboncopies.org/aspirational... Register: aspirationalneuroscience.org/register-wit... #neuroscience #memory #decoding

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex” (Klavinskis-Whiting et al.) w/ Dr. Kenneth Hayworth — Tue, Mar 31, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #neuroscience #vision #computationalneuroscience

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex” (Klavinskis-Whiting et al.) w/ Kenneth Kayworth — Tue, Mar 31, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #neuroscience #vision #computationalneuroscience

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Join our Memory Decoding Journal Club: “Engram cell connectivity as a mechanism for information encoding and memory function” (Ortega-de San Luis et al.) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston — Tue, Mar 3, 3pm PT. meet.google.com/udr-jcdc-vkp #memory #engram #neuroscience #synapses

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Join our Memory Decoding journal club “The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors” (Fee & Scharff) w/ Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston on Tue, Feb 17 at 3 pm PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #neuroscience #motorlearning

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" (Sammons et al.) w/ Randal Koene on Tue, Jan 27 at 3pm PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #hippocampus #connectomics #CA3

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Join our Memory Decoding journal club "Structure and function of the hippocampal CA3 module" (Sammons et al.) w/ Randal Koene on Tue, Jan 27 at 3 PM PT carboncopies.org/aspirational... #memory #decoding #aspirational #neuroscience #hippocampus #connectomics #CA3

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

⏰ Last chance in 2025! Our year-end campaign ends on Dec 31. Your gift supports Whole Brain Emulation research, ethics & outreach. 2025 Newsletter: carboncopies.org/Newsletter/D... Donate: carboncopies.org/Donate/ CCF is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3); U.S. donations are tax-deductible.

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Join us today at 3 pm US Pacific Time at carboncopies.org/aspirational... as we build towards proposed Memory Decoding studies! #neuroscience #memory #decoding #hippocampus

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine found that functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #/SfN25.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ding et al. at Baylor College of Medicine. Functional connectomics reveals a general “like-to-like” wiring rule: See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Chettih et al. show that each food-cache encodes a sparse hippocampal “barcode” orthogonal to place cells and reactivated on retrieval. See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Dorkenwald et al. map ~2k synapses among L2/3 pyramidal neurons and find a bimodal size distribution—consistent with binary strength states plus analog noise. See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: Holler et al. showed neocortical synapse size tightly tracks functional strength—enabling synaptic-weight estimates from EM and bridging connectomics with physiology. See more winners & RSVP in bio. #SfN2025

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Here’s one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. show compartmental plasticity: apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-indep.); basal needs pre–post coincidence (2-photon imaging). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Abatis et al. show fear learning strengthens recurrent LA-engram synapses, forming an attractor driving recall (viral tagging + 12-cell patch-clamp). See nominees & RSVP in bio. #SfN25

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Nominee spotlight for AN2025: Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified BTSP seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity driven by dendritic plateaus that rapidly imprint CA1 place fields. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Tavakoli et al. at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria developed a new technique, light-microscopy-based connectomics, to fully trace all neuronal connections in brain tissue using fluorescence microscopy.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: here's one of our six winners from Aspirational Neuroscience 2023! J-H. Choi et al. & D. Choi et al. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology provided insights into encoding memories at a structural & molecular level. #SfN2025

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

1 week until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at the link in our bio.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Here's one of our ten nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Lappalainen et al. fixed a recurrent network’s wiring to the Drosophila optic-lobe connectome, then task-optimized its remaining neuron/synapse parameters for optic-flow detection. #SfN2025

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#Throwback to #AspirationalNeuroscience2023: Ghosh et al. and Xiong et al. at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revealed how the brain establishes and maintains learned associations between sounds and actions through selective strengthening of corticostriatal synapses. #SfN25

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The Aspirational Neuroscience Awards exist to honor and highlight groundbreaking scientific to research into how learning and memory are physically encoded in the brain. Here is one of the 2025 nominations: A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing Author(s): Shiu et al

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Remembering past winners and nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience Awards!

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

2 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

3 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at the link in our bio.

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Journal club TODAY at 3 pm US Pacific Time: Functional Connectomics Reveals General Wiring Rule in Mouse Visual Cortex -- join at carboncopies.org/aspirational... #neuroscience #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #connectomics #mouse

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

4 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio.

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The Carboncopies Foundation @carboncopiesorg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

5 weeks until our satellite event at SFN SD! RSVP at link in bio!

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