Reposted by Ede RanczChristophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hallelujah! Papers written by an AI and reviewed by an AI can finally be read by an AI, fulfilling the prophecy of the Great AI Circlejerk 3615
Reposted by Ede RanczSainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 24/07/2026How does sleep consolidate muscle memories? New research from @mstephensonjones.bsky.social lab & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com reveals that motor-skill memories are replayed in the striatum during sleep, independently of the hippocampus. www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/muscle-...sainsburywellcome.orgMuscle memories: how does sleep produce consolidation? | Sainsbury Wellcome CentreSleep not only makes us feel better, but it’s vital for helping us form memories and learn new skills. For many years, neuroscientists have studied how the brain consolidates episodic memories during ... 03511
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Lack of empathy is a prerequisite for some rational decisions. of course it also leads to horrific acts, but in balance seem to have worked. if it still works in todays society or not (likely the later) is another question 100
Reposted by Ede RanczBrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 16/07/2026Nice Claude skill to create basic neuroanatomical visualisations with BrainGlobe & blender: github.com/SamedVossber... The single prompt "Use the allen mouse brain atlas to create an animation to show primary visual cortex and primary motor cortex" gives: 1188
Reposted by Ede RanczDavid Robbe @davidrobbe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Excited to share our new paper: "The Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving mice,". Out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🧵1/9 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...cell.comThe Tower Foraging Park: A paradigm for studying cognitive and motor processes underlying behavioral flexibility in freely moving miceBiological sciences; Behavioral neuroscience; Laboratory animal science 33410
Reposted by Ede Rancz3Dneuro @3dneuro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026📢 #FENS2026 giveaway! We're distributing 8 R2 system starter kits - including one with our new metal holder- for FENS attendees! Apply here: forms.gle/QFnUVZthhcfR... 1136
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Why are both of you finishing every post with a question? 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Oh, humans, any living being actually, makes sure there is never lasting abundance of anything, not even the sun. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026History and genetics leading to a fairly cataclysmic event. Needed the outside world to align, the people you meet, the things you read. A changing tracks with pharmacology, not the only way but works most reliably. 200
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Yes, thanks for making it clear, exactly what I meant. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Spot on. As long as story = your experiential and genetic history, and not the voice in the head which is very good at justifying behaviour post hoc. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Plus there is the ~1 % (or rather 2% of the Y-chromosome carrying population) who are psychopaths to a varying degree. Selected by evolution for the tough times to ensure the rational decisions for survival. 210
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026You can’t change what your mind does in the moment. You can change what it will do by learning. So yes, we adapt, you are right. What I mean in practical terms that under limited resources, food, water, shelter, humans will always fight. Self-concept is just a nebulous wrapper to make us feel good. 200
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Your logic implies agency to change the behaviour, free will of you wish. There is no proof of that. If anything, most experiments prove that there is no such thing. The best you can do is observe your mind and learn from the experience. 200
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026So it developed as a tool because it was helpful. Today is a trap. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026100s of millions years of evolution selected behaviours to optimise passing on our genes under an environment of scarce resources. We protect our in-group, fight any out-group, the worse the conditions, the worse the fight. We just can’t do otherwise. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Communication - and narrative - at one point must invoke a concept of self, and thus the special me is born. The concept of us and them is close - e.g. neighbouring riots of chimpanzee. So perhaps more of a continuum then I thought initially. 100
Reposted by Ede RanczAndrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Deadline day! We are almost full... www.biologie.hu-berlin.de/en/groupsite... 022
Reposted by Ede RanczMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Reposted by Ede RanczSamuel Le Meur-Diebolt @sdiebolt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Interesting article on something I think is very relevant to open science: several teams analyzed the same ephys dataset and got quite different answers. Not because the analyses were bad, but because this kind of work involves many analysis choices, and those choices can change the result. 11910
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Someone asked me what makes us, humans, special. We were talking about the brain. I keep thinking about it, but so far the only special thing about us I could come up with is that we are the only animals who think they are special. 110
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Earplugs, eye mask, whatever pharma works normally x 1.5. Bottom berth so it swings less. It works for me reliably in Hungary to Transylvania, and believe me, tracks are shite. 000
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Seconding this - at least a couple so we can get open ephys to make a headstage for onix. shhhh, for open science 020
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Great… so no it will be impossible getting an animal licence to put pigeons in an fMRI. Yet another of my groundbreaking ideas killed by regulation… 000
Reposted by Ede RanczKate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We have extended the deadline on this until June 8 when I'm back from holiday - please pass along to anyone you think would be interested! I've got email with me so drop me a line if you would like more details 01010
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Exactly. Not everything what computes is silicone based with a bottom-up designed architecture untouched by hundred million years of evolution optimising for survival and mating. 000
Reposted by Ede RanczNature @nature.com · 26/05/2026Book review 📚 How to breathe life back into brain theory go.nature.com/4dwswFtgo.nature.comHow to breathe life back into brain theoryNeuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer. 45614
Reposted by Ede RanczNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The psychology of 'simps': "The fear of being single contributes significantly to the motivation behind male simping behaviors." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42178873/ 🫠 1106
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Where do you find these gems? Didn’t even know this behaviour has a name (my fault entirely) 100
Reposted by Ede RanczJesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026🧪 1/ Our review “The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity” is now out in The Neuroscientist. We explore the idea that astrocytes help determine when & where synaptic plasticity is permitted, reframing the credit assignment problem in biological circuits. doi.org/10.1177/1073...doi.orgThe 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity - Airi Watanabe, Connie Guo, P. Jesper Sjöström, 2026Learning and memory were long thought to be the domains of neurons and neural networks, but recent work across brain systems has established that astrocytes pla... 1146
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Perhaps worth an educated review of policies? Give humans a nuclear bomb and they drop it. Don Quixote never defeats the windmill. 000
Reposted by Ede RanczErwan Leprince @erwanleprince.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I'm excited to share the new paper from the Cossart lab @inmed.bsky.social , a work I had the pleasure to share with Caroline Filippi and Manon Mantez, without forgetting all the people involved in this team effort. It's available in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comDistinct developmental trajectories of externally and internally generated hippocampal sequences and assembliesLeprince et al. use longitudinal two-photon calcium imaging to track the development of internal vs. external representations in the CA1 region of the mouse hippocampus. They identify the mid-fourth p... 284
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Shouldn’t they normalise by the number of employees + students? Bike couriers and rickshaws should have separate category. This is serious, you people! 100
Reposted by Ede RanczBrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 21/05/2026As part of this effort, we've just released three new atlases from v2 of the Allen mouse CCF - the brain atlas, fiber tract atlas and developmental brain atlas. Most pipelines have moved to CCFv3, but adding v2 allows atlas comparison and reproducing old analyses. brainglobe.info/blog/ccfv2-a... 0106
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The biblical diet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Hilarious. But not as much as Louis CK. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=220...theguardian.comAnd, lo! The latest fad diet is upon us – and it’s called ‘eating biblically’ | Arwa MahdawiSome Christian conservatives are only eating foods mentioned in the Bible. At least Jesus wasn’t devouring ultra-processed sausage rolls, writes Arwa Mahdawi 000
Reposted by Ede RanczSarah Ruediger @ruedigersarah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026How does #vision shape spatial maps in the hippocampus? Check out our brand new preprint 👇 As someone who did a PhD on the #hippocampus & postdoc on visual cortex and superior colliculus, it's such a joy to start closing the loop - especially with such a great team! 😊 1189
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026A species capable of genuine atrocity and a good night’s sleep, in that order. 000
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The wrongdoing happens first; the airtight moral narrative arrives moments later, fully formed, experienced as genuine reasoning rather than damage control. Cognitive dissonance resolved not by changing the behaviour, but by quietly renovating the conscience around it. 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Post-hoc rationalisation: the brain’s most reliable feature. 100
Reposted by Ede RanczRafiq Huda @brainsonmymind.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...science.orgThe anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousalThe anterior cingulate cortex modulates pupil-linked arousal in real time. 13813
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Should look up some recent definitions of thinking, mental image, "coming up", ... Evaluation requires having some sort of mental images to compare, no? My intuition (=bias) is that all these processes exist in mammalian brains but to widely different "power". Mammalian panpsychism, if you wish. 010
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Is evaluating action outcomes internally thinking or cognition? 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I do disagree. Creativity does not come from ether, but rather from information processing, internal models, biases, etc… Sure, current LLMs are not equivalent, but calling them a calculator, a logic circuit and reserving what we call creativity to some wetware in our cranium is dangerous. IMO 100
Ede Rancz @ederancz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026As far as I understand your concern, @futurehousesf.bsky.social is doing exactly this, building AI scientist. 100
Reposted by Ede RanczLorenzo Fontolan @lorifonto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Pleased to share that I’ll be part of a fantastic lineup at the BARCCSYN FENS Satellite Meeting on “Multi-scale Dynamics in Decision Making,” taking place on July 5th at IDIBAPS in Barcelona. Details and registration here: lnkd.in/dZ68-Czd 084
Reposted by Ede RanczNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026"Major AI models converge as they model reality better... because there's only one reality to model!" towardsdatascience.com/how-major-re... Well, we are only training our AIs on one "reality", which is the human reality (more specifically the 21st century internet user reality 99% of the time...)towardsdatascience.comHow Major Reasoning Models Converge to the Same “Brain” as They Model Reality Increasingly Better | Towards Data ScienceBecause there's only one reality to model! 1112
