Reposted by Felix TaschbachMatt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New lab preprint: @grace-padilla.bsky.social studied how zebrafish respond to chemical cues of death and decay. Brief exposure initiated a persistent state, but not through olfaction. Instead, these cues' basic pH was detected by trigeminal neurons and TrpA1 channels www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgDecay chemicals activate a pH-sensing pathway to initiate a persistent stateAnimals use multiple sensory systems to identify signs of danger, including dead conspecifics. Fish can identify decaying conspecifics from chemosensory cues, which prompt a long-lasting avoidance; th... 12412
Reposted by Felix Taschbachallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2026Applications are open for the Studio D3 Fellowship at the Allen Institute! This 3-year fellowship gives early-career scientists the freedom to pursue creative, high-impact ideas in biology alongside Institute scientists and Studio D3 Affiliates. 🌟Apply by Dec. 1: bit.ly/4rgbTmD 067
Reposted by Felix Taschbachallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2026"An exciting opportunity to make fundamental discoveries." The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Experience in #neuroscience is not needed. 🌟Apply by Dec. 1: bit.ly/4h762LH 032
Reposted by Felix TaschbachTakuya Sasatani @takuyasasatani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Miniscope Zero, the first fully wireless Miniscope, is on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Wireless power + data enable neural recordings in enclosed mazes, 3D environments & from two animals at once! @miniscope.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... Wiki: miniscope.org/wiki/Minisco... 48934
Reposted by Felix TaschbachbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Shared Representation Discovery for Multi-Subject Neural Data Analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 042
Reposted by Felix TaschbachMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not 251466297
Reposted by Felix Taschbachstefanofusi.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Specialized readouts are also possible when most neurons are not specialized, if you have the right representational geometry. Another great work with D. Salzman's lab: led by Pia O'Neill and @lorenzoposani.com, who did a wonderful job 0194
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Potentially no K99/R00 eligibility for international postdocs 020
Reposted by Felix TaschbachLorenzo Posani @lorenzoposani.com · 06/08/2026For a neural circuit to be "specialized", does it need specialized neurons? In our new work - now out in @NatureNeuro - we address this question in the BLA, using representational geometry to propose a new population-centric way of defining circuit specialization. 🧵👇 1/ 39229
Reposted by Felix TaschbacharXiv q-bio.NC Neurons and Cognition @qbionc-bot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Robert C. Froemke: But What Behavior? arxiv.org/abs/2607.28898 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28898 arxiv.org/html/2607.28898 011
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026After six years, my time in San Diego is coming to an end. I’m very happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD in Biology at UC San Diego. I’m grateful to my advisor, my committee, collaborators, friends, and family for their mentorship, support, and encouragement throughout these years. 2100
Reposted by Felix TaschbachSara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Exclusive @science.org: Circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda is resigning from Salk following multiple sexual harassment investigations. Lab members and other employees spoke up after Salk refused to reveal the investigations' findings. #MeTooSTEM www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgProminent Salk Institute biologist to resign following sexual misconduct investigationStaffers complain that Salk allowed circadian rhythms researcher Satchidananda Panda to depart quietly, while the allegations and findings remain under wraps 0258
Reposted by Felix Taschbachstefanofusi.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social · 15/07/2026From a great collaboration with @lorenzoposani.com, @shuqiw.bsky.social, Samuel Muscinelli, Liam Paninski, now in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - NatureCortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations. 011334
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 08/07/2026just stumbled upon this feed for neuroscience summer schools: bsky.app/profile/did:... 020
Reposted by Felix TaschbachSonja Blumenstock @sblumenstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026What if part of Huntington's disease wasn't just damage, but a circuit stuck in the wrong pattern? Our new paper, out today in Nature, tests that idea. 34320
Reposted by Felix TaschbachJeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgExclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders sayUnexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year 11250118
Reposted by Felix TaschbachUma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Today's a day for *all* the grad school classics: "Although if you get a poisonous snake, it often means that there was a problem with the formatting of your bibliography." 002
Reposted by Felix TaschbachBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268 15546205
Reposted by Felix TaschbachStories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... 04513
Reposted by Felix TaschbachZebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2 35721
Reposted by Felix TaschbachRichard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 12/03/2026For this year's Neuromatch Computation Neuroscience course, the Curriculum Team is adding a new Day 🥁🥁🥁 Time series analysis and signal processing! We're looking for 5-10 content contributors with relevant neuro+DSP experience for various tasks: co-Day Lead, video, slides, code tutorials, etc. 1275
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 12/03/2026CCA has come up so many times during my PhD that I finally wrote it all down. felix.phd/blog/cca/ 040
Reposted by Felix Taschbachstefanofusi.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The deadline for applying to the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at MBL in Woods Hole is approaching (March 16)! An exciting course with an amazing lineup of lecturers in a beautiful location www.mbl.edu/education/ad... 02910
Reposted by Felix TaschbachCaswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Nice new preprint from Giocomo and Ganguli — using Gaussian processes to look at grid cell tuning in 4D (position × velocity). Turns out position and velocity coding aren't separable in some cells. Makes you wonder how much we miss by always analysing one variable at a time 081
Reposted by Felix TaschbachAndrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9 9376153
Reposted by Felix TaschbachMichael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The major European postdoctoral fellowship, the MSCA, had around 17k applications this year—up from 10k last year, thanks to the evisceration of science funding in the US. Only 1610 people received support. This is what brain drain sounds like 071
Reposted by Felix Taschbachderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now: "Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?" 1885678421
Reposted by Felix Taschbachdeanpospisil.bsky.social @deanpospisil.bsky.social · 27/01/2026New paper out at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Revisiting the high-dimensional geometry of population responses in the visual cortex with @jpillowtime.bsky.social. The review took forever because a reviewer was doubtful our new estimator can infer eigenvalues beyond the rank of the data! (1/6)pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 26819
Reposted by Felix TaschbachChristian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 22/01/2026happy to send anyone my proposal from last year if they dm/email me! 154
Reposted by Felix Taschbachderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/01/2026i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about 120119391561
Reposted by Felix TaschbachbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The geometry of context-dependent biased decisions during learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 072
Reposted by Felix TaschbachOscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 13/01/2026As we head into the new year, a reminder that if you're recruiting or looking for a job in Neuroscience (or adjacent) add #NeuroJobs to your post to appear on the NeuroJobs feed. bsky.app/profile/did:... #NeuroSkyence 02315
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 13/01/2026@scienceishard.bsky.social this is like half of our conversations 😅 110
Reposted by Felix TaschbachJonathan Pillow @jpillowtime.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467arxiv.orgReduced rank regression for neural communication: a tutorial for neuroscientistsReduced rank regression (RRR) is a statistical method for finding a low-dimensional linear mapping between a set of high-dimensional inputs and outputs. In recent years, RRR has found numerous applica... 211339
Reposted by Felix TaschbachNatalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comvarious computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools 310360
Reposted by Felix TaschbachRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”nytimes.comThe U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and MedicineA quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. 28721303
Reposted by Felix Taschbachmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Please help spread the word! All contributions tax deductible! 0117
Reposted by Felix TaschbachEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Thanks! And check out our new review on mixed selectivity, please and thanks. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...doi.orgRedirecting 1206
Reposted by Felix TaschbachThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...thetransmitter.orgThis paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population codingThe 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition. 04714
Reposted by Felix TaschbachFanny Cazettes @fannycazettes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025When @natrevneuro.nature.com asked me to highlight a paper that influenced both my field and my own research, I immediately thought of the work on mixed selectivity by @matrig.net, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and colleagues. More on this journal club: rdcu.be/eRKLkrdcu.beMixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialistsNature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Journal Club, Fanny Cazettes highlights a 2013 paper that demonstrated the importance of mixed selectivity for cortical computations. 0207
Reposted by Felix TaschbachJoao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 25/11/2025Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way. We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere: This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA It’s quite the opposite! (thread) 36923
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Guess international students can't apply for a postdoc at MIT🙃 000
Felix Taschbach @ftaschbach.bsky.social · 13/11/2025ShaReD had its first outing in this motor learning paper, where we used it to extract shared neural components across animals. For the full method + new communication-subspace results, come to my #SfN2025 poster PSTR253.22 (YY21), Mon 1–5pm. 020
Reposted by Felix Taschbachcaylen @caylen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025a “Space Force”, if you will 236116391798
Reposted by Felix TaschbachMitchell Ostrow @neurostrow.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943 47124
Reposted by Felix TaschbachZeta Of 1 @zetaof1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025A meme I created for a presentation I gave today Best wishes to @bengolub.bsky.social and all other Eigenvalue appreciators 1255
Reposted by Felix TaschbachNidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @antoinecomite.bsky.socialpnas.orgFoot placement control underlies stable locomotion across species | PNASAnimals navigate their environment stably without inefficient course corrections despite unavoidable errors. In humans, this stability is achieved ... 1499
