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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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 -- Discussing how a CA3 study could win the Memory Decoding grand prize #neuroscience #memory #decoding #CA3

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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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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Here's one of our 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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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Sammons et al. at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. CA3 pyramidal neurons form a recurrent network sufficient for pattern completion. See more nominees and RSVP via our bio to join us at #SfN25.

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Ko et al. at KAIST show that systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry—CA3-to-CA1 synapses cluster as memories age, driven by adult-born neurons. #SfN25

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Uytiepo et al. at UCLA show that fear-memory engrams form through presynaptic growth of multisynaptic boutons, even without coordinated postsynaptic activation. #SfN25

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Here's one of our 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. #SfN25

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here’s one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Wright et al. demonstrate compartmental plasticity, including apical potentiation from local coactivity (spike-independent) and basal requirements for pre- and post-coincidence (2-photon imaging). #SfN25

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here's one of our nominations for the Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Award! Bittner et al. at HHMI Janelia/Stanford identified seconds-scale, non-Hebbian plasticity via dendritic plateaus that imprint CA1 place fields. Join us at #SfN25

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Aspirational Neuroscience 2025 Nominee: Tavakoli et al. (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. #SfN2025

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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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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Aspirational Neuroscience @aspirationalneuro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Memory Decoding advances nominated for 2025 Aspirational Neuroscience Awards! aspirationalneuroscience.org/nominations-... Join the catered SfN satellite event with Experts panel discussion: Nov. 17 @ 7pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront room Cobalt 500 #memorydecoding #aspirationalneuroscience #SfN2025

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Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston @arielzj.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Come along if you're at SfN on Monday next week! #SfN25

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Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston @arielzj.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"The treatment works like this: doctors use a modified teleporter that targets just one cubic centimeter of brain tissue at a time. That tiny chunk gets scanned, disintegrated, and instantly rebuilt in the exact same spot - minus any disease proteins." open.substack.com/pub/preservi...

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In-Place Teleportation And More: New Thought Experiments For Probing Personal Identity & Survival

In an era of shrinking science budgets, thought experiments remain affordable

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