Reposted by NikkySholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Today I'm posting a video about Neurodigitech LLC which has provided clearly photoshopped neurons to research teams that published these images in Nature, JBC, and more. A year after I uncovered this only one paper has been corrected. It's in Frontiers. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpIyoutu.beFaked Images of Neurons in Major JournalsYouTube video by Sholto David 35228
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wonder was there ever been of TD learning been used in behavior? Or maybe the question is: is it possible to prove TD learning using behavior?🤔 #NeuroAI #neuroscience #compneurosky 010
Reposted by NikkyKris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3 This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!tinyurl.comAn introduction to reinforcement learning for neuroscience | Published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and TheoryBy Kristopher T. Jensen. Reinforcement learning for neuroscientists 613033
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Am trying to fix the black shadow on the top I thought the alignment was good enough already but apparently not Still working on alignment skills and am open for suggestions 021
Reposted by NikkyThe Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Wishing a happy 90th birthday today to living legend Margaret Hamilton! She led the team that created Apollo's guidance computer software, coined the phrase "software engineering", developed software for Skylab, and founded two computer companies of her own. #WomenInSTEM #NASA #WomensHistory 14214
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It’s my great pleasure to share our findings about how proprioception contributes to navigation with the 3rd mechanotransduction, muscle spindles and proprioception conference! It’s my first oral presentation aboard and I love the enthusiasm and energy! Learned so much from amazing people. 110
Reposted by NikkyItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92 13533199
Reposted by NikkyEdvard 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 NikkyMark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It’s done! Just submitted the manuscript for my next book “The Latent Brain” In it I argue why and how we’ve shifted from single neurons to their collective, latent activity in our quest to understand how brains create minds Due early 2027 from @harvardpress.bsky.social 4978
Reposted by NikkySam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides: gershmanlab.com/lectures.html I'll continue to update these as I improve them. 419057
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Excited to share my research with the NeuroAI community! #RIANS Really enjoyed the talks by Dr. Blake Richards and Dr. Kenji Doya. The way the brain computes is so different from how we often expect it to be. Moravec’s paradox is sth I’ll definitely keep in mind as I think about my future research. 010
Reposted by NikkySam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New reading material for my lab courtesy of @lucylai.bsky.social Never too old to learn from board books! 1504
Reposted by NikkyMark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it. 424052
Reposted by NikkyAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/01/2026"...women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings... lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues..." pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... 113246
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Inspiring talk from dr. Moser! Am thinking about do recording in EC for my project rn 🤔 110
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Yesterday, we gave a science outreach pre-talk for today’s talk from Edward Moser. An amazing opportunity to review the history of the study of spatial navigation and the great work by May Britt Moser and Edvard moser 040
Reposted by NikkyCian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025unclear if Watson made a net positive or negative contribution to science. Without him would the double helix have been figured out sooner or later? Perhaps CSHL would not have grown to its eventual status Perhaps a swathe of women and non-white researchers would not have been lost from science 181
Reposted by NikkyDan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 09/03/2026IMO there’s more theory in neuroscience than we give it credit for, but it doesn’t percolate through the field as much as you would hope/need for broader understanding. 0152
Reposted by NikkyPatrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I want to write a fun little post on what we've learned in neuroscience in the last 20 years. What are the most interesting results you can think of? Biggest trends? 10327
Reposted by NikkyAndrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 09/03/20261/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 24717
Reposted by NikkybioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 09/03/2026A Vector Navigation and Inference Architecture can Construct Universal Cognitive Maps for Abstract Reasoning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 021
Reposted by NikkyInternational Brain Research Organization @ibroorg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Science thrives when diverse voices are heard. This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate women everywhere - including women #neuroscientists who mentor, inspire & push the boundaries of discovery 🌟 Happy International Women’s Day from IBRO! 063
Reposted by NikkyeLife @elife.bsky.social · 07/03/2026A sense of directionbuff.lyInsect Migration: A sense of directionMigratory moths use both magnetic and visual cues for navigation when travelling long distances in the dark. 082
Reposted by NikkyChing-Lung Hsu @hiallen72.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Are the place-cell representations of environments Euclidean even? I am not sure. doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.org 042
Reposted by NikkyJesse Geerts @jessegeerts.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 39725
Reposted by NikkyClaudia Clopath Lab @clopathlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Check out our new work on motor learning across multiple brain regions! 0217
Reposted by NikkyThe Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Alice Hamilton was born 157 years ago today. Her skill in analyzing the chemical toxins workers in industry were exposed to in the early 20th century pushed Harvard to admit women professors, AND she was a fearless pacifist, and advocate for women and labor. tinyurl.com/5t529jfz #WomenInSTEM 🧪⚛️🏭tinyurl.comLead, TNT, and Rayon: Alice Hamilton's Battle Against Industrial Poisons.The lack of regulation in American industry during the early Twentieth Century is the stuff of horrific legend - from the grotesqueries of the meat industry as unveiled by Upton Sinclair to the additi... 0197
Nikky @nikkychang.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Hi! I’m interested in how mice build and update maps for navigation, focusing on hippocampal circuits and the role of self-motion signals. I use in vivo imaging (SLAP2) in head-fixed treadmill setups, and I also run freely moving experiments to link circuit dynamics to real-world behavior! 020
Reposted by NikkyRoddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.socialdoi.orgTolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for ShortcuttingIn 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze... 713557