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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@noldusit.bsky.social I don't think AI understands how jigsaw pieces work yet...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Journal editors creating PDF layouts where the text is on page 5, Figure 1 is on page 30, and the legend is on page 42:

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I Want To Kill The Unicorn

ALT: I Want To Kill The Unicorn

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

During sleep, neurons in the hippocampus 'replay' past activity patterns. This is thought to underlie memory consolidation 🧠 After a busy day, how does the brain sort out what is worth replaying? 🤔 Check out this preprint 📃 from Tirole, Duvelle and Bendor for answers! doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Time, but not reward, shapes replay-based episodic prioritization

Why are some experiences remembered better than others? Leading theories propose that hippocampal replay prioritizes memories for consolidation according to their expected future value. We recorded hi...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ever wonder how your brain navigates the real world? 🧠 Most spatial navigation studies use flat, 2D mazes. But the real world is hilly, irregular, and bumpy! ⛰️ Our new paper in #ScienceAdvances asked a simple question: How does the brain map uneven terrain? 📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵👇️️️ 1/

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We've now highlighted all our amazing confirmed keynote speakers! Please sign up to our email list as this will be the main way we will communicate. Stay tuned for news about submissions, registration, and lots more! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

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ICOM - International Conference on Memory 2027

The International Conference on Memory 2027, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 26 - 30 July 2027.

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We're back with another keynote speaker highlight - Prof Lawrence Barsalou! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

Prof Lawrence Barsalou, University of Glasgow

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today's keynote speaker to highlight is Prof Dorthe Bernsten! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For the next few days we'll be focussing on our amazing keynote speakers! First up, we have Prof Sue Gathercole. This is particularly fitting as Sue was one of the co-founders of ICOM. icom-memory.org

Prof Sue Gathercole, University of Cambridge

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Poster advertising ICOM 26th-30th July 2027 with 8 keynote speakers

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Shortcuts as a behavioural signature of cognitive map use? My awesome colleagues Eleonore Duvelle & Roddy Grieves revisit Tolman’s sunburst maze and are not convinced…

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Gerhard Jocham @gjocham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Amazing work. And ouch, a heavy blow to one of my favourite literature "classics".

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

JOVE's AI-voiced video describing the Morris water maze (app.jove.com/v/5418/spati...) : "Visual cues are arranged around the maze to associate each quadrant with a specific symbol" 😕 "The rodent should learn to associate the location of the platform with the location of a specific visual cue" 🤦

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Anecdote from Innis (1992) To quell his anxiety, a group of Tryon's students conducted an Ocean's Eleven style operation to deconstruct and transport a huge rat maze from one building to another while a second group of students distracted him on an out of town trip. doi.org/10.1037//000...

Tryon’s maze had taken many years and much labor to develop, and he was extremely protective of it. Thus, when the Psychology Department was about to take up residence in the new Life Sciences Building, Tryon approached the move with some trepidation. Sensing his anxiety, some of the graduate students persuaded him to join them on a trip one weekend, and while they were absent, others undertook the move without his knowledge. All went well, and the maze was safely installed on the top floor of Life Sciences, where it would remain in service for many years to come.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 21/10/2025

🚨 Journal of Comparative Physiology A #JCP-A has published a collection on "The #Honeybee #Odometer Controversy" 🐝 ↘️ link.springer.com/collections/... ↙️ Read and discuss the issue of the "most serious allegation of scientific misconduct in the history of #neuroethology" with students & colleagues 💬

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The Honeybee Odometer Controversy

Research around the turn of the millennium showed that honeybees use the amount of optic flow during foraging flights to estimate the distance between a food ...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Rate adaptation in a continuous attractor predicts the alternating left/right theta sweeps observed in hippocampus and mEC. Really nice computational model, backed up with a reanalysis of ephys data, from Widloski, Theurel and Foster: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Spontaneous alternation of place-cell sequences in the open field through spike frequency adaptation

Spatial sequences encoded by cells in the hippocampal-entorhinal region have been observed to spontaneously alternate across the animal’s midline duri…

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In 1950s/60s "curiosity" was one of the theories proposed for exploration in animals. The issue was that the theory (curiosity) could only be measured using the thing it was supposed to explain (exploration). Makes sense to look at this in humans, where you can just ask them how curious they are!

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Mikkel Roald-Arbøl @roald-arboel.com · 03/04/2025

Ethologists and neuroscientists: What is a theoretical ethology paper that has shaped the way you think about behaviour? Here I'm not thinking experimental papers with a point, or even tools that are developed to prove a point - purely theoretical, making conceptual, general points.

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Paper from Mainali et al. modelling place cells "across species and dimensionalities" doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Unfortunately it overlooks our rodent place cell results in 3D: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Which arguably make the best comparison to flying bats 🤦 #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

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The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats - Nature Communications

How the brain represents 3D space is poorly understood but important for understanding spatial cognition. Here the authors record place cells in rats climbing through a 3D environment and report that ...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ji et al, Burgess lab: phase precession, theta skipping & theta modulation of head direction cells in the anteroventral thalamic nucleus (AVN). Explained using a ring attractor model with theta input and firing rate adaptation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Neuroscience #Neurons

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Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta‐Modulated Head Direction Cells

Grid and place cells typically fire at progressively earlier phases within each cycle of the theta rhythm as rodents run across their firing fields, a phenomenon known as theta phase precession. Here...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Quite a nice paper/model. I really like that it doesn't explain place cells in a vacuum - it incorporates place/boundary/pbject/grid cells into a holistic representation of space that can be used for planning. Definitely check it out.

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Nine rats were trained in an olfactory discrimination task (go/no-go) using a specific wine variety (Riesling or Sauvignon Blanc from different winemakers)" 😂 From: Rats can distinguish (and generalize) among two white wine varieties doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! It's been a long time since I used any social media but I thought I would give this community a go. I'm here mainly for the neuroscience chat and to see all the cool papers coming out. I'll probably occassionally post about cool papers I've read...

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