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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 16/09/2026

Check out my latest work from the Ramirez lab with co-author @rsuthard.bsky.social! It’s got astrocytes—what more do you need!?

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 12/02/2026

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Harrison gives the state-space modeling tutorial at CNN

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026

I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.

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science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
That's it. That's the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about "gold standard science" and the
"reproducibility crisis" and funding "bold inquiry" for "transformational
breakthroughs". This is all bullshit, and it's important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-vou-

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Polls show that only 8% of Americans have a positive view of Adolf Hitler. But in this Palo Alto ketamine bar, that number feels much higher

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today I learned that some of my nested quantile visualizations implemented for R and Python in github.com/betanalpha/m... have been implemented for Julia in the FlexiChains library, pysm.dev/FlexiChains..... Neat!

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GitHub - betanalpha/mcmc_visualization_tools: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Visualization Tools

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Visualization Tools. Contribute to betanalpha/mcmc_visualization_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m so outrageously mad having realized a bunch of inane reviewer comments are probably AI. I’m also too busy and would rather be compen$ated for my reviews, but 1) who are we as academics if we don’t value reading and thinking about the literature and 2) dont waste my/student’s time with slop!!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2026

Really don't like how every person with a social security account now gets unsolicited political messages from the SSA.

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@aloctavodia.bsky.social has been porting Bayesian Workflow book avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... case studies to Python using CmdStanPy, numpyro, ArviZ, Bambi, and kulprit arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor... He is working on porting the rest of the case studies, too

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Bayesian Workflow book: Case studies in Python – Bayesian Workflow case studies in Python

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Love having data to show the students

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

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Brian DePasquale @briandepasquale.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How can AI change theoretical neuroscience? Technologies separate us from the mechanics of computation. Are we liberated to focus on the big picture or abandoning the substrate of thought? Born from an ongoing experiment in my lab about balancing these technologies for research and training

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 16/06/2026

Interesting Transmitter article by Brian DePasquale on what will be the effect of the increasingly widespread use of LLMs to code up research ideas in neuroscience. Includes a somewhat sceptical commentary from me. 😉

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 11/06/2026

Check out the new work from the DePaq lab!

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 04/06/2026

The seemingly unlimited generosity of the current US funding landscape

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Matthijs Hollanders @matthollanders.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Frequentists mogged by priormaxxing

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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/05/2026

In Jan 2029 a trifecta should pass a large bill package that overturns somewhere between 20 and 50 Roberts Court decisions of the last three decades. We can roll back what they did to legalize political bribery, enable fraud, empower white collar criminals, destroy the govt, etc.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 30/05/2026

Russell Vought’s OMB published a rule today attacking peer review, which came along with a Murdoch NY Post article favorable to the rule- and attacking peer review. Which all makes the timing of yesterday’s Murdoch WSJ article attacking peer review seem much more suspicious!

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 30/05/2026

Lastly a huge thanks to all the authors especially my advisors @briandepasquale.bsky.social and the bluesky-less Ben Scott!

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 30/05/2026

And the best part? Our new model was implemented fully in #JuliaLang. So check out our preprint and learn about the DDM-HMM; accumulating evidence suggests it’s the hottest new behavioral time series model!

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 30/05/2026

Our new model revealed “patient,” “impulsive,” and low-drift decision states that wax and wane across the light-dark cycle. We found that regardless of how good individual animals were, at the population level all animals accumulated evidence more effectively during the dark cycle!

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 30/05/2026

Move over, GLM-HMM—there’s a new hidden Markov model in town. In our new preprint, we introduce the DDM-HMM: a model that jointly infers latent decision states from reaction times and choices. Using 24-hour behavioral data from rats, we found that evidence accumulation changes with time of day!

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Kenji Lee @kenjilee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Super excited to (finally!) show our work on identifying cell types! Now in press www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We show how to identify cell types from ephys recordings *without* optotagging. This opens the study of not just individual cell types, but the interacting neural circuit during behavior

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 01/04/2026

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

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Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc. The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...

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Cosyne 2026 - Cosyne Tutorial: Comparative Analysis of Neural Population Codes

YouTube video by Cosyne Talks

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ArviZ @arviz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

ArviZ 1.0 is out! We have refactored it to be more modular, flexible & lightweight. For an overview of the changes, check the migration guide. python.arviz.org/en/stable/us...

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Getting started — ArviZ 1.0.0 documentation

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Pynapple @pynapple.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Checkout the notebook of this epic neuroscience dataset now on @dandiarchive.org and analyzed with pynapple!

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Nicole Carr @coleecarr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So happy to announce my first published paper: Neuropixels reveal laminar microcircuit organization in monkey V1 in vivo www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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PNAS

Proceedings 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...

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I am a pro-AI guy who often gets pigeonholed as an anti-AI guy. I am pro developing and using AI for things AI is good at. I am anti developing and using AI for things that will bring on another AI winter, a mild economic collapse, and make us all look like schmucks in ~5 years.

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 12/02/2026

As a proud Minnesotan, I second this

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

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daviss @daviss.org · 07/01/2026

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If you knew Renee Nicole Good - the 37 year old killed by ICE in Minneapolis today - please text me at 202-510-1268. You can remain anonymous

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A meta-analysis of studies using Tolman’s sunburst maze suggests poor replicability and little evidence for shortcutting. Ouch! Definitely relevant reading for anyone interested in cognitive maps! 👇

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Given the popularity and centrality of neuronal calcium imaging to systems and cellular neuroscience, it is shockingly under-modelled. Makes me nervous about the conclusions from those studies. At least the fMRI BOLD interpretation gets routinely debated...

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Kate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice

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Ryan Senne (he/him) @ryguy.io · 22/12/2025

The reviewer 2 special I see

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