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Sara A Solla

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Professor, Northwestern University Computational neuroscience | Neural manifolds

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New long-form post on the proposed Executive Order that would give OMB Director Russell Vought veto power over NIH funding decisions.
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An Emperor of All Malice: Contesting Efforts to Control NIH Funding
Unilateral efforts by the White House to politicize funding decisions jeopardize discovery, health, and the economy… and demand a timely, effective response.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/09/2026
After a tumultuous summer, the mathematical community is reasserting itself. www.quantamagazine.org/updates/tran…
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Transformation | Quanta Magazine
A weekly dispatch exploring the latest news in math and AI…
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BCI Society @bcisociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Partner with the BCI Society in Croatia! Sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are now open for the 12th International BCI Meeting, June 7–10, 2027, in Šibenik. Explore the packages: bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/... #BCI2027 #BCISociety #Neuroscience
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May-Britt Moser @m-bmoser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fantastic! Congratulations 🤩👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @soledad-gcogno.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social
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Weizmann Institute of Science @weizmann.ac.il · 31/08/2026
We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing. bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Celebrating #HHMIInvestigator Bonnie Bassler, winner of the @royalsociety.org’s '26 Copley Medal. Her discovery that bacteria communicate & coordinate with each other, known as quorum sensing, is paving the way for therapies that fight infection by disrupting that communication: bit.ly/4zV2fKg.
2026 recipient of the Royal Society's Copley Medal
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 25/06/2026
We're thrilled to be on the ground at the 2026 Kavli-IAU Global Coordination Workshop "International Coordination of the Time Domain & Multi-messenger Sky: New Opportunities & New Challenges" this week in Görlitz, Germany, the site of the new German Center for Astrophysics 1/3
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Another program happening in parallel " New trends in non-equilibrium dynamics " with really great lectures on theory of active matter , diffusion processes and many other topics. check the talks here: online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/compl...
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KITP Program: New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
Speakers: Please contact us about file upload for your slides.
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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Episode #42 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On neuronal identity and representational drift – with Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn42 How do neural and network functions stay the same while things change on the molecular and circuit levels?
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Chien-shiung Wu's experiment is one of the most brilliant in all of science. Absolute disgrace that she did not share the Nobel Prize with Lee & Yang. Loved @minouette.bsky.social cartoon summary of the experiment, read the Alt-text if you don't see the clever details. Thanks! 🧪⚛️
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Our NeuroAI study made it onto the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence ❤️. In it, we demonstrate that a developmentally-inspired visual diet can drastically improve the robustness of ANN-based vision systems. www.nature.com/articles/s42... open access, open code, open weights, open science.
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Congratulations to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics Lars Bildsten, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, for his election as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! news.ucsb.edu/2026/022527/... #kitp #aaas #ucsb #astrophysics 🌟 🧪
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Three UCSB professors elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Oceanographer Alice L. Alldredge, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten and engineer Henry T. Yang are among the 252 leaders in academia, the arts, industry, journalism, philanthropy, policy, research and scie...
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 23/04/2026
Congratulations to #FlatironCCM mathematician Charles Epstein on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! bit.ly/4mWQKMb #math
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects CCM’s Charles Epstein
Mathematician Charles Epstein of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 23/04/2026
1/4 The Kavli Foundation is proud to support three featured sessions at the 2026 MRS Spring Meeting spotlighting leaders advancing the frontiers of materials science. If you're attending, don't miss these sessions! #S26MRS #KavliNano 🧵
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
To 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.
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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 10/04/2026
Join us in celebrating our 2025 Cozzarelli Prize–winning paper for Class I: Physical and Mathematical Sciences, “Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.” Read the article here: ow.ly/iTVL50YH7gp
2025 Cozzarelli Prize Class I Winner: “Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.” Authors: Wentao Yu, Eslam Abdelaleem, Ilya Nemenman, and Justin C. Burton
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Yard signs are here! Residents of New Jersey's 12th District, from Trenton to Princeton to Plainsboro to Plainfield, get yours now! SamForNJ.org
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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 17/04/2026
We're thrilled to support geneticist Alexander Starr as a FutureHouse AI-for-Science Fellow. From human-chimp cell data to AI-driven discovery, his work is uncovering the genetic roots of uniquely human traits and predicting how gene regulation evolves across species.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/04/2026
Very same. It is an honor and a privilege to be a scientist supported by the public to do work in service of knowledge and future cures.
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 15/04/2026
This week, #FlatironCCB brought together a mix of theorists and experimentalists studying simple organisms for a two-day workshop on Information Processing in Biological Networks. #science #biology
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Elaborate chalkboard for the upcoming talk by Tim De Coster of the Max Plank Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) with the KITP Program: Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ. Online talks here: online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/cardi...
speaker prepared an elaborate science talk on the chalkboard in preparation for discussion
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026
Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 03/04/2026
Apply for #FlatironCCN's Neural Data Analysis workshop at #FENS2026 before April 10! Learn more: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccn_… #science #neuroscience
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”
A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Welcome to the Multi-Scale Physics of Normal and Diseased Heart: from Ion Channels to Whole Organ (#cardio26) program at KITP! March 30 - April 23, 2026 Learn more: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/c...
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Cambridge Philosophical Society @camphilsoc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A big thank you to everyone who attended in-person and online our One-day meeting: David MacKay: Energy and Information on Friday. @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk An unedited live-stream is available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/unuuHyd...
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#OTD in 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann wrote a famous letter to a colleague outlining her theory that seismic waves (P-waves) recorded from distant earthquakes indicated Earth had a solid inner core. Her discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior. #WomenInSTEM
A vintage sepia-toned portrait photograph of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann taken in 1932, at around age 44. She is posed formally against a softly draped curtain backdrop, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. She has short, neatly waved dark hair and wears a simple, elegant dark blouse or dress with a light-colored V-neck insert or scarf tied loosely. The image captures her poised and thoughtful demeanor during the early years of her groundbreaking career in seismology, before her landmark discovery of Earth's solid inner core in 1936. #seismology #WomensHistoryMonthEducational diagram in exploded view showing the internal layers of the Earth. From left to right: a cutaway globe with blue surface and white continents labeled “CRUST,” followed by the thick brown mantle labeled “MANTLE,” the red outer core labeled “OUTER CORE,” and the small yellow inner core labeled “INNER CORE.” A complete blue globe with continents appears on the right for scale. All layers are separated horizontally to reveal the structure.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026
This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed
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the private sector has been remaking its own versions of NIH, ARPA etc as these public science institutions have seen structural decline and defunding and it will be supercharged by the funding NPV of machine intelligence and its firepower at allocation decisions
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Big news from @edvardmoser.bsky.social and @m-bmoser.bsky.social — the grid cell toroidal manifold, like the HD ring, is preconfigured before experience. Guardamagna et al. show it’s there at P10, before eye opening, before locomotion. The spatial map exists before the animal has ever navigated.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A heartbreaking message from a brilliant med student in Iran, determined to pursue neuroscience. She graduated only one week before the war started and now is volunteering to care for the injured. What would you tell her? (Part #4, especially). Please share your thoughts and comments. #IranWar
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SueYeon Chung @sueyeonchung.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Just arrived in Lisbon for #COSYNE2026! Check out what our lab is presenting at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Looking forward to catching up with friends over the next few days.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026
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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
At @cosynemeeting.bsky.social? Come see some of our works! Tonight (March 12): [1-050] From sequences to schemas: How recurrent neural networks learn temporal abstractions 20:30 – 23:30 Pavilion 1 (I will present on behalf of the lead author Vizhe Boboeva, who is on maternity leave) #cosyne2026
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Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com · 11/03/2026
In my head, the title of this paper is "Chaos! At the light ring." arxiv.org/abs/2603.08790 Chaos and fractals of the black hole photon ring Roman Berens, Peter Galison, Trevor Gravely, Alexandru Lupsasca, Leo C. Stein 🧪⚛️🧮🔭
A basin exit plot, showing chaotic structureTitle/author list/abstract of the paper. The abstract reads:

The photon ring of a Kerr black hole decomposes into a self-similar hierarchy of subrings. Here, we show that this self-similar structure persists in phase space. Moreover, near the photon shell of bound photon orbits, dynamics are controlled by a Lyapunov exponent γ, whose role we highlight by computing the first-return map for light rays close to an unstably bound orbit. Despite an exponential e^γ sensitivity to initial conditions, nearly bound rays do not exhibit chaotic behavior. However, as the background spacetime is deformed away from the Kerr geometry, chaos sets in, with its first onset most visible near strongly resonant bound orbits in the photon shell. We display two animations: one illustrating the emergence of chaos near the photon shell, which results in a fractal phase-space structure, and another exhibiting how this chaotic, fractal, self-similar structure is encoded in the first-return map.
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is 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...
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stefanofusi.bsky.social @stefanofusi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The 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...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 11/03/2026
The Ig Nobel is being far more serious than “serious” scientific conferences. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."
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Mateo Umaguing @mateouma.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition” from Langdon, Genkin, and Engel 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/2)
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A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Neural manifolds can shed light on how heterogeneous neuronal population activity drives neural computations, but linking these insights to the underlying neuronal connectivity is challenging. Engel a...
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Mateo Umaguing @mateouma.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
These reviews on neural manifolds are super relevant to today’s world of large-scale population recordings. How do we link circuits, population geometry, dynamics, and function? “A neural manifold view of the brain” from Perich, Narain, and Gallego 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)
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A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
VMH SF1 neurons are the gift that keeps on giving. They control defensive behaviors! elifesciences.org/articles/6633 copulatory behaviors! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... exercise-induced improvements in endurance! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Such overachievers.
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Systems Neuroscience Mailing List @systems-neuro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Jorge Jaramillo: Postdoctoral fellows in computational neuroscience at the University of Chicago
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Postdoctoral fellows in computational neuroscience at the University of Chicago
Jorge Jaramillo
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Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Come be our colleague! The Center for Neural Science at NYU is accepting applications at the Assistant Professor level in computational neuroscience and/or neural engineering apply.interfolio.com/182074
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 24/02/2026
The tribute to David Mackay has attracted only around 60 signatures. Let's change this! He wrote one of the best textbooks ever written, "Information theory, inference and learning algorithms", not to mention incredible seminal and influential work in that area. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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A tribute to David MacKay
“I didn’t know David personally but was a great admirer of his work.” “David seemed to have infinite patience.” “He treated the audience with respect, trusted them with complexity, and showed that r...
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Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Apply by May 7 for two early-career #neuro workshops at Janelia! Featuring joint sessions to foster collaboration between theory & experiment. 🧠 🤝 Theoretical Neuroscience→ janelia.news/THE26 Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience→ janelia.news/CNW26 @ratecoding.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thank you thank you thank you to all my coauthors, @sasolla.bsky.social , @mayankmehta.bsky.social , bluesky-less John Disterhoft, any and all people who gave feedback, and the NIH FOR SUPPORTING THIS RESEARCH!! Would love any questions/complaints/feedback :)
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
they beginning of the end! ephys 4 lyfe!
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS
Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New preprint out 🎉 What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task? The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!). Let's dive in ⬇️ Link: "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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