iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lea Duncker @leaduncker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you are an undergraduate student interested in computational and systems neuroscience research, this is your chance to attend #COSYNE27 !!! Apply here for our undergrad travel grant tinyurl.com/cos27ugtravel deadline is Oct 30 (and if you are not an undergraduate, please help to spread the word!)

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Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program

This is the application form for the Cosyne 2027 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program. The deadline to apply is October 30th 2026.

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: The anterior hypothalamic nucleus acts like a volume knob for stress, scaling the brain’s response to threatening events 🧠 Read the Cai Lab's latest paper, led by @zachtpennington.bsky.social, in @nature.com 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... More: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What you don't want to spend your time and lab resources helping a highly privileged HS student build an EEG-controlled wheelchair?

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please stop telling high school students to cold email university professors. Really, just stop. If you are a high school student looking for research opportunities, search and apply to the myriad of formal training programs that cater specifically to your education level.

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I actually did ask Gemini where to get a particular antibody and when it recommended Santa Cruz I slept well at night knowing AI dependent would be bioterrorists are doomed

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone tell the AI biology labs that the best place to buy antibodies is from Santa Cruz.

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Robert Phillips @rphillips3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very excited to share our newest preprint, led by myself and Biostats PhD Student Jianing Yao, where we generate a three dimensional reconstruction of the human NAc to understand how cell type heterogeneity and topography change across the anterior-posterior axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I want to write a nonfiction travel book where I spend a year responding to and accepting these predatory conference speaker emails titled “Warm Greetings Dear Respected Professor”

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is amazing but I have one question. When do we transition from big mice to humans?

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new publicly available single-cell atlas of the human prefrontal cortex was made from 6.3 million nuclei across 1,494 donors, ranging from before birth to more than 100 years. By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/transcriptom...

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Prefrontal cortex has three transcriptomic acts

Various genes show distinct exits and entrances with age in the open- source dataset, the largest of its kind to date.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We have sensors for literally everything. How do we not have velocity and acceleration photodiodes that would set off air bags for the roof of a house?

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

$279 for a chainsaw rated as “plenty of chainsaw most of the time” with some probability of limb loss or $3000 for the certainty of a professional arborist.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You are conveying score driving strengths and weaknesses not making an ASMR video.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

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Guillaume Lajoie @glajoie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In brain-computer interfacing, clever and adaptive decoders help brains learn complex tasks faster. These can impact the nature of solutions learned by the brain. Our new paper is one of the first attempts to study this effect. W/ @neuroamyo.bsky.social and team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Assistive algorithms influence neural representations in motor brain-computer interfaces - Nature Communications

Assistive algorithms are widely used in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), but their effects on neural representations remain unclear. Here, the authors show that adaptive BCIs lead the brain to learn ...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Look there are two things in my life I get to be righteous about and that I won’t compromise on. 1. I’ve never smoked a cigarette. 2. I’ve never written an academic book chapter.

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My department (Biology at Emory) is hiring for a teaching track position! These are stable, well-respected, long-term positions with a path to promotion and ppl often staying for decades. The dept is wonderfully supportive and filled with amazing humans (faculty + staff) apply.interfolio.com/191814

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am legitimately considering posting a “here is what an AI generated prompt to work in my lab looks like” paragraph on my website with a disclaimer that “if your message looks vaguely similar to this I will not respond” in order to get the AI to hallucinate and make these emails more interesting

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Apparently the lesson of the digital sphinx by @tuthill.bsky.social & @bingbrunton.bsky.social has already been forgotten. The fly isn’t “playing Doom”. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body?

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Large-Vessel Venous Signal Confounds Apparent Amygdala Activation in BOLD fMRI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Has anyone played the chirping “songs” cats make to “persuade” birds that they are also a bird and to come closer, while recording from the birds’ brain? @schreinerdrew.bsky.social? If not this seems like low hanging fruit for an IgNobel. www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/hNB...

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From the cats community on Reddit: My boy can't contain himself when he sees birds

Explore this post and more from the cats community

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Early data peek at Illumina's new StrataMap spatial transcriptomics cellular resolution platform. Huge capture area (7.5 cm2) - we profiled human 🧠 at level of thalamus - totally 🤩. Kudos to our teams for amazing work w/ nerve wracking sectioning & direct placement of this VERY large tissue section!

Spatial clustering of gene expression in the human brain at level of thalamus. Gene expression clusters in different colors.

Tissue block on a cryostat chuck with a slide containing a thin cryosection cut from the block

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 09/09/2026

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I see that we’ve moved on now to direct web scraping of human minds.

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Sabine Krabbe @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Amygdala dopamine is often studied in response to external rewards or threats. But what happens during self-initiated exploration? Our new preprint suggests a broader role: a state-dependent salience signal linking exploration and associative learning. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Basolateral amygdala dopamine signals behavioural salience across exploration and learning

Animals must balance exploration with threat avoidance, yet how neuromodulatory signals shape information-seeking states remains unclear. Using fibre photometry recordings in the basolateral amygdala ...

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If there are any PhD hopefuls on here, I wanted to share a few thoughts on your timeline for the upcoming admissions cycle, with apps due starting mid-November. What should you be doing right now? ✔️ Generating a list of schools ✔️ Reaching out to possible recommenders 🧵!

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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For real…Emory is awesome and Atlanta neuroscience community just keeps growing at all levels.

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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We're hiring! PNI is recruiting an assistant professor of neuroscience working with non-human primates in any area. Review begins Oct 19: apply.interfolio.com/192521 #NeuroJobs #Neuroskyence

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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Agreed. Also as a community we need to (re)normalize asking critical questions at talks, conferences, random convos. Asking about scientific rigor sometimes takes a backseat to social considerations, esp when someone's charismatic or overconfident (student or prof). Ask kindly/thoughtfully, but ask.

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Out now with @gracewujiameisun.bsky.social and @jessicas.bsky.social! We show that not only is exploring an intuitive and motivating response to failure in young children, but importantly, that encouraging toddlers to explore actually causes them to persist for longer! doi.org/10.1093/chid...

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Exploration supports toddlers’ persistence during problem-solving

Abstract. Toddlers must rapidly acquire new skills. However, these attempts frequently come with experiences of failure which can be frustrating and lead t

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am legitimately disturbed at how much I now want to place an order

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Kenneth Amaya, PhD @kenam15.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Attention all central amygdala aficionados and habit learning lovers: Sharing the latest work from my time at Dartmouth where we examined CeA activity during habit formation, now out at JNeuro www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Habit learning shapes activity dynamics in the central nucleus of the amygdala

A habit develops as a motivated behavior that is strengthened by extended experience and feedback. While the performance component of a habit is relatively well studied, being linked to action-related...

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Frontopolar cortex is so hot right now. But as the meta-analysis Jeremy whipped up illustrates there is a lot more work to be done contrasting the effects of medial vs lateral FPC stimulation to the pole in humans. Would love to see more human cog neuro studies using object-in-scene task.

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