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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 20m

Yes, that part gives hope. I'm just scared that such an event is occuring at all.

Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 24m

This is a historic moment for our country. In a bad way. This tells the world that the U.S. is in a lot of trouble...

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while

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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 17h

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Armin Lak @laklab.bsky.social · 8h

Out today at Neuron, our experiments show that frontal cortical representation of economic variables is jointly determined by spatial organization and downstream
connectivity of neurons, revealing a structured, multi-scale code for economic variables. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 4h

Just ordered a portable ssd drive for my personal laptop after experiencing the reason you always need backups.

a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 1d

Shown this one before over the years at the old site, but once again for Bsky, CT scan images through a live pumpkin scanned at 600 micron thickness, w/ lots of post processing, video flythrough, etc. The detail is exquisite. Best seen not on a phone. (🔖 it) randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkin.html

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Jonah Padawer-Curry, PhD @jonahpadawercurry.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function

Nature Neuroscience - Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI...

nature.com

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life
rdcu.be/eLa9z

Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA

Scientific Reports - Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 1d

#Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a #fossil first | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a fossil first

New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants

www.science.org

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Jun Nagai @junnagai.bsky.social · 1d

Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a red tailed hawk swoop right over my head and caught a pigeon!

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 1d

My two cents on that AI tool to format papers: I do not think anyone should be using AI to format anything but, most importantly, the website doesn't show who owns it or how it is done and it says "hehe we pwomise we won't store your dwata hehe". Do with that what you may 🧪

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 2d

'Induction of plasticity and metaplasticity using noninvasive brain stimulation'

by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Ghazaleh Darmani, Kaviraja Udupa, Jean-François Nankoo, Mandy Yi Rong Ding & Robert Chen

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 2d

when people "show you who they are, believe them" -- M. Angelou www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 2d

I've been screaming this for years. Glad it's getting traction!

Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function

The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s disease illustrates how this perspective might reframe traditional psychologically centered perspectives on neurological health.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 2d

I think that if most young people really knew how much non-science work a scientific career requires, most would not persue it. And I say that as someone with zero teaching and only grant and paper related admin.

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals

www.nature.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3d

Tachykinin 1-expressing neurons in the lateral habenula signal negative reward prediction error https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.680558v1

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 3d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Flybyz1 @flybyz1.bsky.social · 4d

FYI…New York announced $10M in state funds for brain research. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

Governor Hochul Announces Launch of SUNY Brain Institute With $10 Million Investment to Fuel SUNY Excellence in Life-Saving Research

Governor Hochul announced a $10 million investment to launch the SUNY Brain Institute; a multi-campus initiative focused on expanding SUNY’s groundbreaking neuroscience research.

www.governor.ny.gov

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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