Abhilasha Joshi, PhD
@rhythmicspikes.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying interactions between cognition, action & timing
Lab website: neuroact.in
Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
Lab website: neuroact.in
Group Leader | NeuroACTLab @NCBS_Bangalore | SCAgingBrain fellow ➡️ faculty | Previously: @Neuro_CF @UCSF @UniofOxford @IiserMohali
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩
#neuroskyence
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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain 🐸👁️🧠https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4065609 - A little embarrassed to admit I've just read this classic paper for the first time and I'm glad I did! 😊
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Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science
Fellows-to-Faculty Award
The Fellows-to-Faculty Award is a new iteration of the previously offered Simons Foundation Independence Awards.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Interested in applying for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award? Watch the recording of our informational webinar for more details on the program: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/fellows-to-faculty-award/#:~:text=Brain%20(SCPAB).-,Informational%20Webinar,-An%20informational%20webinar #science
Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Discovery
experts.deakin.edu.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Enjoyed listening to Jee Hyun Kim from Deakin University, Australia share with us her research on #bipolardisorder #IAN2025
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Love it when scientists bring their whole self to their work 👏🏽
experts.deakin.edu.au/53193-jee-hy...
Also reminded us to join @network-alba.bsky.social — Do now 🙌🏽
Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.
Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Beautiful work by #AbhishekBhattacharya at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social on their discoveries led by graduate student Atal Vats. Impressive body of work 🦾 on structure, regulation and function of heterochannel electrical synapses.
Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Check recently preprinted work ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Great talk by @leenaibrahim.bsky.social from KAUST on her beautiful work characterising the L1 and L4 interneurons and how they differ based on sensory and other inputs and connections 👏🏽
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great to have her visit at #IndianAcademyofNeuroscinces meeting in Kovalum 😎
www.kaust.edu.sa/study/faculty
Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Great talk by new faculty at NBRC #DhananjayHuligol on the role of progenitors in neural diversification.
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
How impressive that they build an entire method to address this question 👏🏽
www.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/resea...
Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Next up is my colleague #HiyaaGosh at @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social talking about new observations in her lab about #memory #engrams.
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa
Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Finally get to see and hear @wormlockholmes.bsky.social for the first time. She’s speaking about cool results about interactions between #actin and #mitochondria. How nice to see the link all the way from cell and molecules to the behavioural implications!
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994018/
Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Nice talk by #GargiMandal (PhD student) in the CenSe lab (led by Dr Vini Gautam www.cense.iisc.ac.in/vini-gautam/). Cool #engineering work on fabricating PDMS micropillars.
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
So beautiful to see hippocampal neurite alignment following the physical structure of the #fabricated pillars 😎
Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Next up is #AurnabGhose from IISER Pune talking about their labs latest work on #cytoskeletal mechanisms regulating #axon collateral branching.
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Check out his labs work here:
neuronalconnectivity.wixsite.com/start
Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
share.google
share.google
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Here at #Indian academy of #neuroscience meeting in the beautiful city of Kovalam in Kerala share.google/EzLqUeTwCeDw... ♥️
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
@sbaulac.bsky.social is giving the opening talk on brain mosaicism in epilepsy and cortical malformations #epilepsy.
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Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
www.cosyne.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
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Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Excited to have 2 papers accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - Reliable ML Workshop.
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
(1/N)
Paper #1: openreview.net/forum?id=9Ue...
Paper #2: openreview.net/forum?id=0MW...
I’ll briefly summarize the work below.
(Links above if you want to get right to the papers)
THREAD 🧵
Please RT.
(1/N)
Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@antoinecomite.bsky.social
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@antoinecomite.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Check out this #incredible work on #stability and #control during movement across #humans, #mice, and #flies.
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
Congratulations @nidhise.bsky.social and @antoinecomite.bsky.social 👏🏽⭐
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What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What is plant nutation?
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
What is a motif in science?
What lessons does ecological psychology have for neuroscience?
How does Vicente @diovicen.bsky.social enjoy the band Judas Priest yet still do good philosophy and science?
Here are the answers:
braininspired.co/podcast/223/
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New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
Homing and feral pigeons differ in hippocampal formation neuron size: a Golgi study - Brain Structure and Function
Artificial selection for behavioural traits can significantly affect the anatomy of brain regions related to the behaviour under selection. The homing pigeon (Columba livia) is a prime example of how ...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy
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We are really excited about what comes next in this system. We think it opens the door to ask, "why does neuron number matter?" i.e., - what does adding more neurons to a circuit do to affect behavior?
And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We are really excited about what comes next in this system. We think it opens the door to ask, "why does neuron number matter?" i.e., - what does adding more neurons to a circuit do to affect behavior?
And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
And, shameless plug, I'm on the job market looking for the opportunity to do just that :)
You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You have to read @kelseytea.bsky.social excellent work on dexterity in deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. A powerful example of cross species comparisons to study principles of motor control ✅
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We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We (I and @willenjoy.bsky.social) created a toolbox for simulations of EEG/MEG because we needed to simulate data. Our initial aim was to simulate connectivity. For this short clip, I simulated two sources with phase connectivity using our toolbox.
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
#brainmovie
meegsim.readthedocs.io/en/stable/in...
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Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Interested in the brain, circuits, and behavior?
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
Enjoy tinkering and asking bold questions in neuroscience?
The Forli Lab (IIT, Genova, Italy) is hiring!
🧠 🔬 🟩◻️🟥->🍕🚫🍍
Check out our website for updates:
sites.google.com/view/forli-lab
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** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
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📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
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Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ca2+ Plateau Potentials Reflect Cross-Theta Cortico-Hippocampal Input Dynamics and Acetylcholine for Rapid Formation of Efficient Place-Cell Code
A central tenet of Systems Neuroscience lies in an understanding of memory and behavior through learning rules, but synaptic plasticity has rarely been shown to create functional single-neuron code in...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience
An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 🧪