The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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How to teach programming in the age of AI
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Ashley Juavinett
30 March 2026 | 8 min read
Science and society
Neuroscience conference policy draws confusion, apology
By
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
27 March 2026 | 5 min read
Funding
Funding for animal research alternatives reaches ‘inflection point’
By
Claudia López Lloreda
26 March 2026 | 4 min read
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Neuro education
‘Friction-maxxing’ in school: Students should read primary literature, not AI summaries
Brain Inspired
Juan Gallego discusses how manifolds are transforming our understanding of the coordination of neuronal population activity
Today’s action potentials
The Centre for Philosophical Psychology is hosting a meeting on “the philosophy and science of biological brains” in Antwerp, Belgium, from 4-5 June. The deadline for abstract submissions is 13 April.
”In general, it is best to arrange events in places that are less likely to lead to exclusion. — YASSER ROUDI, PROFESSOR OF DISORDERED SYSTEM, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
A new paper in PLOS Biology finds that synapse types correspond to regional hemodynamics, which “suggests that the spatial organization of microscale synapse types may shape whole-brain dynamics.”
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Astrocytes in mouse amygdala encode emotional state
By
Holly Barker
24 March 2026 | 4 min read
Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S. funding climate
By
Lucina Q. Uddin
9 March 2026 | 5 min read
Spectrum
New autism committee positions itself as science-backed alternative to government group
By
Angie Voyles Askham
5 March 2026 | 5 min read
Community
Two primate centers drop ‘primate’ from their name
By
Calli McMurray
26 February 2026 | 5 min read
Frameshift: How Caitlin Vander Weele made science communication her business
By
Katie Moisse
19 March 2026 | 6 min read
David Sussillo on persistence, luck and the bonds between life and work
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, David Sussillo
17 March 2026 | 7 min watch
Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
By
Jakob Voigts
2 March 2026 | 14 min read
Brain imaging
A brief history of precision self-scanning
When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
By
Lauren Gravitz
21 January 2026 | 13 min read
Neuroscience
The state of neuroscience in 2025: An overview
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
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15 November 2025 | 4 min read
This paper changed my life: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure
By
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
13 February 2026 | 7 min read
This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood
By
John Tuthill
12 January 2026 | 7 min read
The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
Books
The Transmitter’s most-read neuroscience book excerpts of 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
Top news
The Transmitter’s top news articles of 2025
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24 December 2025 | 3 min read
Top quotes
Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
Craft and careers
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
By
Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 min read
Early-career researchers
The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read
Community
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 21 min read
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
By
Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min read
Spatial cognition and navigation
Head direction cells stably orient mice to outside world
By
Angie Voyles Askham
25 March 2026 | 0 min watch
Hippocampus builds reputation as ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’
By
Natalia Mesa
10 March 2026 | 5 min read
Dendrites
Dendrites help neuroscientists see the forest for the trees
By
Justin O’Hare
27 February 2026 | 7 min read
Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
By
Michael Halassa
13 January 2026 | 7 min read
‘The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,’ an excerpt
By
Rogier Mars
10 March 2026 | 6 min read
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
By
Gregory Hickok
2 December 2025 | 8 min read
‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt
By
Walter Glannon
11 November 2025 | 7 min read
The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked 10 neuroscientists what experimental and conceptual methods they think we’re missing.
By
Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research
We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
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7 October 2025 | 17 min read