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PTEN problems underscore autism connection to excess brain fluid
Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated
Today’s action potentials
”These sort of mass suspensions and terminations that are happening—no one has experience with this. — MARY FEENEY, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AND FORMER PROGRAM DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
It’s time to examine neural coding from the message’s point of view
Organoids and assembloids offer a new window into human brain
The future of neuroscience research at U.S. minority-serving institutions is in danger
PTEN problems underscore autism connection to excess brain fluid
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How to communicate the value of curiosity-driven research
Neuroscience Ph.D. programs adjust admissions in response to U.S. funding uncertainty
The last two-author neuroscience paper?
Author lists on papers have ballooned, and it’s getting hard to discern contribution.
Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline
Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.
Keeping it personal: How to preserve your voice when using AI
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
Amid confusion around U.S. science, some neuroscientists prepare to rally
Eight neuroscientists at different career stages spoke with The Transmitter about whether they plan to participate in the upcoming “Stand Up for Science” demonstrations across the United States on 7 March.
‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A README for open neuroscience
‘Bioethics and Brains: A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics,’ an excerpt
‘Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,’ an excerpt
Open-access neuroscience comes to the classroom: Q&A with Liz Kirby
Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, training large models on vast amounts of information. We asked nine experts on computational neuroscience and neural data analysis to weigh in.
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
Teasing out how different subfields conceptualize central terms might help move this long-standing debate forward. I asked eight scientists to weigh in.