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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
Why hasn’t genetics taught us more about schizophrenia?
Today’s action potentials
”Schizophrenia lacks biomarkers and good animal models, both of which have been critically important in unraveling the etiology of other diseases. — JOSHUA R. SANES, PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY; CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, THE TRANSMITTER
AI tool estimates social ability by analyzing speech
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Why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter
In your New Year’s resolutions for 2025, consider public outreach
Does the solution to building safe artificial intelligence lie in the brain?
Rethinking mental health: The body’s impact on the brain
How eight initiatives are tackling neuroscience’s gender gap
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.
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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
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.
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in.