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Neuroscientists challenge NIH’s proposed human-data access policy
Today’s action potentials
”To put it bluntly, we need to recruit more AI researchers to be interested in women’s brain health, and we need to make women’s brain health researchers more fluent in AI. — AMY KUCEYESKI, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN RADIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE, WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S. funding climate
Let’s teach neuroscientists how to be thoughtful and fair reviewers
Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
New autism committee positions itself as science-backed alternative to government group
Astrocytes orchestrate oxytocin’s social effects in mice
Two primate centers drop ‘primate’ from their name
Oregon primate research center to negotiate with NIH on possible transition to sanctuary
‘Peer review is our strength’: Q&A with Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director
How insights from network theory can boost interdisciplinary efforts
Frameshift: Raphe Bernier followed his heart out of academia, then made his way back again
Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind
A brief history of precision self-scanning
When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
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.
This paper changed my life: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure
This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood
The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025
The Transmitter’s most-read neuroscience book excerpts of 2025
The Transmitter’s top news articles of 2025
Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
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.
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
Hippocampus builds reputation as ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’
Dendrites help neuroscientists see the forest for the trees
Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
Cracking the neural code for emotional states
‘The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,’ an excerpt
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt
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.
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.