The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Mitochondrial ‘landscape’ shifts across human brain
Expediting clinical trials for profound autism: Q&A with Matthew State
This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two papers that upended astrocyte research
Today’s action potentials
”We’ve identified that a coordinated effort intentionally linking that basic and translational science to clinical opportunities, including clinical trials, is quite important. — MATTHEW STATE, ARIA’S SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR AND CHAIR OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Dean Buonomano explores the concept of time in neuroscience and physics
What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex
Noninvasive technologies can map and target human brain with unprecedented precision
Functional MRI can do more than you think
Expediting clinical trials for profound autism: Q&A with Matthew State
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Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’
Exclusive: NIH nixes funds for several pre- and postdoctoral training programs
Newly awarded NIH grants for neuroscience lag 77 percent behind previous nine-year average
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?
Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste
Losing HHMI Investigator status prompted Yuste to study neural networks in a new way.
Amid confusion around U.S. science, some neuroscientists prepare to rally
‘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
‘Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors,’ an excerpt
‘Bioethics and Brains: A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics,’ an excerpt
‘Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s,’ an excerpt
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.