Lauren Ross Lauren N. Ross and Dani S. Bassett outline the different ways neuroscientists use the term mechanism, and they gather insight from nine scientists on how this variety makes it difficult to clarify standards in the field. thetransmitter.org/the-big-pictur…

What are mechanisms in neuroscience? How can we support clarity & progress? 🧠📕🖊️ Article in The Transmitter w Dani S. Bassett & Ross with comments from John Krakauer John W. Krakauer Lucina Uddin Arnsten Dr. Theresa Desrochers Andre Fenton Antonia Kaczkurkin @ar0mcintosh Luiz Pessoa & Mike Yassa !

It was so much fun! Amazing work with ties to animal work, education, public policy (I didn’t get to mention in my intro that she’s been cited in a Supreme Court brief!) and more. If you don’t know her work, you should!

Yes, great to see the shift happening. And looking forward to tomorrow’s U.S. National Science Foundation NeuroNex satellite on this topic!

The indie vibe is right on point, this looks like a great forum—I’m in (you too Nicole C Rust, PhD?)

A yummy co-authorship!

Hi to everyone who so enthusiastically liked the brain cookies. Hope you stay for the brains! One of the wonderful brains behind the operation in the lab: Hannah Doyle one of six Brown Ph.D. students receive 2024-25 Graduate Awards in Brain Science buff.ly/4eHitvj

I am delighted to share our new paper: "Diversity of ancestral brainstem noradrenergic neurons across species and multiple biological factors." This is the outcome of a collaboration of 20 laboratories spanning 9 countries. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Should we stay or should we go—The ever‐growing role of Twitter (X) in neuroscience dissemination and a quandary of conscience for a field - Foxe - 2024 - European Journal of Neuroscience - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

Super good thread…

Wonderful conversations, science with great colleagues RochesterBrainCogSci Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience NedergaardLab Manuel Gomez-Ramirez John J. Foxe Lauren Hablitz

This is a great gov't initiative. A few months ago there was a big blow-up about a scientific illustration company, w/ complaints about its cost, and bad licensing terms for drawings. Now NIAID News / NIH made a bunch of drawings for the public domain. That's a service...1/

Super great

We are going all in on marmo string pulling, think behavior/ephys/2p/lesions. Come join our team as a grad student or post-doc. Email me.

I am so extremely grateful to my lab, colleagues, staff and MCB_Harvard members who helped my lab thrive over the years, leading to this recognition. My grandfather was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for valor in WWI: it feels so strange to get such accolade to do a job I love!..

New preprint w/ PlotkinLab about cholinergic interneurons causing local serotonin release in striatum and how this is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder biorxiv.org/content/10.110… For the story, read on 1/9

Super cool!

The Brown University lab of Thomas Serre catches flaws in AI-enabled tech - before people need these systems most. Learn how Serre and his Carney Institute for Brain Science team debunked claims that an AI model could spot cancer better than a pathologist: bit.ly/explainai #BrownBrainScience🧠

Absolute must read!