The first story tracks the history and role of the U.S. national primate research centers. After decades of flat funding, and amid mounting political pressure, their directors are trying to find a path forward.

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For this new series, @thetransmitter.bsky.social evaluated whether neuroscience still needs nonhuman primates & if alternative models are ready to replace them. Over the next few weeks, four articles will detail what we found—and what the loss of nonhuman primate research would mean.
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@susanacarmona.bsky.social talks with @franciscorr25.bsky.social about her new book, “A Mother’s Brain,” the moments in her career that led her to study the neuroscience of motherhood and the major questions the field still needs to address. #neuroskyence

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@dddavi.bsky.social's lab took the 21 million images that led to the connectome of a fruit fly brain. Now he plans to use a $19 million grant to apply “this high-throughput flashlight across all areas of biology.” Read our interview with Bock: bit.ly/4B9RiFp

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social just published a piece on this: www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/b...

@deisseroth.bsky.social, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won a Nobel Prize today for their contributions to optogenetics. We asked eight neuroscientists how the technique has transformed the field.

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Having spent half of my summer to now mostly writing grants, I would definitely give a chance (pun intended) to this proposal! @apeyrache.bsky.social @thetransmitter.bsky.social

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In some settings, neural circuits may calculate confidence in a decision simultaneously with the choice itself, writes @arielzylberberg.bsky.social. That changes the types of questions researchers should ask. #neuroskyence

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Each of the pipa frog’s eight fingers branches into 16 ultra-sensitive tips, which together function as a fovea—potentially the first demonstration of this type of sensory structure outside of mammals, according to work by @polyodon.bsky.social.

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“Every country should have its own biobank to identify its own risk factors for diseases such as Alzheimer’s,” says José Luna-Muñoz, who runs Mexico’s brain bank—Latin America’s oldest.

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The assumption that waking life consists of a “stream” of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse, write Francis Fallon and Michael Pitts. #neuroskyence

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Grant peer review costs a lot: ~$40k per application in reviewer time, with proposals reviewed again and again.

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social , I propose a partial lottery: reviewers decide pass/fail, chance picks among the passes, and "unmissable" ideas and ECRs get protected routes.

In his essay, @apeyrache.bsky.social argues that implementing a lottery system in grant review saves researchers time, reduces strategic resubmission and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in science funding.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social talks with Huda Zoghbi about her work identifying the #MECP2 gene, its role in the brain and therapies to address its dysfunction. @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcmgenetics.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/fin...

Use the Neuro Funding Finder to apply for fellowships, grants and global funding opportunities for neuroscience research.

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@thetransmitter.bsky.social spoke with nearly 50 researchers across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay to capture the highs and lows of doing neuroscience research in Latin America. Explore now: www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...

Entrevista en The Transmitter 🐸🧠🌱 sobre la investigación neurocientífica en Latinoamérica y los últimos resultados de nuestro laboratorio. / Interview in The Transmitter 🐸🧠🌱 on neuroscientific research in Latin America and the latest findings from our laboratory.

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Wonderful interview of @drjkhokhar.bsky.social on a paper that changed his life.

Thrilled to have been featured in this month's Liftoff new lab alerts! Thanks for the interview, @franciscorr25.bsky.social