The Transmitter

Recognize your outstanding colleagues and postdoctoral colleagues doing exciting work in the field and contributing to the neuroscience community inside and outside the lab. Nominate them for our “Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025: https://lnkd.in/e852iZe7

A new photometry tool tracks fast and slow changes in dopamine levels and offers new insights into how the signals change across the brain. By Sydney Wyatt https://lnkd.in/eH_W4xvB

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more: https://lnkd.in/eCzNknAF

A growing number of cognitive neuroscientists have taken on the challenge of performing task-based fMRI experiments in awake babies. The method is poised to answer questions about how and when the infant mind takes shape. By Calli McMurray https://lnkd.in/eM3K4BvD

Knocking out MECP2 in adult mice triggers alterations in gene regulation and expression weeks before neuronal and behavioral changes arise, a new study finds, revealing the cascade of events that underlie Rett syndrome. By Chloe Williams https://lnkd.in/efZeDb9J

Contributing editor Josh Sanes explains why, if he were starting his neuroscience career today, he’d focus on human neurobiology. https://lnkd.in/gahe_u9K

Community for Rigor provides free, open-access trainings on scientific rigor. Its first unit, on confirmation bias, launched last week. The Transmitter discussed the new program with two of its creators. By Calli McMurray https://lnkd.in/gsj3aFnc

“This review belongs in the canon of papers that inspire deep theory work,” writes Stephanie Palmer about a groundbreaking review by her mentor—Allison Doupe—and Patricia Kuhl that helped shape the field’s understanding of the neural and evolutionary dynamics of speech. https://lnkd.in/ec49dHu2

Studying how enclosure size, social interactions and exercise influence mental health in endangered species offers a new way to explore how specific environmental factors affect the brain, writes Christine Charvet. https://lnkd.in/eG5uhjRF

Researchers are developing sophisticated new tools to probe the human brain in ways that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. Our new essay series will explore some of these methods and how researchers are using them. By Joshua Sanes https://lnkd.in/dJSspeQU