Death. Its complicated.

https://shojiwax.com/2025/06/21/the-big-d/

The big D.

#neuroscience #science #philosophy #consciousness #death #nde #meditation http://youtube.com/watch?v=DsLOKqS7rT4&feature=youtu.be http://shojiwax.com/2025/06/21/the-big-d/

May's most-read #Neuroscience paper used stem cells to model how a key protein goes rogue in #ALS: https://elifesciences.org/articles/95062?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper

Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: https://elifesciences.org/about/aims-scope?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=top_paper#neuroscience

It often feels as though we allocate our mental energy through strenuous attention and focus. But a research team at Monash University in Australia discovred that "effortful, goal-directed tasks use only 5% more energy than restful brain activity."

How much energy does it take to power the human brain?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-think-20250604/ #TechNews #neuroscience

Your brain doesn’t just feel hunger—it negotiates it. Two new circuits reveal the push-pull forces behind every bite. #Neuroscience #WeightLoss #GLP1

https://geekoo.news/how-your-brain-decides-when-to-eat-and-when-to-stop/

As a non-native English speaker from a not-so-popular language group, learning to read even casual science stuff was an uphill battle. First I had to learn English to a reasonable level. Then I realized that English-Romanian dictionaries hadn’t really kept up with science.

I eventually managed to get my hands on a fancy English-only dictionary (yes, a printed one, this was a while ago), but then I ran into another problem: I'd start from one definition, only to find another unfamiliar word in the explanation, then another one in that definition and so on, until I forgot where I had started. And even when I did understand a concept, I'd often be stuck with the English word and with a lot of frustration about trying to convey that in my own language.

Some of those struggles are outdated now. At least you no longer have to deal with a giant dictionary pressing into your ribs if you’re reading lying down. But the language gap in science communication still exists.

That’s why I’m launching a community project: The brain across languages.

We’re inviting students who speak more than one language to help us translate Neurofrontiers content into as many languages as possible.

If you’re interested (or know someone who might be), details here: https://neurofrontiers.blog/the-brain-across-languages/

Boosts are very much appreciated!

"Molecular gradients shape synaptic specificity of a visuomotor transformation", by Dombrovski et al. 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09037-4

"LPLC2 neurons sampling different regions of visual space exhibit graded expression of cell recognition molecules matching these synaptic gradients. [...] these molecular gradients act instructively to determine synapse number"

Anatomy was never going to be enough when there are more than one neuron of the same type.

Currently, trying to understand how people with Type 1 Diabetes are roughly four to six times more likely to be trans? #trans #t1d #neuroscience

Position available for a PhD student/PostDoc working on the evolution of taste processing and feeding behaviours in drosophilids in Thomas Auer lab at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland:
https://www.unifr.ch/bio/en/groups/auer/

Formal inquires welcomed by email to Thomas Auer directly.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/uKuCaodx8QdyMqwp9

Kevin MItchell helping us move beyond determinism vs. indeterminism to wards an underdetermined universe where caues are constraints and these constraints can happen at multiple levels

As we are heading into the lunch break at our confernce on #freewill , here the link to the program which should allow you to register to get access to the live-streams:

https://philevents.org/event/show/135653

This research area is a fascinating intersection of philosophy, physics and neuroscience! Also nice to see a presentation from Trinity College Dublin.

#FreeWill #TCD #NeuroScience

From: @brembs
https://mastodon.social/@brembs/114663901023485535

Aww I got thank you notes today from the classroom I did #SkypeAScientist with last week! I enjoy the conversations with the kids so much I wouldn't notice if they didn't send a thank you-- but when they do, well, it just makes my day all over again!

I told them about neuro* for ~20 min and then answered questions for 20 min, about life, the universe, and career choices.

Def check it out. It is a SUCH a rewarding experience! #science #neuroscience #academia

https://www.skypeascientist.com/

Kick-off of the two Distinguished Lectures on "can biology help us defend free will?"

What happens when our brain goes blank.

@popsci reports: "Humans experience an empty mind up to 20 percent of the time."

https://flip.it/oa2Urg

Davi Bock on the fly connectome, its uses, its impact beyond – and his life.
https://www.uvm.edu/magazine/news/thoughts-fly
#neuroscience #neuroscientists #biographies #connectomics

"Single-cell type analysis of wing premotor circuits in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila melanogaster", Ehrhardt et al. 2025
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/106548

We review and publish research in all areas of #neuroscience, including interdisciplinary studies.

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