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The Transmitter Dedicated to helping neuroscientists stay current and build connections. We sift through the steady stream of autism papers and highlight the most noteworthy.

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Paul Middlebrooks talks with Keith Hengen and Woodrow Shew about their evolving views of brain criticality as a central ...
07/16/2025

Paul Middlebrooks talks with Keith Hengen and Woodrow Shew about their evolving views of brain criticality as a central organizing principle of cognition, development and learning.

Hengen and Shew discuss their evolving views of brain criticality as a central organizing principle of cognition, development and learning.

In this month’s “Liftoff,” Ana Gonzalez-Rueda talks about the importance of taking care of the little things, and Andrew...
07/16/2025

In this month’s “Liftoff,” Ana Gonzalez-Rueda talks about the importance of taking care of the little things, and Andrew Kesner says that the real key to success lies in your collaborator community.

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario

Learn about early-career scientists starting their own labs.

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists...
07/16/2025

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and Katja Reinhard.

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

A new NIH mandate, announced last week, would get rid of funding opportunities that use animal research exclusively; neu...
07/15/2025

A new NIH mandate, announced last week, would get rid of funding opportunities that use animal research exclusively; neuroscientists worry this is premature.

By Claudia López Lloreda

NIH will no longer include research that exclusively uses animal models, leaving scientists wondering how it might affect the future of animal research.

As much harm as a 40 percent cut to the NIH budget would have on scientific innovation, destroying the peer- evaluation ...
07/14/2025

As much harm as a 40 percent cut to the NIH budget would have on scientific innovation, destroying the peer- evaluation system that decides what science is funded would be far worse, writes John Tuthill.

As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Deve...
07/11/2025

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, The Transmitter has learned.

By Calli McMurray

The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says s*x differences researcher Nicola Grissom.

Leafcutter ants’ specialized roles can be reprogrammed by adjusting two neuropeptides, a new Cell study shows. And the m...
07/11/2025

Leafcutter ants’ specialized roles can be reprogrammed by adjusting two neuropeptides, a new Cell study shows. And the molecular mechanisms that control the labor roles of ants may also be conserved in mammals.

By Shaena Montanari

The mechanisms that control the labor roles of ants may also be conserved in naked mole rats, a new study shows.

Spectrum and The Transmitter offer a unique forum for expert perspectives in autism research. We’ve rounded up some of o...
07/10/2025

Spectrum and The Transmitter offer a unique forum for expert perspectives in autism research. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite recent opinion articles for our readers’ reference.

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This collection of Spectrum articles from the past 12 months highlights expert perspectives on autism’s heritability and its link to biological s*x, the value of transdiagnostic frameworks…

A 2022 Nature paper identifying a cell type linked to the brain cancer medulloblastoma has been retracted after an indep...
07/09/2025

A 2022 Nature paper identifying a cell type linked to the brain cancer medulloblastoma has been retracted after an independent reanalysis questioned the cell type’s existence, despite objections from the original authors.

By Shaena Montanari

A 2022 paper was retracted after an independent team of researchers reanalyzed the data and questioned its validity.

New research finds that sleeping fruit fly brains respond to sensory stimuli just like vertebrates, pointing to evolutio...
07/08/2025

New research finds that sleeping fruit fly brains respond to sensory stimuli just like vertebrates, pointing to evolutionarily conserved neural signatures of sleep.

By Siddhant Pusdekar

Predictive sensory processing in sleeping Drosophila echoes vertebrate research, establishing an evolutionarily conserved neural signature of sleep.

Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top ...
07/07/2025

Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top neuroscience meetings and events through June 2026. https://www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250707-events-promo

Are you organizing a conference? Share it with us at [email protected].

Explore top neuroscience meetings and events. Click the buttons below to filter events by topic and scroll down to see upcoming webinars compiled by World Wide Neuro.

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to d...
07/07/2025

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes Benjamin Dichter.

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

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