Despite growing requirements around how to handle and share data, formal training is lacking. Letisha R. Wyatt explains the importance of a comprehensive data-literacy education for neuroscience graduate students. By Letisha R. Wyatt, PhD thetransmitter.org/open-neuroscie…

Doris Tsao, Nicole C Rust, PhD, and Tony Zador discuss how cuts to the BRAIN Initiative jeopardize progress toward addressing urgent societal needs and stall the development of treatments for diseases and disorders. Read more: dcjournal.com/critical-brain…

Women are consistently under-cited in neuroscience. @anne_churchlandand and Felicia Davatolhagh share tools that can help assess citation diversity. thetransmitter.org/publishing/wom…

A newly launched research center in Nigeria could offer a model for expanding neuroscience across the continent. By Mahmoud Bukar Maina PhD FRSA thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

Brains made of neurons from two species raise new concerns. Is it time to worry about brain chimeras? By Joshua R. Sanes thetransmitter.org/ethics/is-it-t…

The launch of our new "This Paper Changed My Life" series features Steve Ramirez, who talks about Sheena Josselyn's 2009 paper "Selective erasure of a fear memory" and how it inspired his own work on memory manipulation. thetransmitter.org/this-paper-cha…

Check out this extremely clear write-up from Alla Katsnelson on the work that Laura Driscoll, Krishna Shenoy, and I did. In a nutshell, we used dynamical systems theory to identify shared, reusable motifs in RNNs trained to perform multiple tasks. P.S. Definitely follow The Transmitter

Wow. This was awe-inspiring--both on a personal level, seeing an example of a scientist refusing to simply respond to the day-to-day & thinking & questioning in such a deep way, and on a scientific level, seeing how the visual loops I work on fit into the Grand Plan.

Certain types of statistical errors are common in systems neuroscience. Kenneth D Harris shares straightforward methods that can help you prevent them. thetransmitter.org/behavioral-neu…

Nonsense correlations and how to avoid them Much needed article in the The Transmitter from Ken Harris at UCL : thetransmitter.org/behavioral-neu…

With neuroscience datasets and scientific collaborations growing in size, Gaelle Chapuis and Olivier Winter explain why neuroscience needs to create a career path for software engineers. thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

Another insightful, forward-thinking article from The Transmitter. I'll go even further. As someone with experience in both academia and industry, I think that academia's inability to create meaningful careers beyond principal investigator roles is significantly holding it back.

* sighs in "oh my god yes" * via The Transmitter, where the hits keep on hitting thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

I completely agree with this. I have advocated to create Research Software Engineering positions, and I've even taught some best practices for RSEs. One thing to add: Software development is very expensive, in time and in salaries. We need to think hard about how to do this.

We are thrilled to announce that The Transmitter has been chosen as a finalist in the Eddie & Ozzie Awards in five different categories. Check out the finalists in the thread below 🧵

Did a book change your life? Here I reflect on the book that changed mine, and how neuroscience has evolved in the 30 years since. Where are we now? Spiraling, in a good way, as eloquently described by Kevin Mitchell in Free Agents. thetransmitter.org/summer-reading…

Open neuroscience: Sam Gershman discusses how making data (and code) useful for yourself automatically makes it useful for others. thetransmitter.org/open-neuroscie…

Kevin Bender offers advice for early-career neuroscientists on how to choose the right collaborations and avoid the bad ones. thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

Kim Kim Stachenfeld has her fingertips on two horizons, both of which offer boundless possibilities... a fantastic way to think and make a living. Thanks to The Transmitter - the first BI episode of our new partnership: thetransmitter.org. braininspired.co/podcast/193/

The Transmitter Naoshige Uchida Really great Naoshige Uchida. With an appreciated nod to all models are wrong (Box) and an insider’s perspective on whether/how. Thank you! (This type of thing is why I love The Transmitter !!)