Zachary Zeidler

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

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I am looking for a list of (recommended) online courses in #computational #neuroscience that offer a #certification. Ideally, the focus of those courses would be systems and networks rather than single-cell modeling.

(I know of the 2 courses offered by Neuromatch)

Senior postdoc and new father (< 1 year old). Recently back on the conference circuit and this has been deeply on my mind. Happy to share my thoughts

Congrats Mari! Very excited for you :)

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Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’ A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.

This damage will be irreparable. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/prop...

Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...

Our new paper is out in Science.

What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.

Congrats Jake!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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PREPRINT🚨Ever wonder how electrical⚡️ stimulation of the brain🧠modulates neuronal activity? Are you working with brain stim and variability makes you want to smash your pc and go to a mountain to grow tomatoes? Are you a family member or a friend who really appreciate me? 1/13

Hey SUFS Community!

If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:

1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial

Closed-loop modulation of remote hippocampal representations with neurofeedback Animal models of memory retrieval trigger retrieval with cues and measure retrieval using behavior. Coulter et al. developed a neurofeedback paradigm that rewards hippocampal activity patterns associa...

Two cool papers out in Neuron today on memory.

1. Animals can be trained to activate specific remote memories at will:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

2. Interactions between cortex and amygdala during reactivation in NREM sleep help enhance perceptual memories:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Oldenburg Lab Decoding the motor system through the use of multiphoton holographic optogenetics.

The Oldenburg Lab is looking for another postdoc! The news these days is scary but we're pushing on.

If you want to use Holographic Optogenetics to understand neural codes, the motor system, or something else fun let me know. We have federal and non-federal (aka stable) funds.
oldenburglab.com

Threat learning: Avoiding danger in the first place While the ability of an animal to rapidly learn to detect and avoid threats is critical for survival, previous research has focused on post-learning time periods. A new computational study now reveals...

We had a lot of fun featuring beautiful new work from Laura DeNardo's lab in which they revealed prefrontal ensemble activity transformations underlying rapid threat avoidance learning! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Original paper published in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Great turnout at @standupforscience.bsky.social LA!

Out of the lab, into the streets!

Null and Noteworthy, relaunched: Probing a schizophrenia biomarker This edition of Null and Noteworthy—the first for The Transmitter—highlights new findings about the auditory steady-state response in people with schizophrenia that, all within one study…

New newsletter alert! We're relaunching Null and Noteworthy, a monthly roundup about null results and replications in neuroscience research. This month: A failed replication of a potential schizophrenia biomarker.

By Laura Dattaro

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...

🔥 PAVLOVIAN 2025 UPDATE 🔥

Call for Posters, Data Blitz, and Travel Awards for the SYDNEY Pavlovian Society meeting in Aug 7th-10th is open 🧠 🧪

We have 5 x US$1,000 in travel awards to support trainees!

Check out our 🔥 hotel, line up of speakers, and APPLY here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

Congrats! Looks very thorough, excited to dig into it

This is an excellent thread summarizing many of my own objections. I’d like to add two thoughts: 🧵 1/n

great job! Happy to see the this next HippoBellum chapter out in the world

Important read for anyone looking at stress vulnerability and limbic systems! Congrats to @zachtpennington.bluesky.social on this comprehensive work

congrats team! Excited to dig into it

Important paper!

www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.

No more...

* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells

(continued)

Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o

Congrats 🎉🎉 Can’t wait to read it

Grateful to be nominated for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research! Overwhelmed by the quality of research and postdocs in my field, let alone across all disciplines. Love being surrounded by so many dedicated people

Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) writing a letter

me writing academic emails after reading Jane Austen:

I trust that you and your graduate students remain in good health. I have not the smallest wish to vex you, but I find I must trouble you for a meeting. I flatter myself that you will endeavour to fill out this Whenisgood poll before Michaelmas.

There is an absolute treasure over on elephant app of a November 2019 conversation between Lynn Nadel and Brenda Milner. neuromatch.social/@nadel/11124... #neuroskyence

Major work for the cerebellar field!

Introduce yourself with some previous jobs:
- roofing sales
- medical transcriptionist
- call center tech support
- trail maintenance
- resident hall advisor