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The Transmitter

Your latest update from The Transmitter, an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Read more: https://www.thetransmitter.org/

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Frameshift: How Caitlin Vander Weele made science...

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2026/03/19

Her favorite part of research was talking about it. So she left academia and turned that passion into a successful company.

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5:02

Signs of aging vary across brain cells

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2026/03/18

Senescence presents differently depending on the cell type, toxic trigger and neighboring cells, two new studies find.

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5:39

Neuroscientists challenge NIH's proposed human-data...

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2026/03/17

The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.

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6:39

Large-scale neuroimaging datasets often lack...

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2026/03/16

Addressing this gap will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events women experience—and could bring us closer to the “holy grail” of linking brain and behavior.

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7:59

Remembering Annette Dolphin, who helped explain...

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2026/03/13

The “intuitive” neuropharmacologist pushed against the status quo.

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5:11

Revised statistical bar extracts less-common variants...

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2026/03/12

Adjusting genetic analyses could help plug autism’s heritability gap, according to a new preprint.

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This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on...

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2026/03/11

In a 2011 Neuron study, Stephan Lammel and his colleagues showed that dopamine neurons with different projections have different physiological properties. The work inspired Lerner to think about how to challenge widely held assumptions in the field.

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5:51

Hippocampus builds reputation as 'general-purpose...

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2026/03/10

New cross-species findings may help settle a long-standing debate about whether the hippocampus is required for passive learning.

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4:56

Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S....

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2026/03/09

Finding creative ways to keep early-career researchers in academia—for example, through part-time roles—can help the field weather the storm.

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5:09

Shifting neural code powers speech comprehension

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2026/03/05

Dynamic coding helps explain how the brain processes multiple features of speech—from the smallest units of sounds to full sentences—simultaneously.

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6:11

Astrocytes orchestrate oxytocin's social effects in mice

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2026/03/04

The cells amplify oxytocin—and may be responsible for sex differences in social behavior, two preprints find.

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6:41

Neuro's ark: Spying on the secret sensory world of ticks

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2026/03/03

Carola Städele, a self-proclaimed “tick magnet,” studies the arachnids’ sensory neurobiology—in other words, how these tiny parasites zero in on their next meal.

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8:31

Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of...

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2026/03/02

Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

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Post-infection immune conflict alters fetal...

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2026/02/26

The immune-conflict between dam and fetus could help explain sex differences in neurodevelopmental conditions.

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7:50

Is there a neuroscientist in the House?

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2026/02/25

Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been considering American democracy for decades.

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4:51

Infant visual system categorizes common objects by 2...

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2026/02/24

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, longitudinal functional MRI scans suggest.

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Frameshift: Raphe Bernier followed his heart out of...

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2026/02/20

After a clinical research career, an interlude at Apple and four months in early retirement, Raphe Bernier found joy in teaching.

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Organoid study reveals shared brain pathways across...

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2026/02/19

The genetic variants initially affect brain development in unique ways, but over time they converge on common molecular pathways.

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6:32

Neuroscience needs single-synapse studies

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2026/02/17

Studying individual synapses has the potential to help neuroscientists develop new theories, better understand brain disorders and reevaluate 70 years of work on synaptic transmission plasticity.

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8:57

Neuroscience has a species problem

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2026/02/16

If our field is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought.

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