Proud scientist. BRAIN K99/R00. HPC experimental & computational systems neuro. Ephys4life.
Postdoc @NUFeinbergMed w @Disterhoftlab & @SaraASolla.
PhD @MITbiology w/ Matt Wilson
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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬
This is a companion paper of sorts to our other manuscript "Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding", which you can read a little thread on here :) bsky.app/profile/ahea...
Early-career scientists surveyed early 2025:
“Barely half of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22pp from how they felt 6 months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21pp. Even satisfaction w having pursued a PhD in science declined by 16pp”
1/ Check out our new modeling paper on predictive learning in the hippocampus! 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A central idea in neuroscience is that the brain makes sense of the world by learning to predict its environment 🧠➡️🌍.
The cuts to science in the US are decimating the talent pipeline and leading to a brain drain.
A survey of biomedical scientists found that only half now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22 percentage points from how they felt 6 months earlier.
If you are interested in systems neuroscience, learning about data analysis, or understanding how the conceptualization of analyses can influence results, join us for the Brainhack satellite event at #FENS2026!
More info at: pre-fens-brainhack.github.io/brainhack2026/
...the geometry of those representations is conserved not only across environments, but across animals.
Despite different hippocampal neurons, different spatial maps, and independent model training, task-state relationships remain remarkably similar and support cross-animal decoding during the task
Major preprint update! 🎉
How can learned behaviors generalize across environments when the hippocampus remaps?
Our original preprint showed that task-related latent structure persisted across contextual remapping. In this revision, we add the major finding that...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New job posting! If you're interested in working with our group, check it out. 3 year position (with possibility to extend) at >100k. alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
The "I'm dying from a cancer that might be getting cured if Trump had lost...but at least the woke kids aren't getting trigger warning now" thing is a gag but I found one in the wild.
How do brains plan actions towards goals?
To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵
Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
