In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with some of the women working to bolster their ranks in the field through storytelling podcasts, speaker repositories, social media networks and other community-based advocacy projects.Source: Spectrum News

By combining large language models with modular cognitive control architecture, Robert Yang and his collaborators have built agents that are capable of grounded reasoning at a linguistic level. Striking collective behaviors have emerged.Source: Spectrum News

The cells primarily rely on glucose—rather than lactate from astrocytes—to generate energy, according to recent findings in mice.Source: Spectrum News

The earliest studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were performed on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic still serve us as we tackle more sophisticated outputs?Source: Spectrum News

When the animals learn that a perceived threat is not dangerous, long-term activity changes in a part of the subthalamus suppress their instinctive fears.Source: Spectrum News

Our tendency to focus on one condition at a time likely silos expertise and services—and obscures critical connections across diagnostic categories.Source: Spectrum News

As we attempt to build autonomous artificial-intelligence systems, we're discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be much more complex than we imagined.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 3 February.Source: Spectrum News

5XFAD model mice that inherit two disease-related genes from their fathers have double the plaques seen in those with maternal inheritance, a new study shows.Source: Spectrum News

In his new book, published today, investigative journalist Charles Piller tells the story of the scientific misconduct that shook Alzheimer’s disease research to its core, and the neuroscientist who helped to expose it.Source: Spectrum News

The MacArthur Foundation “genius” discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain.Source: Spectrum News

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.Source: Spectrum News

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.Source: Spectrum News

The neurons represent not only an animal’s place in space, but also the distinguishing features of its fellow bats, including their sex and social status.Source: Spectrum News