Vincent Bonin (follow me boninlab.bsky.social)

Many of us were taught that experiments are for testing hypotheses. In Ch 1 of Experimentology, our open methods textbook, my coauthors and I argue for something different: experiments are for estimating the magnitude of causal effects. I think this reframe matters. 🧵

Basic neuroscientists need to connect with the broader autism community—here are six steps that can help. By Juliana Chase, Hannah R. Monday and Lea Witkowsky thetransmitter.org/spectrum/how-b…

📣The Laboratory of Biological Psychology is hiring! 📣 We are looking for a full-time lab tech to help us in the daily operation of the lab. Friendly & inclusive work environment guaranteed! Check here for more details: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… ⏰Apply by May 27th.

Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network — a Review by Michael Lohse, Ben D. B. Willmore & Andrew J. King nature.com/articles/s4158…

Applications are now open for our 2026 @CIFAR_News Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Winter School, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪. Attendance is competitive & fully funded thx to generous support from @TempletonWorld. Apply by June 10: cifar.ca/next-generatio…

My @HebrewU colleagues Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai trace the starvation of Gaza over the past three years. Depressing figures and evidence, presented as moving visual storytelling: bearing-witness.com/starvation-sto…

When PhD students know more than AI billionaires, which is most of the time. Proud to have Shae in my Protein Engineering class. (I didn't make this point in class but should have.)

#MayThe4th announcement: JEDI-2P was not The Last Jedi ⚔️! Introducing JEDI3sub & JEDI3hyp, the best GEVIs in this galaxy for reporting subthresholds voltage dynamics under two-photon illumination🔬#GEVIs. Check out our @naturemethods paper: nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚌 Every neuroscience textbook says myelin speeds up nerve conduction. That is correct. It is also incomplete in a way that has misled the BCI field for years. 🧵

Our review on transthalamic pathways is now out in @CommsBio. We discuss emerging evidence they contribute to perception and decision-making, and why it remains so difficult to isolate their function behaving animals. Studying circuit function is hard. nature.com/articles/s4200…

My friend @YoBenCohen is a true hero - and makes the best ice cream.

In this month’s “Liftoff,” Lauren Kreeger says she’ll encourage lab members to share “away from the bench” slides at lab meetings, and @chini_mattia talks about his love for outdoorsy lab retreats. By @FrankieRivera25 thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-la…

🔴 Une fois de plus, le fossé entre gouvernements et citoyens se creuse, au détriment de la démocratie et du droit international. En refusant de suspendre immédiatement l’accord d’association UE-Israël, les États membres ignorent les exigences de justice portées par des millions d’Européens et par la société civile. La mobilisation citoyenne reste notre seul levier. Soyons des millions à signer l’Initiative citoyenne européenne : eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/?ut…

📣 Register for the 2026 Barrels satellite meeting, which will precede this year's FENS meeting in Barcelona (not SfN in Washington DC). Dates: 4-5 July 2026 Barrels brings together researchers focused on all aspects of sensory-motor neuroscience (somatosensory, visual, auditory, motor, decision making, etc). Registration: cvent.me/lqDwwa Confirmed Speakers: Jerry Chen, Boston University Mathew Diamond, SISSA Valerie Ego-Stengel, CNRS / Paris Saclay University Sami El-Boustani, University of Geneva Laura Grima, HHMI Janelia Alexander Groh, Heidelberg University Miguel Maravall, University of Sussex Laura Modol, Hospital del Mar Research Institute Simon Musall, Forschungszentrum Jülich Marcel Oberlaender, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Carl Petersen, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Fan Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Where: Universitat Pompeu Fabra upf.edu, Sala Josep Marull auditorium, Dr. Aiguader building, Campus Universitari Mar (close to downtown & the beach)

🎥 A few people asked for slides after my CMU seminar. I re-recorded the full talk instead. Thanks to Bin He for organizing.

The Superior Colliculus is a phylogenetically ancient brain structure. Some of its functions may have been transferred to the cortex, but others remain. How does attention operate in SC circuits? nature.com/articles/s4146…👇

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @UCLBrainScience

New preprint from our lab on 3‑photon microscopy with deep, fast, Ca-imaiging on a large field of view. It started with @a_negrean and @tgeiller and was led by an outstanding student, Tiberiu Mihaila, with major collaboration with @DarcyPeterka. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Some ideas are dumb from the start. Who on earth would want to hear this constant buzzing in their homes and/or public spaces?

“The elderly were killed, small children were killed, mothers were killed…” I ask Israel’s Permanent Representative to the UN Danny Danon about growing international commendation over strikes on Lebanon which killed at least 357 people