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New Frontiers in Neuroscience: The Transmitter's 2026 Summer Lineup
science1 month ago

New Frontiers in Neuroscience: The Transmitter's 2026 Summer Lineup

The Transmitter's 2026 summer reading list highlights five new neuroscience titles and other notable releases—ranging from Susana Carmona's A Mother's Brain and Tara Mahfoud's A Brain for Europe to Michael Cole's Brain Flows, Baland Jalal's The Phantom Mind, and Mark Humphries' The Latent Brain—covering brain plasticity, network dynamics, sleep, and critiques of big‑science projects, with excerpts and interviews accompanying the coverage.

AI-driven coding accelerates theoretical neuroscience
science3 months ago

AI-driven coding accelerates theoretical neuroscience

AI-powered agentic coding removes the engineering bottlenecks of translating word models into equations and code, letting neuroscientists specify and test models in days instead of months. The piece outlines four shifts—lowering tech barriers for experimentalists, speeding theory exploration, enabling autonomous AI-driven model discovery, and expanding access to advanced mathematics—each with benefits and risks, including the danger of proliferating models faster than we gain insight and the need for vigilant human evaluation and mentorship.