🧠 New paper by Phillips et al: #Neuroplex combines #miniscope #CalciumImaging with multiplexed #SpectralImaging through the same #GRINlens, allowing up to 9 projection-defined #NeuronalPopulations to be identified in freely #behaving mice. Instead of measuring activity alone, the approach links #FunctionalDynamics directly to circuit identity within the same animal and behavioral session.

📝 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.110277

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #NeuralCircuits #Imaging @eLife https://fediscience.org/@eLife/116589668668928682

Radio Free Skaro #1068 – They’re Not Real Bats

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Doctor Who is back! At least in the United States, by way of AMC+ which will be the exclusive streaming home of Doctor Who (2005-2022). No word if it’ll show up on AMC+ Canada, which does in fact exist, but we’re used to being the forgotten child of media. Plus we have more BFI and Big Finish news, a nice little BF tribute to Gareth David-Lloyd, and we travel back to the Jodie Whittaker era with a Miniscope examining the directing work of Lee Haven Jones on Spyfall Part Two, Orphan 55, and Revolution of the Daleks! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• AMC+ Acquires exclusive US streaming rights to Doctor Who (2005-2022)
• Doctor Who: Projections in Time – Black & White & Silver at Riverside Studios, sold out
• BFI screening of The TV Movie delayed to May 17
• Man and Cyberman: Memoirs of a Cyberleader by David Banks due Sep 5
• Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: The Time Museum – The Story of Doctor Who in 100 Objects due Jun 11
• Big Finish Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Aegis released
• Big Finish – Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Two available now
• Big Finish Interview with Gareth David-Lloyd as Torchwood and Ianto’s Shrine wind down
• The Ultimate Evil: 6th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD – Unabridged due Sep 3
• Jill Curzon died

Miniscope:

• Lee Haven Jones
• Spyfall Part Two
• Orphan 55
• Revolution of the Daleks

Radio Free Skaro #1051 – A Big Red Button

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Exciting Gallifrey One news this week as the one and only Freema Agyeman makes her long-awaited return to Los Angeles in February! Also, it would be remiss not to mention missives about the Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder exhibit in San Diego being extended, and CONsole Room in Minneapolis happening this coming weekend! Also Big Finish, the delightful Jodie Whittaker answering questions, but most importantly our final Miniscope on director Nick Hurran’s work on The Day of the Doctor!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Freema Agyeman Returns to Gallifrey One
• Paul Kasey and Charlie Condou announced for Gally
• CONsole Room: January 23-25 in MSP
• Worlds of Wonder’ exhibit to be extended until January 2027 at Comic-Con Museum
• Jodie Whittaker answers Big Finish listeners’ questions
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Ride or Die out now
• Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Violet Hour due March 2026
• Big Finish – UNIT: Brave New World: Knightfall due Mar 2026
• Derek Martin died age 92
• Marcus Gilbert died age 67

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 3
• The Day of the Doctor

#BigFinish #CharlieCondou #CONSoleRoom #DerekMartin #FreemaAgyeman #GallifreyOne #JodieWhittaker #MarcusGilbert #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PaulKasey #TheDayOfTheDoctor #WorldsOfWonder

Radio Free Skaro #1050 – Harsh Language

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It’s another exciting week of the Doctor Who interregnum of 2026 and we have exciting Gallifrey One guest updates, another great Rachel Talalay video involving Mondasian Cybermen, Bill Potts, and mirrors, some cryptic BBC App news we don’t fully understand, the usual Big Finish artwork overexamination, and the second part of our Nick Hurran Miniscope, featuring “Asylum of the Daleks” and “The Angels Take Manhattan”! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Ian McNeice, Kai Owen, Ricco Ross added to Gallifrey one guest list
• Go behind the scenes as Fourth Doctor Tom Baker receives his MBE
• Doctor Who Magazine 625
• BFI Warriors of the Deep screening Feb 28, tickets on sale Jan 15
• The War Between overall viewing figures
• BBC Studios expands pay model to the BBC App in the US
• Rachel Talalay: What to do when the plans don’t work? Bill Potts-Cyberman reveal
• Big Finish Audio Novellas The Time-Splitters and Dimension 13 released
• Big Finish Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard: Series One coming January 22
• Gregory de Polney (D84 in Robots of Death) died Jan 1

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 2
• Asylum of the Daleks
• The Angels Take Manhattan

#AsylumOfTheDaleks #BBC #BBCStudios #BFI #BigFinish #doctorWhoMagazine #GallifreyOne #GregoryDePolney #IanMcNiece #JanetFielding #KaiOwen #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PeterDavison #RachelTalalay #RiccoRoss #Stats #TheAngelsTakeManhattan #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #TomBaker #WarriorsOfTheDeep

Radio Free Skaro #1049 – Nothing At All. Ever.

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It’s the first podcast in this, the space year 2026, and the Three Who Rule have emerged from their New Year’s slumber to cogitate on new Gallifrey One announcements, recreated sets for The Feast of Steven and Rachel Talalay Youtube videos, a surfeit of Big Finish news, Toby Hadoke’s annual foray into memoriam with Absent Friends, and the first of our three part Miniscope series on Doctor Who director Nick Hurran, featuring “The Girl Who Waited” and “The God Complex”! 

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Gallifrey One Guest and Programming Update
• The Feast of Steven Lost Sets Recreated: Doctor Who’s Missing Christmas Episode Revealed
• Rachel Talalay: Bonus: Unaired footage from Director’s Cut of Heaven Sent (with explanation)
• Rachel Talalay: More questions and behind the scenes on my TARDIS experiences.
• Sophie Aldred on Celebrity Mastermind (Specialist Subject: Sylvester McCoy)
• Celebrating 25 Years of Bernice Summerfield at Big Finish
• Big Finish annual Paul Spragg Memorial winner “The Wednesday that Wasn’t” available free
• Big Finish The Worlds of Doctor Who – Zygon Century: Transformation due Apr 2026
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 1
• Toby Hadoke’s Absent Friends 2025 – The 7th Dimension – Part 2
• Toby Hadoke’s In Memoriam video

Miniscope:

• Nick Hurran, Part 1
• The Girl Who Waited
• The God Complex

#BBC #BerniceSummerfield #BigFinish #GallifreyOne #JodyHouser #Mastermind #MatthewJacobs #Miniscope #NickHurran #Obituary #PhilipSegal #RachelTalalay #SophieAldred #TheDaleksMasterPlan #TheFeastOfSteven #TheGirlWhoWaited #TheGodComplex #TobyHadoke

Radio Free Skaro #1030 – Behold the Mighty Geode

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So you think Doctor Who is on pause until The War Between the Land and the Sea airs sometime next year, eh? Well, apparently you aren’t aware of the big news this week, a new dolly-adjacent figurine of the iconic Monarch from Four to Doomsday! Plus we observe the 50th anniversary of the original broadcast of Terror of the Zygons by meandering into Steven’s crippling studio footage addiction, a look at Youtube deep dives and the videotape-licious Chronicles of Narnia Blu-Ray, Jon Culshaw becoming the Twelfth Doctor for Big Finish, and the fourth and final part of our Jamie Magnus Stone Miniscope, with a look at The Power of the Doctor!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• New Doctor Who Figurine Collection releases include Monarch, The Flood, and Leandro
• Terror of the Zygons streamed on the 50th anniversary of its original broadcast
• Doctor Who: The regeneration scene and the 7 second hole
• Doctor Who Magazine Special 70: Gothic Horror, out now
• The BBC’s Chronicles of Narnia released on Blu-ray on Nov 24 (UK)
• Big Finish introduces Jon Culshaw as the voice of the Twelfth Doctor
• Details of Big Finish: The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Wicked! released

Miniscope:

• Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 4
• The Power of the Doctor
• The Confused Adipose
• Radio Free Skaro #892
• Directing Doctor Who
• Clara and the TARDIS

#892 #BBC #BigFinish #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #JamieMagnusStone #JamiesMagnusStone #JonCulshaw #Merchandise #Miniscope #RadioFreeSkaro #TerrorOfTheZygons #TheChroniclesOfNarnia #TheConfusedAdipose #ThePowerOfTheDoctor #TheTenthPlanet

📚 New article by Esparza et al. and @LMPrida : Cell-type-specific #manifold analysis discloses independent parallel #SpatialMaps in #hippocampal #CA1. Using #miniscope imaging, they show deep and superficial CA1 #PyramidalNeurons encode position and running direction via distinct ring manifolds, manipulable via #chemogenetics. Fascinating for revealing parallel, cell-type–specific spatial topologies 👌

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.01.022

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro

Radio Free Skaro #1027 – No Stone Unturned

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It’s another exciting week of Doctor Who news in a time of No New Who, including one Cristopher Eccleston gracing not only Chicago TARDIS but also Big Finish with the release of “Snare”, the first Ninth Doctor and Rose adventure along with several other audio excursions, a 15th Doctor comic book compilation from the good folk at Panini, Dominic Glynn’s soundtrack for “Indoctornated”, and the second part of our exciting Jamie Magnus Stone Miniscope, featuring “Ascension of the Cybermen” and “The Timeless Children”!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Christopher Eccleston announced as guest for Chicago TARDIS
• Doctor Who also removed from Stan in Australia
• Doctor Who: The Monster Makers due Aug 19
• Doctor Who: Projections In Time – Resurrection Of The Daleks + Special Guests Sep 14 at Riverside Studios, already sold out
• Blake’s 7 Collection Season B trailer
• Big Finish Doctor Who: Snare, first 9th Doctor and Rose story, released
• Big Finish: Behind the scenes at The Ninth Doctor Adventures
• Big Finish: The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Last Days of the Powell Estate due Oct 2025
• Big Finish: The Worlds of Doctor Who – The War Master: His Greatest Trick due Oct 2025
• “Indoctornated” soundtrack from Dominic Glynn due Aug 18
• Doctor Who: What Still Remains by Adam Christopher is out now from BBC Books
• Graeme Burk’s Kickstarter for The Comics Code is now live

Miniscope:

• Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 2
• Acension of the Cybermen
• The Timeless Children
• The Confused Adipose
• Radio Free Skaro #892
• Directing Doctor Who
• Clara and the TARDIS

#892 #AscensionOfTheCybermen #BBCBooks #BigFinish #BilliePiper #BlakeS7 #ChicagoTARDIS #ChristopherEccleston #DoctorWhoAppreciationSociety #doctorWhoMagazine #DominicGlynn #GraemeBurk #Indoctornated #JamieMagnusStone #Kickstarter #Merchandise #Miniscope #RadioFreeSkaro #TheComicsCodePodcast #TheConfusedAdipose #TheTimelessChildren

Radio Free Skaro #1026 – The Stone Tape

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Doctor Who has been erased from both HBO Max in the United States and now Prime in Canada, leading the Three Who Rule to speculate on the future of streaming with tangents into Star Trek, the likelihood of Billie Piper actually being the Doctor, spurious yet tantalizing missing episodes hints and nonsense, and Ncuti Gatwa on various chat shows not giving anything away about his time on Doctor Who! But the main event for this episode is of course the first of our four-part Miniscope on Doctor Who director Jamie Magnus Stone, featuring Spyfall, Part One and Praxeus!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Doctor Who (2005-2022) no longer available on Prime Video in Canada
• Nicola Methven’s Mirror article about missing episodes
• Christopher Eccleston & Billie Piper panel from Florida Supercon
• Ncuti Gatwa on Lorraine
• Ncuti Gatwa on The One Show
• Big Finish – Torchwood: Child Free with Indira Varma released
• Big Finish – Doctor Who: Wicked! due Oct 2025

Miniscope:

• Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 1
• Spyfall, Part 1
• Praxeus
• The Confused Adipose
• Radio Free Skaro #892
• Directing Doctor Who
• Clara and the TARDIS

#892 #AmazonPrimeVideo #BigFinish #BilliePiper #ChristopherEccleston #doctorWho #JamieMagnusStone #Miniscope #NcutiGatwa #NicolaMethven #Praxeus #RadioFreeSkaro #SpyfallPartOne #TheConfusedAdipose

Radio Free Skaro #1005 – Release the Alpha Probe

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It’s another exciting week of almost there but not quite new Doctor Who and as such the BBC released a new trailer for Season 2 mere moments before we released last week’s episode, as befits the tenor of our times. We also go into detail on a since-expunged German Disney+ Season 2 trailer with new footage, actor Freddie Fox, reflections on criminal behaviour when Rose leaked 20 years ago, and most importantly, new Doctors Who in Little People form the good folk at Fisher Price. Only slightly less important, our Miniscope about pioneering Doctor Who producer and director Mervyn Pinfield! Come with us and enter the Sense-Sphere!

Links:

• Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
• Season 2 trailer launched, guest stars announced
• Steven Guesses Doctor Who Season 2 Trailer Clips
• Actor Freddie Fox joins Season 2 cast of Doctor Who
• Doctor Who season 2 – Everything you need to know
• 20th Anniversary of “Rose” Leak
• Terror of the Suburbs – Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 7
• Looking For Dursley nominated for RTS West of England Awards 2025
• Doctor Who: Cybermen – The Ultimate Guide Paperback from DWM due 22 May
• Fisher Price Little People Collector Doctor Who Special Edition Set
• Opening shot of Give Us a Break

Miniscope:

• Mervyn Pinfield
• The Sensorites
• Planet of Giants
• The Space Museum

#BluRay #CBC #doctorWhoMagazine #FreddieFox #Merchandise #MervynPinfield #Miniscope #PlanetOfGiants #Rose #Season2 #Season25 #Season7 #TheSensorites #TheSpaceMuseum #TobyHadoke