In the Nature paper “Spatial transcriptomics reveal neuron–astrocyte synergy in long-term memory” published on March 14th, 2024, authors Sun et al. claimed to identify cell-type specific transcriptional signatures of memory in mouse basolateral amygdala. These claims were refuted in a “Matters Arising” reply published on June 4th, 2025 by Eran Mukamel and Zhaoxia Yu titled “False positives in study of memory-related gene expression” in which Mukamel and Yu point out numerous errors in statistica...