New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Other great bits: “Rationalists, like termites, live in eusocial mounds” and the portion where they try to convince a tech bro founder in his 20s to read the Canterbury tales
If you haven’t read this Harper’s piece on the current AI culture it’s an incredibly well written and funny and sad portrait of our era
harpers.org/archive/2026...
Researchers reveal the neural basis of evolving new capabilities by investigating behavioral and morphological differences between deer mouse subspecies. #neuroskyence
By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/ar...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Beautiful images of the arctic krill nervous system and circadian clock from Charlotte Helfrich-Förster’s lab (one of my earliest scientific heroes)
bayesian hierarchical model
I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by cringe AI takes
i mean if i don't repost this asinine thing i made now, when will i
This conference is going to be so cool! Good science good people good location. Register ASAP! #neuroskyence
www.fens.org/news-activit...
Finally a paper that covers my interest in the scientific study of language, children, schizophrenia and military combat
It’s too bad the human brain can’t compute gradients. Otherwise we could have invented calculus and used it to build MRI machines and fancy planes and stuff.
Alas it’s just not biologically plausible 😔
Sounds like commitment to me. You on the other hand refuse to devote even a single month to nonstop daily singing
Loving this charming paper suggesting narwhals may use their tusks for previously unobserved behaviors like play and investigating novel objects
Just heads up it looks like this is the wrong paper link
Woah
Drew!
Drew
This simply motivates me to grow comedically. Why become a scientist if your goal isn’t to absolutely crush in very challenging rooms
Artificial Iwaniuk
I’m just going to assume the credit goes to @evoneuro.bsky.social
Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs.
Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...
Happening now!
so much depends
upon
a red umap
cluster
glazed with
PV expression
beside the astro
glia
Born to be a poet, forced to fiddle with umap parameters
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Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Move over necessary and sufficient, I’m team analytic truth or bust
Super excited to give a talk in the main auditorium at COSYNE in Lisbon about my ongoing PhD work on how the hippocampus supports vocal interactions in singing mice! 🐭🎤♬🧠
📍 Auditorium I
🗓 Mar 13 (Fri) 9:30–9:45
#COSYNE2026
