Some new 40HzOscillator stuff I’ve been working on. This went over pretty well at the Halloween gig. Fall Leaves youtu.be/aE7WIriAdAw

Sunday matinee gig. Guaranteed to be home before bedtime!

40hzOscillator project HoW They HeAR.... youtu.be/UrS-WZPcfFA

Rainbow over Avon pier. OBX, NC

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science. loc.closertotruth.com #neuroscience

Capturing the morning light on campus

You should brush your teeth....the fluoride is good..... #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #abletonlive www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFlr...

Something new: Moss meets circuits meets glitchy traffic lights meets koi meets..... simpler plugin #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #ableton youtu.be/GTVLGqoKM_Y?...

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

How do you simulate a brain in any detail with a simple digital (or even quantum) computer? "Making a connection" in the brain is not just "information processing." It's physical. There is no workable "software" driving the mind. It is the "hardware" that is messy and unique, and constantly changing

Much appreciation for Kai Ryssdal here 🔥

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Great article by @kordinglab.bsky.social‬ on "why causal knowledge is pragmatically possible". The best arguments for causation--& only one we need--is pragmatic. Here pragmatic isn't weak/subjective, but connected to actual goals, utility & outcomes in the world. medium.com/@kording/why...

perceptual decision task (monkey saccades to target to indicate choice of 1 of 2 opposite motion directions), recordings (published in www.cell.com/neuron/fullt..., elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...) by Gabe Stine in Shadlen lab. 2/

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

Sad day for America that Anthony Fauci needed to receive a pardon to prevent persecution from those who should be thanking him. He dedicated his career to improving human health & saved millions of lives during COVID. He should be receiving a medal, not a pardon #❤️Fauci @doctorfauci.bsky.social

Working on a project called TidBit. Bite-sized pieces of sound and video—each one around a minute or less. Over time, these tidbits will be synthesized into a larger audiovisual montage. Gotta have goals! #electronicmusic #psychedelicvideo #ambientmusic youtu.be/Ubr-fUhCXnc

Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus). Took this pic in the Galapagos back in 2015. Digging through some old pics. #Galapagos #photography #wildlife #nature

BAPTIST NEWS [Dec 26] -- Publisher Mark Wingfield: "Taking away their rights & health care, shaming & scapegoating them—this is a death sentence. If you gave a damn you would speak up...If Jesus were among us today, he would be eating dinner with some trans folks..." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms? Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus. To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes: 🧵

Another of my favorite pics from an OBX trip. This one is in Buxton. #ocean #photography

Surf Worshipers (pic taken off of ramp 55 in OBX). #ocean #photography

Sunset in OBX off of ramp 55. It doesn’t get much better.

I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3 This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Recent addition to my collection.

Going through some 2024 travel photos. Wat Pho temple complex in Thailand. #travel #photography

And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

Check out Masa’s new paper from the lab! 🔥 🧠 🧪 We argue that #dopamine encodes the teaching signal, and #serotonin encodes a multidimensional expectation for model-based learning. In a dopamine special issue from @bensaunders.bsky.social and Camilla Bellone! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sometimes you have to take a break from grading and glue moss to stuff.

Not so much a favourite, but I came across this recently and quite liked it... "Does natural selection favour the Rescorla-Wagner rule?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tortured my first year seminar students a little bit by making them become a neural network. Only two of them plan to major in neuroscience and the rest just wanted to learn something about the brain.

Hung out with a student today who just wanted to talk about actor-critic models, diffusion models, the prisoner's dilemma and some other fun stuff. We doodled to get some ideas out of our heads. Not pretty but very fun!