Amazing news!!! Mazel Tov

This is amazing work !!!

Hihihihi we all do ;)

Beautiful!!

Back to my cave robin

Yes, I am on the academic job market looking to start my own lab at the intersection of molecular, computational, and systems neuroscience! If you think my work may be interest to your department, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you, Keri!

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New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Very grateful to be among an inspiring group of @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellows for the next 4-7 years. We will infuse brain anatomy into AI to study shared principles and important differences in cognition across species. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Job post alert!👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow in CompNeuro/ML in the Artificial and Biological Computation lab at NYU (csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab). Exciting opening in the Data and Theory team in the new Simons Collaboration in Ecological Neuroscience! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #neuroskyence

A rare day when an email task sparks joy:

Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation — a Review by Dun Mao & Yong Gu www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Submissions (short!) due for SNUFA spiking neural networks conference in <2 weeks! 🤖🧠🧪 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XkZLavhaJe More info at snufa.net/2025/ Note that we normally get around 700 participants and recordings go on YouTube and get 100s-1000s views. Please repost.

Excited to share this super comprehensive review of psychedelic research in NHPs! W/ Alex Kwan. This work was by our grad student Jamie who is passionate about psychedelics. Her in-depth knowledge is impressive as reflected here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To the most creative neuroscientist I have ever met. Amazing

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When you publish something, it is the highest form of compliment when others try to build on it. You demean your reputation and cause direct harm to others when your work is not reproducible. 8/8

📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations @mkashefi.bsky.social!

I will never apologize for a post

Of course. It’s extraordinarily that we even need to have this discussion - again - I despair.

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I think the church of everything is everywhere should check tumor removal surgeries. They all start by making sure they won't remove a specific function when removing a specific region. Can you guess how they do it? @benhayden.bsky.social @pessoabrain.bsky.social hint: it is not with decoders

journals.aps.org/pra/abstract... Yawn. (“[…] but also that the correlations are incompatible with any global causal order.)

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5. SO, YEAH. YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT YOUR ACTIVIST SHOES ON. Unless you want to be a bystander while millions die because MAGA has wielded pseudo-science bullshit to prop up fresh eugenic flavored policies. Again, this isn’t comfortable. We aren’t used to this. It’s not our “culture”. And yet…

Very timely and insightful OpEd by Prof. Cory Miller on WSJ. It lays out an important point - Advanced AI cannot be developed in a vacuum without understanding the sophisticated machines we have in our brains. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Worse, the giant squid does not have a giant axon! It would have been so fun to record spikes with jumper cables too....

Garden art

If you're still clinging on to the hope that the NIH will somehow return to normal in FY26, I just don't know what to say to you at this point.

All the time and we would do ourselves a service to slow down, talk and read instead.

Black holes and their extremely strong gravity are where our current understanding of the cosmos breaks down. Our new Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity aims to find answers: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/11/n... #science #astrophysics

Very excited to share a new collaborative work with @neuralnandy.bsky.social and Monika Jadi on using a novel ‘super-seasoning’ approach and dynamic Bayesian network modeling to reveal multi-area causal network dynamics underlying social interaction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally, the full version of our paper on the distribution of functions within monkey VLPF is out! For anyone interested, I'll briefly explain the main results in this thread (1/5) @plosbiology.org #prefrontal #neuroscience #ephys #dataanalysis

Happy to have some good science news - our new study with @aqperkins.bsky.social is out in @plosbiology.org! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Coming March 17, 2026! Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.

How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9

On this day Aug 4, 1944: Anne Frank was arrested after 2 years in hiding. Not by monsters in uniforms but by neighbors. Today, governors threaten political enemies with removal. ICE raids target families. LGBTQ+ people are banned from bookshelves. Never again means nothing if you stay silent.

Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.

Super excited to share this new work from the lab (led by Guangyao Qi)! We demonstrate compositional social gaze codes in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits, by testing three predictions from the compositionality hypothesis. 👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out the website for a detailed guide and overview: kiasort.com

🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spare me your “This surely can’t be legal”

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

Is there a more metal flag in the universe than that of Zheleznogorsk (a Russian city with a substantial nuclear industry)? No, there isn’t.

I don’t care how good your grant prep is, nor whether the panel has 100 or 80 R01 proposals to review, the less common idea (methods, etc) struggles. By definition the majority of the panel leans a different way. You don’t beat this by grantsmithing. You beat it with numbers.

If I hear what about the midterms one more time.

I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly. Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful. 40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social ! @layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social