Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

Today’s AI agents share the same basic architecture: a thinking part (the LLM) is coupled to an acting part (an engineered runtime + tools) through a narrow symbolic interface (e.g. json & text). In our new paper, we call this split *Cartesian agency*. arxiv.org/abs/2604.07745

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

New paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)! We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

1/8 Decoding Dolphin Communication After studying 313 dolphins (in Sarasota, Florida) for over 40 years and across six generations, a catalog of their vocalizations has been produced. These vocalizations are more complex than expected. (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My talk at COSYNE is up: "Discrete actions are a unit of both behavior and evolutionary selection" with @akautt.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/Y8Ke6HC...

Expectation-driven sensory adaptations support enhanced acuity during categorical perception in European starlings 🧠🧪 @timsainburg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sensory populations reflect the Bayesian likelihood. And expectation modulates sensory activity. But here’s the twist: sensory neurons don’t integrate the likelihood and prior expectation. (6/n)

Our brains use prediction in two seemingly contradictory ways. Our latest paper, just published in @natureneuro.bsky.social, investigates how we do it. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

I recently wrote a primer on UMAP for Nature Reviews Primers. If you are looking for an overview of the method, a getting started primer, or best practices it is a good place to start. rdcu.be/d0YZT

Come to learn about the specific corticostriatal synapses that drive juvenile birdsong learning! This Thursday 11:25 Central European Time (5:25 am for me in EST, but early bird gets the worm after all)

They asked six questions: * Do you have a criminal history? * Do you have potentially embarrassing news stories about your personal history? * Do you oppose mandates in general? * Do you oppose vaccine mandates? * Do you support or oppose vaccines? * Would you be able to move to DC?

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

🔥🔥🚨 Deadline coming up! But still in time to apply to a MindCore fellowship as a postdoc. I’m looking for an independent postdoc with experience in freely moving ephys to perform triple Neuropixel in the wild Agouti!! Get in touch! 🧪https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctoral-research-fellowship/

🧵 A huge thanks to the creators of umap-learn for their work on UMAP! While trying to get parametric UMAP to work for my project, I ran into some challenges, so I decided to dive in and build my own PyTorch-based version from scratch. You can check it up here github.com/mr-fcharles/...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excited to see Bernie’s work on "A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference" published. We (Bernie) include sample colab notebooks for each section to guide you step-by-step through deep causal inference methods. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We were actually "unknown" for it, but for years @neuroshea.bsky.social and I ran the bsdneuro account, which now rests in a grave befitting Bob (and his cortex).

🚨Late team change means we have a paid research assistant position with savanna chimpanzees in the incredible #MoyenBafing Nat Park. Deadline Nov 21, start mid-Jan; costs covered & small stipend. More details 👉 tinyurl.com/mbchimpjob It’ll be full on algae fishing fun times!!! 💚🐵🎣🧪 DM for any Qs

Inspired by @hleisthen.bsky.social and @denizhanpak.bsky.social I've put together a starter pack for neuroethology (broadly defined). Follow these people if you're interested in learning about the mechanisms underlying animal behaviour. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/T5JTFzE

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

Just put together the beginnings of a systems & behavior neuro starter pack (focus on rodent work) - obviously a lot of people missing, and most included are in my own little bubble, so if you want to be added do reply here! go.bsky.app/Hxpe53o

Excited to announce our first seminar on here! Join us next week for two talks on inter-species communication from Gašper Beguš (@begus.bsky.social) and Claire Spottiswoode 🗓️February 22nd @ 12 noon EST ✅Register here: braincoustics.com

Hello, I'm giving a talk at PyDataGlobal 12-1230 EST tomorrow on VocalPy, a core Python package for acoustic communication research vocalpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Virtual, cheap tix 🙂 pydata.org/global2023

Are you using neural network models to segment and/or annotate animal sounds? You'll want to check out our #SfN23 poster HH22 comparing models that I present 1-5 today. Sneak preview here: github.com/vocalpy/Nich... (I'll thread later)

Amazing, affordable daycare at IGC/ITQB & Rockefeller were essential for us "Daycare facilities need not only to be present, but it is also important to ensure that any worker at the institution is able to use them. This includes having enough vacancies and affordable prices."

Hi Bluesky! I'm making the move over from twitter! I post about neuroscience - behavior, basal ganglia, birdsong, neurorethology, decision-making, substance disorders- with the occasional pic of my dog or nature #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Just migrated! I work in cognitive science, systems neuro, ethology, & ML focused on how we organize behavior! Currently work with lab and deer mice. Previously starlings, chimps, cotton top tamarins & occasionally humans. Using this account to find and share science.