I've been inspired to become a founder of a new startup that develops brain-to-brain interface technology. It's called Talk. We're going to reinvent communication for the digital age. The best part is that we're able to zero-shot transfer the full computational stack already used by your brain!

⚠️ DEADLINE EXTENDED! ⚠️ Applications are still open for the CAJAL Course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality (7 June – 26 June 2026)! 🧠 📅 Deadline to apply: March 3rd 2026 (NEW DATE) 📍 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal 🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/YG7FXZj #cajal

Come help support high-performance computing at Scripps! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Headed to Bethesda for a talk at NIH tomorrow! Currently retracing part of my commute from my first research job at Children's Hospital DC. I locked myself in the walk-in, almost knocked myself out with a phenol-chloroform extraction, and contributed a gel to onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I wanted a pic of a "neuroscientist at a whiteboard" for a flier, only to find two familiar faces in the first three hits. Weird google search personalization, or do I just pick collaborators who like posing with whiteboards?

So moltbook is a hell of a thing www.moltbook.com/m/emergence

I also think we can conceive of the whole genome as instantiating a generative model of the organism... 😊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Given recent events, here are seven essential reads, all 🎁 linked. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o... 1/7

A female Downy Woodpecker showcasing couture fashion by wearing a snowflake, a one-of-a-kind piece.

The best cooking threads start with purchase of a refractometer www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

We are excited to announce the 2026 GRC Neurobiology of Cognition (7/19-24) in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH! Registration/abstract submission open. Wonderful speakers/program covering cognition across scales & species, incl. AI & neuromodulation! @desrocherslab.bsky.social @erinlrich.bsky.social

At the Bernstein Conference 2024, Jeremie Lefebvre and I organized a workshop on the computational consequences of neural heterogeneity. Now, slightly more than a year later, we funneled the emerging discussions into a perspective piece: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain" Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

today's unnecessary detour: tried to make a figure of fluid pumping around VNO as described by www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...; had trouble parsing the figure vs existing drawings til I found this render and realized just how many bones mice have in their schnoz: sketchfab.com/3d-models/mu...

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Really enjoyed this story about maintaining your sailboat (and your sanity). "Sometimes maintenance involves shooting the shark." books.worksinprogress.co/book/mainten...

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

Back from post-conference adventures in Bad Tölz. Takeaways: a) Bavarian are serious about their outdoor sports, b) I was not prepared to meet a whole-body relic at the local Catholic high school

“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known" - Bertrand Russell, 1976. Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠

🚨 We are recruiting a full-time Research Programmer to push forward several exciting machine learning projects in the lab! Work on computational behavior and joint neural/behavior models. Start date flexible, can be a pre-grad-school position or longer term. recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...

It's finally out! Our paper on optogenetic interrogation of the lateral line: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... This one involved a lot of sweat and tears, and it was a real tour de force. It was also the last paper we got to write with Jim, so it's a special one (and hence, the tears).

en*K*ephalins act on Delta opioid receptors and *D*ynorphins act on Kappa opioid receptors, and this is how you know the pain field is full of psychopaths

It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.

Neighbor was a hospital admin and put my resume on the pile, got a HS summer job in a glial stem cell lab and was hooked. Parents thought college was largely a scam and there was no $ in biology, but ok'd biomedical engineering. Fell in love with mathematical modeling of biology and that was that!

Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social >20 review articles on Interoception www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

This Scripps place sounds like a pretty cool spot to work

NIH extends the Oct-Nov deadlines to Dec 8, 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/n...

Tenure track position in motor control at Northeastern University northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Hello New York! Giving a Swartz seminar at NYU today, come say hi! as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Ive seen this work from Prof Liqun Luo’s presented a few times now and its stunning and heroic.

Beautiful collection of tessellated materials found in nature: tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection

🔔 NEW PREPRINT FROM THE LAB ‼️ We introduce a new ML model, LoRAX, for predicting olfactory responses from chemical features, a tricky problem that benefits from progress in ML for biochem. We combine LoRA fine-tuning with protein and chemical foundation models, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

And the final #sfn2025 attendance count is: 21,093

We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Xin Jin has been named the 2026 Peter Gruss Young Investigator. Her pioneering work developing high-throughput in vivo screening strategies is unraveling the genetic mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders. buff.ly/RI9emVa

#sfn2025 three fun posters from us today: theory work by @rgast.bsky.social on the effects of neural heterogeneity on computation, a hippocampus+feeding collab with @liye-tsri.bsky.social , and LLMs for pose interpretation in rehabilitation data with @peabody124.bsky.social

At #SfN and want to hear about how BiomechGPT can provide a language interface to your biomechanics data? Checkout poster happening now at YY4 with Ruize Yang and @antihebbiann.bsky.social

I will be pinch hitting for Adi Nair at this awesome social neuro minisymposium today. Come say hi! #sfn2025

Personal apologies to everyone who came to “sunny” San Diego for #SfN2025.🌧️😱

Driving home from lab, stopped at light, glanced at odometer. 111111 miles on 11/11!

Here's the full lineup of the Art of Neuroscience exhibitors at #SfN25 in San Diego #sciart 🧠

A loss of trust in information is just as bad as a loss of trustworthy information.

Nothing beats the tiny ceremony of clicking and dragging a project from the "my papers in progress" folder to the "my papers finished" folder

That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?

These are great!

I beg your pardon?

A very cool series of studies on how olfactory receptor neurons find their target projection neurons in the developing fly brain. My fav part is how the partner-finding process gets reduced from a 3d to a 2d to effectively a 1d search.

Mixed feelings: a) Morris-Lecar models were my intro to bifurcation analysis! But b) last time I taught Morris-Lecar, a (theory) student did ask "but like... does anyone actually use this now?" so maybe a reminder is due. (Bif analysis was a big part of www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1..., for one!)