9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

A heat map of left vs right Parisian voters put next to a heat map of number of cats in Paris for no particular reason

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

I had a great time talking to Meenakshi about my trajectory through neuroscience! Tune in for electric fish, imaging the hypothalamus, and trying to find a path in theory that stays relevant to the brain. Also, my early phd experiences of trying to do science when real life rears its head.

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

using Claude to troubleshoot a workflow in ImageJ. 🎵 Make new friends, but keep the old~

Pretending to be an anatomist for a minute

... and for a little glimpse of comparative data, see figure 4. These are EPG neurons (head direction cells of the central complex) across a range of species, from earwigs to bees.

VMH SF1 neurons are the gift that keeps on giving. They control defensive behaviors! elifesciences.org/articles/6633 copulatory behaviors! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... exercise-induced improvements in endurance! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Such overachievers.

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

(Sound up) neighbors are really feeling the love tonight

This is THE course if you want to learn how to use all the coolest new animal tracking tech!

petapixel.com/2026/02/19/w... Superbloom is coming!

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶 cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶 cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

found in a 2013 Scientific Reports paper on microendoscopic imaging. I am glad that the rat is still enjoying himself despite his missing limb

⚠️ 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

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

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