Gertrude Stein's now almost 100yo statement: "Writing for the normal person is too complicated an activity to be indulged in automatically." ...appear to have aged interestingly in the age of generative LLMs

Wait. Is a "Silent Consonant" an oxymoron?

Escoffier's warnings against transforming dining from "a pleasurable occassion into an unnecessary chore" transfer easily into many other aspects of life thrse days. Ability to take pleasure in the basic and rudimentary elements provides a fundamental value that no production efficacy can replace

If it is really true that "you should not meet your heroes", then maybe you just picked the wrong heroes for the wrong reasons

Office space an hour before, and an hour after, the deadline for the grant application

Happy Phineas Gage Day. On this day, in 1848, Phineas Gage involuntarily participated in one of the first human lesion experiments demonstrating the function of frontal lobes in impulse inhibition. Today,we honor him and others (including animal subjects) and celebrate neuroscientific progress

Yes, the media should ask these questions. They don't. They can't. They lack the training and work inside rigid rules about how to capture attention and storytell. They have mantras for "what the public understands" that don't include science or data. Politics runs on media, hence our world today.

paper alert: Our study on the role of astrocytic cAMP-levels on neurovascular coupling has been published and can be found here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Vittani spearheaded the project, and I had the pleasure of joining, initially for computational purposes, but also with single-cell 2P exps

Our computational neuroscience meeting in August, 11-14th, is still open for registration, and we are happy to announce that with support of Neuroscience Academy Denmark, both registration and accomodation is now free of charge for sign-ups from NAD-affiliated institutions. registration below

Computational Neuroscience Workshop announcement: August 11-14, 2025 Venue: Ebberup, DENMARK Registration is open! neuroscienceacademydenmark.dk/event/comput...

Harvard offering free courses on 'Constitution', 'U.S. public policies', 'Citizen politics', etc... to the general population is such a badass, clever response, and simultaneous commentary, to the current political farce pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Come join us in Denmark for a fantastic week of theoretical and computational neuroscience!

A very danish morning: On my way to buy my usual breadroll w/cheese, I met the owner of the cafe, who recognized and greeted me, apologized he had to run a short errand, but asked if I could just take the goods and check myself out at the register... Which I did. Paid, and left before his return

If you read one mainstream article this weekend, let it be this one...

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Think this quote extrapolates well to global scale

Late night thought. We way too often measure the intelligence of an animal by their ability to learn our languages, gesticulations, and other means of communication... and maybe I missed it, but when did any human ever succeed in learning any of theirs?

Saw an excellent argument to convince any reachable climate change doubters: every insurance company employees climate experts and prices in climate risks. If it weren't real, other companies could ignore it and undercut them in price. They don't.

From Twitter -> BlueSky From WhatsApp -> Signal From Spotify -> TIDAL ...next?

People are out here trying to audit algorithms for fairness etc., and these homies are auditing entire social institutions using algorithms. Now I see what Elon meant by AI is an existential risk, he’s just two steps ahead of us.

In a time, where the fundamental values and social fabric we have taken for granted is being dismantled before our eyes, it can feel somewhat anchoring to just build something concrete. So today, with help of my friends, we started expanding the bathroom to add a new shower cabin.

Hilarious, and though completely satirical, still made me wanna re-visit Franz de Waal's iconic book: "Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?"

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Neuropixels and Optogenetics are delighted to announce the birth of Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics Today in bioRxiv 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors By Lakunina, @karolinazsocha.bsky.social, Ladd, et al www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/2)

Bernie is a great inspiration-source on how to navigate, respond and fight back to the new authoritarian pressure in these dark times youtube.com/watch?v=mL0c...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Luminaries come in many shapes and forms. Today, I witnessed a (disillusioned) father of stringtheory, Holger Bech, enthusiastically deliver new insights on dark matter in the age of 83, while celebrating the bday of my own personal luminary (my mother) Curiosity will always bring us all together

What an honor it was to meet and exchange data and ideas with the legendary Prof. Mikoshiba, who discovered the IP3-receptor (Nature 1989) and still is spearheading the many implications for this central protein and its enormous amount of binding partners Inspiring to see such a lifelong devotion

This song inspired by the totalitarian dystopic Orwell novel "1984" suddenly became very, very relevant again open.spotify.com/track/1C2QJN...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Should Europe start anticipating an imminent influx of American intellectuals similar to the one US experienced from the fascist european regimes in the 1930s? www.science.org/content/arti...

Very powerful piece of art on Aros in Århus: Tasmanian artist Lucienne Rickard meticulously drew a series of endangered bird species washed up on the coast. Then, she erased them again to bring attention to loss of species and the biodiversity crisis we are currently facing. It got under our skin

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recommending this new Netflix documentary (4 episodes of 50min) about how the diet we choose impact the lives we live (health, energy, etc..) and the planet we live on (environment, antibiotics, etc..). Scientific publication w/ details of the twin study added here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Gave a special talk this morning. The title: "Neural Representations and Cognitive State-shifts in Health and Disease: identification, predictive power and intervention". What made it particularly special was that the organizers were my PhD mentors Kenneth Lindegaard Madsen and Ulrik Gether

Is the BlueSky exodus filtering networks? My scientific peers are overall positive, as elaborated in the article (received from @baboris.bsky.social). Friends resisting, due to distinct opinions regarding Musk and moderation, may unintentionally promote this sub-culture.

This is my first joint post between LinkedIn (https://buff.ly/3CFG7KK) and BlueSky (@rasherlo.bsky.social). Hope is to share meaningful information and engage in constructive discussions without diversion into aggresive echo chambers by algorithms, trolls and lack of moderation. See you (t)here?