First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The saxophonist, flutist, and composer has transformed the music over and over with Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, Zooid, and more. https://bit.ly/4mMB50X

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods! 📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking 🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration Let’s dive in! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting scheme for categorizing sensory systems- from Ching Kung, motivated by exploring sensory needs beginning with single-cell organisms.

Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

Behind the Scenes: Brad Mehldau Records “Tomorrow Tomorrow” (feat. Daniel Rossen) #blogpost

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...

We made a film! About Michael Saylor and his amazing magic money machine. Take bitcoin, add mind-boggling amounts of financial engineering and a huge dose of very online crypto hype, and suddenly a lot of people are making a LOT of money www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Wj...

Hot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift

if you love the handbasket and want to keep it going strong, quote post this with why you’re a paid subscriber! i’m 200 away from a major goal. LFG. www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.

It is of course painful that all this is gone.. Gottfried Benn on Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6R4...

“Relevant computations happen in here too” Maimon on the limitations of pure connectivity data in the fly

Whether foundation models are the answer or not, what should be mentioned is that scaling up neuroscience is also an ... experimental problem, not just an archival one. I think the IBL experiments are maybe the most complex experiments that have been run at scale and they are mid-level complexity.

Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/pape...

if anyone happens to be a physicist thinking about this offer, drop me a DM and I will give glowing character reference for one of the profs there who did an exchange to Exeter university a few years ago and is an absolutely top lad www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/ac...

In the newest issue of Science, meself, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi and James Evans, "Large AI Models are Cultural and Social Technologies." More soon ... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The horseshoe theory, but for animal and AI consciousness

Thrilled and proud about our latest advancement in Brillouin microscopy - enabling true light-sheet like mechanical imaging at high throughput. Out today in @naturephotonics.bsky.social Congratulations Carlo! @carlobevilacqua.bsky.social rdcu.be/eaDiX

The youth gender divide is real and important, but it can mask the fact that the populist right is gaining ground among young women as well as young men in many countries (this was also true in the US). AfD tripled their vote share among 18-24 year old men, but the same was true of young women.

12. In the medium to longer term, perhaps developing some of the tools that it had begun to experiment with as an alternative to dollar payments in Trump's first term. Mutterings about the strategic value of separate European digital payments systems are likely to get a _lot_ louder.

Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇 www.rnd.de/politik/bund...

ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm. This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country. RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What are the best benchmarks and the SOTA on Sound Source Localization? arxiv.org/html/2409.06... seems to suggest that VGG-SS can be largely solved with video only?

Happy to see Helen DeWitt finally getting her due.

We present: Direct-view oblique plane microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

It was obvious this was coming. 404 Media: "Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov"

Stocks are up cause of Jevons Paradox. As soon as they went down in price, everyone could afford to buy more of them.

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a GCaMP tadpole for #fluorescenceFriday as an introductory hello on BlueSky :) Transgenic by Lora Sweeney (ISTA), and picci by our postdoc Michi Forsthofer

by the one and only @urslucasboehm.bsky.social, who just joined bluesky

sorry for being the blacksheep again... #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

(Charles Simic)

We’re seeking a postdoc/student excited about animal communication, brain-wide circuits, microscopy, singing fish (Danionella), wacky ideas and who likes to: get things done, experiment, analyze, ask, learn, help and cooperate. jlab.berlin

Are transformers/LLMs actually Turing-complete? (i.e., capable of computing anything a standard programming language can compute) I look at 16 papers on the subject. My conclusion is that, despite the claims, no one has proved this yet. lifeiscomputation.com/transformers...

“What is your aim in philosophy? — To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations #philosophy #philsky

How can we convince neuroscientists to act like serious people in public.

It's weird that you never see "Universe probably made of glorp and gravity is a myth, says biologist," but science news outlets will print literally any time-cube bullshit a physicist coming up for air after a bong hit makes up about brains.

One example of a negative probability, which Taleb mentions here, is the probability of learning anything from this word salad

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Sunday Jazz #1: Tangens - Sam Rivers / Alexander von Schlippenbach ( destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/tangens)

Re-reading "Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience" They write: 'Tasks are not experimental paradigms, even though it is common [...] to encounter phrasing like “we ran the movie-watching task.”' - it feels like this covers 99.9% of use cases, though... #neuroscience