After the Human Single-Neuron meeting which was really fun, it's time for SfN! And this year, I *am* looking for a post-doc 😯

As usual, jetlag is my secret productivity enhancer. This time I don't have any paper back from revision or anything, so I finished a popular science article I was offered to write 🫠

I have to say that as an archeology and animal navigation geek, this really is the coolest collaborative project I've heard about in a while!

Doing our yearly localization-system inspection at the bat tunnel, 10 m above ground. This time joined by @crowbrain.bsky.social who got his crane license recently

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

European researchers night😎

Thrilled to share that our work is now published in Science! ✨ We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system where they dynamically refine head-direction coding. In short, objects boost our inner compass! 🧭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/

Send to everybody: *This* is complex behavior

On my way back home after an amazing (but crazy) month at the MBL in Woods Hole, and I was just notified that my paper got accepted. Celebrating with the air crew I guess😅

We know how visual objects influence spatial tuning in the hippocampus. A new study from @batwoman123.bsky.social shows that auditory objects can be egocentrically or allocentrically encoded in the hippocampus of echolocating bats 🦇. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

New correlation is not causation example just dropped

Some good news in the midst of all this craziness: Tamir's paper is out! Short ("fragmented") replays in large environments

I did not believe this day would come, but here it is: my paper with @liadmudrik.bsky.social @nfaivre.bsky.social and my incredible co-first author Tamara Bester is out in #NCONSC academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... We start our journey at ~2013(!)

I managed to avoid this for ~six years, but I think I'll finally have to learn how to use the cluster😅

Gigantic team effort that thanks to all the amazing collaborators and @simonsfoundation.org is now official. Team NHP will use @anamanea.bsky.social tetris task across multiple labs. Stay tuned ! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇 How do bats tell navigation from social calls? Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives. Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz

Since Nachum Ulanovsky is not on social media, I'm on PR duty today ;) Nachum wrote a book titled "Natural Neuroscience"! I am biased of course, but I think it's very relevant to whoever cares about the brain and about how we study it, from undergrads to professors. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204499...

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is why we pick the bear.

#newShirt #wip 2-3 layers, more complicated than my usual style

Saikat's amazing work on social coding of groups of bats is finally out!

🤩 A much better explanation of the paper on attractor networks I talked about a couple days ago, by the first author. 👇👇👇

Celebrating the end of the first Bridges of Science program at WIS First is Judith Omumbo from the Science for Africa foundation, about the challenges for African science

Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms? Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus. To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes: 🧵

This explains so much XD "Why do bats fly into cave doors?" [Or into people who stand behind cave doors. Don't ask]

Today I got an email that an abstract which I started uploading but did not press "submit" was accepted to a conference. If I had a dollar for every time this happened to me this month, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

I gave a talk today and all I got was this (actually cool) mug!