Ben Hayden
@benhayden.bsky.social
š¤ 3711
š„ 4127
š 1389
Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Sam Gershman
16 days ago
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...
5
178
65
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Liberty Hamilton
about 11 hours ago
Iām excited to share our new work, led by grad student Rajvi Agravat, using iEEG in 54 pediatric, adolescent, & young adult participants with deep neural network audio source separation to show how the brain prioritizes speech in audio containing both speech and music
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
loading . . .
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.12.710296v1
1
17
7
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Roozbeh Kiani
3 days ago
Join us in Woods Hole for Methods in Computational Neuroscience (MCN) at MBL (July 24āAug 21). Four weeks of computational + systems neuroscience, hands-on training, and close interaction with an exceptional faculty.
add a skeleton here at some point
0
18
5
reposted by
Ben Hayden
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
2 days ago
Alexander Calder, Cow, 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136479
1
113
23
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Mark Peifer (He, him)
3 days ago
Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???
9
206
98
reposted by
Ben Hayden
1986 News
3 days ago
[March 11th, 1986] Popsicle Industries will stop selling the traditional two-stick Popsicle in May and replace it with a more convenient one-stick version. The change comes as consumers prefer fruit-based ice bars from Jell-O and Dole.
1
9
6
reposted by
Ben Hayden
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
3 days ago
Alexander Liberman, Sigma, I, 1961
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136725
0
26
5
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Big Wonderful Wyoming
3 days ago
Wilson, 3/11/2026, 6:05:14 AM
0
3
1
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Artologica aka Michele Banks
4 days ago
C'mon rat
6
74
6
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Michael Goard
8 days ago
Also, I know it's fun to proclaim that representational drift is fake news every time someone finds a stable response somewhere in the brain, but for those who have actually done careful longitudinal recordings, many (not all) neurons clearly change their responses over time.
2
7
2
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Tom Ewing
8 days ago
The first ādrug induced hallucinationā sequence I ever saw in comics (or any fiction) - so memorable Iād have sworn it was at least one page long, maybe two
7
53
7
Shocked that Gin and Juice is not on this list.
add a skeleton here at some point
9 days ago
0
2
0
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Paul Kirkley
9 days ago
The 90s list is equally fascinating - I'm not sure I've even *heard* the number one song.
9
9
11
All of these songs are better than anything Madonna released in the 80s, with the exception of Like a Prayer, which I assume is hiding at position 51.
add a skeleton here at some point
9 days ago
1
0
0
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Paul Kirkley
9 days ago
Fascinated that Madonna - arguably 80s pop's greatest icon - doesn't appear in the decade's top 50 most streamed songs. (Cyndi Lauper has two.) Is she dropping off the cultural radar?
23
45
44
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Andrew D Wilson
10 days ago
One step closer to my life long dream of finishing a box of 5000 staples
6
18
4
reposted by
Ben Hayden
hakwan lau
10 days ago
www.openculture.com/2015/10/mich...
psychologists/neuroscientists, if you need an antidote for physics-envy disorder, this may help
loading . . .
What Is DĆ©jĆ Vu? Michio Kaku Wonders If Itās Triggered by Parallel Universes
I've spent the past week on a road trip across America, and, during it, experienced perhaps my most intense case of déjà vu ever.
https://www.openculture.com/2015/10/michio-kaku-on-what-is-deja-vu.html
3
46
3
reposted by
Ben Hayden
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
11 days ago
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 03,1949
10
830
89
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Discontinued Foods!
7 months ago
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Fudge Bars (1991-circa 1993): Chocolatey ice cream bars made to resemble the faces of the the title characters of the Disney Afternoon series, right down to the different colored candy noses
12
455
81
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Central NJ Yimby šļøš²ššŗšø
11 days ago
45-story tower proposed for a vacant lot behind the Abundant Life Family Worship Church in New Brunswick NJ. Original abundance bros! If this is approved - and I think it will be - it may be the tallest building in Central NJ! 800 apartments, of which 160 affordable.
patch.com/new-jersey/n...
loading . . .
45-Story, 800-Unit Apartment Building Proposed For New Brunswick
A proposal is before the New Brunswick Planning Board to build a 45-story apartment building at 259 George Street, plus a new parking garage
https://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/45-story-800-unit-apartment-building-proposed-new-brunswick?utm_medium=referral&utm_term=real+estate&utm_campaign=nextdoor_news&utm_source=nextdoor.com
6
36
5
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD
11 days ago
What a pleasure to welcome Flip Sabes to BCM last week for a fascinating look at next-gen neuromodulation and the interface of academia and neurotech!
@nicoleprovenza.bsky.social
@benhayden.bsky.social
@bcmneurosci.bsky.social
@bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social
1
11
2
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)
12 days ago
š
13
1058
342
reposted by
Ben Hayden
A. Bean
12 days ago
Happy Casimir Pulaski Day, ya filthy animals.
youtu.be/TfEkDqP34xo?...
add a skeleton here at some point
1
37
9
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Ryan Moulton
25 days ago
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.) We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
19
197
33
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Akram Bakkour
13 days ago
š¢New paper out today in
@cognitionjournal.bsky.social
! Does the value of an unchosen option ā inferred through counterfactual reasoning ā spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option ā acquired through direct experience ā does? In short, yes!
loading . . .
The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory
Counterfactual thinking ā considering what could have come of choosing the other path ā can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated tā¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027726000740
1
59
25
reposted by
Ben Hayden
old roadside pics
14 days ago
westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984
1
220
26
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Prof Gavin Yamey
16 days ago
Hosted a meeting today; took my visitors to see Duke Chapel Julian Abele designed itāone of over 30 Duke buildings he designed from 1924-1950 (when he died) The school wasnāt desegregated until 1962 (š¤¬) & Abele was a Black architect Posthumously, Duke renamed the central quad for him in tribute
2
92
12
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Steven Nelson
about 1 month ago
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
51
3011
695
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Ian Bogost
19 days ago
Is this bad
loading . . .
Einstein - AI Homework Agent
Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer ā he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.
https://companion.ai/einstein
158
1413
940
reposted by
Ben Hayden
drewtoothpaste
19 days ago
don't worry
0
206
31
reposted by
Ben Hayden
bring on the dancing horses
19 days ago
time to start documenting this storm 4:15pm
5
81
5
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Bird
21 days ago
If you could automatically acquire any language, living or dead, spoken or signed, and then were provided with enough funding to teach it at the University level, which language would you choose and why?
6
5
5
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Thomas Lecaque
21 days ago
For my World War 1 friends, what are your three favorite books on the First World War? Any region, any topic, just favorites?
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
, suggestions?
48
24
12
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Michael Tisserand
21 days ago
does the Girl Scouts website ask you to accept all cookies
3
32
9
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Canadian Paintings
22 days ago
Amik in the Snow Mishiikenhkwe ~ ANishinaabe c. 2026
1
151
38
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Merriam-Webster
22 days ago
discrete = separate discreet = unobtrusive The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'
22
849
170
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Musicology Duck
26 days ago
I love going to Georgetown bc you can be like wow I wonder if any of the founding fathers ever hung out in this sweetgreen
1
180
8
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Athena Akrami
26 days ago
Thrilled to finally share this work! š§ š Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules. Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
loading . . .
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.14.705916v1
3
153
54
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Tom Peyer
28 days ago
9
200
55
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Ariel Edwards-Levy
about 2 years ago
roses are red violets are blue lilacs are neither red nor blue, but if they had to answer a follow-up question picking whether they leaned more toward red, more toward blue or did not lean toward either that would be terrible for this poem's scansion
1
61
11
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Ariel Edwards-Levy
about 2 years ago
roses are red violet are magnificent a change of 1 point's not statistically significant
2
113
23
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Psyche Loui
28 days ago
Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people donāt experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward.
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
#neuroskyence
#musicskyence
#psychscisky
loading . . .
What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
The study of musical anhedoniaāthe inability to enjoy musicāis revealing how music moves us.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-do-we-like-music
2
72
16
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Great art on Bluesky
28 days ago
The Tramp Steamer, 1922 #edwardhopper #americanart
0
45
9
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Dr Francis Young
28 days ago
Itās become fashionable to talk of Anglicanism as a kind of āEnglish Shintoā, but is there also a sense in which Anglicanism is an āEnglish Vodouā - a religious creole in which elements of both Catholicism and Protestantism are seamlessly blended?
8
66
7
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Earl K. Miller
29 days ago
In case anyone has been wondering what I have been doing for the past 40 years, it is summed up in this slide.
#neuroscience
5
85
11
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Dylan Revisited
29 days ago
Blonde on Blonde revisited
dylanrevisited.com/2026/02/13/b...
loading . . .
Blonde on Blonde (1966)
The final part of Dylanās classic mid-60ās trilogy, rockās first double album is a monumental pop record. The story of its recording in Nashville is one of inspired cross-genre coā¦
https://dylanrevisited.com/2026/02/13/blonde-on-blonde-1966/
0
7
1
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Nicole Rust
29 days ago
In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week). 1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops).
bsky.app/profile/andr...
add a skeleton here at some point
4
78
26
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Nicole Rust
29 days ago
2. Paper figure by Carhart-Harris and Friston (oops).
bsky.app/profile/hakw...
add a skeleton here at some point
1
14
2
reposted by
Ben Hayden
Elise Cutts
29 days ago
I'm going to have to check if every scientist I ever interview for the rest of forever was in the Epstein files before interviewing them, aren't I? šµāš«
0
10
1
reposted by
Ben Hayden
SueYeon Chung
about 1 month ago
Our paper is out in
@natneuro.nature.com
!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social
1/14
7
274
101
Load more
feeds!
log in