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...

I’m 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...

Join us in Woods Hole for Methods in Computational Neuroscience (MCN) at MBL (July 24–Aug 21). Four weeks of computational + systems neuroscience, hands-on training, and close interaction with an exceptional faculty.

Alexander Calder, Cow, 1929 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136479

Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???

[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.

Alexander Liberman, Sigma, I, 1961 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136725

Wilson, 3/11/2026, 6:05:14 AM

C'mon rat

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.

The first “drug induced hallucination” sequence I ever saw in comics (or any fiction) - so memorable I’d have sworn it was at least one page long, maybe two

Shocked that Gin and Juice is not on this list.

The 90s list is equally fascinating - I'm not sure I've even *heard* the number one song.

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.

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?

One step closer to my life long dream of finishing a box of 5000 staples

www.openculture.com/2015/10/mich... psychologists/neuroscientists, if you need an antidote for physics-envy disorder, this may help

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 03,1949

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

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...

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

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Happy Casimir Pulaski Day, ya filthy animals. youtu.be/TfEkDqP34xo?...

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.

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984

Hosted a meeting today; took my visitors to see Duke Chapel Julian Abele designed it—one of over 30 Duke buildings he designed from 1924-1950 (when he died) The school wasn’t desegregated until 1962 (🤬) & Abele was a Black architect Posthumously, Duke renamed the central quad for him in tribute

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.

Is this bad

don't worry

time to start documenting this storm 4:15pm

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?

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?

does the Girl Scouts website ask you to accept all cookies

Amik in the Snow Mishiikenhkwe ~ ANishinaabe c. 2026

discrete = separate discreet = unobtrusive The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'

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

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊 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...

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

roses are red violet are magnificent a change of 1 point's not statistically significant

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

The Tramp Steamer, 1922 #edwardhopper #americanart

It’s become fashionable to talk of Anglicanism as a kind of ‘English Shinto’, but is there also a sense in which Anglicanism is an ‘English Vodou’ - a religious creole in which elements of both Catholicism and Protestantism are seamlessly blended?

In case anyone has been wondering what I have been doing for the past 40 years, it is summed up in this slide. #neuroscience

Blonde on Blonde revisited dylanrevisited.com/2026/02/13/b...

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...

2. Paper figure by Carhart-Harris and Friston (oops). bsky.app/profile/hakw...

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? 😵‍💫

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