(LinkedIn) BCIs will run out of runway www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai... by @bioniclab.bsky.social on #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience

🧠👃A new study by #KempnerInstitute associate faculty member Venkatesh Murthy & collaborators shows that maximizing information recreates an olfactory design shared by multiple species. Out now in @pnas.org: bit.ly/4uQ6Omw @neurovenki.bsky.social @jzv.bsky.social #neuroscience

Evolution seems to have repeatedly converged on a similar architecture in the early olfactory system of many animals. We offer an efficient-coding framework to understand this. Out in @pnas.org now! Led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos, + help from Farhad. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Quelle belle victoire !  Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie. Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens. Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.

New preprint: our lab’s first Alzheimer’s paper! “Loss of neuronal population organization links pathology to behavior in a model of Alzheimer's disease” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵1/

I’m excited to share my newest work with @benhayden.bsky.social, and the work I’m most proud of to date, on characterizing semantic coding in single-neuron hippocampal activity in patients with autism during natural language comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Holy crap, how did David Raya save that shot - wow!!! #Arsenal

Today, leading scientists & educators from New Jersey's 12th District are endorsing my candidacy! Nobel laureates, as well as pioneers in medicine, physics, AI, and chemistry. I'm deeply grateful. And I'm ready to defend science and the prosperity it brings! www.samfornj.org/news/scienti...

Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran https://go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Brains, Minds, and Machines by March 23. This three-week course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in computer science or neuroscience. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/BMM

Check out the newest work from our, from Fabricio Nicola @fabricionicola.bsky.social on mouse jumping and spinal cell types. Excellent collab with @vulcnethologist.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our Q&A with Mark Fishman, who uses the zebrafish to study body–brain interactions and the genetic structure of social behavior at Harvard University! www.cell.com/current-biol...

W.S. Merwin from 1967. When the War is Over. #poetry

If you're at #cosyne2026 in Lisbon, come check out Juan Carlos Fernández del Castillo's poster 1-007 tonight, based on our paper on efficient coding in olfaction (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)!

Florida's next in the gerrymandering wars. Here I get into depth on what's at risk and how to stop them. The best solution is independent citizen commissions, which Congress can pass - and should. This reform can level the playing field and restore competition. share.google/0KGm8yCidZaE...

Congrats to my colleague Max on getting a 2026 MIND Prize!

Join us at TENSS 2026 to open black boxes, explain how things/brains work and debate the impact (or lack or it) of various new technologies on understanding of the brain and on society. tenss.ro Apply by: March 15th!

Lovely poem of the day from poets.org: Our Lady of the Garden by Pádraig Ó Tuama. #poetry

I've returned to reading more Wallace Stevens. Here's his invective against swans from more than 100 years ago! #poetry

This is @satpreetsingh.bsky.social!

Egg web. (a small crack at the start grew into this when I started boiling the egg)

A bit of classic Persian #poetry in this time of darkness. Hafez was a 14th century poet from Shiraz. "Well, HAFIZ, Life’s a riddle – give it up: There is no answer to it but this cup."

I wrote about the Epstein files and what they tell us about men in academia. In a field where climbing the career ladder is only possible through a combination of luck, mentorship and networking — the files show the ways sexism and misogyny still hold women back. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Some Carl Sandburg, and a hope for some spring soon. (from my copy of his collection Honey and Salt, from > 70 years ago), #poetry

Best painting title ever: Men fighting and women ignoring them Mughal, 18th C

Is there a Foundation AI model that can predict which job will be most likely to be lost in the near future? \sarcasm

Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday

Damn, Desis get around, don't they?! (loving saying that long south Indian origin name in a French accent)

Brain and Heart in Parallel: Zebrafish Study Reframes the Biology of Fear 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @engertlab.bsky.social @kherrera.bsky.social @mishaahrens.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

I don't understand UK politics (an American affliction), but I'm guessing the Democrats in the US could learn something from the Keir Starmer + Labour humiliation in the Gorton & Denton by-election?

Lots of debate about the grading policy document at #Harvard. I like this opinion by Cliff Taubes a lot!

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 spoke with Laura Schenkman at The Transmitter about my candidacy for the House! Going from the lab to public life is a huge transition. From a lifetime of research to biotech to democracy to running for office, here’s the story of one scientist: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

Good (snow-bound) night, everyone. At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), by Childe Hassam.

From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?

On the invitation for a commentary on Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted, I had the pleasure of writing on equating the brain with computation. The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences. Below see what I agree & disagree with in the book. 🧵 1/n

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience! Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn. 🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope) 🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour 💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics ⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026 More info below ⬇️

Hope you can pre-order this wherever you buy your books. Pre-ordering really helps publishers of poetry in particular. Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

"The dream I didn't have", by Vijay Seshadri from his 2013 #poetry collection, 3 Sections

Can't wait to dig into this amazing-looking book given to me on a recent visit to India!

How can RNNs learn continuously without forgetting? 🧠 Our new preprint shows how a predictive learning rule organizes recurrent dynamics into orthogonal manifolds, reducing task interference. Congrats Zihan @zihan-liu.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Murthy Lab to Host Open House Showcasing the Science of Smell on March 6 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @luxorboero.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest review article, “Learning the Principles of T Cell Antigen Discernment.” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... with @fxpbourassa.bsky.social , Sooraj Achar and Grégoire Altan-Bonnet ! 1/4

In our new preprint, we explain how some salient features of representational geometry in language modeling originate from a single principle - translation symmetry in the statistics of data. arxiv.org/abs/2602.150... With Dhruva Karkada, Daniel Korchinski, Andres Nava, & Matthieu Wyart.

I want it to be winter all the time, by Timothy Liu @timothyliupoet.bsky.social in the March 2026 issue of Poetry magazine. #poetry

New article! I wrote about Epstein and the difference between vindication and justice. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/shipwreck-...

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend -- read Mary Hesse! aeon.co/essays/why-a...

In New Jersey, it takes close to a thousand signatures to be sure of being on the ballot. I have great canvassers. Every 100 is an accomplishment! Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!

One of my favorite #jazz singers, not least because of his clean, minimalist intonation in these times of competitive over-singing. Sachal Vasandani (with Romain Collin on piano): youtu.be/PPnW4tyQVus