Lovely interview in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social with Curt McMullen, a Math colleague at Harvard @harvard.edu and Fields medalist (and mentor to another Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani!). Centers the framing of questions beautifully.

Sigh, another season of hype and desperation, with tedious play in key matches (while bringing on unnecessary flair against poorer opposition). #Arsenal

(edited repost) Thrilled to see our computational work on adaptive shaping of behavior (we call it outcome-based curriculum learning) in PLoS Comp Biol! @wl-tong.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social & I formalize curricula in any RL task that can be framed as sequential simple-to-complex behavior.

I want this to be the most read post on BlueSky - outstanding, and utterly devastating! Bravo!

From the October 2025 (a bit early, no?) issue of #Poetry magazine, some words by Kimiko Hahn.

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

How can scientists apply efficient #AI tools to cognitive science? And what does it mean for how robots learn in new environments? #KempnerInstitute fellow Wilka Carvalho (@cogscikid.bsky.social l) + collaborators outline a new framework in 3 papers. Read more: bit.ly/47Fk9F9 #NeuroAI

Night Journey, by Theodore Roethke. #poetry

Brentford might well be the most likeable team other than your regular one in the Premier League.

Some Emily Dickinson for a fraught Friday night. #poetry

A great collection of scientists, but want to give a personal shout out to my colleague @cpehlevan.bsky.social on this team!

Weird what certain songs from a certain time of your life can do to your feelings decades later. Drown by Smashing Pumpkins just popped into my playlist (odd since it's mostly postbop, lyrical piano jazz & 20th cent classical), and I'm instantly back in U district in Seattle at the end of my PhD!

Excited to share new computational work, led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo + contribution from Farhad Pashakanloo. We recover 3 core motifs in the olfactory system of evolutionarily distant animals using a biophysically-grounded model + efficient coding ideas!

Check out this feature on our bipolar disorder grant program! “The goal for this grant program has always been to help creative scientists in our community initiate new avenues of research related to bipolar disorder” —HBI co-director @neurovenki.bsky.social news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Someone, PLEASE, write a similar one for tenure in Science! (will probably involve a pivot to studying consciousness :-)

Some hope in the dark (apologies to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social!)

“If you want the best food from a foreign country; just go to the strip malls outside American cities, because that’s where the immigrants can afford rent” theory keeps winning

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

The coming colors of autumn - a study in thresholded nonlinearities!

Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified From @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social and colleagues, co-first authors Adam C. Nelson and Vikrant Kapoor.  www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW STUDY: Types of science🧪 articles shared on Bluesky: Health 29% Social 25% Physical 23% Life 23% arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18840 Worth reading--lots of other insights! Lately, I've been sharing our new article on global religious decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

A gorgeous bird of prey above the Northwest Building at Harvard earlier today. My Pixel9a didn't do it any justice (sigh), but any guesses from the silhouette what bird it might have been?

Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!

Why Some Smells Are Pleasant and Others Are Off-Putting, according to Science www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

🍂 Applications are now open for our ML-for-Behavior 5-day course at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, ME. Talks and hands-on workshops cover pose estimation, supervised/unsupervised behavior quantification, and downstream behavior analyses. Financial aid is available! www.jax.org/education-an...

Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social on Amina Claudine Myers

Returning to reading more #poetry after a bit of a dry period. Roethke has always appealed to me. Second Shadow by Theodore Roethke (mid 1900s, I think).

Friends in Chennai, I’ll be talking this week from my new book, Something Between Us, about social and political impasses in the contemporary United States: Thursday, 14 August, 3:30 PM, at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. A public event, all are welcome.

Very excited to announce our latest paper uncovering circuit, cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of social hierarchy, another terrific collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social, Vic Kapoor and Adam Nelson (not on bsky) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The always photogenic Kohn Hall (KITP in Santa Barbara).

Posting poetry has seemed too lightweight - but of course it's not. Anyway, here's something not too heavy - Street Food, after all. By Daniel Halpern, from #Poetry magazine, May 2025 issue.

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

New in the #DeeperLearningBlog: the #KempnerInstitute's Mary Letey presents work recently published in PNAS that offers generalizable insights into in-context learning (ICL) in an analytically-solvable model architecture. bit.ly/4lPK15p #AI @pnas.org (1/2)

#Arsenal players Kelly and Russo engineer a goal for #England!! #Euro2025

A thin sliver of land clamped between sea and sky. Sunset in Santa Barbara.

Check out the #KempnerInstitute's presentations at #ICML2025 today! #AI #NeuroAI #LLMs 🧵Here's a thread of abstracts. (1/20)

This is so upsetting. Outsourcing writing does not "free up time to do more science" it's just a step further toward becoming the CSO at the top of a managerial pyramid rather than being a scientist

Impossible to avoid Mbappé schadenfreude. #CWC

Looking for a good place to find a survey of the latest in neurotech to treat neural disorders? I suggest this new book chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Such a pleasure to collab w/ some of the best in the field on this: Elvira Pirondini, Marco Capogrosso, Rob Gaunt & Sergey D. Stavisky🤩

@backyardbrains.bsky.social is building a small, affordable BCI kit!!! keep an eye on their kickstarter 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bac...

Oh dear, Agyemang is so uncoordinated - how is he a striker for any team?!! #USMNT

I get the sinking feeling that Poch's not the right coach for #USMNT. Sigh.

36% possession for #USMNT - what are we, Cardiff City? (lowest possession in Premier League at ~35%)

Woah!! That was an incredible goal. Go #USMNT #GoldCup

A couple of days in Vermont by a lake and a mountain. The land in the US is so spectacular in so many places, and what a shame for us to be heading into a metaphorical abyss.