Congratulations to #KempnerInstitute community members @msalbergo.bsky.social and @mweber.bsky.social — recipients of @schmidtsciences.bsky.social AI2050 Fellowships! 🎉 Discover their innovative research shaping the future of AI 👉 bit.ly/47Do4R3 #AI

Asymmetric fall foliage. (Divinity Ave, Cambridge MA).

you've got to click around on this map, and the graphics here ... it's astounding. @haidee.bsky.social did such a great job with this:

After the torture of Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, and even fricking Ro Khanna, what a relief and joy to have a righteous south Asian like Mamdani light up the horizon.

Phase separation. Just #science

Congrats to our founding co-director Josh Sanes on winning the Gerard Prize from Society for Neuroscience!

First paper from the lab! We propose a model that separates estimation of odor concentration and presence and map it on olfactory bulb circuits Led by @chenjiang01.bsky.social and @mattyizhenghe.bsky.social joint work with @jzv.bsky.social and with @neurovenki.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

A New Colorful Method for Nanoscale Imaging Harnesses Electron-induced Light #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @sohaibar.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social

Now in PRX: Theory linking connectivity structure to collective activity in nonlinear RNNs! For neuro fans: conn. structure can be invisible in single neurons but shape pop. activity For low-rank RNN fans: a theory of rank=O(N) For physics fans: fluctuations around DMFT saddle⇒dimension of activity

Joshua Sanes Receives Society for Neuroscience’s Highest Honor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sfn.org

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

From Sports: Quarterback Jaden Craig tallied four touchdowns and shattered Harvard’s all-time passing touchdown record as Harvard football overpowered Dartmouth to remain undefeated. Dev S. Ahuja, Connor Castañeda, and Saketh Sundar report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Catherine Dulac Named Xander University Professor 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @hhmi.org @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

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

It's such a joy to see both Enzos lose at #Chelsea - such unlikeable characters (starting with the Argentinian racist celebration and the excuses following).

Moonlit Sea (1930) by Koho Shoda

If Google is a big sponsor of a ballroom, why isn't it called the Sundar Pichai ballroom? I mean, it will be so good for Indian Americans, no? (sorry, but not sorry)

"If the University wants students to be more engaged in courses, eliciting the student perspective on classroom AI policy is one step in the right direction."

Many people at the Head of the Charles Regatta venture into Harvard Square for food, shopping, and entertainment, bringing an annual explosion of consumer activity to local businesses. Jaya N. Karamcheti and Kevin Zhong report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Head of the Charles knock-on effect -love it!

We will be trying to build cohorts across programs (@harvardoeb.bsky.social, Human Evolutionary Biology, @harvardmcb.bsky.social) via combined social events and possibly classes. Working on this as we speak.

Meet @luxorboero.bsky.social on #HumansofHBI "My work aims to understand how animals integrate this noisy odor information over time to figure out where an odor is coming from" brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/l... @neurovenki.bsky.social

@luxorboero.bsky.social featured in the Humans of HBI series! @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

For all the whining about Gyökeres not scoring goals, Isak has been so much worse - doesn't even add the hustle that Gyökeres brings. #arsenal #liverpool

A minor miracle getting anything from NIH these days, especially in my institution - and yet, a grad student in our group gets an F31! Hannah's a star :-)

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

'Incantation' by Nick Laird @poetryireland.bsky.social

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

"What color is this blowing autumn wind, that it can stain my body with its touch?" Izumi Shikibu (late 10th century), translated by Jane Hirschfield with Mariko Aratani #poetry

“Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play.” —From the archive, author and educator Mark Edmundson offers “A message in a bottle to the incoming class” as he urges college students to be intentional in their education. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/MR9zV

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

What sweet schadenfreude to see these late goal defeats for Liverpool!! #Arsenal on top.

Eurasian Griffon Vulture, Catalonia, April 2025. #birds

We're joining our Harvard Square neighbors, Y2Y Network, for a fundraiser for their vital mission. Y2Y Network employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. You can donate via their website or with us in-store. buff.ly/nxDTqiz

Relieved to know that I can still make a decent pizza from scratch at home :-)

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square about his recently released memoir. Amit Bhatt and Mary E. Tito report.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Woke up to find this gorgeous gem of a poem in my inbox! A Bookshelf, by Hua Xi @huaxi.bsky.social, in Poem-a-Day at poets.org. #poetry "One year, I came home and all the leaves fell off my father. After that, he was winter."

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

"I bring my CBC to work in a large glass jug like the moonshiners do. That way, everyone can see it, and it becomes a spectacle for everyone to take part in."

I hope one day more people will understand that AI’s early breakthroughs were deeply connected to neuroscience. It was a pleasure to discuss the history of AI and more on @closertotruth.bsky.social with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from chopping to 🧽! arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

I did a QA with Quanta about interpretability and training dynamics! I got to talk about a bunch of research hobby horses and how I got into them.

Again and again and again, the satire sites are nailing reality.

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social

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