Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“.global catastrophe since many incredible programs are not currently being funded. Parasites don’t carry passports. Diseases spread across countries, so being able to survey & address these pathogens in one part of the world benefits public health everywhere.” www.the-scientist.com/a-low-cost-s...

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

there is a very good case for replacing all paper pushers with LLMs.

this is news to me. i enjoyed reading Ramachandran as a kid; in fact, i even had my copy of the tell-tale brain autographed by him. it's unfortunate to learn that people i admired, like Pinker and Ramachandran, did not distance themselves from a predator. theprint.in/feature/vs-r...

doing a postdoc is hard enough financially (and personally for many re:two-body problem). you shouldn't have to fight an immigration system and a sick nested bureaucracy to just do science. while also being flooded w/ endless performative stuff around you. please choose wisely where you work.

ai can do science. ai can do art. well, at least i'm happy there's no incentive [yet] to use ai and corrupt sciart. brain. |F|=1, phase preserved; inverse fourier transform.

Very happy to see this paper come out from Lucas Martins @d-lucas.bsky.social and Alexandre Laborde. They developed an awesome framework, built with .NET, for developing software to run demanding high-speed behavior and functional imaging experiments. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

so, it is 45; and not 42. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

correlation doesn't mean causation, but does lack of correlation mean lack of causation? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

there is hope www.nature.com/articles/s41...

phone autocorrected omw to omr. luckily the receiver of the text shares an interest in sensorimotor integration! 😂

put the biology back in computational biology. it's getting ridiculous.

human-level intelligence benchmarks are a trap. the more humans become dependent on LLM, the lower the threshold becomes to achieve human-level intelligence without any absolute increase in machine intelligence. 😄

Proud to share our new paper uncovering how Lrrn-mediated targeting of retinal ganglion cells assembles circuits for brightness and contrast detection — led by my outstanding PhD student Elena Putti and made possible through wonderful collaborations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ZVV's in-app check-in/out toggle is probably one of the best public transport ticketing systems i've ever come across. 🇨🇭

The second best immersive way to experience the depressing state of science funding in the US. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

even if you exclude the 281 consortium authors, there are still 50 other authors in this paper, including 3 co-first authors. how does the responsibility fall on 1? i'd be very interested in understanding the investigation if it exists publicly (it should!!).

Read this recently and I recommend it.

As an alum of Marie Curie Actions COFUND program, I highly recommend this. It is easily one of the best PhD training programs in the world.

every well written piece now gets labelled as "AI generated" by people (and softwares). this is bad for good writers. here is Watson and Crick's seminal paper from 1952 which is apparently "92% AI generated". (tested with tools that claim 99-100% accuracy!)

never have i used the words "seminal" or "seminar" and thought of "semen of men". lol my 7th grade english teacher taught that "nice" originally meant ~foolish. a good reminder that etymology is great for appreciating evolution of language; but not for dictating contemporary usage.

only three possibilities here: 1/ you can be the richest man and still not have the intelligence to objectively analyze a video evidence. 2/ you can be one of the most powerful people alive but still be unable to speak your mind, so as to please a few people. 3/ you're just vile.

so, two authoritarian regimes (venezuela and china) were doing a peaceful, diplomatic energy trade when a "democracy" (usa) attacked them, kidnapped the leader and declared "to run" the country and oil reserves. and most of the western hemisphere sees nothing wrong with this.

Many biological comparisons implicitly test one null: are labels exchangeable? Minimal label-flip/ sign-flip permutation tests for arbitrary user-defined statistics, with conservative, assumption-light inference. github.com/BioCommons-L...

you're can't do any real science if you are not comfortable with feeling stupid. if you are doing science (at any level), you should absolutely read this ~17 years old piece -- the importance of "absolute stupidity" in science. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Der Weg zur Höllen sey mit lauter gutem Vorsatz gepflastert.

imho: skills are overrated; motivation is underrated. 1) with motivation, new skills come fast. 2) without it, skills mean nothing.

two very different hunters i'm playing with: drosera and hippocampus.

Peer-review and peer-fund pilot projects on @researchhubf.bsky.social! I just funded: NeuroSC: Leveraging Pretrained Single-Cell Models for Brain Cell Classification on ResearchHub. www.researchhub.com/fund/4262/ne...

New leaves, new tentacles, more hunting. 🌱

Turns out that I had some research tokens on @researchhubf.bsky.social -- earned from my past publications(!!) -- that I could use to fund new research proposals submitted by others. I just did exactly that. Why have you not? Be the change you want to see. www.researchhub.com/fund/4261/ef...

TIL: when I see the electric scooters in the sea or streams, it's not the app glitching!

Not kidding -- just read a paper where the person who made the discovery was thanked in the acknowledgements. How do I know? Because he was literally thanked as The discoverer! Welcome to science, where credit goes to the cool dude with the mic.

When a paper cites everything around the key prior work but specifically skips the actual prior work that directly addressed their claim, it tells me more about the authors than the topic.

when you select for "sexiness" and overlook rigor, science becomes clickbait. this arsenic life paper wasn’t just a one-off fluke -- it is a symptom of what happens when journals and funders chase headlines. www.science.org/content/arti...

Just found out that my first-ever trainee -- a bachelor’s student from Sorbonne during my PhD -- is now doing a PhD in Neuroscience. Not taking any credit, but it still feels really good. :)

Bold questions. Thoughtful reasoning. Smart tools. That's what it celebrates!

Ever wonder if individuals can make a difference -- or if we must wait for institutions to catch up? Sometimes, it’s worth trying the former. The Danionella Prize: a tiny, personal gesture to reward curiosity, from India and Myanmar. danionellaprize.xyz

A beautiful carnivore just entered our plant collection! 🌱

Most people don’t lack values -- they just lack the courage to live them when it’s inconvenient to them. Integrity isn’t measured by what you say you care about -- it’s what you do when no one else speaks up.

what?! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

why is this called gold open access? is it because it is fixed at the price of 146.6 gm of gold?

Good ideas can cross continents in seconds but take years to cross an office desk.

In my weekly scan-every-journal marathon, last week I enjoyed reading this paper. Insightful work on 50,000 years of India’s genetic history and caste endogamy. I suspect colonial disruptions further amplified these disease burdens. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

"America has done what no other country on earth could do." Indeed, and for many decades now. Interfering in international geopolitics that is none of their business.