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Listened to the single this afternoon, it rules. Excited for the full release.

Can’t wait to do an olivocochlear project myself. but until then I’m pretty satisfied reading the great work others are doing on the topic.

I love this approach of looking at the same ensembles across a variety of behavioral tasks. Requires careful experimenters though. Great work Travis and team.

Axons. They do things they don’t just axe

Probably the most important declassification since project blue book.

I’m going to be the “old man yells at cloud” meme right now but this issue is a particular nuisance in modern restaurants and public indoor spaces. Ya can’t hear a thing in there these days.

Btw, I still have open positions available for post-docs. Esp if you’re interested in applying modern dimensionality reduction approaches to in vivo Ca2+ imaging or ephys datasets. Please get in touch [email protected]

Almost 20 years old now, this album aged remarkably well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souveni...

No more pre-auth for >500k budgets. Curious if we’ll see a much needed revision of modular budget policy as well, or if modular will go the way of the Dodo given the decreasing purchasing power of 250k/year

A computational model of the mammalian auditory periphery with a multichannel, energy-driven, medial olivocochlear reflex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690762v1

Feeling spicy this morning so I’ll just say: it comes as no surprise that certain “reputable” journals now masquerade nonsense as peer reviewed versions of record. Alas, I worry this problem will persist until we as a field re-examine our collective values for “prestige”

What space clamp problem?

Interesting counter arguments. I’ll read the paper over break. Just thankful this bluesky thingie promotes scientific discussion rather than shitposts like that other app I deleted a while back

Dissociating the neural codes for multiple pitch perception in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689749v1

Haven’t even opened the pdf but this sounds pretty cool. Don’t throw out the low explained variance PCs!

🎵won’t you be my neighbor 🎵

Yessss. Very happy to read this. Cf pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19198604/

Cool paper. love how far the work has come from initial characterization of cellular consequences of SCN2A mutations to roadmap for therapeutic strategies.

Thank you to NIMH for supporting our work. Excited to keep thinking about reinforcement learning in the auditory midbrain.

Coincidence detection supported by electrical synapses is shaped by the D-type K+ current https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676857v1

First day in a new brain region. We’re gonna have so much fun here.

Really excited to share the latest work from my lab, where we identify how distinct cortical projections differentially encode sensory category and choice.

This is cool. Peptide modulation of circuit excitability. Makes me think that peptide release might be a reason why so many of these interneuron types do the retro-axonal barrage firing thing

What a horrible night to have a curse (of dimensionality)

Just asked GPT5 what it thinks about whole-cell voltage clamp

Happy 808 Day B-Girls and B-Boys! Is there honestly a more iconic piece of music tech? Also, bonus points for any nerds that can properly name the electro-baller in the photo. #808day #tr808 #drummachine #electro #hiphop #rap #musictech #analog #musiccommunity #techno #acidhouse

You keep putting up proposals until you happen to get a favorable set of three reviewers who are also iconoclast enough to argue for your non-mainstream idea.

Synaptic properties of layer 6 auditory corticothalamic inputs in normal hearing and noise-induced hearing loss https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663770v1

A new Perturbator single with…Ulver? 2025 keeps getting better.

If I were a beginning grad student, I would sincerely consider entering the rapidly exploding cephalopod field. Such wonder and magic in these creatures, and much to be learned about basic neuroscience principles.

“This kind of glutamate receptor seems to be really important in how the cerebellum works. It’s entirely possible that developing drugs that target these receptors could improve its function,” says Laurence Trussell, PhD, former Emerging Research Grants scientist << 👏👏 news.ohsu.edu/2025/06/23/o...

“Disintegration loops” but it’s the first couple bars of Plainsong on repeat.

Very sad to hear that Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb has passed away. 58 is far too young. Fond memories of having purchased a second hand copy of Showtime on vinyl in the 90s, and having my mind blown.

Congrats to Keith and Ross on this project. It’s been wonderful to catch glimpses of its development at conferences.

I just discovered that there is an "American Journal of Potato Research" New life goal

Please support me in the 5K to benefit the Philadelphia Eagles Autism Foundation and help me reach my goal! The Eagles Foundation supports neuroscience research and sets up wonderful initiatives around Philly to help children like my son. fundraisers.eaglesautismfoundation.org/maria-geffen

Psychology undergrad major here, loving these memes.

(Plz repost) I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation. pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu Tyvm

Brian Eno! “The thing from the agency said, ‘We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,’ this whole list of adjectives. And then at the bottom it said, ‘And it must be 3.25 seconds long.’” www.popsci.com/technology/w...

Niiiice. This is exactly the kind of work that gets me excited about science these days

Hoping to cut through the doom and gloom with all the politics. here’s an album that just landed on my radar. Jazz harpist who learned from Alice Coltrane. extremely rigorous production (check out the looped delay on the spoken vocals) youtu.be/Vwv-ogv8vnQ?...

Restoration of excitation/inhibition balance enhances neuronal signal-to-noise ratio and rescues social deficits in autism-associated Scn2a-deficiency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.641498v1

Dear manager, 1. You lock the target 2. You bait the line 3. You slowly spread the net 4. You catch the man

One of the more remarkable findings I’ve come across in a long time.

Very friendly manifold