Tell me you go to #UCSB without telling me.

Now available: updated Google Maps from the areas of the Palisades and Eaton fires (01/2025). Over 16,000 homes and other structures destroyed. #2 and #3 most in CA history (since at least the 1940s). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisad... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_F... (before/after images)

I published a paper in Nature Methods. They invoiced us for $10,690.00. It was extra expensive because I wanted it to be open access. US taxpayers fund it, and they also funded the research. It's nice to have other outlets like NBDT, which is free. nbdt.scholasticahq.com/for-authors

The people at the NIH did an excellent job with the Simplified Review Framework. 1. Should it be done? Sets the limit for the overall score. 2. Can it be done well? Assess rigor & feasibility 3. Sufficient expertise and resources? Either "sufficient" or list weaknesses. That's it. (1/3)

Interesting idea. Could be good if done well. As a supplement, not a replacement, for NIH, NSF, etc. CA state tax revenue shouldn’t have to replace Fed R&D $. CA researchers should have a fair shot at competing for federal funds that CA taxpayers pay into. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Winston is in the office today.

#UCSB has secured a lease on a 105k-square-foot R&D facility in Goleta 🔬🌊 Aptly named OASIS, the facility will be a launchpad for cutting-edge technologies, helping power UCSB’s impact on innovation and U.S. economic growth. Full story: ow.ly/ACZX50WTimn

After your SfN in San Diego, drift 130 km up the coast to Irvine for a bit more: cncm.medschool.uci.edu/2025-special... Go ahead and register now.

Finding correlates of the same signal in different brain areas is not evidence against specialisation, it is evidence for interconnection. When I flush my toilet, the level in the tank and the flow rate in the supply pipe become perfectly correlated. Yet these toilet areas have distinct functions.

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.

This comment is 3 minutes long, and it's from back in February. It bears repeating. "Curiosity-driven, peer-reviewed research is not meant to pass the politician's test." x.com/RepAuchinclo... (1/2)

Check out some sweet Ventana Wide + Cousa imaging. pacificoptica.com/ventana/ Live raw data over a 3.2 mm wide field-of-view with 16,000 lines/s scanning and submicron resolution. Demo now at @omibs-mbl.bsky.social Thx @ewadorotaz.bsky.social @mbfbioscience.bsky.social @crisrodtsou.bsky.social !

Yes, we’re living through an AI extrapapalooza. Watch smart people, many we know and love, violate @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social ‘s Seven Deadly Sins (from 2017) www.technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/2...

This is a cool system. Check it out. 25 cameras, each imaging a different depth, thanks to a custom grating made by @ucsbengineering.bsky.social ‘s Demis John. The work is led by our brilliant and creative colleague @ucsantacruz.bsky.social Sara Abrahamsson.

I’m halfway through writing an R01 on the neural circuitry underlying this behavior.

How can your AI be superhuman if it can't even beat a mouse?Lots of updates for this 2025 NeurIPS competition. Get your submission in! robustforaging.github.io Nov. 1 is the deadline. Please share widely. @garymarcus.bsky.social @dcower.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social @rowantmc.bsky.social

More lasers.

Here's another one of the rejected designs. Apparently these "aren't sending the right message". Back to the drawing board.

I'm trying to make some fun lab graphics. Turns out I'm terrible at this.

Is there a special term for research papers when there are more PIs as authors than there are grad students and postdocs?

Typst is a good tool. It's a refreshing switch from Overleaf / LaTeX. @typst.app

Nice sunrise from the pier by our house this morning. #santabarbara #ucsantabarbara

I wrote 10 quick tips for people who want to try Typst, coming from Overleaf. This should help accelerate your learning curve, particularly for people who write grants and papers. labrigger.com/blog/2025/08...

I'm switching from Overleaf to Typst. So far so good. If you like Overleaf but are occasionally annoyed by it, or are just interested in trying something new, Typst is worth a try. labrigger.com/blog/2025/08...

The NIH already runs a huge publication server. They are now capping APCs. What if they just banned APCs altogether? And subscription fees too. Maybe we are not so far from what may seem radical. Publish online first, then paid peer review, then overlays for commentary. labrigger.com/blog/2025/07...

Wake up, babe. A new mapping stimulus just dropped.

I don't use tapes or other offline data backups. If I don't want to spend the money to keep it on the server and/or in the cloud, then maybe I don't need it that badly. labrigger.com/blog/2025/07...

We will start gathering at about 3:00.

Should be fun! Join us! Chat about 2p, experiments, optics, viruses, sensors, etc. In Tokyo. Sunday.

吉祥寺 日曜日。2-photon, optics, 生ビルと　TexMex 食べ物。 maps.app.goo.gl/xoRrGNX7xvK1... ふるってご参加ください。

This merger puts a bunch of former competing optics software under one company: Raytracing/optics: CODE V and Zemax Illumination: LightTools and Speos Photonic sim: RSoft and Lumerical This is a strange time for optics/photonics software. I'd love to read a deep dive on how this deal went through.

👁️⚡ I spoke with Dr. Jiayi Zhang about her Science paper on tellurium nanowire retinal implants—restoring vision and extending it into the infrared, no external power required. New materials, new spectrum, new possibilities. 🔗 www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo... #BionicVision #NeuroTech

Scientists at work. @mbfbioscience.bsky.social Class 5 Photonics, Che-Hang Yu, and all the great people from the lab. This was a fun project! First, clear out our usual sources and table optics, then set up the new pieces. 1/5

Has anyone got any experience with gcamp8 transgenic mice yet? Eg the Thy1-GCaMP8s line? janelia.figshare.com/articles/dat...

Near Mt. Fuji. ふじ山の近く。

A calm oceanside pool in Atami, Japan (熱海市).

This is an excellent statement of scientific values that we should all strive to uphold. 🧪🧠🤖 Sharing from @suryaganguli.bsky.social , who said this is the Stanford Med affirmation that all their PhD grads sign. 1/

Surprisingly not many computational neuroscientists know of this great opportunity.

💻A new class of simplified ‘minimodels’ developed by Fengtong Du, Miguel Angel Núñez-Ochoa, @marius10p.bsky.social & @computingnature.bsky.social can predict the visual responses of individual neurons in the primary visual cortex, helping shed light on how we see.👀 ➡️ www.janelia.org/news/new-com...

Can your AI beat a mouse? Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing. 10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n

I stay in Kichijoji when I'm in Tokyo. Neuro is everywhere.

The team used a lightbeads module from @mbfbioscience.bsky.social (tech developed by Vaziri lab) with a laser from Class 5 to perform lightbeads calcium imaging experiments on the Diesel2p large field-of-view microscope.

I'm very grateful for these brilliant scientists who worked so well together during this rather logistically complex project. Completed on time and on budget, with tons of cool data.

Hardworking scientists in lab -- this was a very fun collaboration with Class 5 Photonics and ‪@mbfbioscience.bsky.social‬