Not only that, but new tech is making monkey neuroscience more exciting/promising than it ever has been!

My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things: (1) Are the claims interesting/important? (2) Does the evidence support the claims? Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.

Anyone know what happens with NIH deadlines during a government shut down??

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz: 1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro... 2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri... You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

Please reach out if you want help with these probes. I benefited immensely by having early access to them, and so I feel an obligation/responsibility to help others adopt the tech. And, stay tuned for open-source hardware/software for a motorized microdrive to lower these (and other) probes!

Finally out! I've been using these probes for a few years and they have been truly transformative for us. The core experiments of my lab are based around them.

Our paper on NHP neuropixels is finally out in Nat Neuro! These probes have already been transformative and will usher in a new era of primate neuroscience. I am extremely proud to have played a very small role in this project. I can't wait to see what our community discovers. tinyurl.com/54u3hrj8

This is amazing.

The cerebellar vermis keeps us balanced by integrating sensory and motor signals. In this new review, Drs. Mildren and Cullen examine how the specialized functions of the anterior and posterior vermis contribute to postural control across a variety of contexts. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...

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These charlatans seem to outdo their stupidity every single day.

The deadline for this is ⏰THIS SATURDAY!⏰ Please consider applying and share your science with the MIT BCS community!🧠

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus. Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Agreed. IMO, the key question is how much flexibility does the brain have to extract information that is present in the population activity? For a variety of reasons, I think this read-out is highly constrained, and so the brain figures out solutions that are robust and generalizable.

Many approaches assume precise control over how single neurons are combined. The "cost" of this mechanism seems high. If the brain can organize things such that random weights get you pretty far, I think that's an easier/more robust solution. I think this is one reason why topography is everywhere.

A bit delayed, but I'm happy to announce my first paper as a postdoc in the Jazayeri lab! We discuss recent insights into the neurobiology of timing and why timing is a useful platform to understand flexible control of behavior more generally. We hope the review is useful! tinyurl.com/5n8yhxet

In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇 @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)

The MIT BCS postdoc association in collaboration with the BCS department is excited to announce this year's rising star symposium for external postdocs! Please consider applying and send to anyone who may be interested! See the link and flyer below for more info: mailchi.mp/be586538a6ab...

Are you a neuroscience postdoc interested in an academic career? Apply (by 05/31/2025) for this invited seminar at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department! Applications are reviewed by postdoc, keeping in mind the importance of varied contributions to the scientific community!

Many cognitive neuroscientists ignore the cerebellum but it's long past time to pay more attention to it (and fund more cerebellum grants). Not just for basic science: the cerebellum is commonly affected by pediatric brain tumors, leading to lifelong motor AND cognitive deficits. Must-read paper 👇🏼

AND...I am setting up my new lab at UW-Madison (herzfeldlab.neuro.wisc.edu) this summer! If you are interested in linking cell types and neural circuits to computation - please reach out! (4/4)

PSA to cerebellar neurophysiologists: NHP neuropixels can pierce the tentorium in the macaque : )

Couldn't agree more. Primate neuroscience has entered a new era. Exciting times!

When we don’t train our students ab the history of our field knowledge gets lost; debates about semantics distract; and “discoveries” are “re”-discovered 3/

Folks who oppose elife are missing the point. Experimenting requires fiddling with the knobs and they are the only ones in town actually trying anything.

I hope people will see we are trying to play for the long game here and will give us their support in doing so. There is no point in just making a journal for the radicals. We need to bring the whole community.

Hello neuroscience postdocs! Do you have exciting work and future plans? We are hoping to invite you to give a talk at MIT BCS! details tinyurl.com/mitbcspda

Will you be one of the six people staying for the Wednesday afternoon session at SfN? If so, come visit my poster on my ongoing work studying the role of the cerebellum in sensory prediction and non-motor learning! #neuro www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892...

Question: The culture/sense of community amongst students, postdocs, and faculty is great in some departments and bad in others, but it can be difficult to identify the root causes. What are some things your department/institute does that contribute to a positive culture? #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #neuroscience #visionscience

This is better