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Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

Our paper is out in Nature. By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned. Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our work on how continuous attractors emerge in unstructured RNNs is now out in PRX Life #PRXLife : journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst... Work done with @tankutcan.bsky.social @sesamedusa.bsky.social

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The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You. Done.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵 openreview.net/forum?id=ugX...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to announce that our paper on "Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances" has been selected for an oral presentation in #ICLR2025 (1.8% top papers). Check the thread for paper details (0/n). Presentation info: iclr.cc/virtual/2025....

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It's one case, but further evidence that this government can be shamed by public reporting and public opinion kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

Very happy to see Stanford voicing support for Harvard. Every university president should be doing the same right now, in unison. And they should also be condemning the board of trustees at Columbia for being feckless cowards who are unfit to lead. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

What can birds teach us about the relationship between memory, perception, and behavior? Join neuroscientist Isabel Low and science writer Christian Cooper for a conversation exploring the intersections of #neuroscience, birding, & storytelling. 5/30, 6pm: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/birds-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🚨new paper alert Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass. Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

submitted 27 days ago • 468 comments

FINALLY. Some gumption from the President of Harvard today:

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Reading the transcript of Princeton's president Eisengruber on the Daily and what a cogent, powerful, and brave defense of #academic #freedom. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...? A few highlights, but it's worth a read.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

After a short era in which people questioned the value of academia in ML, its value is more obvious than ever. Big labs stopped publishing the minute commercial incentives showed up and are relentlessly focused on a singular vision of scaling. Academia is a meaningful complement, bringing... 1/2

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Cool project led by Victor Geadah, fitting smoothly time-varying (and condition-varying) linear dynamical systems to neural activity. arxiv.org/abs/2502.18347

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Hats off to Harvard faculty. Every academic institution has to find its own way for whether leadership or faculty union or perhaps even student/postdoc unions.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I strongly recommend watching Tim Snyder's excellent (and terrifying) short piece, Fomenting Anti Semitism: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

While Harvard's leadership has been quiet in the face of Trump administration's illegal efforts to suppress speech and academic freedom on campus, faculty are fighting back!!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

More than 600 students! And this is at best an undercount. As of yesterday the Rutgers union reported that at least 12 students at Rutgers had visas revoked, which is counted as "unknown" on this list.

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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia. Going for the throat now. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

would love to embed some existing ultrasonic audio recordings into some pre-trained ANN feature space — anyone know of any ultrasonic networks out there? cc @animal-prattle.bsky.social @earthspecies.bsky.social @timsainburg.bsky.social @nicholdav.bsky.social @nickjourjine.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Our first look at midbrain PAG’s role in singing mouse vocal control. When near each other, these mice produce two divergent vocal modes. Same circuits for USVs and Songs—or different ones? Bets were made..some of us bought beers for others! Led by @xmikezheng20.bsky.social & Clifford Harpole. 👇🏽

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Please share! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38767/po...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The Booker thing is fine; good even. It's better than anything Senate Dems have done to date. If theyd be doing stuff like this and using unanimous consent and other objections to slow nominations from day 1 we'd be in a better place as a country.

submitted 40 days ago • 167 comments

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Beautiful piece about Rumeysa Öztürk, the tufts student who was abducted and detained for political speech, which paints a picture of a warm, compassionate, beloved member of the Tufts community (my alma mater) from those who know her. as.tufts.edu/epcshd/news-...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”

submitted 45 days ago • 54 comments

Out today in PNAS! We asked how Bayesian inference is implemented in macaque prefrontal cortex www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments