Pretending to be an anatomist for a minute
10.03.2026 18:50
π 8
π 0
π¬ 0
π 0
Pretending to be an anatomist for a minute
Seven-ish mile hike and scramble up to the peak of Mt Gower
Really enjoyed hosting the Daedalus Quartet for our systems neuroscience class and doing a mini experiment with them. We tested whether the musiciansβ brains synchronized differently while playing music under different conditions (e.g. playing with metronome, while marching or just playing).
Great writeup! Needless to say I am a fan :) would love a hypothalamus/midbrain connectome, it would be so extremely cool to see connectivity and cell types for these types of evolutionarily wired areas.
... and for a little glimpse of comparative data, see figure 4. These are EPG neurons (head direction cells of the central complex) across a range of species, from earwigs to bees.
LSFM calcium imaging of the brains of a two-headed zebrafish larva, both competing for control of the spinal cord. Credit to @davisvbennett.bsky.social & Dr. Yu Mu (formerly @hhmijanelia.bsky.social) #ZebrafishZunday π§ͺ
it is almost like transcriptomically defined cell types are not a homogeneous population with a single function, even subcortically
VMH SF1 neurons are the gift that keeps on giving. They control defensive behaviors! elifesciences.org/articles/6633 copulatory behaviors! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... exercise-induced improvements in endurance! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Such overachievers.
After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus).
Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(Sound up) neighbors are really feeling the love tonight
This is THE course if you want to learn how to use all the coolest new animal tracking tech!
You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us ππͺ°ππΆ
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
Okay the Automated Fish Startler was also pretty great
I also need to share my favorite photo from last year's course, when Hugo Marques hooked a camera to a ring stand taped to a hard hat and made the world's best pupil tracker in Bonsai
You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us ππͺ°ππΆ
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)
Universal Basic Inference
found in a 2013 Scientific Reports paper on microendoscopic imaging. I am glad that the rat is still enjoying himself despite his missing limb
I've been inspired to become a founder of a new startup that develops brain-to-brain interface technology. It's called Talk. We're going to reinvent communication for the digital age.
The best part is that we're able to zero-shot transfer the full computational stack already used by your brain!
β οΈ DEADLINE EXTENDED! β οΈ
Applications are still open for the CAJAL Course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Virtual Reality (7 June β 26 June 2026)! π§
π
Deadline to apply: March 3rd 2026 (NEW DATE)
π Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
π Apply now: buff.ly/YG7FXZj
#cajal
Come help support high-performance computing at Scripps!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Headed to Bethesda for a talk at NIH tomorrow! Currently retracing part of my commute from my first research job at Children's Hospital DC. I locked myself in the walk-in, almost knocked myself out with a phenol-chloroform extraction, and contributed a gel to onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
David Anderson and Brady Weissbourd: very good at standing at whiteboards.
I wanted a pic of a "neuroscientist at a whiteboard" for a flier, only to find two familiar faces in the first three hits. Weird google search personalization, or do I just pick collaborators who like posing with whiteboards?
So moltbook is a hell of a thing
www.moltbook.com/m/emergence
I also think we can conceive of the whole genome as instantiating a generative model of the organism... π www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Given recent events, here are seven essential reads, all π linked.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
1/7
A female Downy Woodpecker showcasing couture fashion by wearing a snowflake, a one-of-a-kind piece.
The best cooking threads start with purchase of a refractometer
www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
