I finally had the time to break down my latest paper from MRes Primate Biology Behaviour & Conservation UoR and California National Primate Research Center w/ Darcy Hannibal, @SemplePrimate, and Brenda McCowan. Check out the thread below!

Thanks to the travel ban, it took me half a year to enter the US. Now I'm looking forward to finally start my postdoc at Rockefeller University

Halloween 2020

My first #USElection while living in the US.... ... really a relaxing experience ...

Great news! Saying "we have a vaccine" is a bit early maybe but this is a big step!

Isn't physics fantastic :-)

Interesting that the M1 linear dynamical system view does not easily generalize from reaching to grasping. I'm curious how this will be discussed in upcoming papers.

Found a software developed by an tax-fundend academic lab. It is closed source and costs >500$. They don't offer support, ensure that it works and ask you to cite their papers which don't have competing interest statements. Software dev is effort but this isn't cool, is it?

Cool new preprint from my old lab Primatenzentrum DPZ : Visuomotor adaptation in 3D with a super cool VR (or rather AR) setup. Was fun to try it out myself. Congrats to Enrico, Pierre Morel, Joscha, and Alex biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

There are so many new animal markerless pose estimation algorithms. All of which are compared to existing methods, especially DeepLabCut 🦄 Since performance depends on training data quality, I'm never sure if this is a fair comparison. Does any benchmark dataset exist?

4 years ago a team from Göttingen organised Science March Goe. Many raised their voices to defend scientific advice, research integrity and academic freedom. Yuko Anne-Marie Bessette, Brian Kearney, Julia Uraji Michael B. Dr. Coffee & Science 🇪🇺 Jason Mansour euroscientist.com/march-science-…

I'm really grateful to the Humboldt-Stiftung for my Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship.🙂This fellowship is a great opportunity for Germans to gain experience abroad as a Postdoc!

Being a European scientists in the US, I'm effectively stranded here. This situation is devastating for me and my family especially since there are no plan or parameters in place to end or alter this travel ban. Please sign this: nature.com/articles/d4158…

New preprint:📜 Do you want to know how to make your own custom NHP implants? Check this out!👇

So cool to see that the automated training approach works well with marmosets. Great paper! Congrats to everyone involved.

Want to design and custom-fit your own NHP implants (with or without prior knowledge in CAD programming)? Our step-by-step tutorial is published and available now on eNeuro. Happy designing! 🤓 eneuro.org/content/early/…

*Thrilled* to share our latest work with Seb Tremblay! Pioneering work in rodents from Anne Churchland's group showed that spontaneous movements dominate neural dynamics across the whole brain. Is this also the case in macaque monkeys ? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇

New preprint!

I'm pleased to announce that our paper on information dynamics and motor activity in behaving macaques is finally out in PNAS! A great collaboration between Olaf Sporns Benjamin Dann Stefan Schaffelhofer and Hans Scherberger pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…