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Chemistry ruled supreme in first brains? Gaspar Jekely, great talk, BCCN 29/9, gave v strong evidence 1st brains worked by targeting secreting & integrating diverse chemical signals. Out soon, PhilTransB, Basal Cognition Issue Compute with Chemistry!

Visual neuroethology is go! Mouse retinal amacrine cell (W3) is a looming detector that drives escape behaviour. Impressive use of powerful toolkit, wow! WorldWideNeuro | TübingenNeuroTalks | 04/03/2021 | Prof. Daniel Kerschen... youtu.be/Y5QF-BJqUbU via YouTube

Shocked that ANU is axing neuroscience - hand back my PhD? Sign Petition to save Eccles Institutehttp://chng.it/hcVK5DKV via Change.org UK

Great news, ANU backtracks on decision to close Eccles Institute for Neuroscience #saveeccles. Episode has damaged ANU's reputation but not peoples' careers and OZ neuroscience

New scaling law for dendritic trees, Liao, Lang & Howard pnas.org/content/pnas/1…. As in retina (Hsu, Tsukamoto, Smith, Sterling 1998) cable engineering submits to demands of microtubular truckers. Neural Design=Cell Biology

New cost:benefit approach shows photoreceptor costs shape entire eye, including optics. Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Made possible by brilliant co-author, Fran Heras

doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

Our new cost:benefit approach to understanding eye design is an eLife reviewed preprint, doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… comments welcome