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Our paper on how our foveal cone photoreceptors can adapt to encode wide range of background luminance is finally out. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Neuroscientists care about the causes of behavior, while ethologists care about the consequences. These approaches need to merge for us to understand human behavior and its associated suffering. Dorian Battivelli, Fan Zhengxiao, Hu Hailan, and I lay out the why and what.

I typed -and deleted- a 🧵 to express how furious I am with the review process of animal licenses in Zurich these days. Instead I'll just say this: I hate this part of the job. It really drags me down. Biomedical animal research has been broken by animal activists. I need a hug.

✨🥰 check out our article - and cover 🤩- about Decoding the Brain in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/… We review the mathematics, current approaches, and muse about the future… #BCI #neuraldecoding #neuroAI Thanks to my awesome co-authors Adriana Perez Rotondo,

🚨New preprint from the lab!🚨 We found a preference for visual objects in the mouse spatial navigation system and discovered that visual objects dynamically boost the encoding of head-direction! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇1/

Thank you all for your responses. To summarize, these are free/open source alternatives for preparation of scientific illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org

Pretty exciting result: disrupting cue reactivations in mouse visual cortex in the hours *after* operant training completely blocks learning.

A simple explanation for why optimal packing of squares gives rise to "weird" solutions like this one: If they could, all the squares would naturally form a regular lattice or grid. Yes, this arrangement may look random or chaotic at first glance, but there’s actually a deep

I just read the paper in full; it is even more spectacular than I initially thought. A short thread about the results and their significance.

Groundbreaking advances in brain-computer interfaces and sensory prosthetics! Reminder: this achievement stands on decades of dedicated #AnimalResearch, especially with Macaque monkeys 🙏🐵 #Tierversuche #Experimentationanimale #scicomm nature.com/articles/d4158…

I think I'll stick to GCaMP for a while... (this preprint shows exactly why voltage sensors are too exotic. The photon budget is simply too high. I don't have that much 💰)

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The deadline to the 2nd Subcortical Sensory Circuits conference is now extended to the 30th! See here the amazing list of invited speakers we have lined up: RTs appreciated!

How natural stimuli lead to highly correlated ganglion cell activity in primate (marmoset) and mouse retina. Now out in @nature. nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢 Preprint! Does the environment of a father before conception influence offspring? Even more, how do paternal genetics & age interact with exposures to affect F1 outcome? We tested this systematically, with intriguing findings & some cautionary tales biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new paper in Current Biology! 🚀📄 "Retinal direction of motion is reliably transmitted to visual cortex via highly selective thalamocortical connections" cell.com/current-biolog…

This is what our Osaka University team is developing in our Moonshot Internet of Brains Project. Unlike Synchron’s Stentrode, this technology can access thinner and more fragile cortical veins. By navigating into smaller vessels, it can record neural activity from a wider range

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Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep nature.com/articles/s4146….