Congratulations to Jeff! What a coup for Harvard. bit.ly/4bcpa7b

Congrats! We are all grateful for Google's contributions to the field.

Fantastic innovation that has benefited the FlyWire community.

Extremely sad :( When I worked with Sebastian Seung at Simons Foundation, Jim would eat lunch with us weekly. I didn't even know who he was at first, he was just another person at the table earnestly stoked to geek out. Zero arrogance, total curiosity. Thanks for everything Jim!

This essay is charming and insightful, but it doesn't give any hint about how to *make* discoveries. For that, I would recommend this free PDF of a book by Professor Jack Oliver, one of the discoverers of plate tectonics. ecommons.cornell.edu/items/f2e1c2d6…

Cool data-driven method of investigating rate of aging.

Funny that there's not even agreement about the textbook stuff.

Pioneer in AI and computational neuroscience Terry Sejnowski. This honorary degree comes on top of his PhD in physics, also from @princeton

The ventral nerve cord (analog of our spinal cord) is the interface between the fly brain and body. The communication channels are the ascending and descending neurons.

Comparison of connectivity across different fly species.

Sounds simple but for some reason it's not easy!

A lovely visit today with my wonderful Ph.D. advisor Molly Potter, still lively and engaged at 94. I wrote about her huge impact on my life here: kavliprize.org/nancy-kanwishe… Thank you Molly!

Two new papes! (1)The connectome of a female Drosophila ventral nerve cord & mapping its motor neurons to muscles: nature.com/articles/s4158…. (2)Comparing the exquisite synaptic organization of premotor neural circuits controlling the fly leg and wing: nature.com/articles/s4158…. 1/3

Murray Hill NJ 1951 Claude Shannon posed the problem of predicting the next word which turned out to be the seed of today's LLMs. princeton.edu/~wbialek/rome/…

Classic!

New Jersey ❤️ AI cc yoav freund Michael Kearns John Hopfield

Update on our #LICONN preprint for LM-based dense connectomics reconstruction. We have implemented block-face imaging and sectioning of the tissue/hydrogel-hybrid for extended volumetric imaging and provide data for traceability across z-sections. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 biorxiv.org/content/biorxi…

Would whole-brain #LICONN be possible? Don’t know it now but am curious to figure it out 👀 🧠🔬

I highly recommend this. PNI is an amazing place for neuroscience and the CV Starr Fellowship is an important stepping stone towards independence.

The untold story of GLP1.