Taiwan has always been excluded from WHO and most international organizations, and yet ironically the only way this director-general recognized Taiwan as a country was with his false accusation.

RIP John Conway... Organisms may be mortal but the Game of Life goes on forever.

If you have good contacts in underserved countries, communities etc, please help us get out the word for neuromatch academy (neuromatch.io/academy), the online 3 week summer school where neuroscientists learn computation. Application deadline 4/27. Participants so far:

Coming soon. Apparently 1000 people registered (!). Guessing they have room for a few more. Very much looking forward to the discussion - join us!

Sad news today. Farewell to Robert May. Science Board member at Santa Fe Institute. He made huge contributions to the study of ecological complexity, including chaos theory, epidemiology, virus dynamics, biodiversity and evolution. researchgate.net/publication/23…

How does brain wiring change after birth? We tried to answer that question by mapping the wiring diagrams, or connectomes, of eight C. elegans brains across different life stages. See our preprint (and this thread) for the insights we found: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

My rotation project in the Sanchez lab is out on bioRxiv! This work also serves as my first experimental project using microbes and it was a lot of fun! Many thanks for the amazing supervision by Djordje Bajić and Alvaro Sanchez Lab!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New from Jason Kim "Teaching Recurrent Neural Networks to Modify Chaotic Memories by Example" arxiv.org/abs/2005.01186. Principles for how neural systems sustain, manipulate, & extrapolate dramatic changes in complex temporal data simply by perceiving & imitating examples.

Albert Einstein giving a lecture on relativity in 1946 (after the war, before the civil rights movement). His peers criticized this appearance. The press purposefully didn't cover it. He simply wanted to inspire young minds with the beauty and power of science.

A new preprint, brought to you largely by immigrants: Experiments reveal a connection between synapse formation and dendritic growth; impairing synapse formation turns Purkinje cell dendrites from squares to triangles. Modeling captures it & suggests why! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college. bit.ly/2YCctPR

Grateful to be part of amazing Princeton University team developing monitoring system for COVID patients. Preprint: "Inexpensive multi-patient respiratory monitor for helmet ventilation during COVID-19 pandemic" w/ source, CAD and assembly video. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sad news. Horace Barlow, one of the great thinkers about the brain, has passed away. Born 8 Dec 1921, he saw almost a full century, and taught us about vision, perceptual inference, neural coding, learning, and more. #neuroscience #vision #NeuralNetworks

Excited to share our preprint on Directed evolution of microbial communities!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… No work can describe how much I enjoyed working with co-first @Oxfordvila and Alvaro Sanchez Lab!!

Our symposia continue this semester, via Zoom. Excited by a great lineup of speakers, and about reaching new communities. Join us!

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

My new preprint with Jonathan Pillow Andrew Leifer (@[email protected]) Kevin Sean Chen! An animal's movements during optical neural recordings can induce motion artifacts in the data. We introduce TMAC, a method that uses an activity-independent channel to remove these artifacts. arxiv.org/abs/2204.12595

Do you perform optical imaging in behaving animals? An animal's behavior can introduce motion artifacts into fluorescent time traces. Our new method TMAC works by correcting artifacts *after* spatial alignment (1/4) Jonathan Pillow Andrew Leifer (@[email protected]) Kevin Sean Chen doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Out eLife - the journal! Kevin Sean Chen & Rui Wu report a new method to study odor guided navigation of worms & fly larvae on agar. Metal oxide sensors characterize the odor landscape experienced by the animal. In collab w/ Marc Gershow NYU Physics Congrats! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…