I love collecting animal videos that show off that they have feelings and emotions and weird cognitive abilities, here are a few I've found in the past few months Here's a frustrated and exasperated raccoon MERRY CHRISTMAS

Brain computation by assemblies of neurons biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

1/ I’ve been to war, twice. Iraq in ‘09 and Afghanistan in 2011. I am just a fucking ER doc. But it was there, in the deserts far,far from home, that I made my bones as a newly board certified ER doc. It is around that time, I think that I lost my capacity to feel joy.

Sensory gating precedes motor command in evolution of the corticospinal tract dlvr.it/RMc7Tq

Midday reminder... #WashYourHands #donttouchyourface #loveyou

Functional connectomics to mechanistically dissect cortical algorithms. We align 2P calcium with EM data using CNMF framework to recover cell body and dendritic activity in EM volume. Thanks IARPA for funding biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"...researchers should acknowledge that although certain word choices seem innocent, many carry malign overtones." Neuroscience needs some new ideas nature.com/articles/d4158…

Hi folks, thanks for following/retweeting and whatever other wizardry is going on to get so many views of my short video. It has really shocked my football family who understandably say that if wasn’t me they would doubt it. PD people will know such frustration.

New preprint from the lab on how the retrosplenial cortex and the superior colliculus help mice find their way home when they are scared. Led by the fantastic duo @RubenDVale and Dario Campagner. #gimmeshelter biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Neuroanatomy teaching is so much better IMHO if it starts from a more architectural flatmap approach rather than rote medical school pathways...this is a great resource: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn…

Neuroscience needs more good debate like this about terminology problems:

Great work - I feel like I should rip out the BG anatomy part of most neuroscience textbooks and replace with this manuscript

Making sense of the complex relationships between thalamus, cortex, cerebellum, & BG:

Eve Marder returns with her latest Living Science article, considering why challenging the spread of falsehoods is an important part of respecting the truth in both science and the wider world elifesciences.org/articles/66850…

Been waiting for this one since seeing Lauren's SFN poster a while back: Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

What's up with that bubble? Check out what we found! 🦎🌊🦎anoleannals.org/2021/05/12/rep… Chris Boccia Luke Mahler @AMartinology #anole #herpetology #scicomm #HERper

Preprint with Dud{man,Lab}🇺🇦: Behavior that emerges from classical conditioning improves mice’s policies for reward collection. Dopamine sets the rate of this direct policy learning independent of updating value. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

💰💸💵🤑Nerds Just Wanna Have Funds! Check out NGP’s #SfN2022 video: youtu.be/iooY6DNNcCI

1/12 How do animals build an internal map of the world? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of neurons in mouse CA1 over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. Nelson Spruston HHMI | Janelia, w/ co-1st author Johan Winnubst Video summary: youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4uV… Paper:

Cortical control of innate behavior from subcortical demonstration biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci