Glial place cells: complementary encoding of spatial information in hippocampal astrocytes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

The savory taste receptor in humans is very sensitive to glutamate (Glu) - but was originally for tasting 5' ribonucleotides! As primates moved from eating bugs to leaves, mutations in this receptor complex increased sensitivity to Glu. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

There's a new preprint calling to stop using UMAP, t-SNE et al, calling them arbitrary "Specious Art", which I disagree with. It's getting a lot of attention, and I think I have an idea why.

@Andi_Kur_ We created enough Cartoon Abstracts for a comic book. Check it out!: yumpu.com/en/document/re… Including a comic page of the article "Are science comics a good medium for science communication?" - spoiler alert, the answer is yes.

🧵🎨 A Long, Definitive Thread on "Flat Art" (or, as I will be refusing to call it, "Corporate Memphis") 🎨🧵

hey HEY What's your favorite cephalopod?

A pair of squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) in the sunshine

Our database of PhD/graduate fellowships has been updated. We list 200 different types of fellowships with description, eligibility, amount, duration, deadline. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

@sabahzero I thought the whole point of doing a PhD was to give you a license to never dress respectably.

The latest preprint from @LexKravitz lab is here!! We asked how obesity drives changes in NAc circuits and food seeking. 🍔🐭biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eruption was visible from space using HIMAWARI-8 on RAMMB.

Excited to share our new preprint! A brain atlas of the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish. We used MRI, histology & deep learning to build a 3D brain, full histological atlas, 3D body atlas + beautiful, interactive website to host the data: cuttlebase.org 🐙1/2

WT mouse trippin’ balls 🍄

Having an incredible first live conference of grad school! And sporting some Paint.brains original pins by Julia Licholai #cosyne2022

Just heard an interview with James Evans on why science innovation is slowing down despite a great increase of papers and scientists (news.uchicago.edu/scientific-pro…). I find his findings very insightful and I urge funding agencies and institutes to pay attention to his work. (1/n)

Recommendations for books about the brain for non-specialists? I’m asked this question a lot and looking for fresh ideas

We've developed smartphone fluorescence microscopes, aka Glowscopes. A few simple and inexpensive components convert your smartphone into a basic fluorescence microscope. 1/n

“Yeah, I’m still testing positive, but shhhh…don’t tell anyone” said at full volume w/ no mask in the poster hall Good thing they didn’t tell anyone #SfN22

Wrapping up intro biology lab research presentations in style. Hand knitted and designed- every major phyla covered in the class ... and a few prokaryotes and viruses because the microbiologist in my department insisted 😊 I'm sure Mark O. Martin would approve of the decision