New article: thoughts on a non-hierarchical science where decisions are made by junior scientists rather than senior ones, who have an (optional) advisory role. Socially and scientifically better. thesamovar.github.io/zavarka/invert…

I'm giving a talk at Cosyne this year on brain states during development! :) :) 'Emergence of state modulation in a developing cortical circuit'. With Sofia Zangila, Rosa Cossart & Jean-Claude Platel Sunday, 11:40, in person or on YouTube: youtube.com/@cosynetalks

"Network state transitions during cortical development" Review about the developmental synchronous activity in the rodent neocortex and the mechanisms that drive its eventual desynchronization. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Another insightful, forward-thinking article from The Transmitter. I'll go even further. As someone with experience in both academia and industry, I think that academia's inability to create meaningful careers beyond principal investigator roles is significantly holding it back.

I'm stuck in some kind of weird nerd Groundhog Day scenario where I Google a new thing and find out it's all computations and always has been. (yes the meme is in there, obviously) rdgao.com/blog/2024/08/1…

Building models of the fruit fly visual system, with connectomes + deep learning: Our study by Janne Lappalainen and with Srini Turaga and colleagues now out in Nature! Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… Research briefing: rdcu.be/dTGB7

[1/5] Our paper “Tracking neurons across days with high-density probes” is now out in Nature Methods! rdcu.be/dVhCN UnitMatch is a software for chronic electrophysiology that will automatically track neurons for months!

Big day for neuroscience & the end of the beginning for whole brain connectomics. Shout out to Sven Dorkenwald and Philipp Schlegel, first authors of the connectome papers, Murthy Lab Sebastian Seung for establishing #flywire to make this possible and Davi Bock for birthing this dataset.

How does the auditory cortex first start responding to sounds and change over time? Come to my #SfN24 poster tomorrow (Wed) morning G1 to check out my postdoc work with Froemke Lab on longitudinal 2P imaging of mouse auditory cortex from hearing onset (P12) into adulthood!

Join us today Oct 9 at 1pm at #SfN24 to learn about neurodevelopmental resilience and function from talented junior scientists! Asaf Caspi-Lebovic Engin Özkan Jure Majnik iBraiN Inserm Lab 🧠 🌱 Hannah Choi Katie von Reyn (+ some twitterless 👇)

Six tips for going public with your lab’s software: nature.com/articles/d4158… 1) make time for maintenance 2) simplify installation 3) add a GUI or good CLI 4) good documentation 5) use github/git 6) automated testing Any other tips people have? #OpenScience #OpenSource