Dmitry Krotov Great important read. neuron–astrocyte networks can naturally implement the core computation performed by the Transformer block in AI. Thank you for answering the call and challenge.

The wall celebrating veatchlab alums is up just in time for the start of the academic year at Michigan Biophysics including a few new ones representing Sarah Shelby , Sumin Kim, and Thomas Shaw. Your impact looms large.

N̸a̸t̸u̸r̸e̸ ̸C̸o̸m̸m̸u̸n̸i̸c̸a̸t̸i̸o̸n̸s̸ Communications in Nature: why is information exchange in biology have high energetic costs? @jbet015 from Ben Machta YalePhysicsDept giving the #QBioBreakfast chalk talk

This #EM_Monday I want to put the word out that I will be on job market this year! As you might have noticed, I am fascinated by the shapes of various organelles that become drastically different in specialized cells. And I want to know how and why?! The most notable…(1/5)

Study estimates the energy costs of information processing in biological systems @physrevlett doi.org/gsqwcs phys.org/news/2023-09-e…

Excited to share our latest work in @nature. “Dopaminergic error signals retune to social feedback during courtship” tiny.cc/77lbvz Huge congrats to co-first author AndreaRoeser, Jesse Goldberg, and the team! Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University Neurobio & Behavior Cornell University 1/3

Congratulations to Sarah Veatch PM Laura Finzi Vernita Gordon and KC Huang for becoming APS Fellows!

#QBioBreakfast Mason Rouches from Ben Machta gave a chalk talk on phase separation of proteins and DNA polymers.

Whatever you think of this Sam Altman character, the fact that he understands that Covid came out of a lab and emphatically says so without the usual equivocations (if, but, possibly, likely, probably, etc) counts in his favor.

Thanks for an excellent talk and a wonderful visit!

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Connections between neurons are heavy-tailed: Some rare neurons interact very strongly while most don't interact at all. These strong connections form the backbone of neural circuitry. But how do they emerge? Out now: nature.com/articles/s4156…

It would be an extraordinary coincidence if this research program had nothing to do with the origins of covid.

Postdoc opening in computational neuroscience: Come join us at Yale in Physics, the QBio Institute Yale QBio , and the Wu Tsai Institute Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University! Lab details: lynnlab.yale.edu If you’re at APS March Meeting @APSMeetings come find me!

Congratulations to Physics PEB student Carlton Smith @00Carltonsmith on being awarded a NSF GRFP fellowship for his research on the physics of living systems 🎉👏

Hiring! Join us as a postdoc probing fundamental nonequilibrium stat mech, thermo, and info theory, applied to biomolecular machines and in close collaboration with experiment. Details: sfu.ca/physics/sivakg…

It’s long been thought that E. coli sense chemical concentrations with accuracy near physical limits. With single-cell measurements and information theory, we find that their sensing capabilities are instead limited by internal stochasticity. arxiv.org/abs/2407.07264

A model describes how hair cells in the #cochlea enhance hearing sensitivity by supporting two distinct modes, showing how their collective activity creates a critically tuned cochlea. 🔗 go.aps.org/3W5aeC5

Excited to share our latest work on songbirds showing dopamine guides learning of natural behavior nature.com/articles/s4158… Congrats to Jonathan Kasdin Alison Duffy Nathan Nadler Arnav Raha Adrienne Fairhall Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social) ! Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University Google DeepMind University of Washington