Sull’origine delle specie: una nuova edizione del “manifesto” Darwin-Wallace del 1858 pikaia.eu/sullorigine-de…

The two faces of FFI

I fell in love with neurophysiology because of the beautiful biophysical properties of stellate cells pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8395571/ Finally I go back to these cells and put biocytin in them and what a wonderful surprise Stained and imaged by Kristian Moan in Dr. Giulia Quattrocolo lab

Watch neurons fire! In our summer program Carnegie Mellon University Africa , students built a Synfire Chain with the LIF model on Lu.I boards, seeing real spikes live on the oscilloscope. Empowering hands-on neuroscience education in Africa!

Chaffinches are some of the best singers in Norwegian spring

In 2013 Dr. Giulia Quattrocolo and I visited Badlands National Park. I uploaded this picture on the community website of the National Geographic and an editor liked it. This was the first thing I published that was liked by an editor and I am very proud of it.

It was great catching up with friends and meeting new people at the FENS regional meeting in Oslo. Nice ceremony at the Rådhuset, the chance to present our work and visit the new dinosaurs

Beautiful episode of History of English Podcast podcast. The I-mutation phenomenon is super interesting and it happened also in Italian languages! historyofenglishpodcast.com/2013/11/27/epi…

Since I like birds and beer, my son chose this for me #birdwatching

We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us! Details 👇🏾 dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia CaixaResearch

The sun is finally shining on the last day of recordings before going on vacation, so I make my own sunshine with an LED and some channelrhodopsin

1/3 What happens if one repeatedly retrains a machine on data primarily generated from itself? For example when students use LLMs to write their essays that they then put online. And then profs use LLMs to write a paper on that topic and so on 😎 arxiv.org/abs/2506.20623

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! I wrote an article outlining this in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News genengnews.com/topics/transla…

And we are off for some tropical birdwatching in Bali

Best wishes to Luis Cobar for his future endeavors in science. Luis is starting a very exciting position in Cambridge. We will miss him here where he has built rigs and analysis pipelines, has been a wonderful colleague and a very kind person to share the science adventure!

Bali surprised me as it did with Wallace Dr. Giulia Quattrocolo

This week I am sharing this very interesting study where I learned about the weird meiosis of 🌹

If you have sometime , give our paper on social foraging theory in PRX life a read. If you want to listen to me explain some of the concepts, check out this lecture I gave focusing on social foraging theory : youtube.com/watch?v=4TMgbG…. .

This week I am sharing the closing remarks from Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago. Here Wallace gives a critique of of Victorian society and what he learned living with the people he met in his travels

Our first steps into sensory processing is now online! Work spearheaded by Rejwan and Luis Cobar We were lucky to receive guidance from Davide Zoccolan on the analytical methods. The work was funded by Norges forskningsråd NTNU medisin og helse Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions