Is it only me, or are all [PDF] links from GoogleScholar to Science Magazine broken?

Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done.Stephen Hawking's 80th Birthday #GoogleDoodle g.co/doodle/3kwn8bw

First day Salk Institute 🙂

I thought I had heard all the consciousness thought experiments but at #cshlNeuroAI Camilo Libedinsky told me a new one that literally kept me up last night. This is Camilo’s idea but I’ve taken some liberties with the details. Answer the polls in the order that you read them. 1/

Interesting in joining my group as a Staff Scientist at NIH (NIMH)? nimh.nih.gov/about/careers/…

What I learned from this is that people often talk about LFPs/brain dynamics/oscillations as if they are the same thing. I think that creates a lot of confusion.

I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines. #b3d

To be honest, I don't find this surprising at all. Does anyone really think that the current system is optimized for producing 'disruptive' science?

A grant application circa 1921. It was funded.

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses! Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai Reconstruction paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Annotation paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

It can be difficult to visualize how tiny our threads are. We had a banana for scale, but Pager ate it 🍌

"We have no firm scientific basis for assigning consciousness to anything at all, from AIs to animals, and yet, so much of our morality is based on consciousness. We care about suffering, and joy, and seeking to minimize one and maximize the other."

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w Xiaoliang (Ken) Luo and BrainGPT.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. arxiv.org/abs/2403.03230 1/6

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.

Our new work is out: Spatial dissociation between recognition and navigation in the primate hippocampus | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Many people see red in front of blue, while a small number of people see blue in front of red.

For those interested in ECoG and measuring inter-areal interactions this might be of interest : biorxiv.org/content/10.110…