What more do we say? How much longer must we sit and watch this ongoing erasure of an entire people?

Sometimes it feels like ppl of 'democratic' countries take democracy for granted; then I want to remind them of tales of my home country-how walking the line of dictatorship starts w apparently small, justified steps of censorship. I feel very sorry for eLife & the academia today

Israeli warplanes just bombed the gates of Al Shifa hospital -it is a massacre of the injured. A convoy of sick was headed to Rafah struck w precision weapons. Their bodies are strewn, blood flows, survivors panic and pray that life is possible. & the US sends “aid” 2Israel #Gaza

While Palestinians are being massacred and bombed every second of every day and bodies are piling up, you are here trying to search and reach for some dogwhistle re: antisemitism? People say Zionist as not to legitimise so called ‘Israel’. Fuck you

Science Twitter: this is a unique opportunity to mentor Palestinian students. Together with OxPal, we’ve established links with Palestinian universities to help connect their students with academics in the UK and beyond. This is a great way to make a lasting impact.

.Brandeis University's decision to ban a student group advocating for a free Palestine is a blatant infringement on free speech and academic freedom. With this biased censorship, the institution undermines its reputation as a place for open and rigorous intellectual exchange,

We've lost a giant

Folks, I have a recent grad from Gaza looking for an opportunity to work as a researcher anywhere that can accommodate him. Earned his degree in biotechnology last year (from Islamic Uni. of Gaza), competent in molecular biology and python. Please dm or email me for his CV and contact info.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

Excited to have this paper out in the world Current Biology! This work was led by the brilliant Ziyi Zhu who took the leap of faith to join the lab as the first PhD student. He epitomizes the best of science - creative, careful, diligent, and a true team player (1/6)

the silence of academics in the face of the brutal scholasticide in Gaza is harrowing. Why are our academic institutions only considered sacred in the west?

1/ A century ago, Tolman showed that meaningful learning can occur even without apparent performance improvements. What is the neural basis of this distinction between learning something vs learning to perform? We tackle this in a new manuscript 🔥 🐭🔬📰 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

For fun holiday reading: what is the role of neocortex? The amazing Sara Mederos shows that a specific corticofugal pathway is crucial for learning to overwrite instinctive reactions. An epic study going from neural pathway down to synaptic mechanism! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

huge kudos to Shohei Furutachi for the meticulous circuit dissection to uncover the basis of sensory prediction errors (pro tip: don't skip the extended data on this one!)

Researchers at SWC have mapped how the brain transforms sensations into action. Read the story: sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-n… Full paper in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Proud to share our paper in nature that Andrei and I co-first authored with Tom Mrsic-Flogel SWC We recorded ~15000 neurons across the brain while mice made perceptual decisions to reveal how sensory evidence controls actions through global neural dynamics nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share my PhD results showing a hierarchical coordinate system for sequence memory in human EC. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Below is a thread explaining this nonsense. 1/9

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

Huge congrats to Karyna M. 🇺🇦 for her paper published today in Science Magazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/7