preprint Alert📢 Time to talk about the🐘 in the room of genetically encoded Calcium indicators (GECIs). These indicators are widely used to report activity in the brain and an invaluable tool, but the expression of these GECIs can change activity. 🧵1/7 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

⚡️Russia launches record number of drones into Ukraine on eve of Holodomor Memorial Day. Russia launched a record number of drones into Ukraine over the course of six hours on the eve of Holodomor Memorial Day on Nov. 25.

I just saw Ukrainian air defense working against Russian. It sounds like fireworks. It is the second night of attacks. Yesterday, about 66 drones were intercepted over Kyiv. The night is just starting. Let’s see how it goes. (pics are from Reuters) 1/

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: #Japan's GX #decarbonisation strategy fails to put #renewables at its core; its focus on "clean coal" tech at home & overseas inconsistent w 1.5˚C pathways. Without a rapid #coal phase-out, Japan will be seen as a laggard. "Insufficient" bit.ly/CAT_JPN

Must-read thread on the supposed "slow-down" in EV sales, which is really shorthand for "not actually slowing down, but incumbent car manufacturers being out-competed by new entrants".

Great summary here from @_Silver_Black_ of his #NeurIPS2023 paper - if you're in comp neuro and use gradient descent to train networks with separate E and I units, this will be really useful to you! (PS - This was from @_Silver_Black_ 's undergrad project in the lab!)

Really happy to announce that the editorial we wrote with TTchumatchenko and Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski is out! The special issue on computational neuroscience they edited is full of incredibly interesting contributions (all open access!). Link here: tinyurl.com/y29epzwv

When I was a kid, I was a very optimistic one. Always interested in military history, I read many books and articles about WW2 and wondered at the insane casualties of that war. I used to think these meat assaults would be impossible now, in the 21st century, with its internet,

A septal-ventral tegmental area circuit drives exploratory behavior My PhD work has been published in Neuron and I couldn’t be happier! A thread 🧵(1/n) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I made a light-hearted cover (#notaccepted) for Petra Mocellin s recent publication on Neuron about the septal-VTA circuit supporting exploratory behavior in mice 🧠👀🐭. I will be making covers as long as friends keep publishing 🫡

I love this cover so much! Nora did such an amazing job (both in designing it and in supporting me throughout my PhD project journey). So please enjoy these cute mice exploring the path connecting the medial septum circuit to the VTA 🐭

Our newest preprint ist out. First one from my time in Japan. About inhibitory connections between parvalbumin interneurons and synchronous oscillatory network states. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ukraine cannot fight evil with empty hands on.ft.com/440DFYV

"Angels of Victory" Moschun, a town just northwest of Kyiv. The local community established an improvised memorial site in this location of old dugouts and trenches from 2022. During the Battle of Kyiv, Moschun was the only place where elite Russian forces managed to cross the

Our eLife - the journal paper on artefactual Ca2+ waves following calcium indicator expression is highlighted in neuroscience magazine The Transmitter. Really nice talking with Angie Voyles Askham and seeing the perspectives from trent, @DanielDombeck & LoogerLab thetransmitter.org/methods/widely…

The lab's first paper, "Probing multiplexed basal dendritic computations using two-photon 3D holographic uncaging," is now online at CellReports (cell.com/cell-reports/f…). Congrats to Shulan Xiao and Saumitra on an outstanding and exquisite effort 👏. Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Research at Purdue

How can we train biophysical neuron models on data or tasks? We built Jaxley, a differentiable, GPU-based biophysics simulator, which makes this possible even when models have thousands of parameters! Led by Michael Deistler, collab with @CellTypist @ppjgoncalves biorxiv.org/content/10.110…