Excited to share our new review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… w/ Erica Shook, Thomas Barlow, Daniella Garcia-Rosales & Connor Gibbons

We discuss the incredible color-changing skin behaviors of cephalopods, which broadcast the animal's perception of the world & internal state ✨

Img: Andre Hernandez

Thanks for the support ✨

Unfortunately people just watched. I had to push through while fighting back tears, but they all just stared. So I just after a medium nights rest my profound anecdote is this: please don’t be the person who watches while others are dehumanized.

Erich M. Schwarz Dalal Hamad we have all sat in the shade of trees we did not plant. ... some day you notice that and decide to start planting trees.

Dalal Hamad Undergrad students are often quite enthusiastic about research. I like this energy! They have ideas that are untainted by thinking pattern that we sometimes fall prey to when we worked in an area for a long time. Helps to see things in new ways. Also when trained properly,

Open call for Next Generation Leaders!

Our NGL program recognizes early career scientists with fresh and innovative perspectives. For 3 years, NGLs contribute to ongoing research and initiatiatives at the Allen Institute.

Apply by June 5: alleninstitute.org/about/people/n…

IRS: you owe us taxes

Me: how much do I owe?

IRS: you get to figure that out

Me: can I just pay what I want?

IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too

Me: what if I guess wrong?

IRS: jail

New preprint! “Collective behavior from surprise minimization,” by me, Beren Millidge, Lancelot Da Costa, Richard Mann, Karl Friston, Iain Couzin
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2307.14804
Code: github.com/conorheins/col…
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The beauty of spring around the world - a thread 🧵

1. A desert bloom in Utah by Emily Dickey

My career got infinitely better when I stopped looking for low stress jobs or projects and started getting better at differentiating good stress from bad stress.

Good stress comes from working on complex, impactful problems and bad stress often comes from difficult people

in case anyone is wondering, the drive from LA to San Diego is precisely enough time to listen to cowboy carter exactly twice through. 👌🏼

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

I have news y’all! 🚨

I’m starting my lab in the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple University SOM this winter. 🤩

We’ll work on understanding how stress and drug experience disrupt neural circuits for decision making and promote maladaptive habits.

Inventions that wouldnt exist without Black Women. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies

In 1977, she developed the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & light rays.

Phenomenal talk on collective huddling behavior 😍 by Tara Raam at #S4SN2024

Here's our most recent paper on wireless implantable devices for animal model studies of fundamental topics in biology, published in the journal Neuron .  This flexible, battery-free electronic system captures heart and respiratory rates, including variabilities in these

It takes a village... and about 5 years.. to raise some papers. This collaboration was led by Dr. Wei Ouyang (just opened his lab at Dartmouth!) from the John A Rogers group, in collaboration with Mitra Heshmati lab and our industry partner NeuroLux.

doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

I am so happy to be in Japan for #S4SN24 ! I will present a poster this evening and give a short talk on Thursday. Really enjoying all the amazing science!

It is with an unbelievably heavy heart that I write that my husband, best friend, and partner in crime for 20 years, Larry Young, passed away unexpectedly. I will share details regarding a memorial service once I know something. Please share with those who knew Larry Larry Young