You know you’re losing it when you fall terribly sick the week before finals and start having daily nightmares about all the exams, reports and assignments due over the course of the next week... 😫🤧🤒😖🥵Ah, grad school...

Really cool arXiv paper. Can’t claim to understand all of it, but fascinating conclusion: there is no objective reality (maybe?) arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080

Really blown away by Polina Anikeeva’s talk and the potential use of magnetic neurotransducers to manipulate neural activity, which seems to have some advantages over optogenetics. Will definitely be watching this space in the future. #neuromatch2020

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Karl Friston on consciousness as a process of inference and not a "thing" to be defined, with a bit of chaos theory thrown in. Not sure I completely agree, but definitely an interesting perspective. Also, provocative (see comments section). aeon.co/essays/conscio… via Aeon Magazine

Annnnnnd...despite being so nervous that I could not make straight lines for the life of me for the my first drawing of my talk, quals are done! Hip hip hooray! 😁

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Might be showing that I'm a bit behind the times here...but an endovascular brain machine interface? And one that can potentially read from conventionally inaccessible and deeper brain structures like the cerebellum? This is really neat. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Many improvements to come in the Project Jupyter pipeline. Love this very informative interview with Brian Granger! x.com/partiallyd/sta…

Indeed - other fields of science should be accorded the same level of recognition as the more 'traditional' scientific fields. x.com/nytopinion/sta…

Kudos to Black Mirror (S3E6) for noting the dorsal posterior insula's role in pain processing! Even if it might not be the 'pain center'...

Can't believe I didn't know about Ada's Technical Books @ CapHill until today. Such a lovely, nerdy/geeky, chill bookstore & cafe. Love it!

Hottest Editors xkcd.com/1823/ m.xkcd.com/1823/

Great post. x.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…

Left hemisphere. Turned out better than I expected. I'm chuffed. Thanks for your help djp!

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation - Neuroscience’s Holy Grail Found? blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2… My take on the MIT Cell paper. New post!

Interesting work. x.com/compneuro/stat…

Wonderful thought-provoking essay on how algorithms are modulating & changing the way we perceive and create art! x.com/aeonmag/status…

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning. Now on arxiv. Thanks Terence Parr! arxiv.org/abs/1802.01528

I can't get over how amazing this is. Using VR to study behavior in flies, rodents and zebrafish. The authors even designed a portal game that let zebrafish trigger the appearance a swarm of space invaders by choosing one portal over another! nature.com/articles/nmeth…